Matt Pierce — Human Intelligence & Narrative Analyst

Pattern interpretation. Narrative drift. Decision support under pressure.

Human signal, organized. Noise, removed. The record, clean.

I work at the intersection of behavior, pressure, and perception. I didn’t learn it in theory. I learned it in the field.

For more than 20 years, I worked as a freelance journalist and photojournalist. That meant long days in places most people don’t visit twice: prisons and courts, closed communities, back rooms, public meetings, and the institutional machinery that decides what happens next. You learn quickly what people say for the record, what they say off-record, and what their behavior says when the story changes.

My work now is simple and disciplined: I interview, I observe, I verify what can be verified, and I produce written assessments that separate fact from inference—so decision-makers can move with less guesswork.

You set the question. You set the boundaries. I work inside the scope you approve.

My Operating Code

• People reveal the truth faster when the stakes are real.

• Incentives explain more than explanations.

• Consistency beats charisma.

• Pressure doesn’t create personality—it exposes it.

• Omissions are data.

• Digital behavior mirrors real-world constraints.

• Discretion is part of the method, not the marketing.

• I don’t chase clout. I document signal.

I don’t sell hype and I don’t coach. I deliver interpretation in a format you can use: a written brief.

That brief captures what was said, what changed, what didn’t line up, and what that likely means—clearly labeled as fact, inference, and confidence. If you need a person, a group, or a narrative read clean, I may be useful.

Access is selective by design. If you’re here, you likely already have a specific problem and a specific reason you don’t want noise.

You control disclosure. You control pace. You control the stop point. I control structure and documentation.