Verification
Someone has told you something. This says whether it holds.
No-fuss OSINT from perfectionists.
Everything we find is already public. Finding it is the work.
Registers and filings, court and procurement records, archives, imagery, and the large amount that people and organisations publish about themselves without meaning to. No hacking, no pretexting, no bought data. The skill is not access. It is knowing where to look and refusing to stop at the first plausible answer.
Every finding arrives with the source that produced it. Where a number is uncertain, we say by how much. Where a question could not be answered, we say so, and what it would take to answer it. Nothing is rounded in the flattering direction.
If something has been prepared for you, it is in the client area. It is readable in full, before you decide anything.
Sources
- Basis
- Open and lawful only
- Citation
- Named in full
- Checkable
- Without us
Delivery
- Document
- PDF, 6 to 60 pages
- Figures
- Plates, computed
- Included
- The source set
Terms
- Engagement
- Commission, or off the shelf
- Retention
- Yours to keep, no reuse
- Correction
- Published, not withdrawn
Four questions we take.
Most requests arrive as a subject. We take them as a question, because the shape of the question decides what the document has to be.
Structure
Who actually owns or controls a thing, as against who appears to.
Movement
What is changing around a subject, how fast, and which way.
Decision
One choice, isolated, and what it is worth if it goes the other way.
Method
Open-source intelligence is only as good as the discipline behind it, and the material is open to everybody.
What we work from, what we will not do to get it, and how a report behaves when it is wrong, are all written down.
Client area
Sample deliverables are held per client.
Access is by invitation. If you have been invited, your set opens on the documents prepared for you, each one readable in full before anything is agreed.