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Investigations with AI. The tools and methods to run your own.

Tools, methods, and practical support for journalists using AI to monitor sources, investigate leads, analyze data, and produce stories.

Coming September 2026

Indicator Lab · $10/month add-on

Tools, methods, and direct access to use them.

Indicator Lab combines the Buried Signals tool suite with a monthly live session with Tom Vaillant, concise Lab Notes, office hours every two weeks, and discounted investigation bootcamps.

  • Tool Suite

    Member access and higher usage limits across tools for discovery, monitoring, investigation, data analysis, and visual production—plus a guided way to install and keep the stack current.

  • Monthly Lab Session

    A live monthly session with Tom Vaillant on investigative technology and journalism with AI, including practical demonstrations, investigation debriefs, and methodology discussions.

  • Lab Notes

    The useful ideas, decisions, examples, and resources from each Lab Session, edited into a concise written edition you can return to during your own work.

  • Office Hours Every two weeks

    Bring installation problems, active workflows, and reporting questions to a practical group troubleshooting session.

  • 40% off training bootcamps Every quarter

    Five live sessions for advancing a real investigation lead with AI agents while keeping evidence, provenance, verification, and editorial judgment visible. Lab members receive priority enrollment.

Lab Tool Suite

Tools for the full investigation cycle.

Find methods, monitor sources, investigate leads, analyze structured data, and produce visual stories. Use each tool independently or package the complete setup with Mycroft.

  1. OSINT Navigator

    Search more than 13,000 OSINT tools, use Indicator’s investigative skills, and connect your agent. Lab members get higher daily limits and enhanced answers grounded in the Indicator archives.

  2. OSINT Tool Radar

    Receive a concise update on useful tools added to or changed in the Navigator catalogue.

  3. Scoutpost

    Monitor pages, beats, social profiles, councils, PDFs, and source lists, with 1,000 monthly credits.

  4. Spotlight

    Turn a lead into a structured, source-linked investigation with an approved methodology, adversarial review, and human approval gates.

  5. Anomaly

    An agent system for data investigations: profile datasets, run approved anomaly detectors, and use public API skills to acquire source-linked records.

  6. Splash

    Take source material and data through editorial framing, reviewed charts, maps, scrollytelling, motion output, and delivery.

  7. Indicator Desktop

    Install and update the tool suite, configure service connections and Skill files, and set up optional local models through one onboarding flow.

  8. Mycroft

    Package the complete setup inside Goose: one journalist-oriented workspace connected to local knowledge, reporting workflows, and the installed tools.

  9. Early access

    Use new tools and substantial updates before their wider release, and bring member priorities into Lab Sessions, office hours, and the product roadmap.

Lab Sessions

One useful subject, live every month.

A live monthly session with Tom Vaillant on investigative technology and journalism with AI, including practical demonstrations, investigation debriefs, and methodology discussions. Lab Notes follows by email with the useful ideas, decisions, examples, and resources in a concise written edition.