Investigations with AI.
The tools to run your own.
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.
The latest video investigations from the channel, and selected works told through video, maps and charts.
Newsroom strategy, workshops, custom AI systems, and pilots for editorial teams.
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.
A Spotlight plugin that shows your agent which datasets cover your story, then flags every record that stands out as a lead you can trace.
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.
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.
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.
The Indicator Lab is open, with all its tools in one desktop app. Plus Splash, an agent system that builds graphics and video with you, and how Spotlight now adds nuance to its findings.
The Indicator Lab pilot, vibe animating maps, and Data Navigator's public-records catalogue.
How a dual-use intelligence layer could compound investigations and support new publishing and monetisation models.
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Notes from my investigations and the AI tools I’m building for yours.
Tom Vaillant — Visual journalist and technologist building Buried Signals. He uses AI to accelerate investigations, disclose methodologies, and build open tools for journalists and researchers.