Intel Dashboard
A working bench for intelligence tradecraft, built at the Emerging Technologies Lab.
Intel Dashboard is a practitioner’s bench. Eighteen focused modules cover the full tradecraft cycle: vetting a source, structuring messy text, mapping actors and patterns, challenging the analysis, generating intelligence requirements, and producing a publication-ready brief. Each module returns a structured artifact you can read, edit, and share. Outputs route into the Intel Publisher for branded export. Useful from your first day as an analyst through your tenth year on the watch floor, and useful to the OSINT investigator, threat-intel lead, research-security officer, fraud team, and instructor working alongside that analyst.
PAID methodology
The dashboard organizes around the PAID method that runs through every analytic engagement:
- Position. Pick the right tool for the job. Know which discipline the question lives in before you start.
- Audit. Check the source. Score reliability, corroborate across sources, flag deception and bias signals, and surface what the report did not ask.
- Interrogate. Challenge the analysis. Run red-team questions, structured analytic techniques, and the patterns adversaries leave in their tradecraft.
- Demand. Finish the product. Convert the redline into a branded, classification-banner-correct brief through the Intel Publisher.
Every module on the dashboard sits inside one of these four stages. The output of each stage feeds the next.
Decide whether the information in front of you is solid before you build on it.
- 01Source Reliability Scoring. Source type, credibility score, bias indicators with quoted evidence, missing corroboration, analyst note.
- 02Multi-Source Corroboration Checker. Two to five labeled sources in. Corroborated claims, contradictions, single-source assertions, framing convergence, provenance, and a 0 to 100 convergence score.
- 03Deception & Manipulation Indicators. Pattern flags across linguistic, emotional, propaganda, omission, framing, and psy-ops categories. Pattern flagging, not lie detection.
- 04Cognitive Bias Detector. Confirmation, anchoring, availability, mirror imaging, satisficing, premature closure. Severity, evidence quotes, and per-flag mitigations.
- 05Missing Questions Engine. The questions the report did not ask, blind spots, and alternative interpretations of the same evidence.
Convert messy narrative text into structured analytic artifacts.
- 06Timeline Reconstruction Engine. Messy text in. Chronology with actors, locations, asserted causal links, and gaps in the chronology, out.
- 07Narrative to Matrix Converter. Three matrices from one narrative: actor by action, event by location, claim by evidence with support level.
- 08Actor Network Mapping. Text-based network: actors, relationships with direction and strength, missing nodes the source structure suggests but does not name.
- 09Pattern Recognition. Multi-document Pattern Atlas, Trend Brief, Subgroup Comparison, and Recommendations from any tagged corpus.
Identify adversaries, patterns, and operational signatures.
- 10Threat Actor Pattern Extraction. TTPs, tooling fingerprints, targeting profile, operational tempo, attribution considerations, and gaps. Pattern extraction, not actor naming.
- 11Symbol Intelligence. Searchable dictionary of hate symbols, gang signs, acronyms, and numeric codes. Citizens contribute geotagged sightings to a community-cleanup map; verified law-enforcement partners can request precise pin access.
- 12OPSEC Risk Scan. Pre-publication review for sensitive details, operational vulnerabilities, PII, inadvertent disclosures, and exploitable patterns, with quoted evidence and concrete mitigations.
Challenge assumptions, surface blind spots, strengthen reasoning.
- 13Red-Team Question Generator. Adversary-perspective questions, alternative hypotheses with the conditions under which each is more probable, named assumption challenges, and specific break conditions.
- 14Structured Analytic Techniques Wizard. Four classic SATs in one place: Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, Key Assumptions Check, Indicators & Warnings, Premortem Analysis. Each technique returns its own structured output.
Scholarly intelligence, evidence synthesis, and gap-driven collection.
- 15SLR Studio (Intel Version). Structured literature review against open academic and intelligence corpora; synthesizes findings into operational threat assessments.
- 16Dual-Use Triage. TRIPWIRE-mode awareness materials for retail and research-security settings: printable Awareness Sheet, Supervisor Brief, Reporting Quick-Reference, public notice, and a knowledge quiz.
- 17Document Gap Analysis. Multi-document corpus in. Synthesis whitepaper, topic gap report, inter-agency seams report, chronological timeline, and a PIR engine that turns gaps into Priority Intelligence Requirements with SIRs, EEIs, and collection tasks.
Polish the artifact and place the analyst.
- 18Operational Readiness. Parses resumes and CVs into competency and intent scores against role profiles; routes the resulting dossier into the SME registry that other modules draw on.
Receives a draft from any module. Reformats into seven intelligence-writing styles (SALUTE, BLUF, Executive Brief, Analyst Note, SITREP, Threat Assessment, Key Judgments). Branded export with classification banner, organization logo, and signature.
A daily intel-tradecraft exercise. Read a curated source. Pick the type. Set a credibility score. See how close your read was to the model. Streak tracked locally, shareable.
Why this is different
- Built for tradecraft, not for OSINT collection. Every output is a structured artifact you can read, edit, and present, whether you are training someone or producing the next brief.
- Each module is one job done well. No mega-prompt that tries to do everything at once.
- Quoted evidence on every finding. Severity, mitigation, and an analyst action per flag. Outputs are auditable, not magic.
- Defensive posture throughout. Cards that touch sensitive content (deception, threat actors, OPSEC, dual-use) carry hard guardrails: pattern flagging, not naming; mitigation, not exploitation.
- Routes into a publication layer. The brief you assemble in any card lands in the Intel Publisher with one click.
Who it is for
- Intelligence analysts at any career stage, working all-source, OSINT, cyber threat intel, or finished intelligence.
- Threat-intel teams, fraud and compliance analysts, and corporate security professionals who need a structured-output bench.
- Research-security officers, academic compliance teams, and federal or state law-enforcement liaison partners.
- Watch-floor and operations-center staff who need fast structured analytic redlines on the way to a brief.
- Instructors and training cells teaching source vetting, OPSEC review, structured analytic techniques, or systematic literature review.
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The Emerging Technologies Lab has built Intel Dashboard, a working bench for intelligence tradecraft. Eighteen modules cover source reliability, multi-source corroboration, deception flags, bias detection, missing questions, timeline reconstruction, network mapping, structured analytic techniques, OPSEC review, dual-use triage, and more. Useful from your first analyst job through senior watch-floor work. Free to try. https://your-dashboard-url.example