She reported it internally. Then she had nowhere to turn.
Why FCX exists, what our name actually stands for, and where our role ends and an attorney's begins.
Nine years in corporate compliance, trusting the process.
Cordelia Ashcombe spent nine years as a corporate compliance officer, trained to believe that reporting a problem through the proper internal channel was how it got fixed. When she discovered accounting irregularities that materially misstated the company's financial position, she reported it exactly the way she'd trained others to — up the chain, in writing, with documentation.
The report went in. Nothing came out.
Months passed. The issue wasn't corrected. She eventually made the decision to report externally to the SEC — and found a process that was legally well-defined but practically opaque to someone going through it for the first time. Confidentiality rules meant she couldn't discuss it with colleagues. The timeline was measured in years, not months. There was no single source that explained, plainly, what was actually going to happen next.
She founded FCX in 2013 to be that source for the next person in her position — someone with a legitimate concern and no map for what happens after they raise it.
FCX stands for Fraud Claim eXperts.
We are not attorneys, and this site is not legal advice. What we do is help someone figure out, quickly and confidentially, whether what they've seen fits a recognized whistleblower reward program — SEC, CFTC, IRS, or the False Claims Act — and if it does, connect them with an attorney in our network who has actually handled cases like it. Filing, representation, and legal strategy are theirs, not ours.
Four things that haven't changed since 2013.
We tell people honestly when they don't have a case.
Most of what we evaluate doesn't meet a program's threshold. Saying so plainly, early, is more useful than a hopeful referral that goes nowhere.
Confidentiality is the whole product, not a feature of it.
Every initial consultation is confidential by default. We don't need your employer's name to have the first conversation.
We never promise an outcome.
No one can guarantee a case will result in an enforcement action, let alone a specific award percentage. We won't imply otherwise to make a referral more attractive.
We stay in our lane.
Legal strategy, filing, and representation belong to the attorney we connect you with. We evaluate and organize; we don't advocate in court.
Meet the team applying this daily: Our Team, or see exactly how an evaluation starts on the How It Works page.