Considering joining the Profession?
Most people who want to become an investigator have never seen a case run end to end. They read about the work, take a course, get their first file, and find out nobody showed them how to actually work it.
Learn the Case From Intake to Closure
The Desk was built from real casework. Every playbook takes a case type from intake to closure: what to ask, what to collect, where the case usually breaks, and what the file has to look like when it reaches a client or a courtroom. Each one is paired with a TALON brief that reverse-engineers how the other side operates, so you learn the case and the adversary at the same time.
You subscribe, you download, you study the case types you intend to take. By the time you carry a license, you already know what the job asks of you.
What comes with the Standard Desk
$127.00 / Every month
50 case playbooks, intake to closure
50 TALON briefs on adversary method
7 reference documents: surveillance, interviews, report writing, litigation support, threat assessment, executive protection, HNW and UHNW intelligence
25 working templates you can put on a live file
Recurring reports as they publish
Read Two Complete Playbooks Before You Spend a Dollar
Two complete playbooks are open on the site. Read the Background Investigations playbook and the Real Estate Wire Diversion playbook before you spend a dollar.
About Licensing
Your state licenses investigators. We do not. The Desk teaches the work and issues no license, certification, or credential. Learn here, then meet your state's requirements before you take paid work.
For Police Officers and Deputies
You already have the part that cannot be taught: years of interviews, reports, surveillance, courtroom testimony, and the instinct for when a story does not hold. What you do not have is the case file from the other side of the table. A private investigator works without a badge, without a warrant, without a partner in the car, and often for a client who is paying by the hour and wants a report that survives cross-examination. The methods overlap. The rules, the deliverables, and the business do not.
The Investigator's Desk is built for that gap. It is not a course and there is no certificate. It is a library of case playbooks written by a former FBI Special Agent for working investigators, one case type per playbook: how the case comes in, how it is scoped and priced, what the client must sign, the collection plan, the legal lines a PI cannot cross that an officer never had to think about, the report, and the client emails at each stage. Each playbook comes with its TALON brief, which reverse-engineers how the adversary in that case type actually operates.
Whether you are doing off-duty work on off days, planning for retirement, or leaving the department outright, the way to learn the trade is the way you learned the job: one case at a time. Standard Desk is $127 a month. You choose 12 case playbooks a month from the catalog and they are emailed to you within 24 to 36 hours. Your first month also includes seven reference documents covering surveillance, interviews, report writing, litigation support, threat assessment, executive protection, and high net worth intelligence.
Read the cases you expect to be hired for first: backgrounds, domestic, workers' compensation, insurance fraud, skip tracing. Read the ones you never worked in uniform second. By the time you sit for your state licensing exam or take your first paying client, you will have worked the file, not just the street.
Two sample playbooks are unlocked on this site. Start there.