Licensed Florida agency A3400127 · Investigator C3400073 · Veteran-led, 12 years Army military intelligence · Phone answered 24 hours a day, seven days a week · Silver, Best Private Investigator, Bradenton’s Best 2025
Insight Investigative Group, LLC is a licensed, veteran owned Florida private investigative agency based in Bradenton, agency license A3400127, founded in 2024 by Joshua Goldberg, Florida investigator license C3400073. The firm works Manatee, Sarasota and Hillsborough counties and takes assignments statewide in Florida.
Who runs your case
Josh Goldberg is the owner and lead investigator, and on most files he is also the person doing the work. That is deliberate. A firm that sells you a principal and sends a subcontractor is selling you something it cannot guarantee, and in this profession the person who observed the thing is the person who has to be able to speak to it later.
Twelve years in Army military intelligence
Josh served twelve years in the United States Army as an intelligence analyst, retiring as a Sergeant First Class with an honorable discharge. He deployed three times to Afghanistan supporting Special Forces groups, and deployed to Jordan under Joint Special Operations Command, on the SOCSOUTH team, in support of counter-ISIS operations. He also worked an interagency assignment in Guyana out of the US Embassy in Georgetown, and served as a senior intelligence analyst covering South America and the Caribbean.
He then spent nearly two years as a targeting analyst supporting senior level counter-ISIS operations in Syria and Iraq, attached to a special mission unit. That work is pattern of life analysis, network development and target development: establishing who a person actually is, who they are connected to, and what their routine looks like, from fragmentary sources, to a standard where a decision gets made on it.
Civilian investigation is the same discipline with different rules of collection and a lower tolerance for unsourced claims. The habits transfer. The methods that are unlawful here do not get used here.
Training and credentials
- Florida Class A private investigative agency license A3400127
- Florida Class C private investigator license C3400073
- BA Political Science, The Citadel
- Defense Strategic Debriefer Course, Defense Intelligence Agency
- Joint HUMINT Analysis and Targeting Course
- Special Forces Intelligence Sergeant Course, targeting
- Open Source Intelligence Research and Analysis
- Held TS/SCI eligibility during service
- Member, Florida Association of Licensed Investigators, Tampa Bay chapter
Josh is a 100 percent service connected disabled veteran and a member of VFW Post 10141, where he previously served as Quartermaster. In July 2024 he presented to the FALI Tampa Bay chapter on investigative methodology and security planning.
Memberships and affiliations
Florida Association of Licensed Investigators, Tampa Bay Area Metro chapter. FALI is the state association for licensed Florida investigators and sets ethical and professional standards for the profession. Josh presented to the Tampa Bay chapter in July 2024 on investigative methodology and security planning.
ASIS International, Florida West Coast chapter. ASIS is the global association for security management professionals, covering physical security, risk assessment and crime prevention through environmental design.
Service disabled veteran owned. Insight Investigative Group is owned and operated by Joshua Goldberg, a 100 percent service connected disabled veteran of the United States Army, and a member of VFW Post 10141 where he previously served as Quartermaster.
What the firm does and does not do
Surveillance, background investigations, insurance and claims investigation, domestic matters, cyber investigations, asset and skip tracing, opposition research, and technical surveillance countermeasures. Prices for most of it are published, which is unusual in this market and intentional.
We do not obtain bank balances or account records, telephone call records, sealed or expunged records, credit reports, or medical records. We do not record private conversations, which section 934.03 of the Florida Statutes prohibits without the consent of all parties. We do not place tracking devices on vehicles a client does not own, which section 934.425 prohibits. We do not provide guard, bodyguard or protective services.
Recognition
Voted Silver, Best Private Investigator, in the Bradenton Herald’s Bradenton’s Best 2025 readers’ choice awards.
Ask an investigator
Consultations are confidential. We will tell you honestly whether an investigator is the right answer for your situation.
Call and a licensed investigator answers, day or night, including weekends. Written enquiries are answered within 48 hours.