Training and Enablement for State and Local Agencies
Build your own AI. Train your own people. Keep it inside the rules.
5 Stones Intelligence helps state, local, tribal, and campus law enforcement agencies stand up their own internal AI, owned and run by the agency, built to stay inside the FBI rules for criminal justice data, and structured to be paid for with grant funding. We train your investigators and architect the system. You keep it.
Not another outside platform. Your own tool, built by your own people.
Most AI offers ask you to send your case data to someone else’s system. 5 Stones Intelligence (5Si) does the opposite. We teach your investigators to build a small, precise AI assistant that lives inside your agency’s own environment, and we hand you the keys.
The model is simple, and it is the answer to the compliance and liability questions every agency is asking. 5Si is the trainer and the architect. Your agency owns the deployment, the data boundary, and the verification. We never become a link in your data chain, which means your criminal justice information never leaves a boundary you control. This is the same outcome we proved overseas: by the end of our State Department program, investigators were building and running their own operational AI case assistants, not borrowing ours.
The program is led by Jeff Brunner, CFE, Director of Financial Intelligence at 5Si, who brings more than 50 years of combined law enforcement experience, including senior service at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Core faculty are supplemented by serving and former subject matter experts from U.S. federal agencies including the IRS, FBI, and Homeland Security Investigations.
You build it. You own it. You keep it.
A three-part division of labor that keeps the agency in control of its data and 5Si focused on methodology, never on hosting your information.
The training and the blueprint
We teach your investigators and analysts to use AI to the evidentiary standard, and we design the assistant, the workflow, the OPSEC ground rules, and the verification protocols around your case types.
The environment and the data boundary
The assistant runs in your own environment: a government cloud tenant for sensitive work, or fully local for open-source work. No 5Si login sits in the chain. The data never leaves a boundary you control.
A tool you own and keep
When the engagement ends, the capability stays with the agency: your assistant, your policies, your trained people. We certify it and help you keep it current, but you are never locked into us.
Proven past performance
5Si is a trusted federal law enforcement training prime. The build-your-own-assistant model was developed and delivered inside a live, federally funded program, and is backed by 5Si’s broader record of staffing elite training at the nation’s leading financial investigations agency.
U.S. Department of State, INL: Royal Bahamas Police Force
Under a direct award from the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), 5Si delivered a three-year financial crimes training and mentoring program to the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF), its Financial Intelligence Unit, and the Department of Public Prosecutions.
By the April 2026 capstone, RBPF investigators were building and deploying their own operational AI case assistants against local fraud scenarios. That is the core of what we now bring to U.S. agencies: not a tool we run for you, but the ability to stand up and own your own. All AI work was aligned to local evidentiary standards and to U.S. federal standards for shared case materials.
- Contract
- 191NLE23C0008
- Sponsor
- U.S. Dept. of State (INL)
- Prime
- 5 Stones Intelligence, Inc.
- Recipients
- RBPF, FCIB, CID, FIU, DPP
- Period
- Sept 2023 to June 2026
- Cohort
- ~20 participants per cycle
- Outcome
- Investigators built and deployed their own AI case assistants
IRS Criminal Investigation: Special Agent Instructor Support Services
The U.S. Treasury Department selected 5Si as prime contractor to lead and deliver the Special Agent Instructor Support Services (SAISS) program for IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), widely recognized as the premier financial investigations agency in the United States. Every position is filled by former IRS-CI Special Agents.
Contract personnel are deployed across approximately 20 IRS-CI field offices and at the National Criminal Investigation Training Academy (NCITA) at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia. The engagement demonstrates 5Si’s ability to recruit, manage, and field high-caliber law enforcement training professionals, the same standard applied to our AI instruction.
- Program
- SAISS
- Sponsor
- IRS-CI (U.S. Treasury)
- Role
- Prime contractor
- Footprint
- ~20 field offices and NCITA, Glynco, GA
- Staffing
- Former IRS-CI Special Agents
- Scope
- Financial analysis, forensic accounting, cybercrime, link analysis, trial preparation
Built to stay inside the rules for criminal justice data
Federal rules (the FBI CJIS Security Policy) govern how criminal justice data can be stored, moved, and processed. Generic AI tools quietly break those rules. We design around them from the start, and we give you two tiers so you can begin where the risk is lowest.
Open-source and public records
For OSINT, public-record research, report drafting, and training. No criminal justice data is ever fed into the tool, and that boundary is a designed-in promise, not a hope.
- Lowest risk, fastest to stand up
- Runs on commercial or fully local AI
- No CJIS data ingestion by design
- Broadest audience across the agency
Criminal justice information
For work that touches case files, records, or protected data. The assistant runs inside the agency’s government cloud boundary so the data stays where the rules require, and the agency signs the standard security paperwork.
- Deployed in your government cloud tenant
- Stays inside the CJIS authorization boundary
- Security addendum and personnel screening
- Sold to agencies that already trust us from Tier 1
What this is, and what it is not
Staying on the right side of this line keeps your agency out of legal trouble and keeps the underlying AI tools available to you. It is built into how we train and what we build.
What it is
- Investigative analysis of data your agency already lawfully holds
- Report drafting, financial analysis, and OSINT synthesis
- Human verification of every AI output before it enters a case file
- A documented, defensible workflow built for a Daubert challenge
What it is not
- Not mass surveillance or population-level monitoring
- Not face matching or biometric identification
- Not predictive policing or social scoring
- Not a tool that sends your case data to an outside platform
No line in the budget? That is the usual starting point.
Most agencies do not have an AI budget line. They have grant money. We help you build this capability into a funding request so it pays for itself, which is something almost no AI vendor will do for you.
Find the fit
We help identify the right source: Byrne JAG, HIDTA program funds, state and local forfeiture dollars, or other criminal justice grants your agency already touches.
Write it in
We help write the AI capability into the grant narrative in language reviewers understand, tied to a clear investigative outcome rather than technology for its own sake.
Stand it up
Once funded, we train your people, architect the assistant, and certify the workflow. The agency ends with a working, owned capability and a clean audit trail.
Core curriculum competency domains
Each domain is delivered with practical exercises built around the agency’s case types, and is scalable from a one-day executive briefing to a multi-week, multi-cohort program.
AI Fundamentals for Investigators
AI concepts and terminology, machine learning versus rule-based systems, large language model behavior, hallucination risk, and the difference between public and secure AI environments, including OPSEC ground rules for AI use in law enforcement.
Investigative Prompting
The CRAFT framework (Context, Role, Ask, Format, Test) applied to complainant intake, interview question generation, and OSINT checklists, plus prompt refinement and the common prompting errors that compromise investigative work.
AI-Assisted Financial Analysis
Converting PDF bank records into structured data, identifying transaction anomalies through AI-assisted review, and drafting financial investigation reports corroborated against primary source documents to a court-admissible standard.
AI Case Assistant Development
Building persistent investigative workspaces, writing project instructions, assembling knowledge file libraries, and designing multi-mode assistants (intake, interview questions, OSINT) the agency configures and owns.
OSINT and Research Applications
AI-assisted open-source research on subjects, combining AI-generated leads with verification against primary sources, and clearly distinguishing AI-assisted leads from evidentiary findings.
AI Policy and Governance
Developing agency-specific AI usage policy with participants: the two-lane rule for public versus secure AI, data classification aligned to the CJIS rules, documentation standards for AI-assisted work, and evaluation of government cloud deployment options.
How we engage: train, build, sustain
Training is the front door. It earns the trust and proves the model. The capability-building relationship is where the lasting value sits, and the agency owns the result at every step.
Train
Your existing teams learn to use AI to the evidentiary standard, on your case types. A fixed-fee course that delivers value on its own and proves the approach.
Build
5Si designs your assistant, configures the boundary, writes the OPSEC and verification protocols, and certifies the workflow. The agency owns the deployment.
Sustain
Annual re-certification, model refreshes as the government cloud options advance, and audit-readiness support. Your capability stays current and defensible.
Platform-agnostic training, government-ready deployment
We teach across leading AI platforms so your investigators build transferable skill rather than dependence on a single tool. For sensitive work, we deploy through government cloud boundaries that keep criminal justice data where the rules require.
For Tier 2 (criminal justice data), the same models are deployed through government cloud boundaries such as Microsoft Azure Government, AWS GovCloud (Amazon Bedrock), and Google Vertex with Assured Workloads, so sensitive data stays inside an authorized boundary. Commercial tools above are used for Tier 1 open-source work and for training.
Why agencies choose 5Si
- The agency owns and keeps the AI it builds. We train and architect, we do not host your data.
- Designed to stay inside the CJIS rules for criminal justice data, with a low-risk open-source tier to start.
- We help you fund it through grants, removing the single biggest barrier for state and local agencies.
- Curriculum developed for and delivered to active investigators on live matters, not generic enterprise AI training.
- Bounded away from surveillance, so the tooling stays compliant and the agency stays out of legal trouble.
- AI policy development built into the curriculum, so agencies leave with a usable governance framework.
- Faculty drawn from senior federal law enforcement, with guest experts from the IRS, FBI, and HSI.
- Delivery grounded in forensic integrity and a verification standard consistent with Daubert-defensible work product.
Who this is for
Built for state and local agencies that want their own capability, tailored by audience from front-line investigators to command staff setting agency policy.
Forensic integrity is the standard, not an add-on
Across every 5Si program, AI-assisted work product must be corroborated against primary source documents before it is used. We teach investigators to identify and correct AI errors, to document AI-assisted work for the record, and to keep sensitive case data inside the boundary the rules require. The objective is capability that strengthens a prosecution rather than jeopardizing it.
Stand up your agency’s own AI, with practitioners who have done it
Contact 5 Stones Intelligence to design a program that trains your people, builds an AI capability your agency owns and keeps, stays inside the rules for criminal justice data, and is structured to fund through the grants you already use.
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Jeff Brunner, CFE | Director of Financial Intelligence | 5 Stones Intelligence, Inc.
Miami, Florida | jeff.brunner@5stonesintelligence.com