Move From Information to Assessment

You take a full file and practice the step most people skip, weighing the facts against each other and committing to a judgment you can stand behind.

Name the Assumptions Holding It Up

You surface the assumptions underneath a conclusion and test them, so the finding rests on evidence rather than on something you never said out loud.

Write the Judgment With Its Confidence

You practice stating what you found and how well you know it, so the reader can act on the assessment with their eyes open.

About the course

Gathering is trained into most professionals. Analysis is not. This workshop is two hours of hands-on practice in the discipline that turns a pile of information into a judgment someone can act on, built for people who were never trained as intelligence analysts and now have to think like one. You work the real transition. A file that looks like an answer and is not one yet. A conclusion resting on assumptions nobody named. An assessment that has to be written so its confidence level is visible rather than hidden. Each exercise moves you from collecting to concluding. This is the practitioner tier, so the emphasis is on doing. You leave having practiced the reasoning, not just recognized the need for it.

Practice moving from a full file to a defensible assessment, the step between collection and conclusion.

Learn to surface and test the assumptions a conclusion rests on before you commit to it.

Write a judgment that carries its confidence level, so your reader knows both what you found and how well you know it.

Sean Mahon

A senior intelligence professional with over 20 years of experience across military intelligence, KYC/AML compliance, open-source intelligence instruction, and forensic due diligence. He has led analytical teams in regulated, high-stakes environments where incomplete or misattributed information carries direct operational and legal consequence. He is the founder of The Collective Risk Intelligence, a specialized firm delivering structured, evidence-based due diligence and investigative analysis for law firms, private equity, investment firms, and high-net-worth individuals. His work sits at the intersection of investigative intelligence, identity verification, and litigation support . All environments where the standard of proof is not negotiable. This course draws directly from the analytical methodology applied in real engagements, not theory, not frameworks built in a classroom.

Curriculum

1 Chapter · 2 Lessons

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      Intelligence Analysis for Business Decisions

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      Downloadable Handout

From Collecting to Concluding.

Intelligence Analysis for Business Decisions is a two-hour practitioner workshop for $295. Enroll now and practice the analytic discipline on files built from real engagements.

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