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Get Free AI Audit →CIA-grade open source intelligence methodology applied to political campaigns, advocacy organizations, and brands operating in contested information environments. Collection, processing, analysis, and finished intelligence products — the full cycle, not just research.
Open Source Intelligence at the CIA level is not Google searching. It is the systematic collection, processing, cross-referencing, and analysis of publicly available information to produce actionable intelligence products — the same products that intelligence analysts produce from classified sources, but derived entirely from open data. The difference between a Google search and CIA-grade OSINT is methodology, tooling, and analytical rigor.
The intelligence cycle that governs professional OSINT operations has five phases: direction (what question are we answering), collection (what sources contain relevant data), processing (cleaning, structuring, and normalizing the raw data), analysis (identifying patterns, anomalies, and implications), and dissemination (delivering the intelligence product in a format that drives action). Most political campaigns and advocacy organizations operate at the collection phase and call it research. Back Tier operates through the full cycle and delivers finished intelligence products.
The analysis layer is where Back Tier's AI agent infrastructure becomes the differentiator. Raw OSINT data is processed through custom AI agents that perform entity extraction, narrative mapping, anomaly detection, and predictive modeling — surfacing the signals that matter from the noise that doesn't.
Social Media
X/Twitter · Facebook · Instagram · TikTok · Telegram · Truth Social · Gab · Emerging platforms
Public Records
FEC filings · State campaign finance · Corporate registrations · Property records · Court filings · Lobbying disclosures · Government contracts
News & Media
50,000+ sources in real time · AI-assisted sentiment analysis · Narrative trajectory tracking
AI Layer
ChatGPT · Perplexity · Gemini · Claude · Grok · Copilot — what AI systems are telling voters right now
Research & Data
Academic publications · Think tank reports · Polling data · Demographic research · Financial databases
Every intelligence product is calibrated to a different operational need — from the daily brief that keeps you operating at intelligence-agency tempo to the deep dive that gives you everything the opposition knows.
A 500-word morning document delivered by 6:00 AM covering the top three narrative developments from the previous 24 hours, the top three emerging threats or opportunities, and the recommended rapid reaction priorities for the day. Designed to be read in five minutes. Built to operate at intelligence-agency tempo rather than news-cycle tempo.
Deliverables
A 5,000–15,000 word analytical document on a specific target, issue, or narrative. Full entity profile covering financial connections, organizational affiliations, public statements, donor networks, known associates, media relationships, and identified vulnerabilities. Narrative history, strategic assessment, and recommended course of action included. This is the product that campaigns use for opposition research, advocacy organizations use to understand the full landscape of an issue, and legal teams use to build cases.
Deliverables
Real-time monitoring across X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Telegram, Truth Social, Gab, and emerging platforms — including the dark corners where narratives originate before they surface in mainstream channels. AI agents process millions of data points per hour and surface only the signals that matter: narrative spikes, new amplifiers entering the conversation, coordinated inauthentic behavior patterns, and sentiment shifts.
Deliverables
The OSINT methodology used against opposition targets, turned inward. A structured intelligence operation run against the client's own organization to identify the financial connections, public statements, organizational affiliations, and narrative vulnerabilities that opposition researchers are likely to find and exploit. Delivered with a prioritized remediation plan. Know what they know before they use it.
Deliverables
The most important shift in political information consumption in 2026 is not happening on social media or cable news. It is happening inside AI-generated answers. Voters are increasingly turning to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and other AI systems to answer political questions — questions about candidates, issues, policies, and organizations. The answers those systems generate are shaping political opinions in ways that traditional media monitoring does not capture and that traditional campaign communications do not address.
Back Tier's OSINT stack includes continuous monitoring of what the six major AI systems — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok, and Microsoft Copilot — are saying about clients, opponents, and key issues. This is the intelligence layer that no other political research firm is providing, because it requires both the OSINT methodology and the AI visibility expertise to interpret what the signals mean and what to do about them.
When an AI system is telling voters that a candidate holds a position they do not hold, or that an organization has connections it does not have, that is an intelligence problem with a specific solution. Back Tier identifies it and fixes it — through the same AI visibility methodology that drives the rest of our practice.
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Every day your competitors are being cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini while your brand doesn't appear at all. A free AI visibility audit from Jason Todd Wade and the Back Tier team takes 48 hours and shows you exactly where you stand - and what it would take to change it. Serving brands in New York, San Francisco, Austin, Miami, Chicago, London, Dubai, and globally.
We audit your brand's current AI citation rate across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude - then deliver a prioritized action plan with no obligation.