Sean Corbett retired from the Royal Air Force in September 2018, after a 30-year career as a professional intelligence officer, where he reached the pinnacle of his profession. On transitioning from the military, he established a Defence, Security, and Intelligence Directorate within a ‘new space’ geospatial intelligence company, where he advanced innovative AI applications to earth observation data in support of the defence and security sector, and instigated the concept of ‘intelligence as a service’, leveraging a wide spectrum of publicly available information to answer challenging questions for the sector. He established his own security and intelligence consultancy in 2019, focusing on the open-source intelligence, the downstream applications of the commercial space sector, geospatial intelligence, and business optimisation.