Technology

The investigation stack, tool by tool.

01 Spotlight

Turn your agent into an investigative system

An agentic pipeline for OSINT investigations, with methodology planning, research cycles, fact-checking, human review, and a reusable case archive.

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  • Approve the plan

    An investigator agent drafts the brief from established investigative methodology and Indicator’s archives. You approve it before any work starts.

  • Search and scrape

    Find public sources and save useful pages into the case.

  • Browser research

    Use your authorised browser session for forms, portals, tables, and downloads.

  • Archive the evidence

    Saved pages and files are fingerprinted on capture, so you can show later that nothing was altered.

  • Automated fact-check

    A separate checker tests each finding; you review its verdicts and gaps.

  • Build on past cases

    Verified findings are written into a wiki on your own machine, ready for the next investigation.

02 Anomaly

Find the record that doesn’t fit

Anomaly is a Spotlight plugin for data. It shows your agent which datasets cover your story and which checks fit them, then flags every record that stands out as a lead you can trace.

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  • Find the right data

    Look up 41 data sources across 16 domains, with the steps to get each one.

  • Match the checks

    Choose from 45 detectors, including statistical tests that work on any table once its columns are mapped.

  • Code does the counting

    The model chooses what to look at, and deterministic code computes every flag. The same tables always give the same result.

  • Leads you can trace

    Each flagged record comes back with its detector, inputs, and parameters.

  • You make the call

    You accept or dismiss each lead, because a detector never decides what’s true.

  • Runs on your machine

    Anomaly is a local Python package with no account, server, or API key of its own.

03 Scoutpost

Monitor the sources that matter and surface leads

Monitor pages, social profiles, city councils, aircraft, vessels, and your beat while you focus on reporting.

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  • Agent-controlled monitors

    Ask your agent to create, run, or search your scouts.

  • Monitor web pages

    Check selected URLs for meaningful changes.

  • Monitor social accounts

    Track public posts and supported deletions.

  • Track aircraft and vessels

    Watch named aircraft or vessels inside a chosen area.

  • Email alerts

    Get an email when a scout finds something to review.

  • Stored changes

    Keep dated, source-linked findings and optional page snapshots.

05 Splash

Agent system for producing graphics and visualising information

Turn source material and data into reviewed charts, maps, scrollytelling, video, and static visuals.

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  • Understand the material

    Read the investigation, source material, and data.

  • Recommend the form

    Proposes the forms the evidence supports, and says no when your data won’t carry the one you asked for.

  • Forty-four graphics

    Thirty-two chart forms, eight map forms, and four scrollytelling formats.

  • Live data

    Graphics are written as code, so a corrected or updated figure re-renders instead of being redrawn.

  • Video

    Animated versions of the same graphic, cut to landscape, square, or portrait.

  • Deploy and embed

    Self-contained iframes with hosted embed code, ready for any CMS.

06 Mycroft · built on Osaurus

A local agent for investigators

Built on Osaurus. Plan with Navigator, investigate with Spotlight, and keep watch with Scoutpost. Keep what you find in your OpenKnowledge wiki.

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  • Investigate locally

    Run Spotlight investigations and document extraction on local models in Osaurus.

  • Search your wiki

    Search your OpenKnowledge notes locally, so protected sources stay on your machine.

  • Connect your findings

    The on-device Analyst connects findings and alerts with your wiki, then proposes notes and links for you to approve.

  • Plan and monitor

    Use Navigator for investigative methods and Scoutpost for cloud monitoring. Osaurus asks before sending your text to either service.

  • Research when you ask

    Watson does optional web research through OpenRouter on Mistral’s EU servers with zero data retention. It never sees your wiki.

07 Indicator Lab desktop app

One app installs the suite and keeps it up to date

The application opens with all five tools selected. You can review every choice before anything changes on your computer.

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  • Mac, Windows and Linux

    Choose the installer for your operating system and processor.

  • Review before install

    See every choice, and the exact install plan, before anything changes.

  • Your AI app, or local

    Run the tools from the AI desktop app you already use, or locally on a machine with 24GB of RAM.

  • Kept up to date

    The app updates the tools for you as new versions ship.