PRAXIS is where professionals reason over conflict the way the work actually demands — cited, time-ordered, contestable. It runs on DIALECTICA, our neurosymbolic knowledge-graph engine.
No hallucinated structure. No black box. Every actor, claim, commitment, and event traces to a source — so an analyst, a mediator, or a desk officer can argue with the model rather than be argued at.
Cited at the span level. Every claim, commitment, and event traces to its source.
Time-ordered, causally linked. Reasoning a desk officer can audit, contest, and amend.
Statecraft and mediation built in. Not generic enterprise AI dressed up.
TACITUS live suite
Build typed context before generation
Source-bound graph packet for analysts and agents
Actor -> Claim -> Event -> Commitment -> Constraint
Graph operation
MATCH path=(Actor)-[:ASSERTS]->(Claim)<-[:EVIDENCES]-(Source)DIALECTICA · THE NEUROSYMBOLIC ENGINE
DIALECTICA is the engine that makes PRAXIS reason over conflict the way the work demands — typed, time-ordered, source-bound. It is the structural alternative to fluent prose with no provenance.
Inputs
Reports
policy briefs, field notes, diplomatic cables
Dialogue
transcripts, mediation sessions, meetings
Evidence
claims, citations, datasets
Signals
media, narratives, polarization markers
Extraction target
Convert unstructured policy and conflict material into source-bound graph context before any LLM writes a sentence.
Dialectica · context graph
The LLM receives graph-shaped context, not a wall of prose.
Actor A asserted Claim B after Event C, constrained by Rule D, with source spans attached. The model can reason with structure already built.
Tools on top
PRAXIS · Flagship
AI analyst workbench for statecraft, policy, mediation
Wind Tunnel · Side project
Synthetic publics. Reception and polarization risk.
CONCORDIA · Side project
Live deliberation intelligence for the room.
Every tool can hand the same graph back to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or an internal agent as structured context.
GND
Grounded facts
CTX
Context graph
EVD
Evidence & provenance
RZN
Reasoning layer
AI FOR STATECRAFT · THE INVESTABLE THESIS
TACITUS is building graph-native AI infrastructure for teams whose mistakes have institutional consequences. The wager is concrete: if statecraft work depends on evidence, sequence, incentives, and commitments, the AI layer must preserve those structures before it writes.
Diplomatic, policy, and mediation teams do not just need summaries. They need a shared model of actors, claims, interests, commitments, events, constraints, leverage, and narrative drift.
Flat retrieval can find text. TACITUS first builds a provenance-bound graph, then lets models reason against relationships that already exist.
PRAXIS is decision support, not automated diplomacy. Every output is designed to be inspected, contested, edited, exported, and traced back to source.
Research spine
The case for TACITUS is not “chat for diplomats.” It is a governed context layer for policy work: open conflict assessment practices, graph reasoning, grounded retrieval, risk-managed AI, and human-led mediation intelligence brought into one workflow.
CSIS · AI and the Future of Mediation
AI can support mediation when it preserves confidentiality, neutrality, and human control.
Microsoft Research · GraphRAG
Graph-based indexing improves corpus-level sensemaking beyond isolated document retrieval.
ICLR 2024 · Think-on-Graph
Knowledge-graph reasoning paths make LLM answers more explainable and traceable.
USAID · Conflict Assessment Framework
Conflict assessment starts with actors, grievances, incentives, institutions, and dynamics.
NIST · AI Risk Management Framework
High-stakes AI should be governed, mapped, measured, managed, and auditable.
UN-World Bank · Pathways for Peace
Prevention requires connecting political, social, economic, and security drivers early.
ONE FLAGSHIP · ONE ENGINE · TWO SIDE PROJECTS
TACITUS is graph-native AI infrastructure for statecraft, conflict, and policy work. PRAXIS is the analyst-facing workspace. DIALECTICA is the trust graph that makes it reason instead of guess. Wind Tunnel and CONCORDIA apply the same backbone to public reaction risk and live deliberation.
SIDE PROJECTS · SAME BACKBONE
Wind Tunnel and CONCORDIA are focused experiments built from the same backbone: reaction-risk modeling before a public move, and live deliberation intelligence while a process is underway.
PRAXIS, DIALECTICA, Wind Tunnel, and CONCORDIA are all under active development. Send feedback.
ONTOLOGY PLAYGROUND · INTERACTIVE
Pick a statecraft sample, click Structure it, and watch DIALECTICA tag the primitives PRAXIS needs: actors, claims, interests, commitments, constraints, leverage, events, and narratives, with source-span grounding.
INPUT · policy text
Ceasefire allegations, humanitarian access, guarantor pressure.
The Ministry of Security alleged on 18 April that the Northern Coalition violated the ceasefire near Kalo Bridge. The coalition denied responsibility and reaffirmed its written commitment to keep the southern corridor open. The UN mission warned that aid access depends on a 72-hour notification window, while both parties need credible verification before the next donor conference. The government is framing the incident as proof the coalition cannot be trusted.
8 PRIMITIVES
GRAPH STATS · typed output
Every node is bound to the source span it came from. Every edge is typed. Every claim is auditable back to the input.
Extraction is not the final answer. It is the grounding layer: raw policy text becomes a typed graph; the graph becomes a brief the analyst can inspect, edit, and challenge.
WORK WITH TACITUS
TACITUS is building with policy teams, mediators, researchers, builders, and institutions that need better context infrastructure for complex situations.
OPEN THE FLAGSHIP
Statecraft, policy, mediation. Cited briefings. Conflict graph. Structured reasoning you can argue with — not be argued at.
Open PRAXISTALK TO THE FOUNDER
For institutional pilots, domain datasets, mediation workflows, API access, or product partnerships, write directly to hello@tacitus.me.
hello@tacitus.meREAD THE IDEAS
The editorial home for the thinking behind TACITUS: conflict, structure, policy, diplomacy, and the grammar of disagreement.
Visit Concordia DiscorsPRAXIS, DIALECTICA, and the side projects are under active development. Expect edges. Send feedback.
Read the open source