# Recorded Future
**Entity class:** Organization or company
**Domain:** Agentic Software
## Definition
Threat-intelligence company discussed in the article's commercial OSINT and agentic market. The firm connects large-scale information collection with intelligence products for enterprise and public customers.
## Operational role
Agentic software turns research methods into loops that plan, collect, compare, revise, and report. Visual analysis, browser orchestration, memory, query evolution, and connected databases supply different implementation layers. The article follows the builders and systems through which civilians can develop useful intelligence work at machine speed.
**Architecture connections:** [[wiki/OSINT|OSINT]] · [[wiki/AI Agent|AI Agent]] · [[wiki/Cyber Threat Intelligence|Cyber Threat Intelligence]].
## Relationships
- **article-linked mechanism or framework:** [[wiki/Cyber Threat Intelligence|Cyber Threat Intelligence]].
- **article-linked mechanism or framework:** [[wiki/Agentic OSINT|Agentic OSINT]].
- **collection route:** [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]].
- **counterterrorism architecture:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]].
- **source article:** [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft]].
## Sources / Provenance
- [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft#IV. The Missing Link: Pinkerton, the Eye That Never Sleeps, and the Industrialization of Private Intelligence|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft — IV. The Missing Link: Pinkerton, the Eye That Never Sleeps, and the Industrialization of Private Intelligence]] — October 2026 revision; immediate source for this entry’s place in the marketplace.
- [Wikipedia, Pinkerton (detective agency).](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_(detective_agency))
- [Mordor Intelligence, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Market.](https://www.mordorintelligence.com/industry-reports/open-source-intelligence-market)
- [Global Market Insights, Open-Source Intelligence Market.](https://www.gminsights.com/industry-analysis/open-source-intelligence-osint-market)