RESEARCH
TACITUS is a research-driven company. The engine, the ontology, and the benchmark are built in public — read, critique, and build on them. Every claim on this site is traceable to a paper, a note, or a repo.
A neurosymbolic response to the failure of current AI tools on conflict reasoning. Why information asymmetry is the real problem, and why the fix has to be structural.
Read the paperThe TACITUS Conflict Grammar Corpus. 480+ evaluation points across 14 task types designed to measure reasoning over conflict text — not retrieval over it.
Read the methodologyShort, specific essays from the team. Working ideas, partial answers, open questions. Not every note will age well — that is the point.
Browse notesThe Agentic Conflict Ontology. Eight primitives, 41+ typed classes, MIT-licensed. The open grammar every TACITUS product shares.
Read the specOPEN SCIENCE
The ACO is published on GitHub. Critique, fork, propose revisions. An ontology that is not open cannot be trusted.
The reference pipeline — ingest, extract, structure, query — is MIT-licensed. You can self-host every capability you see in our products.
TCGC task types, evaluation protocol, and (eventually) anonymized corpus splits are public. Results without a benchmark are opinion.
Every research note lists what we do not yet know. Pretending to certainty in a field this young would be dishonest.
THE EDITORIAL SIDE
Concordia Discors is the editorial home for the thinking behind TACITUS — long-form essays on conflict, structure, institutions, and the grammar of disagreement. If the Vision paper is the thesis, Concordia Discors is the notebook.
“Conflict is not the absence of order — it is the shape order takes when more than one agent has a goal.”