Event / Incident: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An event is where every other data point converges: a time, a place, a set of actors, and the messy...
Keyword / Narrative
Keyword / Narrative: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A keyword is a hypothesis about language. Track the wrong string and you will measure nothing at all, very confidently....
Patent Intelligence (PATENTINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
A patent is a bargain: an inventor gets a monopoly, and the public gets the working details. That trade makes...
Academic Intelligence (ACADINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Research output is the earliest public indicator of national and corporate capability. A capability appears in a paper years before...
News Intelligence (NEWSINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Reporting is evidence of what was published, by whom, when and sourced how. Treated that way it is one of...
Disinformation Intelligence (DISINFOINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
The finding is rarely that a claim is false. It is that a set of accounts, sites and outlets behaved...
Government Intelligence (GOVINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Decisions are made by named people, in named bodies, under written procedures. Government intelligence is knowing which body, which person...
Election Intelligence (ELECTINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
An election is the most predictable high-risk event on any calendar: fixed date, known actors, published rules. Election intelligence is...
Risk Intelligence (RISKINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Risk intelligence is what stops a briefing ending with it depends. It converts what you know, and what you do...
Reference Intelligence (REFINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Most wrong conclusions can be traced back to two records an analyst believed were about the same thing. Reference intelligence...
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Open source is not free intelligence. It is unvalidated raw material available to anyone, including your adversary, and the discipline...
Risk Analysis: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The evacuation decision was made three days after the intelligence supported it. Nobody lacked information. What was missing was a...
Disinformation / IO: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Two hundred accounts posted the same seven-word phrase within ninety seconds. None of them had existed six weeks earlier. The...
Election Security & PSYOP: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The claim that the count was rigged was already trending three weeks before polls opened. The infrastructure held perfectly. The...
Biosecurity & Pandemic: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The first signal is almost never a laboratory confirmation. It is a rural clinic ordering more oxygen than usual, a...
Climate Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Climate intelligence is not weather forecasting. It is the discipline of working out which rainfall deficit ends in a cabinet...
Extremism & Radicalization: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Radicalisation is not a conveyor belt. It is a set of grievances, communities and content economies, and most of what...
Emerging Technology & AI Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The finance team approved the transfer because they recognised the chief executive on the call. Voice, face and cadence were...
Threat Analysis: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
An indicator list is not intelligence. Intelligence is a judgement, held to a stated confidence, that changes what a decision-maker...
