A curated technical platform for open-source intelligence research.
A curated catalog of tools, documentation and sources, organised by a clear taxonomy and built for technical research. Built for analysts, researchers and technical teams that work with signal, not noise.
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Tools, documentation and sources — organised to be actually usable.
Most OSINT resources are scattered lists. We treat the catalog as infrastructure: a taxonomy with macro categories, operational classes and cross-cutting tags, each a stable reference that tools, articles and sources attach to.
Every entry is reviewed. Everything exposed on the public site is edited from a single backoffice with explicit ownership, access levels and publishing controls.
First-wave picks.
Curated entry points from the editorial team — a handful of tools and articles worth opening on day one.
- Security Headers Checker· Security Headers Check
Inspect HTTP security headers on any public URL.
- DNS / MX / SPF / DMARC Inspector· SPF / DKIM / DMARC
Resolve DNS records and email-authentication posture for a domain.
- Robots.txt + Sitemap + Meta Analyzer· Robots & Sitemap
Inspect robots.txt, sitemap discovery and head meta of a page.
- Stop Calling Them Hackersfeatured
The word hacker is too often used as a lazy synonym for cybercriminal. That shortcut distorts public understanding, flattens meaningful distinctions, and erases an entire technical culture.
- OSINT Is Not Just Searchingfeatured
OSINT is often reduced to search engines, public databases, and collection shortcuts. In reality, its value comes from context, validation, synthesis, and disciplined analytical judgment.
- The Problem With Tool-Centric OSINT Educationfeatured
Tool lists are useful, but tool-centric education often produces dependency rather than judgment. Strong analysts are built through method, not just interfaces.
Four surfaces, one catalog.
Each surface shares the same taxonomy and metadata, so moving between classification, catalog and documentation stays coherent.
Taxonomy
Macro categories, operational classes, cross-cutting tags.
Catalog
Tools registry with access levels, policies and curated metadata.
Editorial
Articles, guides and technical documents on OSINT methods.
Sources
Tracked sources with ingestion pipelines and review queue.
Named takes on open-source research.
Opinion, analysis, culture and ethics — the editorial layer of the platform. Slower, sharper, more reflective.
Stop Calling Them Hackers
The word hacker is too often used as a lazy synonym for cybercriminal. That shortcut distorts public understanding, flattens meaningful distinctions, and erases an entire technical culture.
OSINT Is Not Just Searching
OSINT is often reduced to search engines, public databases, and collection shortcuts. In reality, its value comes from context, validation, synthesis, and disciplined analytical judgment.
The Problem With Tool-Centric OSINT Education
Tool lists are useful, but tool-centric education often produces dependency rather than judgment. Strong analysts are built through method, not just interfaces.
The catalog spine.
Three primitives, reused everywhere. Stats below are live from the current database.
Domini, HTTP, struttura web
Email e deliverability
Header e sicurezza web
Metadati e discovery
Rischio ed esposizione
DNS e infrastruttura
How the platform is organised.
A small number of concepts, used consistently across the public site and the admin console.
- 01MacrocategoriesTop-level groupings. Stable, small in number, rarely changed.
lab.tool_macrocategories - 02CategoriesOperational classes inside a macrocategory. The backbone of the catalog.
lab.tool_categories - 03TagsCross-cutting labels per entity type (tool, article, document, source).
lab.tags - 04Users & accessRoles, per-area admin permissions and tool access levels.
public.profiles · lab.user_access_profiles
Free account. Product-led, no marketing list.
Accounts are free during the technical preview. Elevated tool access is granted by the platform team per profile. You can also explore the catalog without signing in.