About us

Australian-based and Ph.D.-qualified consulting linguists, we assess the risk of extremism, terrorism, and serious criminal activity. In the face of existential threats, we help nation states and organisations to adjust their defensive stance and so forestall catastrophe.

In the face of terrorist or serious criminal activity proposed, planned, announced, or showcased in offline or online contexts, we offer to intelligence agencies and to military leaders heavyweight investigative and courtroom-ready evidential value.

In addition to AI-assisted tools, we apply the tools of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), semiotics, corpus analysis, and other modes of analysis to interrogate and examine discourses and conceptual frames in talk, text, images, and videos that incite, threaten, generate fear, disinform, influence the radicalisation process, or otherwise constitute criminal or terrorist activity.

We forensically analyse the transcripts of phone calls, decoded/unscrambled texts, images, icons, rituals, symbols, hashtags, emojis, and so on. No terrorist or criminal communique escapes the forensic precision of IFC.