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The Complete Exercise Set
You work every stage of the discipline, from moving information to assessment through testing assumptions and weighing alternatives to writing a judgment with its confidence attached. Nothing is sampled. All of it is practiced.
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Prove It on a Full Analysis
The capstone hands you a complete analytic problem and scores the judgment you reach. Passing takes 80 percent, so the certificate speaks to how you think, not how long you sat.
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A Certificate Earned, Not Given
You leave with a certificate that says you can turn information into a judgment that stands. The scored capstone documents applied training in intelligence analysis.
About the course
This is the complete course. Four hours, the full exercise set, a scored capstone, and a certificate. It is built for the professional who was never trained as an intelligence analyst and now has to think like one, and who wants a credential that says they can. You work every stage of the discipline. The intelligence hierarchy that separates raw information from finished judgment. The cognitive biases that quietly steer a conclusion. The structured techniques that keep analysis honest. And the writing that communicates a judgment with its confidence attached. Then you take a full analysis to its end and are assessed against it, with the certificate gated behind an 80 percent standard so it carries weight. Every exercise and the capstone are drawn from real engagements, reworked for practice. You leave having done the whole discipline and proven you can, not having watched it explained.
Work the complete exercise set, every stage from information to a confident written judgment, with nothing left as a sample.
Take a full analysis through a scored capstone gated at 80 percent, so the pass reflects real analytic judgment.
Earn a certificate that says your judgment stands up, backed by the capstone rather than by seat time.
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 directed analytical teams in regulated, high-stakes environments where incomplete or misattributed information can have significant operational and legal consequences. As the founder of The Collective Risk Intelligence, he provides structured, evidence-based due diligence and investigative analysis to law firms, private equity firms, investment firms, and high-net-worth individuals. His expertise lies at the intersection of investigative intelligence, identity verification, and litigation support, where the standard of proof is uncompromising. The course content is derived from analytical methodologies used in real-world engagements rather than theoretical frameworks developed in academic settings.
Inside the Workshop
Four hours. Ten teaching lessons, four hands-on exercises, and a scored capstone, building from what good analysis is to a written judgment that holds up. What Good Analysis Is • Understanding the intelligence hierarchy, and what separates good analysis from a pile of information. • Exercise: Classifying Information Products Guarding Against Bias • Recognizing and mitigating the cognitive biases that distort judgment, then spotting them in practice. • Exercise: Bias Recognition Scenario Structured Analytic Techniques • An overview of structured techniques, Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, key assumptions checks, indicators and warnings, and the devil's advocate. • Exercise: ACH Application Communicating the Judgment • Communicating confidence and uncertainty with estimative language, and identifying and articulating information gaps. • Exercise: Writing Intelligence Judgments Capstone • Overview, practice, and scenario, then a scored capstone assessment gated at 80 percent. The certificate and downloadable quick references unlock on completion. Every exercise and the capstone are drawn from real engagements, reworked for practice. You leave having done the whole discipline and proven you can.
Reach the Judgment. Defend It. Earn the Credential.
Intelligence Analysis for Non-Intelligence Professionals is a four-hour workshop, with the full exercise set, a scored capstone, and a certificate. Enroll now and complete the discipline end to end.
$950.00