# OSINT **Entity class:** Intelligence discipline **Domain:** Intelligence collection / public information **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Open-source intelligence (OSINT)** is intelligence produced from publicly or commercially available information that is lawfully collected, evaluated, and analyzed for a specific requirement. Sources can include news, public records, websites, social platforms, academic literature, geospatial products, corporate filings, and technical data. Availability does not eliminate verification, privacy, licensing, or attribution requirements. OSINT becomes intelligence through a documented analytic process; a search result or social post alone is raw information. ## Relationships - **supports:** [[wiki/Counterterrorism Intelligence|Counterterrorism Intelligence]]. - **social-platform subset:** [[wiki/SOCMINT|SOCMINT]]. - **combined through:** [[wiki/All-Source Intelligence|All-Source Intelligence]]. - **can populate:** [[wiki/Identity and Relationship Analysis|Identity and Relationship Analysis]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Office of the Director of National Intelligence — What is Intelligence?](https://www.dni.gov/index.php/what-we-do/what-is-intelligence) ## Connected marketplace roles The source article connects this entry with [[wiki/Civilian Spycraft|Civilian Spycraft]], [[wiki/IC Open Source Intelligence Strategy 2024–2026|IC Open Source Intelligence Strategy 2024–2026]], [[wiki/Next-Generation OSINT Workforce and Tradecraft|Next-Generation OSINT Workforce and Tradecraft]], [[wiki/Bellingcat|Bellingcat]], [[wiki/Publicly Available Information|Publicly Available Information]], [[wiki/Machine-Readable Public Sphere|Machine-Readable Public Sphere]], [[wiki/Adverse-Media Screening|Adverse-Media Screening]], [[wiki/Dark-Web Monitoring|Dark-Web Monitoring]], [[wiki/Agentic OSINT|Agentic OSINT]], [[wiki/Open Source Enterprise|Open Source Enterprise]]. These routes locate the associated people, implementations, methods, and operational contexts in [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft]]. **Collections:** [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]. ## Civilian intelligence marketplace — operational bridge The marketplace connects open-source discipline with the suppliers and operators who perform it. [[wiki/Collection by Purchase|Collection by Purchase]] supplies data, [[wiki/Agentic OSINT|Agentic OSINT]] executes investigative loops, and [[wiki/Intelligence Productization|Intelligence Productization]] delivers findings with confidence and a criterion for use. The [[wiki/Task Board|Task Board]] and [[wiki/Agent Board|Agent Board]] show how the work is staffed. **Source article:** [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft]]. **Collection:** [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]].