CONFLICT IS INFORMATION ASYMMETRY
Conflict is everywhere: inside boards, ministries, campaigns, and group chats. Tacitus is a conflict intelligence and resolution layer for people who need clarity under pressure. It sits on top of your real communication and knowledge pipelines, maps actors, interests, constraints, and risk, and surfaces narrow corridors of common ground you can actually act on.
Email‑native conflict analysis for boards, ministries, and teams. Ingests real communication, reconstructs actors, interests, constraints and ZOPA, and returns structured briefs instead of endless chat transcripts.
View Engine →Polarization and campaigns lab. Maps how arguments land across moral foundations and segments, and surfaces narrow bands of consensus language instead of just sharper clashes.
Explore Prism Lab →Essays on liberty, conscience, and polarization. The philosophical backbone of Tacitus, where we test the ontology against real political and cultural conflicts.
Visit Magazine →Live conflict graph of actors, interests, constraints, and guarantees, with overlays to inspect risk, veto points, and realistic corridors of agreement.
Open Graph →>> The Resolution Deficit
The world now produces conflict-relevant information far faster than humans can process it: emails, internal notes, meeting summaries, memos, reports, statements, and community messages. The volume accelerates; understanding does not.
Across sectors, the pattern is identical: mediators, managers, investigators, diplomats, board chairs and facilitators must resolve disputes while navigating an information environment built for overload. People still read line-by-line; conflict evolves as a system.
The Resolution Deficit is this structural gap. Tacitus closes it. Our conflict-intelligence engine ingests the entire communication surface of a dispute, organises it, and builds a dynamic model of how the conflict is evolving — enabling clarity, traceability, and meaningful intervention across geopolitical, organisational, and personal scales.
Entropy Surface
All documents and messages unified into one coherent field.
Signal Extraction
Claims, interests and red lines distilled cleanly from noise.
Explainability
Every insight linked to specific evidence — no black boxes.
>> Where Tacitus Lands
Diplomatic & Multilateral Mediation
Tacitus: Ingests back‑channel emails, draft texts, media lines and mission reports around a peace process or ceasefire. Maps factions, guarantees, spoilers and red lines into a conflict graph, exposing resolution corridors that respect mandates while reducing the risk of collapse.
Corporate Boards & Founder Disputes
Tacitus: Reconstructs who holds which risk, authorship and recognition claims across board emails, investment memos and legal correspondence. Separates positional quarrels over equity from deeper interests, and identifies ZOPA‑like spaces for governance reform and credit‑sharing.
Workplace & Union Conflicts
Tacitus: Reads grievance chains, HR notes and union communications; distinguishes concrete demands (wages, hours, safety) from symbolic ones (respect, trust, recognition). Surfaces settlements that meet hard constraints while addressing the underlying narrative of fairness.
Regulation, Infrastructure & Public Finance
Tacitus: Connects ministries, regulators, contractors, auditors and funders into one conflict graph for major projects. Shows how vetoes, timelines and corruption fears interact, and helps design phased agreements that keep projects moving without sacrificing oversight.
Polarized Campaigns & Civic Space
Tacitus: Uses the Prism Lab pipeline to segment audiences, model echo chambers and detect narrow overlaps in values. Recommends messages and institutional moves that de‑escalate abstract anger while preserving meaningful disagreement.
Family Businesses & Inheritance Disputes
Tacitus: Treats emails, letters and meeting notes around succession as a small but dense conflict system. Distinguishes financial claims from generational fears, tracks alliances and resentments, and suggests options that preserve both continuity of the business and dignity of the people involved.
>> How the Engine Thinks at Scale
Tacitus is a stacked reasoning system: multiple knowledge pipelines, specialised agents, a conflict ontology, a graph brain and a retrieval layer working together on top of your real communication data.
Knowledge Pipelines
Email, memos, PDFs, minutes and curated feeds are ingested, cleaned, time-anchored and enriched with conflict-aware metadata (actors, events, escalation markers).
Ontology & Graph Agents
A dedicated Ontology Agent extracts actors, interests, constraints and guarantees, writing them into a live property graph. Text lives in vectors; structure lives in the graph.
Casebook Builder
Graph snapshots become concise case files: readable narratives that explain motives, incentives, leverage points and the actual structure of the conflict ecosystem.
Resolution Layer
A reasoning agent queries both graph and vector memory under your mandates, identifying realistic settlement corridors and concrete moves that fit your risk envelope.