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Who we are
AI tools, grounded in political analysis.
TACITUS is an independent venture by Giulio Catanzariti, building AI tools for political and policy analysis. PRAXIS is our primary product; structured context and portable graphs are the foundation. The software remains experimental. No TACITUS legal entity has been incorporated.
The name connects tacit knowledge, the judgment people develop through experience, with Tacitus, the historian of power and political life. Both speak to the problem we work on: understanding what a record says and what it leaves unsaid.
Start with the next consultancy brief.
A research director loses an analyst, a source changes before deadline or an editor repeats the same correction. That recurring job motivates the current product path: PRAXIS first, then inspectable local reuse and a proposed curated collection. This is an intended buyer and adoption test, not a claim of customers or commercial traction.
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The starting point was the work of understanding conflict.
Giulio’s background is in diplomacy, multilateral affairs and political analysis for institutional decision-makers — governments, organisations, practitioners. The frameworks that worked lived in working documents, conversations, and experience. Much of that knowledge was difficult to pass on, even to another analyst working on the same problem.
Language models made it easier to ask questions across large amounts of text. They also made a familiar problem harder to ignore: a persuasive summary can hide a missing source, a disputed account, or an assumption the next analyst needs to see.
TACITUS grew from that problem: keep sources, claims, timelines and review decisions connected. Policy analysis is the starting point. The same foundation can support regulatory work, research and geopolitical risk.
The product path is focused: make PRAXIS useful to a policy analyst, then make its context easier to carry between tasks and tools. Context Capsules define the package; DIALECTICA develops the ingestion, graph and review tooling.
Principles
The principles behind the work.
01The relationships matter.
Good analysis depends on relationships, sequence, incentives, and evidence. We want those distinctions to remain visible in the tools people use.
02Good prose still needs evidence.
A fluent answer can conceal missing evidence or a mistaken inference. Source references and explicit structure help a reviewer find the gaps.
03Useful work, supported by sound foundations.
PRAXIS is where the research meets a practical task. Open schemas, structured context, and evaluation support the experience.
04Preserve meaningful disagreement.
A useful analysis can hold competing accounts side by side. It should show where evidence differs and where values or interests remain in conflict.
05We do not automate judgement.
We make the structure behind judgement visible. Humans still decide. Sources, assumptions, and uncertainty stay open to review.
Founder
A project shaped by analytical practice.
Founder & CEO · TACITUS
New York City
Graduate training in international affairs and public policy. Nearly a decade analyzing conflict for institutional decision-makers. Founding editor of Concordia Discors — the magazine where we think in public about pluralism, disagreement, and the structure behind it.
- Baroque music, amateur pianist
- Private pilot
- Writes on conflict & pluralism
- Direct contact with the founder
The TACITUS Network
We are building this with two kinds of people.
Practitioners who know what conflict actually looks like, and engineers who can give that knowledge a typed, queryable, machine-readable spine. Both, not either.
If your work starts in a room and ends with a document — join us.
Policy and governance professionals, political analysts, mediators and arbitrators, domain experts in law, diplomacy and HR, human-friction specialists inside organisations. Bring your framework. We will make it machine-readable without flattening it.
Write as a practitionerIf your work starts in a codebase and ends with a deployment — join us.
Neurosymbolic and ML engineers, knowledge-graph engineers (Neo4j, RDF, LPG), ontology and schema engineers, data and platform engineers, full-stack product engineers (Next.js, Python). Infrastructure first, interface second. Real problem space. Open where it matters.
Write as an engineerWriting in public
Concordia Discors — harmony in discord.
Essays on pluralism, disagreement, and the choices people make when their interests collide. The magazine is a place to develop and question the ideas that inform TACITUS.
Read the magazine“It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.”
— Tacitus, Histories I.1
Join us
Bring your experience to the work.
We welcome people who understand the analytical problem and people who can help build the tools. Tell us about a workflow that needs improvement, a research question worth testing, or an engineering problem you would like to work on.