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Two live, instructor-led courses:
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The TII Fall Newsletter is here! 🍂
This edition:
🤖 #AI, #OSINT and the Road to 2027
🎓 Current and upcoming AI-related programs
🔎 Recent insights on AI, OSINT and investigative tradecraft
🏆 Our Fall Open Source Challenge: AI Edition
👉 Read more: mailchi.mp/toddington/explor…
🔍 Ready for a new OSINT challenge?
TII’s Fall Open Source Challenge: AI Edition puts traditional #OSINT and #SOCMINT techniques together with AI-assisted investigation.
Catfishing or Cat Breeder?
👉 Challenge details available in our Fall Newsletter: mailchi.mp/toddington/explor…
The TII Summer Newsletter is here! ☀️
🤖 Building Your First AI Stack
🔎 AI insights from TII on Substack
🎓 Our newly launched AI for OSINT course
Grab a cold beverage and catch up on what’s happening at TII this summer. 😎
👉 TII's Summer Newsletter: mailchi.mp/toddington/tii-os…
🤖 Curious about using AI to enhance your OSINT and online investigations?
Our new 105E AIO - AI for OSINT course is designed specifically for investigators & intelligence analysts.
🎓 Limited introductory price: $299.99 CAD
👉 Learn more and register: toddington.com/product/105e-…
🛠️ Building an AI stack starts with one tool—not every tool.
🔹 Choose one recurring task
🔹 Test one accessible platform
🔹 Add another only when a genuine gap appears
Start small. Build with purpose.
👉 Read more: toddingtonint.substack.com/p…
#AI #OSINT #OnlineInvestigation
🤖 Made with AI
🕵️♂️ #SOCMINT investigators often enter unfamiliar digital spaces where slang, emojis, hashtags, memes, and symbols carry meaning inside the culture.
🔎 A clue is a starting point.
🧠 Context builds confidence.
👉 Read more: toddingtonint.substack.com/p…
#OSINT #OnlineInvestigations
🤖 AI Tools for OSINT
AI tools are easy to find. The harder part is knowing where they fit in an #OSINT workflow, and what still needs to be verified.
A practical starting point for investigators learning responsible #AI use.
Read more: toddingtonint.substack.com/p…
#Investigation
🕵️♂️Before the fieldwork begins, OSINT can help identify what is visible, vulnerable, outdated, or still unverified.
🔎 Pre-surveillance
📍 Event recon
🧾 Due diligence
🛡️ Executive protection
The work before the work matters.
👉Read more: toddingtonint.substack.com/p…
💻 Join us live online this May for 202C SMI and 201C OSINT with Toddington International.
Taught by Carina McDonald and David Toddington. Limited seats available.
👉 Read more: toddingtonint.substack.com/p…
#OSINT #SOCMINT #onlineInvestigations
🔎 For Investigators, a website is more than a homepage.
It can reveal names, emails, phone numbers, domain clues, archives, reviews, and linked accounts.
The real skill is pivoting from each clue.
👉 Read more: toddingtonint.substack.com/p…
🕵️♂️ Ready for a new #OSINT challenge, digital sleuths?
* Fragment to Fact. Context from Clues. *
📆 Submissions are due May 1, 2026.
🏆 Best analysis will win a free TII course license or virtual workshop seat.
👉 Learn more in TII’s April newsletter: mailchi.mp/toddington/tii-os…
🕵️♀️ TII's April Newsletter is live
AI is reshaping digital images—verification is now critical.
📌 Image verification
📘 AI for OSINT (coming soon)
🏁 OSINT Challenge
👉Read more: toddingtonint.substack.com/p…
#OSINT #AI #DigitalForensics #Investigation
📸 AI and Photos: Is Your Camera Showing Reality — or Processing It?
Smartphones can:
🔹 Combine images into one
🔹 Enhance or reconstruct detail
🔹 Adjust lighting automatically
For investigators, interpretation matters more than ever.
👉 Read more: toddingtonint.substack.com/p…
🔎 OSINT Practice Platforms
#OSINT isn’t just tools—it’s skill.
🧠 Build through practice:
• AI detection
• Geolocation
• OSINT challenges
• Real-world #investigations
➡️ Practice → Discipline → Instinct
👉 Read more: toddingtonint.substack.com/p…
#SOCMINT #challenges
🛠️ 10 AI Image Detection Tools
Learn about AI image detection tools investigators can use to evaluate potential AI-generated images.
⚠️ Detection tools can provide indicators - but they are not definitive proof.
👉 Read more: toddingtonint.substack.com/p…
#OSINT #SOCMINT #AI
🤖Can #AI help investigators manage an expanding #OSINT tool landscape?
Platforms like Cylect.io are experimenting with ways to organize tools & integrate AI-assisted research workflows.
⚙️ What does this mean for analysts?
👉 Read more: toddingtonint.substack.com/p…
🔎 Court-ready #documentation is built — not assembled later.
Strong #investigations show:
📌 What was found
📌 How it was preserved
📌 How conclusions were reached
If it can’t withstand scrutiny, it isn’t defensible.
👉Read more: toddingtonint.substack.com/p…
🚨 Now Live: 104E WAI — Report Writing for Analysts and Investigators
💡 Intro Price (limited time): $299.99
Structure stronger reports. Present clearer evidence. Support defensible conclusions.
👉 Read more: toddington.com/product/104e-…
#OSINT #Training #ReportWriting
🛠️ AI tools are expanding into #OSINT workflows.
Claude AI is particularly useful for:
📄 Long documents
🧠 Structured analysis
✍️ Report drafting
Helpful tool but not a replacement for investigator judgment.
👉 Read more: toddingtonint.substack.com/p…
#AI #OnlineInvestigations




















