Investigations with AI.
The tools to run your own.
Visual investigations and reporting methods published on the Buried Signals YouTube channel.
Indicator Lab: the tool suite, a monthly workshop and newsletter, and office hours every two weeks.
The investigation stack, tool by tool: Spotlight, Scoutpost, OSINT Navigator, Splash, Mycroft, and the Lab desktop app.
A self-paced course on AI agents: collect, check, report, remember, and go local.
Newsroom strategy, workshops, custom AI systems, and pilots for editorial teams.
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Producing visual investigations and building open-source tools with leading investigative media and journalism nonprofits.
Investigation system for AI agents: methodology first, verification built in, local-capable when a case needs it.
AI scouts that monitor pages, beats, social profiles, councils, PDFs, and source lists, then surface source-linked leads.
AI-powered search across OSINT tools, with recommendations that can route into agent workflows.
One app for Mac and Windows that installs the Lab tools, keeps them up to date, and runs them from your AI app or locally.
A journalist-oriented agent setup for vault Q&A, source checks, briefs, and repeatable newsroom workflows.
An open skill pack that gives any newsroom a visual desk — the AI you already use, taught to build scrollytelling maps, chart stories, and motion video.
Newsletter · 1K+ readers
Monthly dispatches on investigations and the changing practice of journalism with AI in the loop.
Tom Vaillant — Visual journalist and technologist building Buried Signals in partnership with Indicator. He uses AI to accelerate investigations, disclose methodologies, and build open tools for journalists and researchers.
Members get the tool suite, a monthly workshop and newsletter, and office hours every two weeks.
