Foresight: Estimative and Predictive Intelligence
Expertise. Knowledge. Ahead of the crowd.Most intelligence products fail in one sentence: the estimate. "Possible" means 20 percent to one reader and 70 percent to the next. Foresight fixes the sentence, then moves forward in time with scored forecasts, early-warning indicators and twelve Treadstone 71 methods that spot emergence before it becomes the headline.
37 NARRATED VIDEOS12 METHOD LABSGRADED CAPSTONEUP TO 24 CPEor 3 payments of $875
About 12 CPE for video and knowledge checks. Up to 24 with the exercises, the twelve labs and the capstone.
11 hours 21 minutes of narrated video. Self-paced, with instructor review of your submissions.
Watch independent evidence start to agree.
Set a base rate. Turn up the evidence streams. The engine combines them the way the course teaches, then states the result in Sherman Kent probability bands. Tick the echo box and watch what happens when two streams share one source.
Illustrative model, not field data. The engine adds each stream's evidence weight in log-odds, the arithmetic behind Bayesian updating, and treats the streams as independent unless you flag an echo. The course runs the full method on a labeled teaching case with lab data.
Leave with a method, a record and a voice leaders trust.
Speak in numbers
Replace "possible" with calibrated probability bands and a stated confidence level a decision maker reads one way.
Build the pipeline
Move from collection to estimate to scenario to decision, with checkpoints that catch bias before it ships.
Run twelve methods
Anomaly injection, convergence forecasting, red teaming, entropy scoring, STEMPLES Plus entanglement and seven more, each on lab data.
Keep score
Write questions that resolve, track Brier scores, and calibrate your team against its own record.
Join people and models
Weight human judgment and machine output on the same question, then measure which one earned the trust.
Brief the decision
Turn a forecast into options, triggers and indicators a leader acts on inside the decision window.
Four sections. Twenty-five lessons. One capstone.
Every lesson ships as a narrated video with downloadable files. Section 3 pairs each method lesson with a method-kit video and a lab you run yourself.
Forecasting is a skill. Skills get scored.
Section 2 walks through the research programs that settled the question. The Good Judgment Project ran inside IARPA's Aggregative Contingent Estimation (ACE) program. Less than one hour of training in probabilistic reasoning improved forecasting accuracy by 6 to 11 percent across four years of tournaments (Chang, Chen, Mellers and Tetlock, 2016).
Open Source Indicators and hybrid human and machine forecasting carried the scoring into early warning and models. You learn the same discipline, then apply it to every method in Section 3.
House standard taught in Lesson 1.3. Half-open intervals, so every number lands in exactly one band.
From the course to a foresight capability.
The course builds the skill in one analyst. Treadstone 71 services build it into a team, a program and a running watch.
Foresight: Estimative and Predictive Intelligence
Self-paced course. 37 narrated videos, 12 method labs, graded capstone. $2,499, up to 24 CPE.
ENROLL ON THE TRAINING CENTER → STEP 2 // INTEGRATEStrategic Intel Integration Bootcamp
Bring estimative discipline into a working team, with its own requirements and its own decisions.
SEE THE BOOTCAMP → STEP 3 // BUILDAdaptive Intelligence Lifecycle
The Treadstone 71 lifecycle built for disruption and driven by foresight, wired into your program.
SEE THE LIFECYCLE → STEP 4 // WATCHThe Adversary Index (TAI)
Scored, evidence-graded adversary tracking, so your forecasts start from a measured baseline.
SEE TAI →Frameworks, tools and training that pair with it.
Frameworks and standards
Decision tools
Services and training
Jeff Bardin
FOUNDER AND CHIEF INTELLIGENCE OFFICER, TREADSTONE 71
Fourteen years of US military service across the Air Force and Army, enlisted and officer: cryptologic linguist, then armored scout platoon leader. Builder of the cyber intelligence, cyber counterintelligence and cybercrime programs at Utica University. Creator of the STEMPLES Plus framework and author of The Mind Domain and Tradecraft at Machine Speed.
Woman-owned, veteran-led cyber and strategic intelligence training and consulting since 2002. Clients include critical infrastructure operators across the United States, Europe, Australia, Singapore and the Middle East.
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Questions answered.
What is the difference between estimative and predictive intelligence?
Estimative intelligence describes the structure of uncertainty now: how likely an outcome is and how confident the analyst is, stated in standard probability bands. Predictive intelligence projects forward with scored forecasts, scenarios and early-warning indicators. The course teaches estimation first, then prediction, then the methods that detect emergence.
How many CPE does the course carry?
About 12 CPE for the narrated video and knowledge checks, and up to 24 CPE when you complete the exercises, the twelve method labs and the capstone. Self-report the hours under your certifying body's rules, such as ISC2, ISACA or CompTIA.
How much does the course cost?
$2,499 USD, or 3 payments of $875, through the Treadstone 71 Cyber Intelligence Training Center. Veteran and team pricing for individual courses is available through
How long does the course take?
The video runs 11 hours 21 minutes across 37 lessons and method kits. Plan on about 24 hours in total to finish the exercises, the twelve labs and the capstone for full CPE credit. The pace is yours.
Who should take the course?
Intelligence analysts, cyber threat intelligence leads, strategic planners, risk and resilience teams, and managers who brief decisions under uncertainty. Experience with structured analytic techniques helps but is not required.
What are the twelve methods?
Algorithmic Anomaly Injection, Narrative Resonance Mapping, Emergent Convergence Forecasting, Strategic Polarity Oscillation, Cyber Holography Analysis, Possibility Prism Method, Resonant Red Teaming, Entropy to Order Forecasting, Adversarial Emergence Simulation, Cognitive Divergence Index, STEMPLES Entanglement Mapping and Strategic Friction Forecasting. Each ships with a narrated lesson, a narrated method kit, lab data and a worksheet.
Who is eligible to enroll?
Students in the United States, NATO and EU member states, and allied nations. Treadstone 71 verifies every enrollment and enforces access controls.
Enrollment is open to students in the United States, NATO and EU member states, and allied nations. Treadstone 71 verifies every enrollment.
State a number. Keep score.
$2,499 or 3 payments of $875. Up to 24 CPE. Self-paced, with instructor review of your submissions.
