I hated it because someone I cared about was gone — and I couldn’t do a damn thing to prevent it from happening again.

I had the rank, the training, the mission…

But none of it gave me what I really needed: the ability to see what was coming.

To catch what others missed.

To protect the people who were counting on me. 

So I did what most people do when they hit that wall.

I started looking for a way out. Something different. Something that actually worked. I looked everywhere.

I was buried in manuals, research, and raw field reports.

I wasn’t looking for theory. I was hunting for answers.

Because I’d seen firsthand what happened when we got it wrong.

I started digging into everything from CIA training protocols to ancient behavioral science.

I dissected every interrogation video I could get my hands on.

And I started connecting dots — not just from textbooks, but from the field. Real situations. Real consequences.

I saw how the best operators weren’t winging it.

They weren’t relying on gut instinct or charisma.

They had structure. A model.

They could break down a person’s behavior in real time — and see what others missed.

And the more I studied, the more I saw patterns…

So I decided to take what I was learning… and put it to the test.

Not in a lab. Not in theory.

But in the field — during live interrogations, interviews, and operations where failure wasn’t an option.

And what I found was simple:

When you have the right model — one that holds up under stress, noise, and deception — everything changes.

You no longer second-guess.

You no longer miss the signals.

You see the truth, even when no one’s saying a word.