One analyst. Every report, signed.
Digital Hound is a single-practitioner open-source intelligence firm. Bennett Newhook does the work and puts his name on the result. In a referral practice, trust is personal, so it should be clear who stands behind the report.
Bennett Newhook
Bennett is an engineer by training. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering, with a mechatronics focus, from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and is completing a master's degree concentrated on applied artificial intelligence. Digital Hound has run as his open-source intelligence practice since 2021.
That engineering background is the reason the practice is built the way it is. The work, like any engineered result, should be lawful in how it gathers, transparent in how it cites, and defensible in how it is written. Every finding traces to a source. Every matter runs the same documented method.
His particular strength is multi-language open-source intelligence. A great deal of the open record sits in languages an English-only search never surfaces, and social platforms do not translate themselves. Working across languages has been the difference in cross-border due-diligence matters more than once.
Before this practice he worked in research: computer-vision and autonomous-systems work that earned a National Research Council of Canada Future Builder Award, a peer-reviewed IEEE publication, and a role designing the guidance and control system for a small satellite that has since launched from the International Space Station. Digital Hound is that same technical discipline, turned on the problem of knowing who and what you are dealing with.
The practice is based in Newfoundland and works with law firms across Canada.
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