Flight Number / Route: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A flight number is a marketing label. The aircraft underneath it is the thing that actually moved, and it keeps...
Sanctions Intelligence
Aircraft: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An aircraft carries three identities at once: what is painted on the tail, what the transponder broadcasts, and who actually...
Vessel / Ship: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A ship can change its name, its flag and its owner in a week. The IMO number assigned at build...
Shipping Container: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Eleven characters follow a steel box from a factory yard to a customs hold. The check digit tells you in...
Shipment / Bill of Lading: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A bill of lading names the shipper, the consignee and the goods on the same page. It is the closest...
HS Commodity Code: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Six digits decide the tariff, the licence and the level of scrutiny. Getting them wrong is how controlled goods travel...
Satellite Imagery: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Overhead imagery does not tell you what happened. It tells you what changed between two dates, and the analyst supplies...
Facility / Site: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A facility is where corporate paper meets physical reality. Registries tell you who claims the site; the ground truth tells...
GPS Coordinates: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Six decimal places is a doorstep. Two is a district. Precision in a coordinate is a decision about harm, not...
Bank Account / IBAN: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Money leaves a trail in fixed-width fields. An IBAN names the country, the institution and often the branch before you...
Sanction / Watchlist Entry: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A sanctions hit is not an answer. It is a name, a legal basis and a programme code telling you...
Transaction Hash: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A transaction hash is the one financial record that is permanent, publicly verifiable and impossible for the counterparty to alter...
Corporate Filing: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Filings are where organisations say things under legal obligation, on the record and with a date. That combination is rare...
Legal Entity Identifier: Data Point Intelligence Guide
The LEI is the closest thing global finance has to a universal entity key, and unusually for identity data it...
Company / Organization: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Companies are how money, liability and control get organised. Follow the entity and you find the people who preferred not...
Sanctions Intelligence (SANCINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
A sanctions hit is not a finding. It is the start of one, and the work is proving whether the...
Financial Intelligence (FININT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Follow the money is a cliche because it works. Financial intelligence is the discipline of following value through the institutions...
Economic Intelligence (ECONINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Economic intelligence is how you see a disruption forming while it is still a shipping rate, an export licence and...
Cryptocurrency Intelligence (CRYPTINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Public blockchains keep a permanent, complete record of every transfer. The hard part was never the data. It is knowing...
Corporate Intelligence (CORPINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Every company is a legal fiction held together by filings. Corporate intelligence reads those filings to establish who is actually...
Accounting Intelligence (ACCTINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Financial statements are an argument, not a record. Accounting intelligence is the discipline of testing whether the argument actually holds....
Aviation Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A cargo operator with three aircraft filed forty-one flights in a month, all into the same two airports, all with...
Maritime Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The vessel reported itself in the Gulf of Oman. Radar put it alongside a sanctioned tanker four hundred miles away....
Energy Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Two things tell you a country is in trouble before its ministers do: how fast its gas storage is emptying,...
WMD / Proliferation: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Proliferation networks do not buy weapons. They buy vacuum pumps, maraging steel, frequency converters and flow-forming machines, each individually unremarkable...
