Updated August 2026 · Composition and pricing current
The CounterIntelligence Stack Two Certifications Plus the Analytic Backbone.
The CounterIntelligence Stack pairs two certifications — the Generative AI Certified Cyber CounterIntelligence Analyst (CCIAI) and the Cryptocurrency Certified Cyber CounterIntelligence Analyst — with the analytic tradecraft that makes CI work stick: People Intelligence (PEOPINT), Structured and Advanced Structured Analytic Techniques including thirty advanced SATs, Critical Thinking and Cognitive Bias, Strategic Source Evaluation, STEMPLES Plus strategic adversary assessment, and Stakeholder Analysis — plus free course instructor support and the Treadstone 71 Intelligence Briefs collection. The two certifications alone are $6,998 purchased separately. The full bundle is $6,999 — one dollar more than the certifications by themselves, with $6,094 of supporting coursework and materials included. Individual component value $13,092 (savings of $6,093 / 47% off).
Payment Flexibility
One-Time $6,999 — or 4 Monthly Payments of $1,749.75
The CounterIntelligence Stack supports two payment paths at checkout: a single $6,999.00 transaction, or four monthly installments of $1,749.75 each (totaling $6,999). No separate financing application, no extra step, no added cost. Designed for individual practitioners and contractors moving training spend out of annual budgets and into manageable monthly amounts. All ten products unlock immediately on first payment.
Pricing For Government, Veterans, Alumni, And Teams
Segment-specific access programs reduce the bundle price
Segment-specific access programs reduce the CounterIntelligence Stack price for procurement-mediated buyers, those who served, returning learners, and organizational teams. Verification required — contact info@treadstone71.com from an organizational email address (no gmail, outlook/live, yahoo, hotmail, icloud).
- Government & Federal — 15% off. Verified .mil and .gov customers receive 15% off the CounterIntelligence Stack plus invoice and purchase order terms. No credit card required. Bypasses procurement-blocking checkout flows that prevent federal buyers from completing standard enrollment. VERIFICATION: email from a .gov or .mil address — PO instructions on request.
- Veterans & Service Members — 20% off. Veterans, transitioning service members, and active reservists receive 20% off the CounterIntelligence Stack. Direct support for transition into civilian counterintelligence and threat-hunting careers — disciplines where prior military and IC experience converts directly into operator value. VERIFICATION: ID.me or DD-214 — organizational email required.
- Alumni Progression — 15% off. Returning learners receive 15% off the CounterIntelligence Stack when enrolled within 90 days of completing any prior Treadstone 71 program. Designed to support progression from foundational tradecraft (The Analyst Stack) into specialty CI capability. VERIFICATION: prior enrollment record — 90-day window from completion.
- Team Pricing — 5+ Students. Teams of five or more students from the same organizational domain receive $1,000 off per student on the CounterIntelligence Stack — per-student price $5,999 — ideal for standing up an insider-threat team, CI cell, threat-hunting group, or deception operations function. Quarterly cohort enrollment carries the same $1,000-per-student discount and adds live office hours with the instructor.
Quarterly Team Cohort Enrollment
$1,000 Off Per Student + Live Office Hours — 5+ Student Minimum
The cohort enrollment program — $1,000 off per student plus included live office hours with the instructor — is available on The CounterIntelligence Stack when enrolling five or more students together. Built for CI cells, insider-threat program teams, threat-hunting groups, and organizations standing up counterintelligence capability across multiple analysts. (For individual courses outside this bundle, the cohort offer is available without the 5-student minimum.)
- Q3 2026 Team Cohort — closes 15 July 2026. $1,000 off per student — cohort price $5,999.00 per student (from $6,999.00). Minimum 5 students from the same organizational domain. Included live office hours with the instructor throughout the cohort. Real-time mentoring on top of the on-demand curriculum.
- Q4 2026 Team Cohort — closes 15 November 2026. $1,000 off per student — cohort price $5,999.00 per student. Minimum 5 students. Included live office hours. Final cohort window of 2026 — plan around FY-end training budgets.
Reserve team seats by contacting info@treadstone71.com.
Capability Outcomes
What CounterIntelligence Stack Graduates Can Do
The CounterIntelligence Stack produces a dual-certified CI analyst with the analytic backbone under both credentials — someone who can run AI-infused counterintelligence work, carry it into cryptocurrency, and defend every assessment behind it. Six core capability outcomes:
Run CI Operations with AI
The CCIAI certification: adversarial deception detection, disinformation strategies, and counterintelligence operations with AI-infused tradecraft exercises across offensive and defensive use cases.
Carry CI into Cryptocurrency
The Cryptocurrency CCIAI: counterintelligence tradecraft applied to cryptocurrency operations and investigations. The second certification in the stack.
Read the Human Element
People Intelligence (PEOPINT): how behavior, culture, and choices shape digital security, and how adversaries trick and influence people. Technology and empathy applied together.
Externalize Analysis with SATs
Structured and Advanced Structured Analytic Techniques, including thirty advanced SATs. Internal reasoning made systematic, transparent, and shareable — analysis that can be challenged and defended.
Grade Evidence, Defeat Bias
Strategic Source Evaluation plus Critical Thinking and Cognitive Bias: credibility, validity, relevance, and evidence types, with the analytic pitfalls named and mitigated. Assessments that survive review.
Assess Adversaries, Brief Leadership
STEMPLES Plus with indicators of change and Hofstede cultural dimensions, paired with Stakeholder Analysis: national-level adversary assessment delivered in the terms leadership uses to decide.
10 Products, One Enrollment
Bundle Components — Dual Certifications, Analytic Tradecraft Core, Included Support
The CounterIntelligence Stack groups its contents across three bands: the two CCIAI certifications, the analytic tradecraft core, and included support and reference materials. Individual prices shown for transparency — the bundle delivers all ten for $6,999 ($6,093 savings vs purchasing individually).
The certification anchor of the stack. Offensive and defensive CI tradecraft in an on-demand, self-paced sprint — adversarial deception detection, disinformation strategies, and counterintelligence operations with AI-infused exercises throughout.
The second certification in the stack. The CCIAI counterintelligence discipline carried into cryptocurrency operations and investigations.
Puts the human element at the center of cyber intelligence. How behavior, culture, and choices affect digital security — and how cyber threats trick and influence people. The largest supporting course in the stack.
Externalize internal thought processes systematically and transparently so analysis can be shared, challenged, and defended. Continuously enhanced technique set — now including thirty advanced SATs.
The building blocks of intelligence analysis and the pitfalls that wait for every analyst. Bias recognition and mitigation as working discipline, not afterthought.
The core of your analysis is your evidence. Source credibility, information validity, relevance, and evidence typing applied before a single assessment gets written.
Assess your adversary strategically. The STEMPLES Plus framework with indicators of change and Hofstede cultural dimensions for national-level analysis.
Understand your leadership and their knowledge of cyber intelligence. Build products stakeholders can act on, delivered in the terms they use to decide.
Direct instructor support, free to enrolled students with a validated email account. Questions answered by the people who built the tradecraft.
A collection of briefs on cyber and cognitive warfare focused on China, Iran, and Russia — election interference, influence operations, PsyOps, and cognitive warfare, with clarity on target tactics, strategies, and objectives.
The Doctrine Library
Three Published Texts Behind the Tradecraft
The methodology taught across the stack is codified in three published Treadstone 71 texts by Jeff Bardin. Each serves as companion doctrine to the coursework — all three available on the Jeffrey S. Bardin author page at Amazon.
Treadstone 71 intelligence tradecraft doctrine for AI-accelerated operations — the machine-speed companion to the stack's AI-infused certification work.
The cognitive domain treated as operational terrain — doctrine underpinning the stack's counterintelligence, influence, and human-element coursework.
Directives, cognitive integration, and active defense across multi-domain cyber operations — the reference manual for the operational side of the stack.
Where The CounterIntelligence Stack Fits
The CounterIntelligence Stack is a CI specialization track. Pair it with The Analyst Stack for full analyst plus CI capability, or progress into the Mastering the Tradecraft triple-certification flagship for the complete analyst arc.
| Bundle | Best For | Contents | Cert Path | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The CounterIntelligence Stack | CI analysts · insider-threat leads · threat hunters · cryptocurrency investigators | 10 products | CCIAI + Crypto CCIAI | $6,999 |
| The Analyst Stack | New analysts · transitioning practitioners · SOC onboarding | 10 courses | CCIA Included | $6,999 |
| AI-Infused Cognitive Stack | Cognitive warfare practitioners · IO analysts | 13 courses | Cognitive Warfare | $6,999 |
| Mastering the Tradecraft Bundle | Full operator-grade analyst arc · flagship | 3 flagships | Triple cert (CCIA + CCIAI + Crimeware) | $6,999 |
Common Questions — The CounterIntelligence Stack
A 10-product cyber counterintelligence bundle carrying two certifications — the Generative AI Certified Cyber CounterIntelligence Analyst (CCIAI) and the Cryptocurrency Certified Cyber CounterIntelligence Analyst. The certifications pair with an analytic tradecraft core — People Intelligence (PEOPINT), Structured and Advanced Structured Analytic Techniques with thirty advanced SATs, Critical Thinking and Cognitive Bias, Strategic Source Evaluation, STEMPLES Plus, and Stakeholder Analysis — plus free course instructor support and the Treadstone 71 Intelligence Briefs collection. Priced at $6,999 one-time, or 4 monthly payments of $1,749.75 available at checkout.
$6,999 USD as a one-time purchase, or 4 monthly payments of $1,749.75 ($6,999 total) at checkout. The two certifications alone are $6,998 purchased separately ($3,499 each) — the bundle costs one dollar more than the certifications by themselves and adds $6,094 of supporting coursework plus instructor support and the intelligence briefs collection. Individual component value totals $13,092 — bundle savings of $6,093 (47% off) versus enrolling individually. Access pricing reduces this further: government 15% off with PO terms, veterans 20% off, alumni 15% off within 90 days, and teams of 5+ students at $1,000 off per student. Cohort enrollment ($1,000 off per student) brings the per-student price to $5,999 when enrolling 5 or more students.
Yes — two. The stack is anchored by the Generative AI Certified Cyber CounterIntelligence Analyst (CCIAI) certification and also includes the Cryptocurrency Certified Cyber CounterIntelligence Analyst certification, both in the bundle price. The six supporting courses include CPE credits. Treadstone 71 is NICCS-listed and IAFIE-aligned. The CCIAI credential is recognized by the International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE) and listed in the CISA NICCS cybersecurity workforce development catalog.
Counterintelligence analysts, cyber threat hunters, insider-threat program leads, influence operations analysts, cyber HUMINT analysts, cryptocurrency investigators, and SOC leads expanding into CI tradecraft — along with analysts who need the human-element and structured-analysis foundation beneath the certifications. The stack is intermediate-to-advanced and assumes baseline familiarity with cybersecurity or intelligence concepts. Practitioners building day-one foundational analyst capability should consider The Analyst Stack first.
Yes. Four monthly payments of $1,749.75 are available directly at checkout — total $6,999. No separate application or financing approval required. Just select the installment option on the payment page. All ten products unlock immediately on first payment.
Five access programs reduce the bundle price: Government / .mil / .gov verified pricing at 15% off with invoice and PO terms; veteran, transitioning service member, and active reservist pricing at 20% off with ID.me or DD-214 verification; alumni progression at 15% off when enrolled within 90 days of any prior Treadstone 71 course; teams of 5+ students from the same organizational domain at $1,000 off per student; and quarterly cohort enrollment with $1,000 off per student plus included live office hours with the instructor — available on this bundle when enrolling 5 or more students together (Q3 2026 closes 15 July; Q4 2026 closes 15 November) — bringing the per-student price to $5,999. Contact info@treadstone71.com from an organizational email address to verify. Note: the free-orientation 20% off completion offer applies to individual courses only and is not valid for bundles.
Self-paced. The CCIAI certification path alone is structured for an 8-12 week sprint of continuous effort; the Cryptocurrency CCIAI, PEOPINT, the SATs program, and the supporting courses extend that arc based on prior experience and weekly time commitment. All products remain on-demand after enrollment, so the material never expires out from under the learner.
The Analyst Stack ($6,999, 10 courses) builds foundational day-one analyst capability with CCIA certification anchor — the disciplined intelligence lifecycle from stakeholder requirements through estimative reporting. The CounterIntelligence Stack ($6,999, 10 products) delivers two counterintelligence certifications — CCIAI and Cryptocurrency CCIAI — with the analytic backbone under them: PEOPINT, structured analytic techniques, source evaluation, strategic assessment, stakeholder analysis, and critical thinking, plus instructor support and the intelligence briefs collection. The two stacks are complementary: many practitioners take the Analyst Stack first to build foundations, then this stack to specialize. Alumni of either receive 15% off the next when enrolled within 90 days.
The tradecraft taught in the stack is codified in three published Treadstone 71 texts by Jeff Bardin — Tradecraft at Machine Speed, The Mind Domain, and the Comprehensive Manual for Multi-Domain Cyber Operations: Directives, Cognitive Integration, and Active Defense. All three serve as companion doctrine to the coursework and are available on the Jeffrey S. Bardin author page at Amazon.
Treadstone 71 is listed in the CISA NICCS training catalog as a recognized cybersecurity workforce development provider, and the courses included in The CounterIntelligence Stack are part of that recognized catalog. Training is also IAFIE-aligned and follows PHIA standards language.
Treadstone 71 is a veteran-owned, woman-led cyber intelligence firm operational since 2002, codifying CIA and DIA-style intelligence tradecraft for the cyber domain. The firm's foundational capability rests on a rare synthesis of United States Air Force cryptologic linguistics (Arabic and Russian), United States Army armored reconnaissance, academic study of Middle Eastern and Russian history, language, and political systems at Trinity College, Middlebury College, and Colgate University, and direct in-country immersion in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during the formative years of the modern jihadist movement (1988–89). A Master of Science in Information Assurance from Norwich University extends the field tradecraft into enterprise-scale risk management. The aggregate methodology has been continuously refined across four continents of operational engagement.
Treadstone 71 was honored with the 2007 RSA Conference Award for Excellence in the Field of Security Practices and the 2007 SC Magazine Award for Best Security Team. Operational engagements span clandestine cyber HUMINT, real-time OSINT support to the Boston FBI following the 2013 Marathon bombing, FBI special-agent OSINT instruction, and senior-leader briefings at NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CyCon, Estonia), the United States Naval Academy, the Air Force Institute of Technology, and Johns Hopkins. From 2009 to 2014, Treadstone 71 codified field-tested clandestine cyber tradecraft into the first master's-level cyber intelligence curriculum, established at Utica College. The Cyber Intel Training Center is the operational continuation of that curriculum — IAFIE-aligned, PHIA-standards-compliant, and listed in the CISA NICCS cybersecurity workforce development catalog.
Two Certifications. One Enrollment.
The bundle costs one dollar more than the two certifications purchased separately — with $6,094 of supporting coursework, instructor support, and the intelligence briefs collection included. Enroll directly with one-time $6,999 or 4-payment installments of $1,749.75, coordinate a 5+ student team cohort for $1,000 off per student plus live office hours, or request access pricing for government, veterans, alumni, or your team. All ten products unlock immediately on first payment.
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