Making Conflict Legible
TACITUS is built by practitioners who spent nearly a decade analyzing conflict for institutional decision-makers — and who kept running into the same missing infrastructure. Instead of waiting for someone else to build it, we are building it, openly.
Founder
Origin Story
TACITUS was born inside conflict — not in a lab. The frameworks practitioners use every day are rigorous and powerful. But they live nowhere a machine can reach. LLMs don't fix that. They're fluent and structurally hollow. The problem was never the models — it was the absence of everything around them.
So we're building it. Domain ontologies, knowledge graphs, structured reasoning — the technology stack that makes LLMs actually useful for conflict and human friction professionals. Better foundations, better contextual results, compounding with every model generation.
Building the Team
Seeking technical co-founders and early engineers who want to build the infrastructure layer for conflict-aware AI.
The TACITUS Network
Practitioners, researchers, and domain experts who see the vision of conflict intelligence — contributing policy depth, analytical rigour, and field knowledge to shape what TACITUS can become.
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Contribute to Conflict Intelligence
The TACITUS Network brings together practitioners who believe making conflict legible leads to better resolution. If you have domain expertise, field experience, or analytical depth — and see the vision — we'd like to connect.
Get in Touch“It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.”
— Tacitus, Histories I.1
“Rara temporum felicitate, ubi sentire quae velis, et quae sentias dicere licet.”
Concordia Discors
Harmony in Discord
At the philosophical heart of TACITUS is the principle of Concordia Discors: the belief that unity does not require uniformity, and that sustainable peace emerges from structured pluralism, not imposed consensus.
Concordia Discors is the philosophical foundation. TACITUS is the engineering. The product CONCORDIA is named in the same tradition but is a separate, distinct product.
Read the magazineDesign Principles
Our Values
Conflict is information asymmetry
Friction peaks where structure is hidden. Making it legible is the first step toward resolution — and that is the entire job.
Concordia Discors
Unity is not uniformity. Sustainable outcomes emerge from structured pluralism, not imposed consensus.
Neutrality as architecture
The engine has no opinion. TACITUS structures a dispute — it does not adjudicate it, and it does not pretend to make peace.
Agency over automation
AI carries structural weight. Humans decide. The graph provides structure; professionals provide judgment.
Privacy as sovereignty
Conflict data is among the most sensitive data any institution holds. Security by design, not by afterthought.
WHAT WE ARE BUILDING
Making conflict legible. A neurosymbolic engine and five products built on one open ontology.
Open source
Three MIT-licensed repos: the pipeline, the Dialectica engine, the ontology. Forkable today.
Open sourceResearch
Vision white paper, TCGC benchmark, working notes. Research-driven, building in public.
Read the researchProduct suite
Five experimental products reading the same conflict graph. Conflict Compass is the demo.
See the productsOPEN-SOURCE COMMITMENTS
- TACITUS-Knowledge-Pipeline-open
TACITUS Knowledge Pipeline
The reference pipeline: ingest, extract, structure, query. MIT-licensed.
- A2_DIALECTICAbyTACITUS
Dialectica (A2)
Reference implementation of Dialectica engine components.
- tacitus-ontology
TACITUS Ontology (ACO)
The Agentic Conflict Ontology. Pydantic + OWL/Turtle dual export.
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