I want a model of the market for competitive intelligence in three different sectors. Who are the players? What is the information of highest value? Who has the information? Who would buy it? Of course, we are talking about information gathered through legitimate means, such as data mining through public sources. Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink.
My old company, SRG, may their stock prices fall straight to hell, has the experience and expertise to create exactly such a model. I estimate three people for four months, with overhead and profit, a $250K contract.
Thanks to my back door into SRG, my boys and I have access to their books and can spoof all the email that I want.
So they will build my model for me. As long as they think it is a legitimate SRG project.
The trick is knowing that the Washington office, SRG:DC, and the San Diego office, SRG:SD, never talk to each other.
I can get one of my boys, Daemon X, to social engineer my ex-director. He'll phone and pretend to be one of the D.C. directors asking for help on a highly-classified project for an unnamed agency. The whole agreement would be offered on a no-talk basis, as demanded by the client. No one would dare talk about it with anyone. Heads will roll throughout SRG if any details are revealed to anyone. Lose your security clearance, lose your life.
The whole thing will be paid by juggling the books here and there. Nyte Phyter and Kelvin Zero will help me access the books. There is a limit to how much we can do, but it doesn't have to be perfect. This is still early in SRG's fiscal year. I will be long gone before the auditors come on the scene. When they do, no one will know how to reconcile the books, so they will just fiddle them to work out somehow and save themselves embarassment.
I want some of my boys to handle as much of the mechanics of the incursion into SRG as possible.
It will give me a chance to see them in action.
Also, I will pay them real money for their efforts. A couple of thousand diverted from SRG in "consulting fees" for each of five of them will do nicely. This will serve to establish that working with me can be profitable. I will only ask for a few hours work from each. It will work out to about $500 per hour. They will be grateful. And impressed.
There is another little bonus for me, as well. SRG will cut cheques for fictional consultants that will go into an account that I will set up, and then be diverted through a blind path to them. But at some point, to get the money to them, I will have to cut cheques in their real names. I would much rather have real names in my personnel files, than just a bunch of goofy handles.