Course overview
Artificial intelligence is becoming a significant part of the digital investigative landscape, but effective use requires more than familiarity with individual tools. Investigators must understand where AI can add value, how its outputs should be checked, and how to protect professional and evidential standards.
This practical five-day programme is designed for experienced digital investigators and researchers who want to use AI to strengthen their existing workflows. It covers the research, analytical interpretation and product-development phases of an investigation, helping learners improve efficiency and intelligence value without surrendering professional judgement to technology.
The course is deliberately focused on transferable principles rather than a single product. Learners develop methods they can adapt as AI models and investigative technologies continue to change.
What the course covers
- AI technologies, capabilities, limitations and investigative relevance.
- AI-assisted online research, search development and intelligence collection.
- Pattern, trend, anomaly and opportunity identification.
- Text analysis and the enhancement or interpretation of images, audio and video.
- Structured prompting for consistent, defensible outputs.
- Workflow automation and opportunities to improve investigative scale.
- Verification, bias, risk, legal defensibility and evidential integrity.
- Practical exercises culminating in a live digital-investigation scenario.
Learning outcomes
Participants will be able to identify appropriate uses of AI, apply AI-assisted research and analytical techniques, critically evaluate generated outputs, enhance multi-format investigative material and maintain appropriate professional, security and evidential controls.
How this course differs
This is the entry point to Sorinteq's three-level investigative AI pathway. It answers the practical question, “What can AI do for me?”, establishing the safe-use, prompting, research and validation foundation required before learners progress to integrated or advanced AI-enabled workflows.
Progression pathway
Next: Intermediate Artificial Intelligence in Digital Investigations.