Security, intelligence & investigations professionals

Training and support for professionals.

End-to-end training for due diligence and competitive intelligence teams. Support to close protection teams to tackle digital footprint, tracking and cyber security. Custom-built privacy phones.

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The Intelligence School

Do you struggle to find time and resources to efficiently train new hires, especially if you only hire 1 person at a time?
Do your ex-government / military recruits face a very steep learning curve in how to operate in the private sector?
Do your graduate recruits take a really long time to become fully effective, if ever?
Does your regular contractor pool suffer from inconsistent quality and misalignment with your ways of working?

The Intelligence School is your end-to-end solution for these challenges

Cost effective

Train new hires for a fraction of the cost of pulling your senior staff offline for long enough to write and deliver in-house training.

Leading-edge expertise

Our lead trainer managed the competitive intelligence programme of one of the world’s top-5 tech firms for 13 years and led a due diligence practice for 8 years.

Innovative teaching

Our courses are delivered using innovative techniques such as extended problem-based learning exercises based on real projects — so students are constantly engaged in devising their own approaches to intelligence challenges, making them much more prepared to handle real projects solo. Our courses maximise practical training, with multiple realistic practical exercises to let students practise every key skill.

Who the courses are for

Private intelligence & due diligence consultancies

End-to-end due diligence and competitive intelligence training for small firms. Develop new hires and improve consistency across your contractor network without taking senior staff away from client work to create and deliver an entire course.

In-house teams

Training for teams within corporations, investment houses and private equity firms. Build end-to-end capability in-house, or improve your ability to find and manage contract resources and refine their outputs into high quality deliverables that meet your in-house standards.

Our courses

From client briefing, through research and analysis, to project delivery

Outsourced training in due diligence and competitive intelligence, with practical exercises throughout.

01

Competitive Intelligence Practitioner

Learn legal and ethical methods to research competitors, giving clients insights that help them adjust their propositions and strategies to win.

02

Due Diligence Practitioner

Learn how to vet new senior hires & board members, partners / alliances, investors & acquisitions. Spot red flags before they threaten the client’s organisation.

03

Analysis and Reporting Practitioner

Learn how to analyse complex mixtures of OSINT and human source intelligence and produce reports and presentations that land with client stakeholders.

04

Project Management for Private Intelligence

From the initial client briefing through to invoicing for a job well done, learn a complete project management system developed specifically for private intelligence and due diligence projects.

05

Business Development for Competitive Intelligence

Learn how to identify and cultivate decision makers at prospective Competitive Intelligence customers. Understand how to cost projects and write winning proposals.

06

Cyber security and privacy for intelligence and due diligence

Private intelligence and due diligence professionals handle sensitive data for clients that are of high interest to attackers. Learn how to improve your individual cyber security and privacy to prevent data leaks and hacks, and reduce digital tracking.

Competitive Intelligence in a Box

An end-to-end capability, not just a course.

Many private intelligence firms offer ‘Competitive Intelligence’, but few truly understand how to win clients and deliver projects in this specialised field. We provide detailed guidance, templates and ongoing support covering everything you need to launch and succeed.

  • Identify, cultivate and win competitive intelligence customers.
  • Understand RFPs and write great proposals in this sector.
  • Cost and price competitive intelligence projects.
  • Build research platforms suited to competitive intelligence work.
  • Deliver reports and presentations that work for your stakeholders.
  • Find and effectively manage specialist contractors.

Support to Close Protection Teams

The perimeter is not just physical, it’s digital.

These days, the attack starts before the adversary gets anywhere near the client. OSINT uncovers digital footprints. Phones can be tracked through location data collected by apps and sold to data brokers. Email and calendar accounts are hacked to gather precise intelligence on plans and movements.

Phone tracking counter measures

Lock down existing phones of your team, your client, their family and staff.

OSINT counter measures

Make it harder for adversaries to research patterns of life, residential addresses and current locations.

Cyber security

Make your team, your client, their family and staff much harder to hack. Defend against threats from financially-motivated actors up to state and state-sponsored groups.

Privacy Phones

Maximise privacy when the stakes are high.

Keose can lock down your existing iPhones or Android phones to minimise tracking. But if the stakes are high and you need to really maximise privacy, a more comprehensive approach is best. That’s why Keose offers custom-built privacy phones for organisations, individuals and families at elevated risk.

Flexible solutions, not one size fits all

Tell us what your team needs to do.

Tell us about your recruits, the capability you want to develop or the people and devices you need to protect. No obligation, no hard sell and no nonsense.