A practical, step-by-step accreditation in Open Source Intelligence, built for career changers who want to break into financial crime investigation — no prior experience required.
Job listings say “OSINT experience required.” University didn't teach it. Your current role doesn't touch it. You're stuck in a loop where you need experience to get the job, and you need the job to get experience.
LeviaOSINT Foundations breaks that loop. It gives you a verifiable qualification and practical OSINT skills that hiring managers recognise — starting from zero.
Every fincrime job asks for OSINT. Nobody teaches it from scratch. You're expected to arrive with skills you've never had the chance to learn.
Graduate schemes and junior roles go to people who already know someone or already have compliance experience. You need a credential that levels the field.
You've read articles about OSINT. You understand the concept. But you can't point to anything and say “I did that.” Foundations gives you a body of work.
The tools exist. The techniques are documented. But without structure, you're Googling in the dark. Foundations gives you the step-by-step pathway most people never find.
Every module is built for someone who has never run an OSINT investigation. We start with the fundamentals and build to practical, job-ready skills. By the end, you'll have a portfolio of real investigative work.
Definitions, legal boundaries in UK/EU jurisdictions, the investigation mindset, and what OSINT can and cannot do. The framework everything else builds on.
Advanced Google operators, people search engines, reverse image search, and getting useful results when you start with almost nothing. No more guessing at search bars.
Protecting yourself while investigating. Burner accounts, VPNs, sandbox environments, and operational security habits that keep you safe and your investigations clean.
Companies House, land registry, electoral roll, court records, FOI requests. What's free, what's worth paying for, and how to cross-reference public data to build a subject profile.
Finding profiles across platforms, cross-referencing identities, extracting metadata, and reconstructing timelines from public activity. The skill that separates investigators from Googlers.
What a blockchain explorer shows you. How sanctions lists work. Basic corporate structure. What PEPs and adverse media mean. The on-ramp to professional financial crime investigation.
LeviaOSINT Foundations graduates work at Starling Bank, Wise, TSB, and Lloyds. None of them had OSINT experience before this course. None of them had a background in investigation. They had the drive. We gave them the structure.
“I was a secondary school teacher. No finance background, no investigative training. Two months after finishing Foundations, I started as a Junior AML Analyst at Starling Bank.”
“Graduated with a politics degree and no idea what to do. Foundations gave me the OSINT vocabulary and practical skills hiring managers ask about. I'm now a compliance associate at Wise.”
“Five years in retail management. I knew I wanted out but had no relevant qualifications. Foundations was my bridge into financial crime. Hired as a fraud analyst at TSB within six weeks.”
“Zero investigation background. Nothing. Foundations taught me everything from search operators to blockchain tracing. Now I'm on the fincrime team at Lloyds and studying for the Advanced cert.”
Foundations is taught by the same LeviaOSINT instructors who lead our advanced programme. Former law enforcement, intelligence, and fincrime investigators who've used these techniques on live operations. They know what beginners need because they've trained hundreds of them.
8 years in digital forensics and open-source investigation at the Met. Expert in social media intelligence, geolocation, and evidence handling for Crown Court.
12 years at the NCA leading complex financial crime investigations. Specialist in cryptocurrency tracing, darknet intelligence, and cross-border evidence gathering.
10 years conducting enhanced due diligence and asset tracing for global financial institutions. Specialist in corporate registry forensics, sanctions evasion detection, and beneficial ownership research.
9 years coordinating cross-border financial crime investigations across 195 member countries. Specialist in international sanctions enforcement, mutual legal assistance, and multi-jurisdictional asset recovery.
No subscriptions, no upsells, no hidden tiers. The full Foundations accreditation, all six modules, your certificate, and all future updates. Pay once.
14-day money-back guarantee. If the course isn't what you expected, email within 14 days for a full refund. No questions asked.
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