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Reports
Explore our practical guides to applying open source intelligence in a range of contexts and use cases.
The State of OSINT 2025
We surveyed investigation professionals across the globe to find out what OSINT usage looks like today and where the opportunities (and risks) lie for organisations.
The OSINT Handbook
Explore the value of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and how it's transforming investigation best practices.
The OSINT Handbook for Law Enforcement
Discover how to elevate policing with open source intelligence gathering and analysis
The OSINT Handbook for Anti-Financial Crime
See how Financial Institutions can transform financial crime investigations with Open Source Intelligence.
The OSINT and AI Handbook
Learn how to leverage AI in OSINT investigations to improve risk identification.
Crime in the digital age
In this series of reports, we explore how criminal behaviour is changing.
Blogs
The latest insights into open source intelligence best practices, tools and industry applications.
Tackling illicit finance: the role of intelligence technologies
Part one: demonstrating effectiveness 2.0 Since assuming the presidency of FATF, Giles Thomson has been direct about the state of the...
By Charles Brown
The UK needs a National Open Source Intelligence Centre, our Head of Intelligence writes in RUSI
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is central to how the UK understands threats to its information environment. Yet nobody in government owns...
By Blackdot Solutions
Stuart Clarke named as One to Watch in The LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders for 2026
Stuart Clarke, CEO of Blackdot Solutions, has been recognised as One to Watch in The LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders programme...
By Blackdot Solutions
Blackdot partners with Opoint to integrate global news data
Blackdot Solutions, a leading provider of advanced intelligence and investigations software, has announced its partnership with Opoint, the...
By Blackdot Solutions
Videris named as finalist in the 2026 TECAs
Videris Automate has been named as a finalist in the 2026 Tackling Economic Crime Awards (TECAs), in the Outstanding New Product, Software...
By Stuart Clarke
Latest News
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The UK needs a National Open Source Intelligence Centre, our Head of Intelligence writes in RUSI
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is central to how the UK understands threats to its information environment. Yet nobody in government owns...
By Blackdot Solutions
Stuart Clarke named as One to Watch in The LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders for 2026
Stuart Clarke, CEO of Blackdot Solutions, has been recognised as One to Watch in The LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders programme...
By Blackdot Solutions
Blackdot partners with Opoint to integrate global news data
Blackdot Solutions, a leading provider of advanced intelligence and investigations software, has announced its partnership with Opoint, the...
By Blackdot Solutions
Demystifying OSINT Series: Putting OSINT for AML into practice
In the 3rd webinar in our Demystifying OSINT series, we run through an end-to-end complex investigation using OSINT tools and methods.
Sean will introduce a real-life alert scenario from a typical AML system as it is escalated for a deeper-dive investigation, while Blackdot's OSINT expert, Brett Redman, will then take us through a real OSINT investigation.