Work for a client

Monitoring and analysis

A regular picture of the environment drawn from open sources (OSINT): what has changed, what it means and what to watch next.

Formats

• Analytical briefThe key changes, their significance and what to follow further.For: Leadership, corporate clients
• Situation noteA quick assessment of an event and its likely consequences.For: Executives, crisis teams
• Weekly reviewThe changes of the week, risks, signals and hypotheses. An open version is published.For: Subscribers

Strategic research

A deep look at one question: the forks ahead, the alternatives and the scenarios, with the indicators that tell them apart.

Formats

• Strategic assessmentA deep analysis of a question with alternatives and scenarios.For: Boards, owners
• Scenario sessionSeveral scenarios, their drivers, indicators and decisions, worked through with the client's team.For: Leadership teams
• Partner research programmeA series of studies on one topic, carried out with a partner.For: Anchor partners, foundations, industry associations

Risks and due diligence

Risks, their triggers and early indicators; companies and industries as public records describe them.

Formats

• Risk mapRisks, triggers, early indicators and measures to reduce them.For: Companies, institutions
• Organisation or industry profileStructure, management, public connections and publicly documented events.For: Investment, legal and corporate teams
• Due diligenceA counterparty checked against public records on legal entities and the client's own materials: registers, accounts, court cases, enforcement proceedings, procurement, publications.For: Corporate and investment clients

Training

How to work with sources, assess probability and reach conclusions that stand up to checking.

Formats

• Education programmeMethods of analysis, work with sources, forecasting and the quality of decisions.For: Corporate teams, universities
• MentoringOne to one, over calls, on the client's own case. Practice and the theory it needs.For: Analysts
• The method in writingThe lab's methodology is published on this site and free to read.For: Anyone→

Software development

Software for research and analysis. One rule holds across all of it: the ground for every statement stays visible, and an outsider can check the result.

Work already delivered

• CATKThe investigation product. It runs in the browser and by default keeps the data on the analyst's machine.For: Analysts→
• TXINTThe movement of funds on a blockchain: from an address to the graph of wallets and to the findings.For: Analysts→
• A published formatDescribed in words and, for machines, in a JSON Schema, so a file can be verified without installing the product.For: Editors, reviewers→

How the work is done

• One cycle with two gatesEvery piece of work passes a legal and ethical check before it starts and an independent review before it is released.
• Lawful open sourcesRegisters, court records, procurement, accounts, the press, the blockchain: sources anyone may lawfully read. Every statement leads to its source.
• A person in a public capacityInformation about people is used only within their public role: owner, director, signatory, party to a legal act.
• The decision stays with the clientRecommendations are made on an open request, and the client is disclosed.

The cycle and the standards: methodology →