OSINT Foundations & Tradecraft
The analyst's mindset and the discipline behind defensible open-source work.
Source evaluationAnalytic techniquesCollection planning
SGI / ACADEMY
ShadowGraph AcademyShadowGraph Academy trains investigators to find, verify, and document open-source intelligence to a professional, defensible standard. The courses are taught by current and former federal OSINT instructors with experience across the intelligence community, the military, cybersecurity, and law enforcement, built for the desks that carry a real mandate, and delivered live or on-site. Nimble and current by design, we travel to your team and refresh the material as fast as the field moves.
Nine courses, assembled to fit each team
One analyst can only work one case at a time. Training spreads the same skills and tools across your whole team, so the capability scales with the mission — and when a case outgrows the desk, SGI’s analysts step in to run it.
One analystOne client, one case at a time.
Open-source intelligence changes every quarter, and training on last year’s screenshots leaves investigations behind. ShadowGraph Academy teaches the tools, platforms, and sources investigators use right now, and rebuilds the curriculum from live cases, continuously — so your team’s tradecraft keeps pace with the field.
Taught on the platforms, data sources, and automation working analysts use today, not archived screenshots of tools that have since changed.
How to fold AI into the investigative workflow, and how to detect and verify AI-generated content, deepfakes, and synthetic personas.
Curriculum is revised as platforms, laws, and threats shift, so the tradecraft your team learns does not go stale.
These methods carry real responsibility, so the Academy trains agencies and organizations with a legitimate investigative mission, not the general public. We confirm fit with every group before scheduling.
Every engagement is assembled from these courses and tuned to your team's experience, tooling, and caseload. Hands-on, real-case exercises run throughout, and each course ends with a graded practical.
The analyst's mindset and the discipline behind defensible open-source work.
Pivoting, enrichment, and verification across the open web.
The premium OSINT read on a person, resolved and verified, not a background-check printout.
Find, follow, and corroborate activity tied to a subject across platforms.
Trace how a claim was seeded, laundered, and amplified, and whether it is real.
The people and entities behind a deal, from open sources and public records.
Collection that survives cross-examination.
Protect the investigator and the investigation.
Surface threats, impersonation, and exposure before they escalate.
Describe what you’re trying to learn or do, in plain language — or answer three quick questions. A simple matcher, no sign-up, nothing stored.
Every course is practical and leaves your team with more than notes: a tested skill, the tools to repeat it, and a record they completed it.
Hands-on exercises on real (sanitized) investigations, not slideware.
A capstone case worked from lead to finished intelligence product and assessed to a standard — a capability credential, not a participation certificate.
Checklists, query packs, and workflows your team keeps and reuses.
A reference your analysts return to long after the course.
Post-course support so the methods actually stick on live cases.
For agencies: certify your own instructors to scale the program in-house.
Scoped to your unit’s size, clearance posture, and calendar. We travel to you for on-site work, run live-remote cohorts, and keep every course current — small and nimble by design.
ShadowGraph Academy is SGI’s training practice, and its instructors bring experience spanning the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the National Security Agency, the U.S. Air Force, and U.S. Central Command — across signals, all-source, and open-source intelligence, media analysis, and federal OSINT instruction. Because SGI runs live investigations, every method taught is one the firm uses in real casework, not theory.
ShadowGraph Academy delivering OSINT training to the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task-force community — the 2025 NW Regional ICAC & Technology Conference, hosted at Microsoft.
References to prior U.S. Government service and current instructional work describe our instructors’ professional backgrounds only. They do not imply endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation by DHS, the NSA, the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Central Command, the Department of Defense, or any U.S. Government agency. ShadowGraph Intelligence is a private company and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any government agency.
Tell us about your agency or organization, your team's experience level, and what you need them to be able to do. We'll confirm fit and design the right course from the catalog.
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