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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.

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Monthly dispatches on investigations and the changing practice of journalism with AI in the loop.

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Indicator Lab · $10/month add-on for Indicator members

Tools, methods, and direct access to use them.

  • Tool Suite

    Member access and higher limits across the investigation stack, installed and kept up to date by one desktop app.

  • Lab Workshop Monthly

    One practical subject each month, live with Tom Vaillant.

  • Lab Newsletter Monthly

    What each workshop covered, written up to keep and come back to.

  • Office Hours Every two weeks

    A group call for the issues you’re seeing, the challenges you’re working on and the workflows you’re building.

  • Access to the training course Self-paced

    Five short video lessons with exercises for advancing a real investigation lead with AI agents.

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.

Explore the technology →

  1. OSINT Navigator

    Discover OSINT tools and methods across Indicator’s archives and 13,000+ tools.

  2. Scoutpost

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

  3. Spotlight

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

  4. Splash

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

  5. Indicator Desktop

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

  6. Mycroft

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

  7. OSINT Tool Radar

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

  8. Early access

    Try new tools and major updates first, and help shape what gets built next.

Lab Workshop

One useful subject, live every month.

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