Insight & Integrity - ixi

09/15/2026

I spent two decades being told I could tell when someone was lying.

The research says I couldn't. And neither can you.

Across decades of studies, people asked to separate truth from lies land at about a coin flip. Detectives, HR investigators, and interviewers with thirty years in—roughly the same as everyone else. Worse, the training that promises to fix it tends to produce confidence rather than accuracy. You walk out surer, not better.

That's not a talent problem. It's a method problem.

The fix isn't a better read on the person in front of you. It's a better interview—one built so the account itself carries the diagnostic weight, not your gut.

On Thursday, October 8, I'm running a free 30-minute session on how that works for business and corporate investigators.

What we'll cover:
→ Why rapport is a trainable skill, not a checklist
→ The two minutes at the start that decide the quality of everything after
→ A live interview against an AI subject

This is how we build confidence and accuracy together, instead of trading one for the other.

Thursday, October 8 · 1:00–1:30 PM Central · Free
Can't make it live? Register anyway—everyone gets the replay.

Register: ixi.solutions/online-training

A free 30-minute online session on science-based interviewing for business. Evidence-based methods for workplace investigations and workplace conversations, with a live AI interview demo. Oct 8, 1:00 PM Central.

08/19/2026

Red teaming isn't just for investigations — it's for critical incidents, too.
➡️Oklahoma and Kansas⬅️

Crisis Negotiations for Patrol — a 2-day tactical communication course for the officers who get there first: patrol, deputies, SROs, and first responders. This includes DISPATCHERS too!

Train the skills that de-escalate the first critical minutes—active listening, tactical empathy, and buying time—and then rehearse them against an AI real-time subject that pushes back in real time.

November 2–3, 2026 | 8:00 AM–4:30 PM
Cowley College — Brown Center, Wright Room | Arkansas City, KS
$350 per officer · 16 hours · CLEET 26-0295
Instructors: Capt. Christian Cory, Negotiations Commander (ret.) — current working negotiator TBD

https://www.ixi.solutions/event-details/crisis-negotiations-for-patrol-w-ai-real-time-scenarios-2

08/11/2026

Red teaming for investigations — a free tool to stress-test a live case, sharpen your interview planning, and catch potential errors before a case fails or even falls short.

Most wrongful convictions and failed investigations aren't one bad decision. They're a cascade of small, connected errors—tunnel vision, confirmation bias, and a premature lock on one suspect—that quietly compound inside an ordinary case.

I built the Investigative Red Team Toolkit to interrupt that. It's a fast, structured way for detectives, investigators, and supervisors to challenge their own case: run the checklist, work a pre-mortem, and generate a red-team finding you can drop straight into the file. It's grounded in a 2026 network analysis of 50 real investigative failures by Rossmo, D. K., Bouchard, M., & Summers, L. (2026)

It's free. Try it here:
https://www.ixi.solutions/red-team

PS - I'm looking for honest feedback before I build it out further. Run it on a case—even a past one—then send me your thoughts in a DM: what worked, what's missing, and what you'd change...in other words red team it!

Free interactive tools to red team your investigation—spot tunnel vision and confirmation bias before they harden into a wrongful conviction.

08/06/2026

➡️Attention Oklahoma and Kansas LEOs⬅️
The most important negotiator on almost every scene isn't on the negotiation team or SWAT.

It's the patrol officer who got there first.

That's the gap this course is built for.

On November 2–3 in Arkansas City, KS, Insight & Integrity (IXI) is running Crisis Negotiations for Patrol—two days of the skills frontline officers actually need in the first critical minutes: active listening, tactical empathy, de-escalation, su***de intervention, and buying time under pressure.

The part I'm most excited about: students don't just talk through scenarios—they practice new skills against an AI subject that responds and pushes back in real time. No scripts. No do-overs. Real practice

Built for patrol, deputies, SROs, dispatchers, and first responders.

📍 Cowley College, Arkansas City, KS
🗓 Nov. 2–3, 2026 · 8:00 AM–4:30 PM
🎓 CLEET 26-0295
💵 $350/officer

Register at ixi.solutions.

If your agency sends officers to one negotiation course this year, make it the one that starts where the crisis actually starts.

08/05/2026

➡️Attention Connecticut Investigators⬅️

Better Interviews. Better Investigations.

and science-based interviewing has the data that demonstrates real improvement: https://buff.ly/ncIUUJ1

📅August 31 - Sept. 2, 2026, 8-5pm
📍Hosted by: Groton Police Department
🗺️Groton, Connecticut

✅Boost interviewer confidence with adaptability
✅Strategic use of evidence
✅Counter-interrogation strategies
✅Red teaming - improves planning; beats bias
✅Questioning strategies (productive, memory-compatible questions)
✅Rapport techniques
✅Active & Tactical Listening
✅Cognitive Interviewing techniques recommended for critical incidents
✅Scenarios to practices new skills
🤖 Build skill fluency with real-time AI interview practice and scenarios
✅Field validation studies prove science-based techniques are more effective. More confessions. More information.
✅Large manual, handouts, and field-ready cheat sheets.
🚫No pseudoscience—junk that creates false case information (even if it sounds like "science") that trainers still peddle
🚫No more rigid "systems"—outdated methods fall apart interview after interview. After all, interviewer adaptability is key!

See you there:
https://buff.ly/ncIUUJ1

07/17/2026

You can't learn from your mistakes.
Not that you shouldn't. It's just, you can't.

Because in an interview room, nobody ever tells you that you made one.

I'll prove it: https://www.ixi.solutions/post/lie-detection-training-you-can-t-learn-from-your-mistakes

07/16/2026

You can't learn from your mistakes.
Not that you shouldn't. It's just, you can't.

Because in an interview room, nobody ever tells you that you made one.

I'll prove it: https://buff.ly/9KyT1iM

07/15/2026

What separates an interview that yields more investigative information from one that yields less?

Science-based interviewing:https://buff.ly/ncIUUJ1

📅August 31 - Sept. 2, 2026, 8-5pm
📍Hosted by: Groton Police Department
🗺️Groton, Connecticut

✅Boost interviewer confidence with adaptability
✅Strategic use of evidence
✅Counter-interrogation strategies
✅Red teaming - improves planning; beats bias
✅Questioning strategies (productive, memory-compatible questions)
✅Rapport techniques
✅Active & Tactical Listening
✅Cognitive Interviewing techniques recommended for critical incidents
✅Scenarios to practices new skills
🤖 Build skill fluency with real-time AI interview practice and scenarios
✅Field validation studies prove science-based techniques are more effective. More confessions. More information.
✅Large manual, handouts, and field-ready cheat sheets.
🚫No pseudoscience—junk that creates false case information (even if it sounds like "science") that trainers still peddle
🚫No more rigid "systems"—outdated methods fall apart interview after interview. After all, interviewer adaptability is key!

See you there:
https://buff.ly/ncIUUJ1