Welcome.
Your are now a member of the Grey Zone.
STEP 1: Billing portal.
Let's start with logistics: you can here download your invoice, change your subscription or cancel it.
STEP 2: How to navigate this space
Once you're connected to your member space, you have a FULL access to the Grey Zone library and paid-articles. You'll also receive everything by email. Generally I post the weekly Grey Zone articles on Friday. But I might surprise you with more articles during the week, depending on my thought process and what I think is relevant to share "right now".
The Library of the Grey Zone
All private essays and archives, organized by categories
→ The Grey Zone (all exclusive articles, frameworks, essays unlimited)
→ The library by topics (articles organized by topics)
→ The Archive
STEP 3: Start here, slowly...
Oriane Cohen
Oriane Cohen
Oriane Cohen
You're here to train your perception, sharpen your strategic intelligence, and navigate this world with better tools.
You’re entering a space where I explore universal themes, often deeply political, always human.
The people who join me here are different.
They flirt with the grey zone, live in it, or feel pulled toward it.
They are curious, international, and out of the box.
Your trust means the world to me. And you're not alone - this circle is growing.
For support or to contact my team
Please email: info[at]ocstrategic.com
We answer within 48 hours.
If you want more...
⚠ Premium members get access to MORE than you do.
They access my online courses:
- Network Like a Spy
- Negotiate Like a Spy
- Travel Like a Spy
- Introduction to Intelligence and Its Mindset
- How to Craft a Cover Story
- How to Really Read the News
(in preparation... Surveillance Fundamentals, Insider Threats Playbook, Cultural Intelligence... stay tuned!)
They access my AI Toolbox:
Three AI-tools trained, feeded with my "second brain". They are basically trained to think like me, with my mental models, my knowledge and references. Trained to ask you the right questions. Trained to challenge you.
- OC Negotiator: trained to help you prepare before, during negotiations.
- OC Human Risk Detector:
- OC Cognitive strategist:
They can "Ask Me Anything":
They have a dedicated space to ask their questions or send request to analyze a topic.
They access my private resources vault:
It's like my private digital library. PDFs for them to download that I kept and read for more than 15 years on geopolitics, IR theory, philosophy, power... all curated and constantly updated with new gems!
They get an access to ALL future tools and features:
SOON TO COME
→ My new courses (3 in recording process)
→ Access to the private community launching this summer
→ All new drops, interviews, frameworks
Premium members get priority on upcoming releases, events, and new tools.
My final word
The Grey Zone isn’t a place to binge.
It’s a space to think, feel, question, at your own pace.
There’s a lot. Not long reads, necessarily. But dense ones.
Each piece is the crystallization of more than a decade in the grey zone: years of observation, fieldwork, learning, and hard truths I’ve finally turned into something coherent, something I can offer.
These reflections are not fixed. They evolve, like the world we live in. I'm exploring here, with you. My goal is to give you tools, frameworks, and lenses to read this world more clearly, more sharply, and more freely.
Take your time. Start with what pulls you in - a word, a question, a tension.
Keep a notebook if you can. Come back often. New thoughts drop almost every day.
You're not here by accident. You're part of a very specific circle - people who are done with surface-level clarity, and ready to think differently.
With gratitude,
Oriane
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