PLATFORM CAPABILITIES

PSID capabilities

From an information requirement to structured, traceable knowledge.

PSID brings together planning, collection, organization, traceability and analysis capabilities to structure monitoring of the digital environment around specific information requirements.

Each capability is part of a broader process: defining what needs to be known, obtaining relevant evidence, preserving its context, analyzing it and turning it into useful knowledge.

OVERVIEW

Capabilities create value when they work together.

An individual capability can address a task. An intelligence process requires all of them to remain aligned with the objective, scope and available evidence.

  1. Information requirement
  2. Planning
  3. Collection
  4. Evidence and traceability
  5. Analysis
  6. Alerting
  7. Intelligence product

DIRECTION AND GOVERNANCE

Intelligence Work

Intelligence Work organizes monitoring around a specific mission or need.

PSID does not start by asking what it can collect. It starts by asking what needs to be known.
What it does
Organizes monitoring around a mission.
What it is for
Defines objectives, actors, topics, sources and information requirements.
The problem it addresses
Helps keep the purpose and scope of monitoring explicit.
How it fits
The direction and governance layer that gives purpose to the other capabilities.

SOURCES

Sources across the digital environment

Monitoring can bring together information from different origins around a specific need.

The problem it addresses: Information fragmented across multiple platforms and formats.

How it fits: It supplies the analytical process with evidence from different origins.

  • RSS
  • X
  • YouTube
  • Facebook
  • Telegram
  • Instagram
  • TikTok
  • WEB
  • Google News

The scope and availability of each source are defined for each project.

PROVENANCE AND CONTEXT

Evidence and traceability

Collected information can retain its provenance, context and timing, allowing a finding to be reviewed later, from the conclusion back to the source that supports it.

From source to product
  1. Source
  2. Evidence
  3. Analysis
  4. Finding
  5. Product
From product to evidence
  1. Product
  2. Finding
  3. Evidence
  4. Source

ANALYSIS

Understanding requires more than one perspective.

Actors and entities

Presence, activity and relationships within the mission's context.

Narratives

Topics, arguments, interpretations and discursive frames.

Trends

Observable changes, recurrence and intensity.

Relationships and context

Connections between actors, topics, events, sources and timing.

CHANGE OVER TIME

Trends and change over time

A signal becomes more meaningful when observed over time. PSID makes it possible to examine changes in presence, recurrence and intensity, the emergence of new actors and shifts in narratives.

  1. Emerges
  2. Grows
  3. Changes
  4. Persists / declines
  5. Requires interpretation

ATTENTION

Alerting

An alert shows where to look. It does not replace analysis.

Alerting highlights changes, signals or events that meet defined criteria and require analyst review.

  1. Signal
  2. Criterion
  3. Alert
  4. Analyst review

OUTPUTS

Intelligence products

Evidence and analysis help produce understandable outputs for those who need to act or make decisions.

  • 01Entity-based analysis
  • 02Comparisons
  • 03Briefings
  • 04Overviews
  • 05Findings
  • 06Reports

These formats help organize and communicate findings with their context and evidence.

A SUPPORTING CAPABILITY

AI to support analysis

PSID can incorporate language models and other artificial intelligence components to support information synthesis, comparison and exploration.

AI is a supporting capability within the analytical process; evidence, traceability and the analyst's judgment remain fundamental.

AI can accelerate analysis. Traceability keeps it open to review.

Evidence

Human analysis

AI support

Synthesis · Comparison · Exploration

THE PSID SYSTEM

One platform. A continuous process.

  1. Intelligence Work
  2. Multi-source collection
  3. Evidence
  4. Actors · Narratives · Trends · Relationships
  5. Alerting
  6. Analysis
  7. Intelligence product
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CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

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Capability is not about collecting more.It is about connecting every stage of the process more effectively.

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