Introducing: Terton Intelligence
A specialist intelligence platform for structured, verifiable insight on China, Asia-Pacific security, and the decisions that shape them.
Terton Intelligence: Insights that keep you ahead
I have just launched Terton Intelligence, a specialist open-source intelligence platform and advisory practice focused on China, cross-strait security, military developments, cyber risk, and geopolitical change across the Asia-Pacific.
The mission is straightforward: help private businesses, due-diligence professionals, analysts, journalists, researchers, investors, and decision-makers make sense of complex operating environments through structured, verifiable, decision-focused intelligence.
Explore Terton Intelligence:
https://tertonintel.com/
From information to insight
Open-source information is more abundant than ever. Yet useful intelligence remains difficult to produce.
Relevant information is fragmented across languages, platforms, official releases, imagery, social media, local reporting, corporate records, and specialist databases. The problem is rarely a lack of material. It is verifying what matters, connecting the relevant pieces, and assessing what they mean in context.
Terton Intelligence is being built to meet that challenge. It brings together disciplined collection, verification, translation, geolocation, entity resolution, and all-source analysis to make military and geopolitical developments more visible, structured, and useful under real-world time pressure.
Argus: the platform
At the center of Terton Intelligence is Argus, a developing connected analysis environment for China, Taiwan, and Asia-Pacific security.
Argus is designed to bring military, political, economic, diplomatic, cyber, and infrastructure reporting into a single analytical environment. Rather than presenting isolated reports, datasets, or alerts, it connects people, organizations, facilities, military units, weapons systems, events, and sources. This helps users move from individual facts to a coherent operational picture.
The platform’s current and developing capabilities include:
Order of Battle (ORBAT): Structured, geolocated information on military organizations, facilities, garrisons, units, leadership, and command relationships
Drone systems: Tracking and analysis of unmanned systems developed, deployed, and exported across Asia
Weapons systems: Verified profiles and structured data on platforms shaping the regional military balance
Connected intelligence: Relationship mapping across organizations, personnel, facilities, events, platforms, and other relevant entities
Briefing workflows: Tools designed to turn linked findings into clear, structured analytical outputs
The ORBAT environment currently maps 6,676 facilities of record, with units and locations positioned within a searchable command structure. The aim is not to create a static directory, but a working framework for assessing force posture, hierarchy, activity, and change over time.
Built around tradecraft
Terton Intelligence is founder-led and built around the realities of intelligence work: incomplete information, conflicting reporting, language barriers, limited time, and decisions that cannot wait for perfect certainty.
The emphasis is on practical tradecraft, not generic data aggregation. That means distinguishing evidence from assessment, assessing source reliability, being transparent about confidence, applying regional and linguistic context, and building repeatable workflows that can withstand scrutiny.
Our work follows a disciplined intelligence cycle:
Direction: Defining requirements against the decisions that need to be made
Collection: Gathering open-source and technical material from relevant channels
Processing: Translating, normalizing, geolocating, and resolving entities into usable data
Analysis: Producing assessments with confidence levels, context, and operational relevance
Dissemination: Delivering briefs, maps, graphs, and structured outputs designed for action
Services
Alongside the Argus platform, Terton Intelligence provides selective, requirements-driven intelligence support for clients who need more than generic monitoring or recycled reporting.
Services include:
Custom intelligence reports and decision-focused assessments
China and Asia-Pacific research surge support
Open-source exposure reviews for organizations and senior leaders
Strategic briefings and analytical support
Tailored intelligence and OSINT training
Each engagement is designed around the client’s actual requirements, with an emphasis on original research, manual tradecraft, verification, and analytical clarity.
China OSINT Course
Terton Intelligence is also the new home of my China OSINT Course.
The course is designed for journalists, analysts, policy professionals, researchers, and due-diligence practitioners who need reliable methods for working with Chinese-language sources. It focuses on collection, verification, Chinese media and platform research, geolocation, entity research, and repeatable investigative workflows.
The programme is structured in two tiers:
Tier 1: Core
Approximately 5 hours of recorded modules and guided walkthroughs
Checklists and reusable search templates
Chinese media and social-platform OSINT methods
Location-verification toolkit
Practical workflows for immediate application
Tier 2: Advanced
Approximately 7 hours of training
Everything in Tier 1
Satellite-imagery component
Course certification
Personal reference from the instructor
I teach the course personally, and it is built to provide practical workflows, not generic search advice or theory without application.
Explore the course: https://tertonintel.com/course
Request a demo
Argus is not yet publicly live, but I am now accepting requests for demonstrations.
If you work in policy, journalism, research, security, risk, investment, or due diligence, and would like to see the current ORBAT, drone, and weapons-systems capabilities, please get in touch through
https://tertonintel.com/
This is the start of a larger build. New datasets, research tools, and analytical features will be added over time, but the standard will remain consistent: rigorous verification, transparent reasoning, and intelligence designed to support consequential decisions.
Please express your interest if you would like to demo Argus, I will get back to you in the due course.