Answers to the questions we hear most before an engagement starts: tier pricing, who each service is built for, how Applied compares to other OSINT consultants, and what the process looks like end to end.
Intelligence Audit — $4,840 starting
Applied maps your existing intelligence practices: what you're collecting, where it lives, how it reaches
decision-makers. You get a structured gap analysis with prioritized recommendations. Low commitment, high
clarity. This is the first paid engagement and the natural foundation for everything that follows.
Deliverable: findings brief + recommendations report.
Program Intelligence Brief — $3,227 starting
A structured OSINT deep-dive on one platform, program, contract vehicle, or competitor organization.
Sourced from open regulatory filings, aviation registries, government procurement databases, and Applied's
curated aerospace intelligence network. Scope and deliverable are fixed before work starts.
Deliverable: structured intelligence brief, sourced.
Collection Architecture Review — $6,454 starting
For organizations ready to build or formalize a permanent intelligence capability. Applied assesses your
sources, tools, collection workflows, and dissemination pipeline, then delivers a practical blueprint for a
sustainable, in-house OSINT function built to your operational tempo and resource constraints.
Deliverable: assessment report + architecture blueprint.
Collection Vault Audit — $2,581 starting
An audit of how you personally track sources, entities, and cases right now (Obsidian, notes, whatever it
is), plus a redesign spec for making it hold up. Built for OSINT/intelligence analysts and small teams.
The lightest entry point into a working collection architecture.
Deliverable: written audit + vault redesign spec.
Pricing scales with organizational size and engagement complexity. The rates above are calibrated for small and mid-size operators. Enterprise and prime contractor engagements are scoped individually.
The $300 scoping consultation isn't a separate cost. It credits in full toward whichever tier the engagement becomes.
Individual analysts and small teams, not organizations. If you're the one person (or the small group) actually doing the collecting, tracking sources and entities in Obsidian, notes, spreadsheets, or whatever system you've cobbled together, this tier is built for you.
It's the lightest entry point Applied offers: a written audit of your current setup plus a redesign spec, not an organization-wide architecture engagement. If you're scoping a capability for a whole team or department, look at the Collection Architecture Review instead.
Scope, deliverables, timeline, and price are agreed in writing before work starts, so there's no scope creep and no open-ended hours.
Applied doesn't sell generalist market research. The practice is built on aerospace, defense, and government domain work: open regulatory filings, aviation registries, government procurement databases, and a curated aerospace intelligence network most generalist OSINT shops don't have.
Every tier has a fixed deliverable and a fixed starting price, published up front. You're not requesting a quote into a black box. You know what you're buying before you talk to anyone.
The engagement ladder runs from a $300 scoping consultation through four fixed-scope tiers, from a single analyst's personal vault to a full in-house intelligence architecture. You start at the size that matches your actual problem, not a generic retainer.
Applied formalizes intelligence practices you likely already run informally: tracking competitors, monitoring program announcements, watching regulatory shifts, reading contract awards. The work is building the doctrine, systems, and process to make that deliberate, not starting from zero.
See full tier details on the Services page, or book a consultation to get started.