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CIFaaS

Contextual Intelligence Framework  ·  as a Service

Professional-grade intelligence briefs — structured, scored, and delivered in 4 hours or instantly from the Intelligence Library.

Live  ·  March 2026

Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB)

The Problem

Strategic intelligence has been priced out of reach.... until NOW

If you are a business owner, division leader, defense contractor, corporate risk manager, federal program office, or independent analyst — you need the same quality of intelligence that large enterprises receive. Until now, you have not had access to it.

The gap is not about capability. It is about price. Enterprise intelligence platforms require contracts averaging $250,000 or more per year. The organizations that most need structured, sourced, scored intelligence — small contractors, mid-size firms, individual program managers — are left with raw news feeds, unstructured data, and analyst blogs with no methodology behind them.

Raw Feeds, No Methodology

News aggregators and open-source feeds deliver volume, not analysis. No sourcing standards. No scoring. No structured assessment you can defend to a client or a chain of command.

Analyst Time is Expensive

Hiring even a junior analyst for intelligence work costs $80K–$120K annually. Tasking senior staff to monitor geopolitical or supply chain risk pulls them from mission-critical work.

Enterprise Platforms Are Inaccessible

Palantir, Recorded Future, and similar platforms are purpose-built for large enterprises and government agencies. Their pricing and contract structures exclude the $9K–$100K budget tier entirely.

What You Have Been Using Instead

Every alternative falls short in a different way.

Enterprise Platforms

Palantir · Recorded Future · Flashpoint

Best-in-class analysis, but contracts start at $250K and require dedicated staff to operate. Built for organizations with intelligence divisions, not individual program managers.

Out of Budget

News Aggregators

Feedly · Meltwater · Custom RSS

Delivers raw information volume but zero analytical structure. No sourcing methodology. No scoring. No assessment of significance. You still have to do all the analysis yourself.

No Analysis

AI Tools & OSINT

Perplexity · ChatGPT · OSINT blogs · Think tanks

Fast and increasingly capable — but unstructured output, no evidence confidence scoring, no revision audit trail, and no methodology you can cite. AI tools answer the question. They do not show their analytical work.

No Methodology

Why CIFaaS

The methodology of the enterprise. The price of a subscription.

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Published Analytical Standard

Every brief is produced against the Contextual Intelligence Framework v7.8 — a published, structured methodology with a 12-phase analytical pipeline, a 30-point scoring rubric, and explicit sourcing standards. You know exactly how the analysis was produced.

02

Scored and Citable

Briefs carry a 30-point quality score on every delivery. Our Iran/Hormuz conflict brief scored 27/30. You can cite the methodology, the score, and the sourcing in client deliverables, program reviews, or internal decision memos.

03

4-Hour Delivery SLA

Submit a topic, receive a structured brief within 4 hours. Not a headline summary. A full analytical brief covering event context, stakeholder mapping, response options, scenario futures, and significance assessment — formatted to CIF v7.8 standards.

04

Privacy by Architecture

Your topics are stored with zero attribution linking. What you are watching is not visible to other subscribers. The Private Topic add-on ensures your topic never enters any shared system — it stays entirely within your subscription only.

05

SDVOSB and DoD-Credentialed

COGNOSCERE LLC is a Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business with DAWIA-certified leadership and over $2 billion in DoD technology sales experience across major defense primes. Built by professionals who have worked inside the intelligence consumption problem.

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Scales With Your Needs

Start with full library access at $9/month. Add research analysis production tokens at $29 level for when you need fresh analysis on demand. Expand to team capacity at $89. Add additional research analysis tokens at $19 flat. No annual contract. No minimum commitment. No enterprise sales process.

The Intelligence Library — Compounding Value

Every analysis delivered is stored in the Intelligence Library. When a future subscriber requests the same topic, it is served instantly at near-zero cost — no pipeline wait, no 4-hour delay. As the library grows, the value of every subscription tier compounds: the same $9/month accesses more ready-made analysis every month, automatically. Essential and above subscribers browse, read, and reference the full library. Professional and Enterprise subscribers generate new analyses and add to it.

How It Works

From topic to scored brief — instantly or in four hours.

You Submit a Topic

Choose any geopolitical situation, supply chain risk, regulatory development, or security issue relevant to your work. Essential subscribers browse the full library. Professional gets 2 fresh analyses per month. Enterprise gets 6.

Library Pre-Check

The Intelligence Library is checked first. If your topic matches an existing analysis, delivery is instant at near-zero cost. If not, the full 12-phase CIF v7.8 pipeline runs — sourcing, classification, stakeholder analysis, scenario development, and scoring.

QA Review Passes

Every fresh brief passes a Critic review gate before delivery — checking sourcing, internal consistency, completeness against the CIF standard, and score validity.

You Receive the Brief

A fully structured, scored, formatted intelligence brief delivered to your email and subscriber portal. Fresh analyses arrive within 4 hours. Library analyses arrive instantly.

Plans & Pricing

Library access from $9. Fresh analysis from $29.

Free Account

Access 2 curated Intelligence Library reports — no credit card, no commitment. Browse the library to evaluate the methodology before subscribing.

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Essential

Essential

$9 / month

Full library access. Read every analysis on demand.

Full Intelligence Library — read every published analysis
Instant delivery on library topics
Intelligence Overview on each report — scope, apparatus, Substack TL;DR link
Email + subscriber portal access
On-demand fresh reports — $19 per report
Research tokens (library access only)

Enterprise

Enterprise

$89 / month

Full library plus six monthly analyses. For teams and program offices.

Everything in Professional
6 research tokens per month
Break-even vs. Professional at 4+ reports/month
Overage reports — $19 flat
Private Topic add-on — topic never enters shared library
Priority support queue

Optional Add-Ons & Overages

Overage Report On-demand fresh analysis beyond your monthly token allocation, or for Essential subscribers ordering single reports. Flat rate across all paid tiers. $19 / report
Private Topic Your topic stays entirely private — never stored in the shared Intelligence Library. No other subscriber can infer you are monitoring this topic. $5 / slot / mo
Partner Access Volume accounts and white-label arrangements with negotiated token rates. Contact directly for commercial terms. Negotiated

See It Working

Live CIF briefs — read them now.

Every brief below was produced by the same CIF v7.8 pipeline that powers CIFaaS subscriptions. They are publicly accessible. Read one before you decide. The methodology behind your subscription is already visible.

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The intelligence is live.
The library is open.

CIFaaS is live and accepting subscribers. Start free — browse the Intelligence Library with no credit card required. Upgrade when you need fresh analysis on demand.

Essential from $9/month  ·  Professional from $29/month  ·  Questions? [email protected]

The Organization

COGNOSCERE LLC — Built for this mission.

COGNOSCERE LLC

Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business  ·  SDVOSB  ·  Green Cove Springs, FL

COGNOSCERE (latin - "to know") was founded to put structured, methodology-grounded intelligence analysis within reach of the organizations that need it most — defense contractors, federal program offices, corporate risk teams, and independent analysts who operate without dedicated intelligence staff. For eighteen years, COGNOSCERE has delivered intelligence products and management consulting services to government and commercial clients across commercial, defense, energy, and emerging technology sectors. CIFaaS is the platform expression of that mission: the same analytical rigor, available at individual and SMB price points, with no enterprise contract required.

Founded 2007
Status SDVOSB · Active
Domicile Florida · Clay County
CIF Version v7.8 · March 2026
18+
Years federal & commercial intelligence consulting
$2B+
DoD technology sales record across major primes
12
Analytical phases in every CIF v7.8 production run
30-pt
Scored rubric on every brief delivered
[CIF-H88] ™ Trademark Pending · USPTO

The [CIF] Standard — A Permanent Mark of Analytical Trust

Every analysis produced under the Contextual Intelligence Framework carries a unique permanent identifier. The code is not a file number. It is the embodiment of the methodology, the scoring, the source verification, and the COGNOSCERE analytical standard applied to produce it — wherever the analysis travels.

What the mark certifies

12-phase CIF v7.8 pipeline executed. 30-point quality score assigned. Sources verified. QA critic gate passed before delivery.

Cross-platform permanence

Searchable across CIFaaS, Substack, Medium, and cognoscerellc.com. The code follows the analysis across every platform and every citation.

COGNOSCERE intellectual property

The [CIF] mark and [CIF-XXX] code format are the property of COGNOSCERE LLC. Trademark registration pending with the USPTO. Licensing available to qualified organizations.

When you see [CIF] cited alongside Reuters, AP, DOJ, and ODNI in a published analysis, you are reading a primary source produced to a published, auditable standard. The [CIF] citation mark in a document carries the same formal weight as a DOI on an academic paper or a CVE identifier on a security vulnerability — it is traceable, verifiable, and permanently linked to the methodology that produced it. No competitor can retroactively claim the corpus of [CIF-XXX] analyses already in circulation. The codes and the trust they represent are permanently COGNOSCERE's intellectual terrain. As the [CIF] standard is adopted more broadly, COGNOSCERE will extend licensing rights to qualified analytical organizations that demonstrate compliance with the published CIF v7.8 specification. The mark travels with the methodology.

Active report codes: [CIF-6KV] · [CIF-H88] · [CIF-SG7] · [CIF-GEU]  — each a permanent, searchable analytical record owned by COGNOSCERE LLC

The Framework

The Contextual Intelligence Framework (CIF) was developed through years of applied intelligence work and iterative refinement across geopolitical, supply chain, and conflict domains. Version 7.8 — the standard powering every CIFaaS intelligence brief — is a published analytical specification with defined phase structures, sourcing requirements, scoring rubrics, and quality assurance reviews.

The framework is not a product feature. It is the analytical standard that makes every intelligence brief citable, auditable, and defensible — to a business owner, a business practice leader, a military commander, a community leader, or a federal program office. COGNOSCERE is the certifying organization. CIFaaS is the delivery platform. The live briefs linked on this page are the proof of standard. Read one.

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Capability & Credentials

  • DoD-credentialed leadership. COGNOSCERE principals hold DAWIA certification, federal acquisition authority, and a combined $2B+ record in DoD technology sales across major defense primes including ManTech, Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Oracle.

  • SDVOSB-certified. Federal contracting vehicles, GSA positioning, and SBIR innovations. Sole-source eligibility available for qualifying engagements.

  • Multidisciplinary analytical reach. COGNOSCERE engages industry analysts, subject matter experts, and credentialed professionals across geopolitical, economic, cyber, energy, and governance domains as each engagement demands.

  • Eighteen-year federal and commercial track record. Intelligence products and technology consulting delivered across defense, energy, and emerging technology sectors to government and commercial clients.