diff --git a/src/libsysprof-profile/sysprof-recording-private.h b/src/libsysprof-profile/sysprof-recording-private.h
index 67852820..38f0354d 100644
--- a/src/libsysprof-profile/sysprof-recording-private.h
+++ b/src/libsysprof-profile/sysprof-recording-private.h
@@ -22,13 +22,15 @@
 
 #include "sysprof-instrument.h"
 #include "sysprof-recording.h"
+#include "sysprof-spawnable.h"
 
 G_BEGIN_DECLS
 
-SysprofRecording     *_sysprof_recording_new    (SysprofCaptureWriter  *writer,
-                                                 SysprofInstrument    **instruments,
-                                                 guint                  n_instruments);
-void                  _sysprof_recording_start  (SysprofRecording      *self);
-SysprofCaptureWriter *_sysprof_recording_writer (SysprofRecording      *self);
+SysprofRecording     *_sysprof_recording_new           (SysprofCaptureWriter  *writer,
+                                                        SysprofInstrument    **instruments,
+                                                        guint                  n_instruments);
+void                  _sysprof_recording_start         (SysprofRecording      *self);
+SysprofCaptureWriter *_sysprof_recording_writer        (SysprofRecording      *self);
+SysprofSpawnable     *_sysprof_recording_get_spawnable (SysprofRecording      *self);
 
 G_END_DECLS
diff --git a/src/libsysprof-profile/sysprof-recording.c b/src/libsysprof-profile/sysprof-recording.c
index 20c427dd..e0a753a9 100644
--- a/src/libsysprof-profile/sysprof-recording.c
+++ b/src/libsysprof-profile/sysprof-recording.c
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ struct _SysprofRecording
 {
   GObject parent_instance;
 
+  /* If we are spawning a process as part of this recording, this
+   * is the SysprofSpawnable used to spawn the process.
+   */
+  SysprofSpawnable *spawnable;
+
   /* This is where all of the instruments will write to. They are
    * expected to do this from the main-thread only. To work from
    * additional threads they need to proxy that state to the
@@ -247,3 +252,11 @@ sysprof_recording_wait_finish (SysprofRecording  *self,
 
   return dex_async_result_propagate_boolean (DEX_ASYNC_RESULT (result), error);
 }
+
+SysprofSpawnable *
+_sysprof_recording_get_spawnable (SysprofRecording *self)
+{
+  g_return_val_if_fail (SYSPROF_IS_RECORDING (self), NULL);
+
+  return self->spawnable;
+}