TACITUS is conflict intelligence infrastructure — a governed data layer that transforms scattered dispute traces into structured 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 HR disputes, legal litigation, commercial conflicts, diplomatic negotiations, institutional governance, and humanitarian conflict analysis.

What products are in the TACITUS suite?

The TACITUS suite includes six products: Conflict Compass (conflict navigation), Wind Tunnel (societal simulation), PRAXIS (the conflict operating system), CONCORDIA (live mediation intelligence), and ARGUS (document intelligence). All are built on the same Core Engine and Conflict Ontology.

How does TACITUS work?

TACITUS uses a neurosymbolic architecture combining a deterministic knowledge graph with LLM reasoning. Unstructured text about conflicts is extracted into a typed graph using an 8-primitive Conflict 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 TACITUS Conflict Ontology?

The Conflict Ontology is a formal knowledge representation with 8 primitives (Actor, Claim, Interest, Constraint, Leverage, Commitment, Event, Narrative), 41+ classes, and 29+ typed properties. It provides a universal grammar for structuring any dispute — from workplace HR cases to international negotiations.

How is TACITUS different from Other companies?

Other popular companies are general-purpose data integration platform. TACITUS is purpose-built for conflict — it provides a domain-specific ontology, conflict-native reasoning, and products designed for dispute resolution, mediation, and peace & security workflows. TACITUS makes conflict structure legible; others makes data accessible.

Open SourceActive DevelopmentBuilding in Public

Built in public. Open by design.

TACITUS believes conflict intelligence infrastructure should be transparent and extensible. We're actively building AI-native conflict resolution and intelligence — in the open, from day one. Explore our pipelines, contribute to the ontology, build on the architecture, and help us make conflict legible to machines.

Dialectica on GitHub Knowledge Pipeline

Repositories

Two pipelines. One mission.

From a simplified knowledge pipeline to the full neurosymbolic engine — pick the level of depth that fits your use case.

TACITUS Knowledge Pipeline

Active Development

sargonxg/TACITUS-Knowledge-Pipeline-open

The simplified, open-source extraction and structuring pipeline. Includes the 8-primitive Conflict Grammar ontology, 4-stage processing pipeline, and sample conflict datasets. A great starting point for building conflict knowledge graphs.

Open Source

MIT

PythonOntologyKnowledge GraphPipelineConflict Grammar

What's Inside

>8-primitive Conflict Grammar (Actor, Claim, Interest, Constraint, Leverage, Commitment, Event, Narrative)
>4-stage pipeline: Ingest → Extract → Structure → Query
>Sample conflict datasets for testing and development
>Pydantic v2 schemas for all ontology primitives
>Ready to run with pip install

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Dialectica by TACITUS

Active Development

sargonxg/A2_DIALECTICAbyTACITUS

The full Dialectica engine pipeline — the neurosymbolic core that powers TACITUS products. Ontology Augmented Generation (OAG), typed knowledge graph construction, multi-hop reasoning, and conflict-specific intelligence extraction.

Open Source

PythonNeo4jLLMNeurosymbolicOAGGraphRAG

What's Inside

>Full Ontology Augmented Generation (OAG) pipeline
>Neurosymbolic architecture: deterministic graph + probabilistic LLM
>Neo4j knowledge graph with 4 reasoning layers (GND, CTX, EVD, RZN)
>Agentic Conflict Ontology with 41+ classes and 30+ theory frameworks
>LLM-powered extraction with typed relation mapping
>Temporal ordering, causal chains, and provenance tracking

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Architecture

Neurosymbolic by design

Both pipelines share the same foundational architecture — deterministic graph reasoning grounded by the Agentic Conflict Ontology, augmented by probabilistic LLM extraction.

dialectica_pipeline.py

1# Dialectica by TACITUS — Open Source Pipeline

3from dialectica import ConflictEngine, OntologyGraph

4from dialectica.primitives import Actor, Claim, Event

6engine = ConflictEngine(

7 ontology="agentic-conflict-v2",

8 graph_backend="neo4j",

9 layers=["GND", "CTX", "EVD", "RZN"]

10)

12# Ingest → Extract → Structure → Reason

13graph = engine.process(documents)

14insights = engine.reason(graph, query="...")

Conflict Ontology

8 primitives, 41+ classes, 30+ theory frameworks. The typed schema that makes conflict machine-legible.

4 Graph Layers

GND (ground truth), CTX (contextual), EVD (evidential), RZN (reasoning). Each layer serves a different intelligence function.

Neurosymbolic Reasoning

The graph never hallucinates. The LLM never flies blind. Deterministic facts + probabilistic inference.

Full Provenance

Every assertion traces to a source document, timestamp, and actor. Audit trail by design.

We're Hiring & Building

Join us. Build AI-native conflict resolution.

We're a small team building something that doesn't exist yet — AI infrastructure purpose-built for conflict and human friction intelligence. Whether you're an engineer, a conflict professional, a researcher, or just someone who thinks the world needs better tools for understanding disputes — we want to hear from you.

Fork a repo, open an issue, submit a PR, or reach out with ideas. We believe the best conflict ontology will be built by the community that uses it.

Join the Team — hello@tacitus.me Contribute on GitHub

Engineers

Python, TypeScript, Neo4j, LLMs, graph databases, neurosymbolic AI.

Conflict Professionals

Mediators, negotiators, diplomats, HR professionals — domain expertise matters.

Researchers

Ontology engineering, conflict theory, computational social science, NLP.

Ideas & Contributions Welcome

Get in touch: Have ideas for new conflict primitives? Built something on the pipeline? Working on related research? We're actively developing and iterating — everything is in motion. Write us at hello@tacitus.me — we'd love to hear from you.

Core Engine