Exhibit A
Private Investigators work in Hayward
Hayward sits in the East Bay between Oakland and Fremont, and the searches for private investigators here come from people with local problems: a custody matter in Alameda County family court, a tenant or landlord dispute, a business on Foothill Boulevard checking a vendor, a person trying to locate someone last known in the city. The firms serving this demand are mostly small owner operator practices, often one licensed investigator with a few contract operatives, rather than national franchises. Paid search in this trade is modest compared with consumer services, because most people search once, carefully, and read several firms before calling. That leaves the organic results and the AI answers doing most of the work of putting a name in front of a Hayward searcher.
