Every company dies. Most get a paragraph in the trade press and one line in a registry somewhere: ceased trading. We think they deserve autopsies. Each case file below is built from court records, regulator findings, and primary reporting — with a downloadable dossier, the full timeline, and the examination.
How Cambridge Analytica went from the most feared name in politics to a locked office in 90 days: the SCL origins, the 87 million harvested profiles, the Channel 4 tape, and the seven-year director ban.
How Arthur Andersen - 85,000 people, 84 countries, $9.34 billion - died of an indictment whose conviction was later overturned 9-0, three years after the funeral.
The machine-readable registry: registry.json — every firm, cause of death, dates, figures. Cite freely; link back.