Investigative Design Studio

All relevant
data is public.
Power operates
overtly.

Overt Lab assembles publicly available signals into spatial and structural evidence. We map systems of power — financial, military, extractive, infrastructural — and let people draw their own conclusions.

01 — Premise
Contemporary power does not hide. It files permits, publishes annual reports, registers subsidiaries, and tenders contracts. The record is public. The assembly is the work.
02 — Method
We collect, cross-reference, and spatialize data from government filings, corporate disclosures, international registers, and verified journalism. Nothing in our work is speculative.
03 — Position
Not accusatory. Not activist. Not sensational. We map structures and let people draw conclusions.
$2.504B CAD Canadian Military Exports 2024 51.7% Share Destined Saudi Arabia 63 Units LAVs Shipped to Saudi Arabia 2024 $416.7M Exports to Ukraine 2023 $30.6M Record Israel Exports 2023 61+ Canadian LAVs Destroyed in Yemen Source Global Affairs Canada · RCAM · Public Record $2.504B CAD Canadian Military Exports 2024 51.7% Share Destined Saudi Arabia 63 Units LAVs Shipped to Saudi Arabia 2024 $416.7M Exports to Ukraine 2023 $30.6M Record Israel Exports 2023 61+ Canadian LAVs Destroyed in Yemen Source Global Affairs Canada · RCAM · Public Record
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LIVE — Updated 2024
Canadian Military Exports — Global Flow Map
Arms Trade · Corporate Network · Known Deployments
A structural map of Canadian military exports 2021–2024. Four billion dollars in annual flows. Five corporate exporters. Five conflict zones with documented Canadian equipment. All data sourced from Global Affairs Canada annual reports and parliamentary filings.
Dataset 2021–2024
Destinations 20 Countries
Source GAC · RCAM
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Methodology
01
Source Primacy
Every data point traces to a primary source — government filings, statutory reports, UN registers, corporate disclosures. Secondary sources are used only to interpret or contextualize primary data.
02
Structural Evidence
We document relationships between entities — financial, contractual, geographic, temporal. We do not speculate about intent. Structure is the evidence.
03
Spatial Reasoning
Data is rendered spatially wherever meaningful. Geography, network topology, and temporal sequence reveal patterns that tabular data obscures.
04
Open Sources Only
Overt Lab does not use leaked documents, anonymous sources, or non-public information. If it cannot be verified from public record, it does not appear in our work.