OSINT

You are a recruiter, an SDR, a founder, a marketer, a customer-success lead, or a fraud analyst. You have a name, a handle, a screenshot, or just an email - and the candidate, prospect, partner, or account in question needs an answer this afternoon. Google is feeding you fifteen million useless results. Free people-search sites went paid or vanished. Facebook Graph Search is gone. The free X firehose is gone. Half the OSINT tutorials on YouTube reference services that no longer exist.

Meanwhile the person you need has a LinkedIn, a GitHub, a Strava, a Reddit history, and a username they have reused on every forum since 2014 - and you cannot see any of it because nobody has shown you where to look on the internet that exists now.

When you do not have the system: someone on your team types names into Google for three hours, misses the candidate's controversial five-year-old posts, signs the vendor whose claimed office address does not actually exist, and emails the requester a half-built profile that begins "I could not confirm but..."

When you do have the system: you fill the Pre-Search Briefing in ninety seconds, draw the Identifier Pivot Tree, run three x-ray queries, verify across two independent sources, and deliver a one-page candidate or partner profile with citations at minute twenty-nine.

This book is the exact system Mike has used since 2006 - first as a recruiter at Alfa-Bank, then through Wargaming, Preply, and iDeals - and taught to more than 150,000 students through Mike Pritula Academy.

Here is what you will learn:

• The Thirty-Minute Investigation - close every search in thirty minutes or kill it

• The Identifier Pivot - convert any starting fact into the fact you need

• The X-Ray Method - find profiles inside platforms that hide their native search

• The Boolean Cheat Sheet - operators that survived the Google syntax purge

• The Practitioner's Dork Library - 33 ready-to-paste queries

• The Username Triangulation Workflow - find an alias across 700+ platforms

• The AI Vision Geolocation Prompt - pinpoint a photo's location with AI

• The Email Reverse Lookup Workflow - from one address to a full profile

• The Phone Lookup Decision Tree - post-GetContact methodology that still works

• The Public-API Location Pivot - verify a vendor's claimed address from public traces

• The Counter-OSINT Self-Audit - audit your own footprint before fundraising or hiring

63 ready-to-use templates - all inside the book:

• The Pre-Search Briefing Worksheet

• The Identifier Pivot Tree

• The AI Triage Prompt - Should You Run This Case?

• The Engine Selection Decision Tree

• The Current Boolean Syntax Cheat Sheet

• The Practitioner's Dork Library

• The LinkedIn X-Ray Query Generator

• The Working Username Search Engines List

• The Email Reverse Lookup Workflow

• The Phone Lookup Decision Tree

• The AI Vision Geolocation Triangulation Prompt

• The Working Corporate Registry Index

• The HaveIBeenPwned Practitioner Workflow

• The 30-Minute Investigation Timer & Stage Map

• The Final Profile Output Template

Michael Bazzell's OSINT Techniques is around $50. Hassan and Hijazi's Open Source Intelligence Methods and Tools is $40. Rae Baker and Micah Hoffman's Deep Dive is $45. An OSINT consultant runs $200-400 an hour. A two-day OSINT workshop is $1,500-3,500. This book costs less than dinner.

Stop reading dead OSINT tutorials. Start running thirty-minute searches.