5 Stones intelligence (5Si)® Launches The Art of Intelligence™ Thought Leadership Platform

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2026--

5 Stones intelligence (5Si) ®, a leading professional intelligence and investigations firm, today announced the launch of The Art of Intelligence ™, a new thought leadership and campaign platform exploring the disciplines, methodologies, and strategic role of intelligence in today’s increasingly complex global environment.

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In an era defined by information overload, accelerating visibility, and increasingly sophisticated threats, intelligence is no longer defined by access to information alone — but by the ability to interpret it clearly. Developed as an evolving multi-platform initiative spanning film, digital, social, print, and future thought leadership content, The Art of Intelligence™ reflects 5Si’s continued focus on helping Clients navigate modern risk with clarity, discretion, and intelligence-driven insight.

“The world is flooded with information. Information alone is not intelligence,” said 5Si Founder David tinsley. “Intelligence is a discipline — the process of transforming complexity into clarity, identifying patterns others miss, and delivering insights and solutions in moments where precision matters most.”

The platform launches with a cinematic video introducing the philosophy behind The Art of Intelligence, followed by a five-part breakout series exploring core intelligence disciplines, including Decision Advantage, Complex Investigations, Protective Intelligence, Digital Defense, and Due Diligence.

Designed with a highly visual, editorial-inspired creative approach, the initiative blends cinematic storytelling, modern intelligence positioning, and luxury-inspired visual identity to reflect the evolving global risk landscape facing executives, global corporations, legal teams, family offices, and high-net-worth Clients worldwide.

Each installment explores intelligence not as a reactive function, but as a strategic discipline rooted in analysis, contextual understanding, investigative precision, and the ability to identify risk before it becomes reality.

“The Art of Intelligence reflects the evolution of intelligence itself,” tinsley continued. “The ability to observe clearly while others see chaos. To recognize signals hidden within noise. To connect today’s intelligence to tomorrow’s outcomes.”

The initial launch includes:

Future phases of The Art of Intelligence will expand through additional editorial content, executive perspectives, integrated campaigns, and strategic insights examining the evolving role of intelligence in modern risk management, investigative strategy, and high-stakes decision-making.

Positioned as a long-term thought leadership platform for 5Si, The Art of Intelligence is designed to advance conversations surrounding visibility, exposure, decision advantage, and the increasingly strategic role intelligence plays in helping organizations and private Clients navigate complexity with clarity and confidence.

“Our Clients rely on us in moments where the stakes are highest,” added Bailea Tinsley, 5Si Director of Global Investigations & Intelligence Services. “The Art of Intelligence reflects how intelligence, investigative precision, and strategic clarity come together to help organizations and private Clients navigate complexity, exposure, and risk with confidence.”

To explore The Art of Intelligence, visit 5Sitheartofintelligence.com. For ongoing platform updates, thought leadership content, and future campaign releases, follow 5 Stones intelligence (5Si) ® on LinkedIn or visit 5Stonesintelligence.com.

About 5 Stones intelligence (5Si) ®

5 Stones intelligence (5Si) ® is a leading U.S.-based intelligence and investigations firm founded in 2007, with offices in Miami, Florida, Washington D.C., and global operations across Europe, Israel, Levant, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, delivering full-spectrum solutions in human intelligence (HUMINT), forensic investigations, financial and technical intelligence, risk mitigation, AML compliance, and protective services, for government, corporate, legal, and Clients. Staffed by over 200 elite professionals from the DEA, FBI, CIA, ATF, IRS, HSI, NSA, London’s Metropolitan Police, NCA, Navy SEALs, Delta, MARSOC, U.S. Special Operations Forces, and Israel’s Unit 8200, 5Si operates the world’s largest private HUMINT network, providing mission-critical intelligence with integrity, discretion, and international reach. Learn more at 5Stonesintelligence.com.

5 Stones intelligence (5Si)® launches The Art of Intelligence™, a cinematic thought leadership platform exploring the disciplines behind modern intelligence, investigative strategy, and high-stakes decision-making.

The head of Tennessee's prison system is resigning, Gov. Bill Lee announced Saturday, the first major shake-up since the stunning failed execution of Christa Pike landed her on a ventilator at a hospital.

Frank Strada, commissioner of the Department of Correction, will step down this month, Lee said.

Strada said in a statement that resigning was “in the best interest of Tennesseans” while an independent review determines what happened Wednesday when the state failed to execute Pike despite administering two doses of a lethal drug.

“I believe this review is entirely appropriate and necessary, and I look forward to doing everything I can to help determine exactly what occurred,” Strada said.

Pike was taken to a hospital, where she was on a ventilator and unconscious in the following hours, her attorneys said in a court filing Friday.

Hospital staff were working to save Pike’s life and, as of late Thursday, were trying to clear the two doses of pentobarbital, which the state uses to execute prisoners, lawyers said.

The shocking failure has left both sides of the death penalty debate demanding answers. Lee has ordered an independent review and halted any new executions. Strada said he believes the state “carried out its responsibilities in accordance with the established protocol.”

Pike's legal team welcomed Strada's departure but said “it does nothing to help Christa now.”

“What happened to her Wednesday reflects a systemic failure that goes far beyond any one person,” the four-lawyer team said. “We hope the governor’s call for a full, independent review will expose the profound problems within Tennessee’s entire death penalty system.”

Pike’s attorneys said they believed problems with the IV lines caused the pentobarbital to flow into her body instead of her bloodstream.

Strada took over the Correction Department in January 2023 after serving as deputy director of the Arizona Department of Corrections. In late 2024, he announced that Tennessee was changing its lethal injection protocol and would use only pentobarbital.

Four people have been executed in Tennessee since 2025, according to the Correction Department.

Pike was 18 when she and her boyfriend tortured and killed a classmate, Colleen Slemmer, in a jealous rage. She later became one of the youngest women to be sent to death row.

FILE - Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada speaks to the media after the execution of Harold Wayne Nichols, Dec. 11, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)