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Ranks & badges

Your rank reflects your points, while badges mark specific achievements.

Rank progression

10 ranks

Minimum points
  1. Director

    Director

    75,000pts
  2. Ghosthound

    Ghosthound

    40,000pts
  3. Sentinel

    Sentinel

    20,000pts
  4. Handler

    Handler

    10,000pts
  5. Investigator

    Investigator

    5,000pts
  6. Profiler

    Profiler

    2,500pts
  7. Operative

    Operative

    1,000pts
  8. Analyst

    Analyst

    500pts
  9. Tracker

    Tracker

    100pts
  10. Ghost

    Ghost

    1pts

Badges

Besides gaining reputation with your questions and answers, you receive badges for being especially helpful.
Badges appear on your profile page, and your posts.

Get started
Get started

Register to the platform

1024 awarded users
Certified Knowledge
Certified Knowledge

Get a certification

273 awarded users
Power User
Power User

Complete a course

216 awarded users
Know yourself
Know yourself

Complete your profile

49 awarded users
Community hero
Community hero

Reach 2000 XP

1 awarded users

Certification Badges

You can gain badges by passing certifications. Here is a list of all available certification badges.
Follow the links to reach new heights and skill up!

You've passed the OSINT Level 1 - Foundations certification exam. You began with ways to find public information, including search techniques and metadata, while considering how to collect evidence responsibly.

As you continue practising, record where each useful detail came from and check it against another source before relying on it. A careful record will help you revisit your findings and explain how you reached them when you move into longer investigations.

We'd like to know which parts gave you a useful starting point and where you needed more help. You can tell us in the course survey or describe your learning experience on Trustpilot.

216 awarded users

You've passed the OSINT Level 2 - Investigations certification exam. This course moved from collecting information to checking its source and explaining what the evidence supports in an investigation.

As you build your next report, keep a record of how you checked each finding and be clear about anything that remains uncertain. That gives the person reading it a way to follow your reasoning rather than having to take a conclusion on trust.

Tell us whether the investigation and reporting exercises helped, and what you would change, in the course survey. If you'd like to help someone choosing a course, you can also leave a review on Trustpilot.

62 awarded users

You've passed the OSINT Level 3 - Advanced Techniques certification exam. The course brought geolocation and mapping into investigations while examining how behaviour can expose information and why operational security matters.

When you use these methods, explain which details support a location or conclusion and which still need checking. Keeping that distinction in your notes helps others review the evidence and follows the course's approach to documenting investigations through the Berkeley Protocol.

Let us know which advanced topics needed more examples in the course survey. You can also share your experience on Trustpilot so other learners can judge whether this level is right for them.

41 awarded users

You've passed the certification exam for Digital Privacy Fundamentals: From Exposure to Control. The course looked at where personal information ends up and how separate details can reveal more about someone when they are brought together.

As you review your own privacy, start with one change you can keep using, whether that means separating passwords or checking what an account shares. Privacy needs regular attention because both your habits and the services you use can change.

If you have a moment, tell us which privacy steps were useful and what needed more explanation in the course survey. You can also share your experience on Trustpilot to help other learners decide whether the course suits them.

10 awarded users

You've passed the certification exam for Crypto Scam Investigations: Tracing the Money Trail. The course followed an investigation from finding leads through tracing transactions and documenting where the money moved.

When you put that process into practice, keep the transaction records alongside your notes so another person can follow your reasoning. A visible transfer is evidence of movement, but it does not by itself establish who controls a wallet or prove that a crime occurred.

We'd like to hear how the tracing examples worked for you and where you needed more guidance. You can tell us in the course survey or share your experience with other learners on Trustpilot.

4 awarded users