ABOUT US
OSINTO - RESEARCH & INTELLIGENCE
We love technology, but it's great people that make great things. That's why we work with a network of skilled and inspiring people. If you'd like to get involved as a collaborator, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
Our founders Charles and Mykhailo have been building software and businesses for more than 15 years, and doing so together for more than a decade. They met at a startup event in Copenhagen in 2013 whilst both expats, but it wasn't until a dinner in Mykhailo's hometown of Kyiv in 2019 that they would land on the idea behind Osinto.
The company launched the following year, entirely self-funded, building a prototype 'knowledge graph' SaaS product. The next few years would prove tough - weathering the dual storms of a pandemic and full-scale war - but adversity breeds resilience.
Now having worked on research and intelligence projects with clients including Rolls-Royce and in sectors as diverse as aerospace and AI they work with an incredible and growing network of collaborators in the UK and Ukraine - striving to match the best in human intelligence with cutting edge machine learning.
OUR FOUNDERS
CHARLES OSBORNE
Charles has worked as an analyst and adviser for nearly twenty years, including more than five at the UK Foreign Office in Embassies abroad. His broad and varied experience includes working to connect institutional investors with renewable energy infrastructure projects, as a scout for venture capital investors within FinTech and establishing new ventures with family offices.
A student of literature and tech nerd he first worked with Natural Language Processing (NLP) in 2007, has co-founded seven startups and worked across sectors as diverse as aerospace, finance, renewable energy, semiconductors and tech.
With 15+ years of sales, marketing and public speaking experience Charles sets the vision and direction for the business and nurtures the brand as our public face (for speaking availability please get in touch).
Charles personally oversees all of our OSINT Investigation, Intelligence Briefing and Scouting activities from the UK, retaining hands-on experience as both an OSINT analyst and researcher.
MYKHAILO BEVZ
Mykhailo 'Mike' Bevz leads on all our technical operations from Kyiv, Ukraine where he oversees all our software development (including our Cloud Empire™ Knowledge Graph platform) and manages a technical network of developers and engineers.
With more than 15 years of DevOps, MLOps, cloud architecture and software development experience he is both hands-on developer and experienced manager of distributed teams on pan-European projects.
A computer language polyglot Mykhailo's production NLP and NLG experience sits atop a formidable foundation of truly 'full stack' software and infrastructure experience spanning:
- Infrastructure as code (Terraform) | AWS, Azure, GCP, private cloud
- Containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Android (Gradle, Java) | iOS (Metal, Objective C, Swift)
- C++ | Golang | Java | JavaScript (Node.js, React, Vue.js) | Python | Ruby | Scala
- NoSQL (Mongo, Neo4J, Redis)
- RTC (FreeSWITCH, Kamailio, SIP, WebRTC)
WE'VE WORKED WITH
OUR JOURNEY SO FAR
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Our founders - Charles and Mykhailo - first meet at a startup event in the old Nokia HQ in Copenhagen, and work on a 'hyperlocal news' SaaS product
Their first 'proper' venture as co-founders is 'CarFwd' - an online marketplace for used cars - which dies a (mercifully) quick death!
Osinto launches - focusing on market intelligence for the electric aviation industry through Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) - development starts on prototype Knowledge Graph
Rolls-Royce sign a 12-month deal as our first retained SaaS client for the Cloud Empire™ Knowledge Graph platform | Pre-seed fundraising commences | Seven weeks later there's a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which changes our plans...
Team re-focuses on AI-enabled intelligence - projects for private clients include development of 'AI ready' data centre infrastructure, open source Large Language Models (LLMs), computer vision, acoustic detection and autonomous navigation
OUR NETWORK
We work with a skilled, entrepreneurial network of collaborators. Each and every member brings not only unique expertise but also a broad network of contacts and hard-won professional reputation.
We're based in the UK and Ukraine and have diverse backgrounds - covering everything from ecology and offshore engineering to diplomacy and Chinese Literature. We consider this diversity and flexibility a huge advantage - enabling not only wide market access across industries and geographies, but also an unusually broad and rational perspective to analysing problems and providing unbiased business advice.
See how we leverage our network's unfair advantages in our 'Labs' projects here . We are always on the lookout for new network members, funders and corporate collaborators - get in touch with us here if you're interested in working with us.
CHIEF SCIENTIST
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We can't disclose the details of our Chief Scientist just yet, save to say that they've got a PhD in an exciting field of AI and decades of relevant experience. We'll keep you posted ;)
ADAM CALVIN
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Adam is our data centre expert - an experienced Chief Development Officer having delivered over £3bn in assets, including hyperscale data centres in the Nordics and central Europe.
RHIANNE JACKLIN
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Rhianne is our Marketing & Communications guru and Operations expert. She is our authority on the Ecology and Natural Capital sectors and works at the forefront of the rewilding movement.
OSINTO - OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE
