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
From a systems perspective, the Resolution Deficit is the gap between the rate at which the world produces conflict‑relevant information – emails, chats, memos, press lines, diplomatic cables, community threads – and the rate at which humans can realistically parse, model and act on it.
Whether you are mediating a ceasefire, chairing a corporate board, running an HR investigation or trying to de‑escalate a family dispute, the pattern is the same: the communication surface explodes, while the people tasked with resolution still think line‑by‑line. Tacitus uses AI‑led conflict resolution technologies to ingest, organise and model that overflow, so that the evolution of a conflict can be followed – and shaped – across scales: geopolitical, organisational and personal.
Entropy Surface
Reply‑all storms and Slack fragments mapped as one field.
Signal Extraction
Claims and red lines lifted out of the noise.
Explainability
Traceable back to specific threads. No opaque scores.
>> 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 not a chatbot with a pretty skin. It is a stacked inference system: multiple knowledge pipelines, specialised agents, a conflict ontology, a graph database and a retrieval layer working together on top of your communication data.
Read‑only connectors pull in email, memos, minutes, PDFs, curated news feeds and structured data. Text is normalised, de‑duplicated and enriched with conflict‑aware metadata (actor hints, time, channel, escalation level). Each pipeline can be tuned to a context: Syria, a boardroom, a labour dispute, a family business.
A dedicated Ontology Agent extracts actors, interests, constraints, red lines and guarantees, and writes them into a property graph. Facts live in vector stores; structure lives in the graph. This is where Tacitus learns how your conflict actually works.
A separate agent turns graph snapshots into case files: human‑readable narratives that explain who wants what, where the system is brittle and where common ground is plausibly available. These become the briefing backbone for diplomats, executives or mediators.
Finally, a reasoning agent queries both graph and vectors under your mandate and risk tolerance, searching for feasible resolution corridors. Only once structure is clear does Tacitus propose concrete moves – a small set of defensible pathways rather than a firehose of unstructured suggestions.
For investors and technical teams: this architecture is cloud‑native and composable. In practice, Tacitus can run as a private deployment in your own VPC, with vector search (for example, Vertex AI or pgvector) coexisting with a graph engine (for example, Neo4j‑style or equivalent) behind a single email‑native interface.