Open Source Intelligence Techniques

The Analyst Toolbox is expanding into one of the fastest-growing areas of modern intelligence.

The Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Gathering Techniques Card Deck is your practical, structured guide to collecting, validating, and exploiting information from the open web, social media, public records, geospatial feeds, digital traces, and deep-web sources.

Built for intelligence analysts, investigators, researchers, and digital professionals, this deck turns the overwhelming volume of online information into something you can approach with discipline, clarity, and confidence.

Inside, you’ll find techniques that help you:

• Plan and structure OSINT collection requirements

• Discover information efficiently across surface, deep, and dark web sources

• Validate sources, authenticate content, and detect deception

• Trace digital footprints and map online behaviour

• Conduct ethical social-media collection and profile enrichment

• Map networks, communities, and online influence

• Maintain operational security and reduce digital exposure

• Record, store, and evidence your findings to professional standards

Designed to demystify OSINT tradecraft, each card provides clear when-to-use guidance, step-by-step instructions, cautions, and practical prompts for ethical, defensible open-source intelligence collection.

Whether you're supporting operational intelligence, strategic threat assessments, safeguarding, online investigations, or digital due diligence, this deck gives you a structured, repeatable approach to transforming open-source data into meaningful insight.

Prepare to enhance your analytical toolkit—launching soon. Be the first to know when it arrives.