Question 1

What is TACITUS?

Accepted Answer

TACITUS is the company building PRAXIS — the AI analyst workbench for statecraft, policy, and mediation — powered by DIALECTICA, a neurosymbolic knowledge-graph engine that makes conflict reasoning structured, auditable, and contestable. Wind Tunnel and CONCORDIA apply the same backbone to political reaction risk and mediation intelligence.

Question 2

How is TACITUS different from standard LLMs?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 3

What industries does TACITUS serve?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 4

What products are in the TACITUS suite?

Accepted Answer

PRAXIS is the flagship: the AI analyst workbench for statecraft, policy, and mediation. DIALECTICA is the trust graph and context layer underneath PRAXIS. Wind Tunnel models political reaction risk, and CONCORDIA provides mediation intelligence for live or asynchronous dialogue.

Question 5

How does TACITUS work?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 6

Is TACITUS open source?

Accepted Answer

The TACITUS Knowledge Pipeline and the Agentic Conflict Ontology (ACO) are open source on GitHub under an MIT license. PRAXIS, Wind Tunnel, and CONCORDIA are commercial offerings with free demo access available; DIALECTICA, the engine, ships as both an open reference and a hosted runtime.

Question 7

What is the Agentic Conflict Ontology (ACO)?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 8

Does TACITUS try to replace mediators or judges?

Accepted Answer

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.

Primitive	Statecraft & policy	Human friction	Armed conflict
Actor	Ministry, opposition bloc, donor, regulator, guarantor, affected public	Employee, manager, HR officer, counsel, director	State, faction, mediator, guarantor, civilian population
Claim	"The reform is fiscally necessary but politically mistimed."	"The manager retaliated after the complaint."	"The ceasefire was violated on 3 February."
Interest	Fiscal stability. Public legitimacy. Coalition survival. Service continuity.	Job security. Dignity at work. Continued employment.	Territorial integrity. Autonomy. Recognition.
Commitment	Cabinet decision, donor condition, coalition pledge, treaty clause	Signed settlement, mediated agreement, promotion plan	Signed ceasefire, withdrawal commitment, mandate text
Leverage	Budget control, legal authority, public mobilization, agenda-setting power	Institutional role, timing, access to legal support	Territory, recognition, economic flows, alliance capacity

Primitive	Statecraft & policy	Human friction	Armed conflict
Actor	Ministry, opposition bloc, donor, regulator, guarantor, affected public	Employee, manager, HR officer, counsel, director	State, faction, mediator, guarantor, civilian population
Claim	"The reform is fiscally necessary but politically mistimed."	"The manager retaliated after the complaint."	"The ceasefire was violated on 3 February."
Interest	Fiscal stability. Public legitimacy. Coalition survival. Service continuity.	Job security. Dignity at work. Continued employment.	Territorial integrity. Autonomy. Recognition.
Commitment	Cabinet decision, donor condition, coalition pledge, treaty clause	Signed settlement, mediated agreement, promotion plan	Signed ceasefire, withdrawal commitment, mandate text
Leverage	Budget control, legal authority, public mobilization, agenda-setting power	Institutional role, timing, access to legal support	Territory, recognition, economic flows, alliance capacity

One ontology. Many stakes.

Statecraft & policy

Human friction

War & armed conflict

The same primitive on both sides.

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