# Osinto > Osinto is an independent intelligence house. We conduct investigations, collect commercial intelligence and evaluate AI models - grounded in provenance and defensibility. Intelligence you can't trust is worse than useless. Both our practices answer the same question - will this hold up to scrutiny? Investigations & Intelligence gives clients clarity on counterparties and countries, capital flows and markets, resolving evidence to sources. AI Evaluations establishes what work a given model can actually be trusted with, and on what hardware, scored against held-out tasks on compute we control. We build tools in-house to encode auditable discipline in our work. Cloud Empire™ is our entity mapping platform. Our AI evaluations are built on the Inspect framework. Osinto has provided intelligence to industry leaders across three continents since 2019, with retained work for clients including Rolls-Royce. Based in the United Kingdom. Osinto is not affiliated with osinto.ai. Every page below links to its Markdown twin. The HTML equivalent is the same URL without the .md - https://www.osinto.com/about.md renders at https://www.osinto.com/about/. ## Practices - [Investigations & Intelligence](https://www.osinto.com/investigations-and-intelligence.md): Independent investigations, due diligence and commercial intelligence - resolved to primary sources so findings hold up to scrutiny. - [AI Evaluations](https://www.osinto.com/ai-evaluations.md): Independent AI evaluations - which model, on which hardware, for which task. Scored against held-out ground truth, on compute we control. ## Reference - [What is Knowledge Graph Intelligence (KGI)?](https://www.osinto.com/kgi-knowledge-graph-intelligence.md): Canonical definition. KGI is the discipline of building, curating and traversing knowledge graphs for decision-grade answers. - [Cloud Empire](https://www.osinto.com/cloud-empire.md): Osinto's Knowledge Graph Intelligence platform - a living graph of the frontier; companies, technologies, programmes and the relationships between them. ## The Osborne Report Analysis briefings and field notes from Osinto's founder, Charles Osborne. Also published as a podcast. - [The Osborne Report](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report.md): Index of all briefings, with RSS at https://www.osinto.com/rss.xml - [Prediction: Quantum Systems Sea Domain](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/prediction-quantum-systems-sea-domain.md): When market structure is mapped into a knowledge graph, the plausible shape of things to come sometimes looks obvious. Looking at previous patterns and deriving data from open sources (OSINT) we're making a prediction... - [Maritime Autonomy, British Counter-Drone Capital, Munich's Defence Tech Mafia and Europe's AI Renaissance](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/maritime-autonomy-british-counter-drone-capital-munichs-defence-tech-mafia-and-europes-ai-renaissance.md): Vol. I of The Osborne Report: Dorset USV startup Online Oceans raise £4m (including from Elon Musk's cousin), Cambridge Aerospace's impressive roster of global backers for next-generation British cUAS air defence, the 'Munich Defence Tech Mafia' and Europe's AI funding boom - all mapped with Knowledge Graph Intelligence (KGI). - [Claude x Carney - Coalition Planning Tool for a Ruptured World Order](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/claude-x-carney-coalition-planning-tool-for-a-ruptured-world-order.md): Carney's Davos rupture speech set out the problem. We built the tool. - [Acoustic Drone Detection - Defending Fragile Frontiers](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/acoustic-drone-detection.md): In Counter-UAS (C-UAS) applications acoustic monitoring systems typically consist of an array of microphones (or particle velocity probes), used to detect the presence of drones. Most incorporate neural networks, with classification algorithms matching detected audio signatures to libraries of known threats. - [Acoustic Detection - from Conservation to Conflict Zones](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/acoustic-detection-from-conservation-to-conflict-zones.md): A strike drone hurtles towards a target in Ukraine. A poacher takes a shot at an endangered bird in Bolivia. Unseen by human eyes both are nonetheless being monitored - by AI-enhanced 'artificial ears'. - [The Quantum Computing Technologies Competing for Supremacy](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/the-quantum-computing-technologies-competing-for-supremacy.md): Several distinct types of quantum computer currently compete for supremacy. They're all relatively complex and expensive; several requiring components to be cooled to extreme temperatures approaching absolute zero (-273°C). - [Will Quantum Computers Replace AI's GPU Infrastructure? An Early Assessment](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/will-quantum-computers-replace-ai-gpu-infrastructure-an-early-assessment.md): Quantum Processing Units or QPUs hold much computational promise, but will they supersede the GPU any time soon? - [The AI Data Centre Infrastructure Powering Deep Neural Network Advancements](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/the-ai-data-centre-infrastructure-powering-deep-neural-network-advancements.md): Things invariably have their time and for Artificial Intelligence (AI) that emphatically seems to be right now. But why is that? It's largely down to scale. Plain old 'making stuff bigger'. - [Toyota's New Lithium-Ion Battery Factory in North Carolina - as Seen from Space](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/toyota-s-new-li-ion-battery-plant-in-north-carolina-visible-from-space.md): Toyota - the world's largest carmaker - are generally regarded as something of a laggard in the all-electric vehicle market, having seemingly squandered an early lead established in the hybrid-electric segment. - [What Joby Aviation Learned from Tesla - Batteries, Charging, Cooling](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/what-joby-aviation-learned-from-telsa-batteries-charging-cooling.md): Joby Aviation are developing electric vertical takeoff and landing / eVTOL aircraft. Two of their pre-production 'S4' experimental prototype airframes have been registered with the FAA. - [Analysis: Aura Aero & Electric Power Systems](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/analysis-aura-aero-electric-power-systems.md): Analysing the electric aviation market - looking specifically at France's Aura Aero and Utah-based battery / power specialists Electric Power Systems. - [Ground-Breaking UK-First Drone Delivery Trial 'A Resounding Success'](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/ground-breaking-uk-first-drone-delivery-trial-a-resounding-success.md): An innovative partnership between London-based technology firm Neuron Innovations Ltd, 'drone-in-a-box' provider Herotech8 and specialist insurance and risk management company Flock is celebrating a successful proof-of-concept trial for their ground-breaking MediDrone delivery project. - [Whitepaper: Mapping the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Ecosystem with Lufthansa Innovation Hub](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/whitepaper-mapping-the-advanced-air-mobility-ecosystem-osinto-lufthansa-innovation-hub.md): We're excited to share a whitepaper on the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) ecosystem which we've been working on with the talented team from the Lufthansa Innovation Hub in Berlin. - [Airbus Ventures Lands (in the) Japanese Capital](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/airbus-ventures-lands-in-the-japanese-capital.md): Airbus Ventures Fund III has attracted several investors in Japan and the aerospace conglomerate's Venture Capital fund will now open in Tokyo. - [Dawn's Diminutive Dutch Spaceplane](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/dawn-aerospace-diminutive-dutch-spaceplane.md): Dawn Aerospace ($5.5m funding) unveiled their 'Dawn Mk-II Aurora' sub-orbital spaceplane this week. The 4.8m long aircraft is capable of speeds in excess of Mach 3. - [Sky-Ports and Wind Farms](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/skyports-and-windfarms.md): In this article we'll be taking a look at 'skyport' infrastructure - the networks of mini-airports being designed to support a new generation of small, electric aircraft. We'll also make some suggestions as to how this clean infrastructure might be financed, taking inspiration from offshore windfarms. - [Joby Aviation Opening in Germany](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/joby-aviation-opening-in-germany.md): Joby Aviation are opening up their first international office in the backyard of their big European competitor. - [Drone Delivery Supports NHS in Fight Against Coronavirus](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/drone-delivery-supports-nhs-in-fight-against-coronavirus-uk-isle-of-wight.md): It barely needs stating that the coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating impact on the global aviation industry. Commercial passenger travel is seeing unprecedented drops in capacity of 90-100% across the UK and Europe as governments seal off borders and advise against or ban travel completely. - [The NASA Aerospace 'Ninjas' Helping Uber Elevate](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/the-nasa-aerospace-ninjas-helping-uber-elevate.md): Uber is the $50bn tech behemoth that's become synonymous with ride-sharing worldwide but their ambitions extend far beyond just providing cars on-demand. The future of Urban Air Mobility lies in eVTOL and that led to the establishment in 2017 of Uber Elevate. - [What's Airbus up to in EVTOL and Autonomous Flight, post-Vahana?](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/what-is-airbus-up-to-in-evtol-and-autonomous-flight-post-vahana.md): With the Vahana technology demonstrator programme having ended at the close of 2019, what are the teams at Airbus Urban Mobility and Acubed Ventures up to now? - [Do eVTOL Air Taxis Need a $1 Billion Runway?](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/do-evtol-air-taxis-need-a-1bn-runway.md): eVTOL air taxis might need close to $1bn of financial runway if they are to get their vehicles certified to carry paying passengers. - [The Breakdown Service for Satellites in Space](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/the-breakdown-service-for-satellites-in-space.md): Satellites go wrong, but once they're launched you can't get them back. What if you could service them whilst in-orbit? - [EASA's eVTOL Certification Process](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/easa-evtol-special-condition-urban-air-mobility-regulation.md): If they're not aeroplanes or helicopters, what are they exactly? And how should they be certified as being safe for passenger carrying commercial flight operations? - [Mega-Constellations, Horizontal Launch & Space Traffic Management](https://www.osinto.com/the-osborne-report/satellite-mega-constellations-horizontal-launch-space-traffic-management-starlink-virgin-orbit.md): With up to 24 more of SpaceX's 'Starlink trains' set to irk astronomers this year and four or more batches of OneWeb satellites set to launch, Earth orbit is set to get busier than ever before in 2020. ## Organisation - [About Osinto](https://www.osinto.com/about.md): Who we are, how we work and the story so far. - [Contact](https://www.osinto.com/contact.md): Make an enquiry. 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