Online OSINT Training Courses
The OSINT Combine Academy is tool-agnostic training for practitioners and teams — self-paced paths, live open-enrolment courses, and free webinars.
Learning paths and courses
Self-paced (on-demand) courses and bundles you take on your own schedule. All with 12-months access.
Browse courses →Next open-enrolment cohort
AI for Open-Source Research
Tue 24 and Wed 25 November 2026
12:00pm to 3:30pm AEDT each day · Live online
AUD $449
Details and enrolment →Free webinars
Wed
28 Oct
Online Personas
9:00am to 9:30am AEDT
Tue 27 Oct in the US: 6:00pm ET · 5:00pm CT · 3:00pm PT
Register →Wed
4 Nov
Wed
2 Dec
Sessions are recorded, so register even if you can't make the live time.
Training a team?
Teams can take the self-paced courses above at volume pricing, or have us run a private instructor-led programme. Those range from a one-day essentials course to five days of practical work finishing with a capstone exercise, delivered at your location or live online for distributed teams. Blended programmes and Capture the Flag exercises are also available.
Tell us the format you have in mind and how many people need training. If you're undecided, choose Not sure and describe what your team investigates in the comments, and we'll suggest where to start.
Structured sequences that build a capability in order, rather than a single course in isolation.
The Foundational Bundle
OSINT Primer, Attribution and Investigating Individuals. Core capability from the ground up.
Bought separately: $997.
$799
View path →The Practitioner Bundle
Everything in Foundational, plus image analysis, corporate profiling, dark web access, location intelligence and advanced collection.
$1,799
View path →The AI Bundle
AI Essentials and Leveraging Generative AI. From AI awareness to applied OSINT capability.
$499
View path →Foundations + Disinformation
Four courses from fundamentals and operational security through to cross-platform disinformation analysis.
$949
View path →From no prior AI experience through to building repeatable AI-assisted workflows. How generative AI works, where it fails, and how to apply it without losing analytical rigour.
START
AI Essentials
How generative AI works, where it fails, and why human oversight matters.
$99
View course →THEN
Leveraging Generative AI for OSINT
Move from understanding AI to using it in real investigative work.
$399
View course →COMING SOON
Agentic OSINT
Build AI agents that plan, act and remember. Local model deployment, RAG, tool building and multi-agent workflows, with the safeguards to run them safely.
Technical course. Release date to be announced.
Register interest →Take the first two together with The AI Bundle.
New to open-source investigation, or building a shared baseline across a team. Structured collection and safe practice, without assuming prior tradecraft.
OSINT Primer
The intelligence cycle and practical search: engines, archives, reverse image and email.
$249
View →Attribution: Digital Footprint Assessment
How your own footprint is exposed, practical OPSEC, and an attribution assessment you can apply to live investigations.
$249
View →Investigating Individuals: Social Media & Open Sources
Pivot from limited information to a complete profile while maintaining operational security.
$499
View →All three in The Foundational Bundle
Bought separately they cost $997.
$799
View bundleAlso a good place to start
Dark Web Essentials
Safe, structured access to dark web sources. Standalone, and the cheapest way into paid training with us.
$199
View →Infrastructure · Corporate · Image and video · Geolocation · Disinformation · Chinese Internet
Go deeper on a specific capability. Each course is self-contained, so take the one your current work needs.
Website OSINT
Investigate websites, domains and online infrastructure using passive techniques.
$499
View →OSINT Corporate Profiling
Company profiling, ownership analysis, sanctions screening and trade activity tracking.
$199
View →Image and Video Analysis
A method-first approach to analysing images and video as evidence.
$299
View →Location and Event Intelligence with Open Sources
Monitor geographic areas and track unfolding events from open sources.
$499
View →Disinformation: Detecting, Collecting and Analysing
Identify bot networks and investigate influence campaigns across platforms.
$499
View →The OSINT Redbook: Searching the Chinese Internet
Search and extract intelligence from China's distinct digital environment.
$499
View →Training a team? We run private instructor-led programmes built around your organisation's mission. See options for teams →
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See how we teach before you buy
The OSINT Knowledge Library is free: curated videos, webinars and insights across tradecraft, AI and topical investigations. No cost, no card.
Open the free libraryReady for a structured path? The Foundational Bundle, $799 →