The roots of XtremeForensics can be traced back to 1994 when the first version of what is now ILooK was being distributed to the intelligence community of MI-5 and MI-6 in the UK. Over the next few years ILooK was only available to a subscribed user base of Law Enforcement, Intelligence Services and the Military. By 2002 ILooK was being used in 67 countries and its development was being funded by various agencies in the US that included the FBI, the US Department of Defence and the Treasury Department. During the 9/11 trials all digital forensic evidence introduced into Federal Court was processed using ILooK. This year also saw the creation of Perlustro to manage a 6-year contract with the US Internal Revenue Service. Fast-forward to 2008 and the patent process was started to provide Intellectual Property protection for a method for what was to become ISEEK. In 2010 XtremeForensics was created to take control of all the source code for both the old and the new tools under development. Later that year a fixed-term contract was signed with the CIA for the ILooK and IXImager tools. In 2013, at the end of the CIA contract, the newly-developed ISEEK process was granted a patent and work began in earnest to develop the tool and associated utilities for commercial sale. In 2017 two significant events occur; ILooKix is made commercially available in two editions and ISEEK is released in three editions. The ILooKix Standard Edition is a perpetual licence with optional annual maintenance whereas the Advanced Edition is an annual licence.