Ten Useful AI Prompts Every OSINT Analyst Should Know
We discuss what prompts are, where their limitations are, and outline ten useful prompts you can use right away.
Hello from the OJ Team,
Prompt engineering is a useful skill. The quality of what comes back depends almost entirely on how you prompt an LLM.
This week, we cover what a prompt is, where they fail, and publish ten useful prompts for OSINT professionals.
Plus, we share the latest tradecraft tips, job opportunities, and industry news from last week.
Let’s get started.
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OSINT Tradecraft Tips & Industry News
Everything you need to know from the past seven days.
The Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) published a guide on how to investigate cryptocurrencies. It explains how to trace wallet addresses, use blockchain explorers, and verify crypto transactions | read the guide here
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence passed the fiscal year 2027 Intelligence Authorization Act on Monday. The bill expands open source intelligence capabilities, among other measures | read more
The EU TE-SAT is a situational overview. It presents key figures and developments in the EU terrorism landscape | read the full report
tldraw is a fully offline, file-based AI whiteboard desktop app that allows users to sketch, diagram, and organize ideas locally without accounts or servers | read more about the tool here | try it here
This may be of interest to CTI professionals. Feedly has bundled 44 CTI prompts into one downloadable zip file, alongside a README index, so analysts can drop them straight into an LLM or agent for tasks like threat hunting, detection engineering, and workflow automation | explore here
Ten Useful Prompts for OSINT Professionals
OSINT professionals across all domains use large language models (LLMs) for their work, but the quality of what comes back depends almost entirely on how the prompt is phrased. A vague prompt returns a vague answer. A structured one returns something you can actually work with.
This week we publish ten useful prompts for OSINT professionals. Each prompt is broken down into what it does, and what you to share. We also lay out where prompts fall short, because prompts are only useful to someone who knows their limitations.
The full breakdown is below.
