About Gotham & Oz

Who We Are

Gotham & Oz is a strategic defense organization providing institutional-grade analytical intelligence and crisis response capabilities to activist organizations, nonprofits, and human rights defenders. When coordinated attacks, defamation campaigns, or information warfare threaten your mission, we provide the forensic analysis, evidence architecture, and strategic support your legal teams require to defend truth and protect your work.

Our Mission

To level the playing field for organizations and individuals advancing justice by providing institutional-grade intelligence, forensic analysis, and crisis response capabilities previously available only to corporations and governments.

Our Approach

We deploy advanced analytical frameworks combining journalism forensics, digital intelligence, legal evidence architecture, and crisis communications. All delivered with absolute confidentiality and zero conflicts of interest.

Our Evolution: From Commercial to Pro Bono

Gotham & Oz began as a purely commercial strategic advisory firm, evolved to a hybrid commercial and pro bono model, and has now transformed into a 100% pro bono organization operating exclusively through a grant-based selection process.

Today, we serve activist organizations, nonprofits, and senior executives within the nonprofit sector who are being slandered and defamed by those they are exposing. Our clients are selected through a rigorous application and grant process architecture fully managed by the Embassy Row Project and 100% funded by technologist and philanthropist James Scott.

This evolution reflects our commitment to mission over revenue—ensuring that elite strategic defense capabilities are available exclusively to those advancing justice, regardless of their ability to pay.

Grant Application Process

Access to Gotham & Oz services is granted through Embassy Row Project's evaluation process, which assesses:

  • Mission Alignment: Organizations or individuals advancing social justice, human rights, environmental protection, or accountability of powerful interests
  • Defamation Severity: Coordinated attacks containing demonstrable false claims or misleading statements causing reputational or operational harm
  • Strategic Impact: Cases where advertiser liability frameworks and strategic defense can create precedent or systemic deterrent effects
  • Resource Constraints: Inability to afford traditional legal representation at $500-1,500/hour or crisis PR at $50,000-250,000/month

All grant decisions are made independently by Embassy Row Project leadership to ensure complete operational independence and zero conflicts of interest.

Core Principles

Absolute Confidentiality
Military-grade operational security and attorney work-product privilege
Litigation-Grade Excellence
Evidence admissibility, cryptographic provenance, Daubert compliance
Rapid Response Architecture
Crisis activation within hours, not days
Evidence-Based Rigor
Multi-source verification, confidence scoring, audit trails
Complete Independence
Zero corporate ties, conflicts, or commercial interests
Mission Alignment
Exclusive focus on activists, nonprofits, and human rights defenders