On Demand - Analytic Writing (Reporting and Briefs)
Learn how to inform quickly with clear, concise, complete, usable, relevant and timely intel
Analytic Writing for Intelligence — Reporting & Dissemination (AI-Infused)
Train to write with clarity, discipline, and impact. Practice standards used across the intelligence community and academia, upgraded with AI support for drafting, structuring, and review. Move from blank page to confident brief and publication-ready report.
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Deliver concise reports that decision makers trust. Apply confidence language, probability, and analytic progression. Ship products on a predictable cadence with a defensible audit trail.
Method
Follow community directives and proven academic practice. Write, brief, revise, and disseminate using templates and a structured peer review loop.
AI-Infused
Use AI to propose outlines, check clarity, flag hedging, and test logic. Keep tradecraft in control with prompts and rubrics designed for intelligence writing.
What You Will Learn
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Module 1 — Foundations & Standards
Purpose, audience, scope. Intelligence Community Directives, UK framework, product taxonomy, and format discipline.
Module 2 — AIMS BLUF & Analytic Progression
AIMS planning, BLUF construction, line of march, question framing, requirement linkage, and traceable judgments.
Module 3 — Confidence, Likelihood, and Probability
Calibrated language, numeric ranges, caveats, sourcing notes, and graphics that match the text.
Module 4 — Report Types & Templates
Alerts, spot reports, assessments, estimates, debriefs, and executive briefs with fill-in templates.
Module 5 — Editing & Clarity
Plain language, sentence economy, transitions, and rewrite drills. Error patterns and fixes.
Module 6 — Briefings & Dissemination
Deck structure, voice, timing, Q&A control, distribution plans, and product line mapping.
Module 7 — AI-Infused Writing Lab
Prompt sets for outline, red-team prompts for logic tests, clarity checks, and rubric-guided revision.
Module 8 — Final Quiz & Portfolio
Open-book quiz on writing concepts and a polished portfolio of reports and briefs.
Assignments & Assessment
Resources Included
Who Should Enroll
Analysts, reviewers, collectors, investigators, IR and SOC leads, risk managers, CISOs, CIOs, and staff who brief leaders or publish intelligence products.
Lead Instructor
Forty years of intelligence experience are built into this online recorded course with the availability for instructor office hours or email/text Q&A
Access on-demand modules, templates, and reviews. Build a repeatable writing practice that scales.
Your Instructor
Treadstone 71 is a woman and veteran-owned small business exclusively focused on cyber and threat intelligence consulting, services, and training. We are a pure-play intelligence shop.
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Since 2002, Treadstone 71 delivers intelligence training, strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence consulting, and research. We provide a seamless extension of your organization efficiently and effectively moving your organization to cyber intelligence program maturity. Our training, established in 2008, follows intelligence community standards as applied to the ever-changing threat environment delivering forecasts and estimates as intelligence intends. From baseline research to adversary targeted advisories and dossiers, Treadstone 71 products align with your intelligence requirements. We do not follow the create once and deliver many model. We contextually tie our products to your needs. Intelligence is our only business.
- We use intuition, structured techniques, and years of experience.
- We supply intelligence based on clearly defined requirements.
- We do not assign five people to do a job only one with experience.
- We do not bid base bones only to change order you to overspending.
We are known for our ability to:
- Anticipate key target or threat activities that are likely to prompt a leadership decision.
- Aid in coordinating, validating, and managing collection requirements, plans, and activities.
- Monitor and report changes in threat dispositions, activities, tactics, capabilities, objectives as related to designated cyber operations warning problem sets.
- Produce timely, fused, all-source cyber operations intelligence and indications and warnings intelligence products (e.g., threat assessments, briefings, intelligence studies, country studies).
- Provide intelligence analysis and support to designated exercises, planning activities, and time-sensitive operations.
- Develop or recommend analytic approaches or solutions to problems and situations for which information is incomplete or no precedent exists.
- Recognize and mitigate deception in reporting and analysis.
Assess intelligence, recommend targets to support operational objectives. - Assess target vulnerabilities and capabilities to determine a course of action.
- Assist in the development of priority information requirements.
- Enable synchronization of intelligence support plans across the supply chain.
- ...and Review and understand organizational leadership objectives and planning guidance non-inclusively.