
01 · Product name
Indicator Lab
Five investigation tools, $10 a month on top of Pro.
Published by Indicator.
In short
Indicator Lab is the membership Craig Silverman described on 1 Oct 2026. Five tools ship in one installer: Spotlight, Scoutpost, OSINT Navigator, Splash, and Mycroft. Spotlight runs nothing until you approve its plan. The article prices Pro at $12.95 a month or $125 a year, plus a $10 monthly add-on. The same day's launch post prices a new member at $22.95 a month. Tools can run locally with an open model. Tom Vaillant is the named AI partner. This listing did not install the app.
Product pricing strategy
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Premium
The 1 Oct 2026 article prints the two lines. Indicator Pro is $12.95 a month or $125 a year. The Lab add-on is $10 a month, billed monthly, and you can cancel anytime. The article says you need both. It does not print a setup fee, a seat count, or a tax line. The launch post the same day prints a different packaging of the monthly total: $22.95 a month for a new member, with the membership included, and $10 a month if you already pay for Indicator. $12.95 plus $10 equals $22.95. Cite the article for the split and the annual price. Cite the launch post for the $22.95 bundle. Do not drop one of them. A Pro membership without the add-on is the publication, not the five tools. The local open-model option does not remove the add-on. Workshops and office hours are included in the membership the article describes. They are not a separate rate. If a checkout later shows tax, cite the checkout.
Utility and features
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The 1 Oct 2026 post says the Lab is an add-on to an Indicator membership. Spotlight takes a task, proposes a methodology, and waits for approval. The case file is supposed to trace each claim to a source. Scoutpost monitors a webpage, a social profile, a council agenda, a plane, or a ship, and archives the change. OSINT Navigator picks from a catalog of more than 13,000 tools. Members get 200 searches a day, and Spotlight can query the catalog. Splash turns reporting into charts, maps, scrollytelling, and video, deployed as iframes. Mycroft is the desktop interface for running the tools on your machine. Membership includes a monthly workshop with Tom, office hours every two weeks, and a Lab Notes newsletter.
- Five tools, one installer. Spotlight, Scoutpost, OSINT Navigator, Splash, and Mycroft, as named on 1 Oct 2026.
- $10 on top of Pro. The article lists Pro at $12.95 a month or $125 a year, plus $10. The launch post says $22.95 a month for a new member.
- Approve the plan first. Spotlight proposes a methodology and runs nothing until you say so. Claims are supposed to cite a source.
The article says you need both an Indicator Pro membership, $12.95 a month or $125 a year, and the Lab add-on at $10 a month. The Lab is billed monthly only for now. Pro includes the publication's investigations and guides. If you already pay an AI platform, Spotlight, Scoutpost, and Navigator can connect to it, or they can run locally with an open model so nothing leaves the machine. The launch post the same day, from the account whose display name is Tom Vaillant, says the installer is a desktop app for Windows, Linux, and Mac, that local Mycroft starts at 24 GB of RAM, and that a new member pays $22.95 a month with the membership included. $12.95 plus $10 is $22.95, so the monthly bundle matches the article's two lines. The article does not print $22.95 itself. The article names Tom Vaillant as the AI investigations expert Indicator partnered with. It does not print a software license for the desktop app. This listing did not install Mycroft and did not approve a Spotlight plan. The public posts are the source. They are not a logged-in case.
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Read the 1 Oct 2026 post and decide whether you need Pro plus the $10 add-on.
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If you join, approve or reject a Spotlight plan before any step runs.
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Use Navigator's daily search cap as 200, the figure the post prints, until the product says otherwise.
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Open every source in a case file before you repeat a claim.
Caveats
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Spotlight's case file is only as good as the sources it cites, and the post says nothing runs until a person approves the plan. That approval is the control. It is not a guarantee the plan is right. Navigator's 13,000-tool catalog and the 200 daily searches are the post's figures. A tool in the catalog is not a tool you have licensed. Scoutpost's archive is evidence of a change it observed, not the whole history of a page.
The desktop app was not installed here, so there is no local log and no screenshot of Mycroft. The launch post says the installer covers Windows, Linux, and Mac, and that local Mycroft starts at 24 GB of RAM. The article does not repeat the operating systems or the memory floor. Running locally with an open model still leaves you responsible for the data you type. Tom Vaillant is the partner the post names. A social account that introduces the tools is that launch, not an independent review. Do not paste the post's promotional adjectives into a finding.
Potential use cases
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- A buyer adds one price and ignores the other. The 1 Oct 2026 article says Indicator Pro is $12.95 a month or $125 a year, and the Lab add-on is $10 a month, billed monthly, cancel anytime. You need both. The launch post the same day says a new member pays $22.95 a month with the membership included, and an existing member adds the Lab for $10. $12.95 plus $10 is $22.95. Quote the article for the annual price and the launch post for the bundled monthly price. The article does not print $22.95.
- Spotlight returns a plan. The article says nothing runs until you approve it, and the case file is supposed to trace each claim to a source. Keep the plan in draft until a person approves it. Then open the sources. Navigator's catalog of more than 13,000 tools and the 200 searches a day are the article's figures. A catalog entry is not a licence to the tool. Scoutpost's alert is a change it archived, not the whole history of the page.
- The material cannot leave the newsroom. The article says Spotlight, Scoutpost, and Navigator can run locally with an open model. The launch post says the desktop app covers Windows, Linux, and Mac, and that local Mycroft starts at 24 GB of RAM. The article does not repeat the memory floor. This listing did not install the app, so it cannot show the installer. Tom Vaillant is the partner the article names. Confirm the machine before you promise the local path.
Hard cases
The case where the first result is easy to over-read.
The bundled price replaces the annual price
The launch post's $22.95 is a monthly bundle for a new member. The article's $125 a year is Pro without a stated annual Lab price. The Lab line is monthly only. Do not multiply $22.95 by twelve and call it the article's annual rate, and do not drop $125. Cite each sentence from the page or the post that printed it.
Practitioners using it
Posts on X from people describing a concrete use. The quote is the post. Likes and reposts are the counts saved with it, not a live total. A label marks a creator, a maintainer, a data partner, or an investor.
Creator
All systems go - The Indicator Lab is live! If you’re in the market for a membership to help you run investigations with AI, I hope you’ll consider us. Hundreds of hours of QA went into getting this ready 😅. The suite of tools has been packaged into a desktop app (Windows,… pic.twitter.com/exfnuhXfk6
Creator
Introducing Splash, an open-source agent system that turns your reporting and its data into charts, maps and video. Small newsrooms rarely have a graphics desk, and readers can't be expected to dig through a wall of text for the one line or statistic that changes the story.… pic.twitter.com/b8ovvDxjTy
Creator
Scoutpost now has a ChatGPT plugin and a Chrome browser extension! You can schedule web monitors directly from the page you're working on, or install the GPT plugin to run the entire application in your chat. You can connect any agent to Scoutpost and ask it to set up scouts on… pic.twitter.com/T8fL2fPP9Y
Questions
What does Indicator Lab cost?
The 1 Oct 2026 article says Pro is $12.95 a month or $125 a year, plus $10 a month for the Lab. The same day's launch post says a new member pays $22.95 a month with membership included.
Does Spotlight run as soon as you describe a task?
No. The post says it proposes a plan and nothing runs until you approve it. The case file is supposed to trace each claim to a source.
Citations
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Titled sources. These public pages are what the quotes on this listing come from.
Product
The Indicator Lab is live
https://indicator.media/p/the-indicator-lab-is-live-investigations-with-aiPricing
Indicator Lab join page
https://indicator.media/indicator-lab

