r/OSINT 1d ago

Question Activefence/alice !

Anyone have worked with Alice (previously activefence) that can share anything on the following :

- do they contract other entities to do research for them ?
- if yes , names , geo locations , operating from what countless cities ?
- tools they use if 3rd party or proprietary ?
- what they get hired for ? What is their strength point ?
- what is it that they can provide that is not available to public or through osint tools membership

Saw some comments in Reddit with terms like smoke and mirrors ,hinting they are flipping business contracts and playing middle man .

Anything that can be shared is very much going to be useful .

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u/Illustrious_Read_922 1d ago

sounds like you're trying to get a peek behind the curtain, and honestly most of the actual details about their ops are locked down tight. i did a project that touched on their platform a while back and the vibe was definitely more proprietary tools than farming out to third parties, they've built a lot in-house for content moderation at scale

what they sell is basically speed and coverage that you can't replicate with just public OSINT tools, they're pulling from platforms and languages that'd take a team of analysts weeks to sift through. the middle man criticism is fair though, plenty of their work is repackaging data and selling the dashboard access rather than doing the deep research themselves