osint

# OSINT Investigation ## Purpose Conduct open-source intelligence gathering on specific targets — people, companies, technologies, or markets. Discover publicly available information, track changes over time, assess source reliability, and produce structured intelligence reports. This is NOT the awareness loop (which monitors Genesis's own systems). This is outward-facing investigation — finding information about external entities. ## When to Use - User requests research on a person, company, or competitive entity. - Lead generation identifies a prospect needing deeper enrichment. - Strategic reflection flags a competitor or technology to monitor. - A scheduled monitoring task triggers a collection cycle. - An inbox item references an entity worth investigating. ## Investigation Pipeline ### Phase 1: Target Initialization Define the target clearly: - **Type:** person | company | technology | market | competitor - **Identity:** name, aliases, known associations - **Scope:** what specifically to find (general profile, funding history, team composition, technology stack, competitive positioning) - **Depth:** surface (headlines only) | deep (full articles + sources) | exhaustive (multi-hop research across connected entities) ### Phase 2: Query Construction Build 10-20 search queries tailored to target type: **Person:** - `"[name]" [company]` — basic association - `"[name]" site:linkedin.com` — public LinkedIn profile - `"[name]" [industry] interview OR podcast OR k...