The craft, not the buttons.
Three practitioner-led courses for government, private-sector and institutional teams — built on a decade of running these desks, and deliberately tool-agnostic: what your analysts learn works on any platform, including your own.
Three disciplines, taught as they're practised.
Open the modules to see what each course covers — the outline, not the curriculum. The full syllabus comes with your enquiry.
Media Intelligence & Real-Time Analysis
The complete analyst's toolkit: reading coverage across every platform as it moves, and turning it into measurable, defensible insight.
For comms teams, monitoring desks & new analyst units
What it covers · 6 modules
- Understanding the platforms — broadcast, print, online, social, communities; when each matters
- The craft of search & filtering — precise queries, noise under control
- Quantitative analytics — share of voice, engagement, reach, the impact of an announcement
- Qualitative analytics — themes, sentiment, opinion and emotion
- Influence & impact — who moves a story, and how far it travels
- Live-desk drills — analysing a moving story in real time
Crisis Monitoring & Executive Briefing
From early warning to the briefing on leadership's desk: severity, escalation, and analysis that ends in recommendations.
For operations rooms, crisis teams & analysts who brief upward
What it covers · 7 modules
- Early warning & severity assessment
- Virality & amplification tracking
- Coordinated-campaign detection
- Structured analytical writing — evidence that survives scrutiny
- Visualisation & dashboards that clarify, not decorate
- Briefing leadership under pressure — analysis into recommendations
- Scaling with AI — without surrendering judgement
Open-Source Intelligence
Structured OSINT for professional desks: finding what's public, verifying it, and turning it into findings you can defend.
For investigation units, due-diligence teams & regulators
What it covers · 6 modules
- The structured investigation method — from question to finding
- Verification & source credibility
- Fake-news & manipulation detection
- Network & influence mapping
- Digital footprints & entity research
- Referencing — every finding traceable to its source
Two courses come with your subscription.
Platform Basics
The essentials for every new user — queries, dashboards, alerts and reports. Included with your subscription; schedule it whenever a new team joins.
Schedule itApp Usage, In Depth
The full feature walkthrough for daily operators — advanced search, analysis tools and the agentic suite. Included with your subscription.
Schedule itThe three professional courses above are available to purchase — for clients and non-clients alike. And product how-tos live in the Help Center, free.
Not an app tutorial.
Practitioner-led
Taught by the people who run these desks — a decade of monitoring for governments and institutions across the region.
Tool-agnostic by design
The craft, not the buttons. Your analysts leave able to run the same workflows on any commercial platform, on Locus Elite — or on your own sovereign and internal tools.
Workflow-first
We don't just teach tools — we build repeatable workflows that stand up to scrutiny.
A course shaped to your desk.
No two desks are alike. We design custom curricula around your sector, your tools and your constraints — combining modules from the three courses, or building from scratch for a mandate none of them covers.
Tell us the team, the mandate, and the tools.
We'll come back with a recommendation — one of the three courses, a combination, or a curriculum designed for you. Delivered on-site or remote.
Design a custom courseBring the craft in-house.
Register your interest and tell us who's being trained — we'll come back with the course, the format and the dates.
Prefer email? getintouch@locuselite.com