Buried Signals in partnership with Indicator

Launching with Indicator

AI Lab for investigative journalists using AI in the real world.

AI Lab is Indicator's practical tier for AI-assisted investigation, built with Buried Signals. Members get tools, training, field guides, office hours, webinars, and walkthroughs from real reporting workflows and newsroom case studies.

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$10/mo AI Lab add-on to Indicator membership
$108/yr Annual AI Lab option
200/day OSINT Navigator queries for AI Lab members

What Buried Signals is

Investigations with AI, and the tools to run your own.

Buried Signals is an investigative and technology studio in partnership with Indicator. It uses AI to accelerate investigations, disclose methodologies, and build open tools for journalists and researchers. The premise is simple: AI can speed up investigative work, but sourcing, verification, judgment, and trust stay with journalists.

AI Lab member tier

The practical layer around Indicator membership.

Tools are included with training. The tier is built for reporters, researchers, OSINT practitioners, and newsroom teams who need repeatable workflows, not abstract AI demos.

Data

Data Navigator

A natural-language data tool for OSINT. Query public registries and hosted paid sources without writing code.

  • Web, CLI, and installable agent-skill access where available.
  • Up to 250 hosted paid-source queries per month during the term.
  • Public-data sources and OpenSanctions-style entity risk screening where available.
Monitor

Scoutpost Pro

AI scouts for continuous monitoring of pages, beats, social profiles, councils, PDFs, and OSINT sources.

  • 1,000 internal credits per month.
  • Page Scouts, Beat Scouts, Social Scouts, Civic/Council Scouts, and OSINT Scouts where available.
Tools

OSINT Navigator

More headroom on the OSINT tool catalogue and agent-facing tool recommendations.

  • 200 queries per day for AI Lab members.
  • Built by Buried Signals with Indicator for practical open-source investigations.
Agents

Spotlight integrations

Data Navigator adapters and related member integrations inside Spotlight where technically ready.

  • Demos, walkthroughs, and office-hours coverage.
  • Spotlight remains open source where applicable.
Setup

Mycroft support

Guided setup and office-hours support for journalist agent workflows.

  • Vault Q&A, SIFT-style checking, beat monitoring, and story pitching.
  • Group educational support, not individual consulting retainers.
Access

Early access and bootcamps

Members help shape the roadmap and get priority access to deeper training.

  • Early access to relevant new features.
  • Member pricing and priority access to separate paid bootcamps.

Monthly cadence

What members will get from the partnership.

Monthly 60-minute webinar

Live sessions on AI-assisted investigations, Indicator/Buried Signals investigations, or practical newsroom workflows.

Monthly AI Lab Research Digest

Member-only brief on AI in journalism, useful tools and APIs, relevant research, regulatory shifts, and industry developments.

Bi-weekly Group office hours

Questions, troubleshooting, and methodology discussion around OSINT Navigator, Data Navigator, Spotlight, Scoutpost, and Mycroft.

Monthly Field guide or workflow note

One practical guide, template, or workflow note members can adapt to their own reporting.

Quarterly Investigation Lab

A 90-minute live walkthrough based on a real investigation workflow or newsroom case study.

Ongoing Methodology disclosure

Methods from supported investigations are turned into member-facing learning material where editorially appropriate.

Launch path

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