Buried Signals

OSINT
Navigator

CUNY AI Builders Lab · Showcase · 2026.06.12

01 / Intro · The problem

Thousands of OSINT tools.
No living map.

New tools appear, break and vanish every month — static directories go stale on arrival. Researchers burn investigation hours on tool discovery instead of evidence.

Live demo · OSINT Navigator

02 / Product · Retrieval

Describe the task.
Get the right tool.

Ask in plain language → "I need to verify if a photo has been edited"
RAG, not roulette → answers grounded in the index, citing the tools they draw from
Semantic search → matches on meaning, whatever the tool is called

Load it ▸Claude Code · Codex · Gemini · Goose · LM Studio navigator.indicator.media

02 / Product · Architecture

A living OSINT library,
queryable from any agent

index & sources

pipeline

your surfaces

community loop

flowchart LR
  subgraph SRC["  SOURCES — 17 OPEN-SOURCE TOOLKITS  "]
    direction TB
    BC["Bellingcat Toolkit"]
    AO["Awesome OSINT"]
    OFW["OSINT Framework"]
    MORE["+ 14 more"]
  end

  CRW["Weekly crawler
new · changed · dead"]
  ENR["Enrichment
categories · capabilities · status"]
  IDX[("9,000+ tools
fresh embeddings weekly")]
  RAG["RAG + semantic query
grounded answers · cached Q&A"]
  AGT(["Your agent
MCP · Claude Code · Codex · Goose"])
  WEB(["Your browser
WebGPU · fine-tuned model · local"])
  COM["Community
notes · votes · missing tools · reports"]

  BC --> CRW
  AO --> CRW
  OFW --> CRW
  MORE --> CRW
  CRW --> ENR --> IDX --> RAG
  RAG ==> AGT
  RAG ==> WEB
  AGT -. "votes · submissions" .-> COM
  WEB -. "votes · submissions" .-> COM
  COM -. "Wilson-ranked, back into the index" .-> IDX

  classDef source fill:#D4A85314,stroke:#D4A853,stroke-width:1.5px
  classDef pipe fill:#F5F2ED0a,stroke:#8b939c,stroke-width:1.5px
  classDef index fill:#D4A85330,stroke:#D4A853,stroke-width:2px
  classDef users fill:#5B8A8A26,stroke:#5B8A8A,stroke-width:1.5px
  classDef community fill:#4ade8016,stroke:#4ade80,stroke-width:1.5px

  class BC,AO,OFW,MORE source
  class CRW,ENR,RAG pipe
  class IDX index
  class AGT,WEB users
  class COM community

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Live demo · Run locally

03 / Features · Privacy

Local by default

Flip "Run locally" → a fine-tuned model loads in the browser via WebGPU
No API calls. No logs. Zero PII. → inference happens on your GPU
Built for investigators → when the search terms are themselves sensitive, no server ever sees the query
Cached answers → similar questions hit the community-vetted answer cache — instant, no inference

tomvaillant/qwen3-4b-journalist-ONNX

Release · Community notes

03 / Features · Community

Less static database,
more living library

Community notes → suggest improvements on answers and tool recommendations
Report what's wrong → outdated or bad recommendations get corrected upstream
Submit missing tools → researchers push the gaps; maintainers stay current
Wilson scoring → votes rank cached answers Reddit-style — confidence intervals, not raw counts

04 / Learnings

What building it taught me

01 Distribution

Agent-first beats destination UI

Navigator works inside Spotlight and inside members' existing workflows. Meeting researchers in the agents they already use did more for adoption than any interface.

02 Human in the loop

Community is the data layer

Upstream contributions keep researchers aware of changes in tooling — and keep maintainers updated. The useful layer comes from people pushing on it in real investigations.

03 Retrieval