Keeping up with the new and updated tools for OSINT and digital investigations can feel like a full-time job—and I say this as someone for whom it basically is a full-time job.
Of course, tools aren’t the most important part of investigative work. Critical thinking and the investigative mindset are the only things that can't be discontinued, banned, or turned off. But knowing which tools exist, and which ones actually work, is its own challenge.
Today we’re announcing OSINT Navigator, a new project in partnership with Tom Vaillant, a journalist and technologist who runs Buried Signals, to help investigators find the right tool(s) for a specific task or need. Think of it as a meta search tool for, well, tools.
Currently in beta, OSINT Navigator uses a curated database of tools from nine independent OSINT toolkits (see the list below) to suggest tools based on a natural language search query. Type in, “How do I find the owner of a website?” or “How to track a crypto transaction?” and it returns a list of relevant tools and shows the toolkit(s) that recommended them. As of today, there are almost 7,500 tools in the Navigator dataset, which you can access here.
OSINT Navigator will have a basic level of free access for everyone, and it will prominently credit the tool lists that power results.
Indicator members receive early access to Navigator, additional daily queries, and the ability to use MCP to pull data via their preferred AI platform. (What is MCP? Read more here.) We’re excited to roll out a new tool for Indicator members and subscribers!
We’d love you to upgrade to a membership so you can access the Navigator beta and shape the tool to your needs. Our member beta cohort will also help us create a dataset of high quality answers to common OSINT queries to help guide Navigator’s responses. There's a community layer to Navigator that will enable it to act as a living library of tools that evolves as the community's preferences and opinions change.
If you upgrade now, we can include you in the beta tester group. You also get early access to Navigator, additional search queries, and MCP integration — plus full access to all of our content and a monthly workshop.
We’ll keep you updated on Navigator’s progress and encourage you to follow Tom Vaillant, the developer, on Linkedin. He’s building other AI tools to help journalists. You can learn more on his website, Buried Signals. Tom also built and open-sourced three OSINT skill files, which are structured Markdown references that give agents investigative expertise to draw on.
The OSINT community runs on shared knowledge. We want to make these tools available to everyone, with options to use them at no cost.
Awesome OSINT (github.com/jivoi/awesome-osint)
Bellingcat Toolkit (github.com/bellingcat/toolkit)
CybDetective Map (cybdetective.com/osintmap)
Digital Digging (digitaldigging.org)
Intelligence OnChain (intelligenceonchain.com)
OSINT Framework (osintframework.com)
OSINT Handbook (osinthandbook.com)
OSINT Vault (theosintvault.io)
PikaOSINT (pikaosint.pages.dev)
