mi-collect-humintlisted

# HUMINT Collection Sweep ## Purpose Run the sports scout. People are the tell. Organizations announce strategy through job boards long before press releases. A hiring surge in one specialty is a capability being built, not a feature being added. A regional specialist role is a market entry that has not been announced. A senior departure six months after a strategy launch says the strategy is in trouble. All of it is public, all of it is free, and almost none of it is read systematically. This discipline has a boundary it must respect and a debt it must pay. The boundary: everything here is public observation, never pretexting or soliciting confidential information. The debt: **public HUMINT infers why deals move; only your team's interviews know.** So this sweep ends by generating the questions for the next win/loss round, and by raising a flag that tells fusion how much to trust it. The sweep produces a labeled inventory, not a verdict. **Collection is not fusion.** ## When to Use It Use it to test whether a capability is staffed. Use it when a competitor's internal turbulence might be your window, when regional roles hint at an expansion, or when a TECHINT cluster needs its strongest corroborator — a paper or patent cluster next to a hiring surge in the same specialty is one of the most reliable pairs available. Do not use it when: - **You want to know why deals were lost.** That is win/loss interviewing, which this sweep prepares for rather than replaces. No amou