AI for Open-Source Research: a hands-on workshop

Learn practical ways to use generative AI in open-source research and investigative workflows, while assessing outputs for reliability, bias and unsupported claims. This live online workshop is designed for intelligence professionals, investigators, researchers and security practitioners.

What you’ll work on

Across two instructor-led half-days, you’ll use realistic scenarios to explore how to:

• Choose AI models and workflows for different research tasks
• Build prompts, context and custom instructions
• Use AI-assisted collection at scale within relevant platform terms, agency policy and legal limits
• Structure unstructured material into entities, relationships, themes, claims and information gaps
• Check outputs for hallucinations, bias and unsupported inference

The second session finishes with a capstone activity covering the workflow end to end.

Included with enrolment

• OSINT Combine’s self-paced AI Essentials online course, to complete before the workshop
• Two live sessions, with approximately 6.5 hours of instruction
• Guided exercises and labs
• A resource pack, prompt library and custom GPTs
• Guidance for offline AI use in constrained environments
• Certificate of completion

Session schedule

• Tuesday 24 November 2026, 12:00pm–3:30pm AEDT
• Wednesday 25 November 2026, 12:00pm–3:30pm AEDT

No previous AI experience is required; some OSINT experience may be helpful. One ticket covers both sessions. Refunds are available up to 7 days before the event.

For more information, see the workshop page.