Open HUMINT Consultancy

We Start Where AI Ends

Find the knowledge your data can't reach, by engaging the unexpected and unrecognized experts with the right questions.

20+ years of Open HUMINT expertise, business and public sector

Overlooked people share what they know in interviews. Through the TINO method each claim is cross-checked against other sources; only what holds up becomes a business answer: a decision, a risk or an opportunity.

  1. 01Unrecognized expertsOverlooked people share what they know.
  2. 02The methodOpen, consent-based interviews.
  3. 03Cross-checkedOnly what two or more sources confirm stays.
  4. 04Business answersDecisions, risks and opportunities.

01The problem

AI can't reach undocumented knowledge.

AI is powerful, but it only works with what's already been written down. The most valuable knowledge lives in people's heads.

What AI does well

Within what's already known

  • Searches indexed, published data
  • Summarizes what's already been published
  • Generates answers from existing data

What Open HUMINT unlocks

Beyond what's written down

  • Finds undocumented expertise and insights
  • Finds the most credible, unbiased experts
  • Reaches knowledge that isn't searchable or published

02Our approach

Open HUMINT: human intelligence, on the record.

The HUMINT field ranges from covert, operational work to open research with willing experts. We work only at the open end.

Operational HUMINT

Not what we do

  • Covert source recruitment
  • Surveillance and observation
  • Intelligence on people, often without their knowledge

Open HUMINT

How we work

  • Willing expert participants, identified and on the record
  • Consent-based interviews
  • Knowledge from people, with their full participation

03The TINO method

Map. Ask. Integrate.

  1. 01

    Map

    Find the people who hold the missing insight.

  2. 02

    Ask

    Engage them in open, structured interviews.

  3. 03

    Integrate

    Turn verified findings into your decision.

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05TINO software

Open HUMINT, now at software scale.

Until 2025, Open HUMINT was delivered by our team. Today TINO lets your team run it independently, with five specialist AI agents trained on the methodology we've refined since 2003.

  • Research in hours, not weeks
  • Your network works while you sleep
  • Every meeting, captured and ready
  • 20 years of methodology, on call

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06Track record

Proven across industries.

Case study · Consultancy

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Bradesco

Major Brazilian bank

Used TINO to identify key knowledge owners whose security insights were being overlooked.

Case study · Training

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CCR

Global mobility & infrastructure

Built and trained an internal TINO team to improve processes and strengthen compliance through online and in-person training.

Case study · Consultancy & Training

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Edenred

Global leader in prepaid corporate services

Conducted TINO research to identify business opportunities and trained loss prevention teams through in-house and on-the-job sessions.

Trusted by business and public sector clients on four continents

  • Keter
  • Embraer
  • Ministerie
  • Allibert
  • Carrefour
  • Vale
  • Belastingdienst
  • AchterhoekVO
  • SSR
  • Alliantie
  • Produs
  • Provincie Overijssel

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Find Out What You're Missing

Tell us your challenge. We'll show you where the unrecognized knowledge is.