A professional OSINT analyst course. It teaches the tradecraft beneath the deliverables: what requirements are, how analytic judgment works and fails, structured techniques, source grading, estimative language, collection planning, and network analysis. The goal is an analyst who can produce finished intelligence, not fill templates.
The doctrine base is a six-book canon: Kahneman (Thinking, Fast and Slow), Heuer (Psychology of Intelligence Analysis), Heuer & Pherson (Structured Analytic Techniques), Clark (Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach), McDowell (Strategic Intelligence), and Bazzell (OSINT Techniques). Every framing case on every card is real, named, and publicly verifiable.
Reading order
Work the shelves in sequence. Foundations calibrate how you think; the core shelves teach the process once; the applied tracks compose the core against real deliverable shapes.
| Tier | Shelf | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Foundations | F1 · The Analyst’s Mind | Dual-process cognition, bias, calibration, judgment under uncertainty |
| Foundations | F2 · Orientation | What intelligence is, cycle vs target-centric, ethics, analyst OPSEC |
| Core | L1 · Requirements | PIR → indicator → SIR, collection planning |
| Core | L2 · Collection | Managed attribution, sourcing, current tooling (dated, refreshed) |
| Core | L3 · Processing | Entity resolution, selector pivots, link analysis |
| Core | L4 · Analysis | Inference, ACH, key assumptions, SATs, source grading, estimative language |
| Core | L5 · Production | BLUF, analytic standards, report formats, dissemination |
| Applied | A · B · C · D · E · F · G | Per-shape tracks composing the core against real deliverables |
| Capstone | Capstone | One investigation end to end, peer-reviewed against analytic standards |
How the cards work
Each module is a single card with a fixed shape: a cold calibration prompt, the concept taught
through structured questions, a procedure with a pre-mortem, a hands-on exercise on live data, and
a register of common errors. Cards cross-link by module ID; follow the links and the backlinks —
the graph is the syllabus. Interactive training aids accompany finished cards under /visuals/.
Start here: F1-01 · Two Minds.