TACITUS is graph-native infrastructure for conflict, policy, diplomacy, and mediation work: a shared context backbone and product suite built on one ontology. It transforms messy documents, transcripts, claims, and events into typed knowledge graphs with temporality, causality, and provenance preserved.

How is TACITUS different from standard LLMs?

Standard LLMs lack persistent memory, cannot track temporal ordering of events, and hallucinate on conflict facts. TACITUS provides a deterministic knowledge graph layer that grounds LLM reasoning.

What industries does TACITUS serve?

TACITUS serves policy teams, mediators, diplomatic analysts, peace and security practitioners, institutional governance teams, HR and legal dispute teams, and researchers working with complex contested situations.

What products are in the TACITUS suite?

The TACITUS suite includes Dialectica (the graph backbone), PRAXIS (policy and analysis workspace), ARGUS (advanced RAG for policy and conflict corpora), CONCORDIA (live mediation intelligence), Wind Tunnel (polarization and reception risk), and Conflict Compass (fast structured demo).

How does TACITUS work?

TACITUS combines a deterministic typed knowledge graph with LLM reasoning. Unstructured text about policy situations, conflicts, negotiations, and institutional disputes is extracted into a graph using an 8-primitive ontology (Actor, Claim, Interest, Constraint, Leverage, Commitment, Event, Narrative), preserving temporal ordering, causal chains, and source provenance.

Is TACITUS open source?

The TACITUS Knowledge Pipeline is open source on GitHub under an MIT license. The core platform products (Compass, Wind Tunnel, PRAXIS, CONCORDIA, ARGUS) are commercial offerings with free demo access available.

What is the Agentic Conflict Ontology (ACO)?

The ACO is a formal knowledge representation with 8 primitives (Actor, Claim, Interest, Constraint, Leverage, Commitment, Event, Narrative), 41+ typed classes, and 29+ typed properties. It is a universal grammar for structuring disputes, from HR grievances to peace processes.

Does TACITUS try to replace mediators or judges?

No. TACITUS is legibility infrastructure, not adjudication. The engine structures a dispute against the ontology and shows every party the same map. Decisions about compromise, fairness, and outcome remain with humans.

TACITUS · policy · conflict · diplomacy · mediation

The graph backbone for policy and conflict work.

TACITUS turns fragmented documents, dialogue, claims, events, and commitments into a typed, cited, time-ordered context graph. Professionals use it to analyze policy situations, prepare briefings, mediate disputes, and give agents structure they can reason over without inventing the missing structure.

Typed graph of actors, claims, interests, commitments, events, constraints, leverage, and narratives

Source-bound provenance, temporal ordering, and explicit causal edges

Shared context for professionals and the LLM agents assisting them

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TACITUS live suite

moving graph demo

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)

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THE BACKBONE

From raw context to graph-shaped intelligence.

Dialectica is the shared memory layer underneath the suite. It turns policy and conflict material into source-bound graph context before an analyst, mediator, or LLM agent writes a sentence.

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

OAG · provenance-bound

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

Policy and analysis workspace

ARGUS

Advanced RAG over policy corpora

CONCORDIA

Live mediation intelligence

Wind Tunnel

Polarization and reception risk

Compass

Fast structured demo

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

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THE PRODUCT SUITE

One backbone. Five professional tools.

Dialectica creates the graph. PRAXIS, ARGUS, CONCORDIA, Wind Tunnel, and Compass turn it into workflows for analysis, RAG, mediation, simulation, and fast demos.

Foundation layer

Dialectica

The context and graph backbone underneath.

The graph-native core. Builds typed policy and conflict graphs, preserves provenance and time, and gives LLMs structured context for reasoning.

OntologyProvenanceTemporalityAgent context

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PRAXIS

Policy and conflict operating workspace.

The workspace for policy, conflict, and institutional analysis. Ingest sources, build a shared graph, write briefings, and share cited knowledge products.

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Experimental

Wind Tunnel

Stress-test policy, messaging, and polarization risk.

Simulate how behavioral segments respond to a policy, intervention, campaign, or narrative. Find resistance, allies, and polarization risk before launch.

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Experimental

ARGUS

Advanced RAG for policy and conflict corpora.

Turn reports, resolutions, transcripts, briefs, datasets, and archives into queryable, cited intelligence with graph context, grounded answers, and analyst-grade brief generation.

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Experimental

CONCORDIA

AI-assisted mediation intelligence.

Live and async mediation intelligence. Structures dialogue against the ontology, tracks commitments, surfaces contradictions, and preserves the human mediator role.

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Demo

Conflict Compass

The smallest demo of the engine.

Paste a dispute, policy situation, or institutional friction case. See the actors, claims, interests, commitments, and events structured in under a minute.

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ONTOLOGY PLAYGROUND · INTERACTIVE

Paste a dispute. See the structure.

Pick one of three canonical samples, click Structure it, and watch Dialectica tag every primitive: actors, claims, interests, commitments, constraints, leverage, events, and narratives, with full provenance.

INPUT · dispute text

Public criticism on an internal channel, escalated to HR.

Alex publicly criticised Maya on an internal channel on May 12, asserting that Maya missed the Q2 deadline. Maya escalated to HR on May 14, filing a complaint that Alex violated the professionalism policy. Maya wants to keep her role and a written apology. Alex has said continued collaboration depends on a formal written apology. HR is bound by the grievance procedure §4.

8 PRIMITIVES

GRAPH STATS · typed output

Actors

Claims

Commitments

Contradictions

Every node is bound to the source span it came from. Every edge is typed. Every claim is auditable back to the input.

WORK WITH TACITUS

Pilots, demos, partnerships, and technical integrations.

TACITUS is building with policy teams, mediators, researchers, builders, and institutions that need better context infrastructure for complex situations.

TRY IT

Test the smallest public demo.

Paste a dispute or policy situation and see actors, claims, interests, commitments, constraints, and events become typed structure.

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TALK TO THE FOUNDER

Discuss a pilot or walkthrough.

For institutional pilots, domain datasets, mediation workflows, API access, or product partnerships, write directly to hello@tacitus.me.

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READ THE IDEAS

Concordia Discors.

The editorial home for the thinking behind TACITUS: conflict, structure, policy, diplomacy, and the grammar of disagreement.

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