CHICAGO, IL, September 30, 2026 –– Ocient, the trusted agentic AI solutions provider, and Shadow Nexus, a provider of hacked, breached and leaked data, foreign-adversary coverage, entity resolution and attribution-grade intelligence, today announced a new partnership that brings curated OSINT and publicly available information (PAI), delivered by Shadow Nexus, to OcientAIQ™, giving national security organizations a faster path to continuous, full-fidelity search and analysis at petabyte scale. Designed for special operations, defense, intelligence, law enforcement, and federal civilian missions, the partnership enables agencies to search and analyze open-source intelligence alongside their own mission data and in their own environments, with the governance and control that modern operations require.
As open-source intelligence has become increasingly central to national security missions, fast, trusted analysis across diverse and growing sources is critical for maintaining decision advantage. Historically, as volumes have grown beyond the capacity of traditional architectures, agencies have been forced to sample or discard information to stay within system limits. Built to address that operational intelligence gap, the OcientAIQ Unified Data Platform provides customers with a governed data foundation for their most demanding workloads, enabling rapid ingest, analysis, and decision-making on both historical and newly acquired data.
“National-security analysts rarely have too little data; the challenge is connecting fragmented records quickly enough to support a decision,” said Vinny Troia, Founder and CEO, Shadow Nexus. “Integrating Shadow Nexus data with OcientAIQ gives teams a controlled way to correlate hacked, breached, leaked, and publicly available information with their own holdings, without moving the mission into a separate investigative environment.”
Available on demand, as-a-service via API, or through bulk delivery, Shadow Nexus’s collection of PAI and OSINT datasets can be ingested directly into the OcientAIQ Unified Data Platform without additional engineering work. Once in the platform, analysts can correlate and query commercial datasets alongside existing mission holdings in a single environment, making it easier to identify patterns and activity across sources and surface critical signals needed for timely action. Additionally, with flexible deployment support across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, tactical, and air-gapped environments, OcientAIQ maintains end-to-end data sovereignty and security, ensuring that commercial and mission data remain under agency control wherever operations take place.
“Mission teams are managing more data from more sources than ever before, making complete, trusted analysis across every source critical for mission success,” said Thomas Hofmann, Vice President of Ocient National Security Solutions (ONSS). “Our partnership with Shadow Nexus is evidence of our commitment to expanding the high-value data our customers can put to work on OcientAIQ.”
To learn more about Shadow Nexus data intelligence services, visit shadownexus.io. Learn more about OcientAIQ solutions delivered by ONSS at https://ocient.com/solutions/national-security/.
FAQ
Q: What is the Ocient and Shadow Nexus partnership?
A: Ocient and Shadow Nexus have partnered to bring Shadow Nexus’s curated OSINT and PAI datasets to OcientAIQ, delivered by Ocient National Security Solutions (ONSS). Through the partnership, national security organizations can ingest Shadow Nexus data directly into the OcientAIQ Unified Data Platform, where it can be searched and analyzed alongside existing mission data in the customer’s deployment environment.
Q: Where does Shadow Nexus data reside? How is access controlled?
A: Shadow Nexus data resides in the OcientAIQ Unified Data Platform, deployed in each customer’s environment of choice. Access is controlled through governance built into the core of the platform, which enforces access, policy, and lineage controls so customers decide who can use the data and how.
Q: Can analysts trace query results back to the original data?
A: Yes. Every query result on OcientAIQ is linked to the specific source records it came from, including timestamp and lineage information. Because OcientAIQ analyzes the complete dataset rather than a sample, analysts working with Shadow Nexus and mission data can see exactly which records produced a finding and where that data originated.
Q: How can eligible customers procure OcientAIQ?
A: Interested customers can engage directly with ONSS or Shadow Nexus to discuss their mission, data, and analytics requirements. Based on those requirements, the teams will help define the appropriate solution and suitable contracting path.
Q: What is OcientAIQ™?
A: OcientAIQ is Ocient’s complete ecosystem for delivering trusted agentic AI solutions at petabyte scale. The ecosystem includes:
- OcientAIQ Solutions: Pre-built, industry-specific offerings delivered on the OcientAIQ platform. Each solution combines the platform’s capabilities with curated agent skills, industry semantics, and proven delivery patterns to produce outcomes described in the language of the customer’s domain.
- OcientAIQ Unified Data Platform: The platform that unifies ingestion, governance, intelligence, business context, agent skills, and agent management in one architecture, enabling both analytics and agentic AI directly on petabyte-scale data.
- OcientAIQ Solutions Delivery: The Ocient team that designs, validates, and deploys OcientAIQ Solutions in the customer environment, from requirements through production and ongoing support, so organizations reach production-ready AI faster.
Together, OcientAIQ enables organizations to run analytics and agentic AI directly on governed, petabyte-scale data.
About Shadow Nexus
Shadow Nexus is an independent intelligence provider, delivering direct access to high-volume hacked, breached, and leaked (HBL) datasets for the intelligence and defense communities. Shadow Nexus’ tradecraft centers on accessing private, hard-to-reach, and often completely unknown datasets, through long-standing dark-web relationships and a broad network of closed-source contacts. Learn more at shadownexus.io.
About Ocient National Security Solutions
Ocient National Security Solutions (ONSS) delivers OcientAIQ™, a data intelligence platform built for the scale, speed, and complexity of modern missions. Powered by a hyperscale analytics engine, OcientAIQ enables organizations to ingest, retain, correlate, and operationalize data at petabyte- to exabyte-scale across complex environments. In environments where full-fidelity data processing is critical, massive datasets are transformed into actionable intelligence in seconds—not hours or days. The architecture supports high-performance analytics while maintaining strict control over data sovereignty and security. OcientAIQ can be deployed worldwide across secure on-premises and cloud environments, delivering mission-ready performance with reduced total cost of ownership. Learn more at ocient.com/solutions/national-security.
For further information: press@ocient.com; info@shadownexus.io