OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE SERVICE BUSINESS PLAN

I. Executive Summary

Company Description

Company name: Confidential. Based in a major U.S. metropolitan area, we operate in the Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) sector, converting public online data into verified, court-ready intelligence for legal, financial, and corporate clients. We sell time-and-materials investigative services on a billable-hour model, focused on high-stakes due diligence, litigation support, and brand monitoring. Our deliverables are verified reports and analyst briefings that combine elite human analysis with advanced tooling to produce insights automated systems miss.

We run focused case teams that collect, verify, and document digital evidence; synthesize findings into actionable reports; and provide expert testimony when needed. What sets us apart is strict legal and ethical compliance, structured evidentiary chains, and senior-analyst involvement on every engagement. Target clients are law firms, corporate legal departments, private equity and financial sponsors, and enterprise security teams. Short-term goals: scale billable hours, standardize report templates, and win five enterprise retainer clients within 12 months. Long-term goals: establish national reputation, expand into subscription brand-monitoring products, and reach $5M ARR within five years.

Problem

Legal and financial teams face an information-quality crisis: public web data is unverified, scattered across surface, deep, and dark web, and produces unreliable outputs that cannot support high-stakes decisions. This creates three concrete harms—poor due diligence, weak litigation evidence, and compliance blind spots—that increase transaction risk and legal exposure.

Existing automated scraping and aggregation tools generate false positives and incomplete datasets and lack legally admissible source verification. Firms without specialized OSINT capabilities must rely on expensive manual rework by specialists or accept unusable reports, leaving a clear gap in the market for reliable, defensible intelligence.

There is a need for verified, court-ready public-data reports that reduce false positives, close compliance blind spots, and lower specialist hours spent on manual verification—so legal and financial teams can make confident, defensible decisions.

Solution

Businesses and legal teams face overwhelming, scattered, and unverified online information that raises material risk in deals and litigation. We convert public digital noise into concise, court-ready intelligence by combining automated aggregation with expert human verification to produce admissible reports, risk assessments, litigation evidence, and continuous brand monitoring.

Core offers address the specific need for verified, legally defensible open-source intelligence in high-stakes decisions: due diligence for M&A and counterparties, regulatory and reputational risk assessments, preserved evidence for litigation, and 24/7 threat alerts for brands.

One-liner: Get verified, legally usable open-source intelligence for high-stakes decisions.

Mission Statement

We deliver critical insights from open-source digital data so legal, financial, and corporate professionals can act with confidence and clarity. We commit to the highest standards of discretion and legal compliance while continuously advancing OSINT techniques to stay ahead of emerging threats and trends. Our purpose is to protect clients’ assets and reputation by turning digital complexity into clear, actionable intelligence.

Key Success Factors

Our competitive position rests on people, processes, technology, legal rigor, and client relationships.

• Elite analyst team—staffed with former intelligence and law enforcement professionals.
• Air-gapped infrastructure—ensures confidentiality and integrity of sensitive client data.
• Ethical and legal compliance—produces deliverables admissible in litigation and formal due diligence.
• Long-term strategic partnerships—drive high client retention and recurring revenue.
• Human-plus-tech analysis—combines advanced tools with critical thinking for unique insights.

Financial Summary

Financial summary for the Executive Summary: launch in 2026 with rapid scaling to 2030 driven by billable services and retainers.

Financial requirements: Minimum cash required $530,000 (minimum cash month Aug-26). Milestones: breakeven Sep-26 (9 months), payback in 31 months. Anticipated return: IRR 6.19% and ROE 7.63% on the current plan.

Outlook: revenues scale from $925k in 2026 to $3.286M in 2028 with improving margins and positive EBITDA from 2027 onward.

Funding Requirements

Minimum cash position required is $530,000 to cover $192,000 in initial capital expenditures and operating losses to reach breakeven in Sep-2026.

Projected revenue is $925,000 in 2026 and $8,460,000 by 2030; breakeven in Sep-2026; EBITDA moves from -$202,000 (Year 1) to $4,335,000 (Year 5); CAC falls from $1,500 to $1,100; IRR is 6.19% and ROE is 7.63%.