Intelligence Classification System
Every event. Instantly understood.
Krataxis applies a structured, five-dimension classification code to every intelligence event the moment it enters the platform — automatically, consistently, and without analyst intervention. The result is a common operating picture where any team member, at any level, can assess the nature, severity, and operational relevance of an event at a glance.
01 — Symbology
The Five-Dimension Event Symbology Code
Every confirmed event and intelligence item in Krataxis is assigned a compact five-character code that encodes the most operationally significant dimensions of the event in a single, scannable identifier. Inspired by established military symbology standards, the Krataxis code is purpose-built for the speed and ambiguity of modern open-source intelligence — where events are contested, actors are opaque, and clarity is a competitive advantage.
Code Structure
Actor
The Actor dimension identifies which state, coalition, or non-state entity is assessed to be responsible for — or a primary participant in — the event. Krataxis maintains a continuously refined actor registry for every Battlespace, meaning the classification system draws on accumulated pattern-of-life data and historical behaviour, not a generic static list. When actor attribution is ambiguous or contested, the code reflects that uncertainty explicitly rather than assigning a false confidence.
Event Type
The Event dimension classifies the primary type of kinetic or non-kinetic action that occurred. This classification drives the icon rendered on the Battlespace map, ensuring that strike events, explosive incidents, and direct engagements are visually distinguished at scale — critical when an analyst is scanning hundreds of simultaneous events across a wide area of operations. The classification is derived from multi-layer semantic analysis of the full event record, not a single keyword match.
Domain
The Domain dimension identifies the primary operational environment in which the event took place or the primary asset class involved. Domain classification is essential for multi-domain situational awareness — decision-makers and planners working across air, maritime, and ground operations need to filter and route intelligence quickly, and a domain-coded event record eliminates the need to read the full item description before making that determination.
Target
The Target dimension specifies the category of the physical asset, installation, or type of structure that was the subject of the event. This dimension is particularly valuable for infrastructure threat analysis, force protection assessments, and pattern-of-life tracking — enabling teams to monitor whether a particular asset class is being systematically targeted across a theatre, and to identify shifts in adversary targeting priorities before they become strategically significant.
Status
The Status dimension records the assessed current state of the event or target — the outcome that matters to the decision-maker. A confirmed destruction is operationally different from a reported strike with unresolved damage, and the Krataxis code makes that distinction explicit and searchable. Status coding also drives the platform's source reliability weighting: events with well-documented outcomes from high-credibility sources receive stronger confirmation weightings than unverified initial reports.
02 — Source Confidence
NATO-Aligned Source Reliability Rating
Before a classification code is generated, every intelligence item undergoes automated source evaluation. Krataxis assesses the provenance of each event against a tiered credibility framework aligned with NATO admiralty rating conventions — producing a two-character reliability indicator that travels with the event record throughout its lifecycle in the platform.
This matters because the intelligence value of a confirmed satellite observation is not the same as an unverified social media post — even if both describe the same event. The Krataxis confidence score makes that distinction immediately visible, so analysts can prioritise high-confidence items and appropriately caveat lower-confidence assessments in their reporting without manually evaluating each source.
As analysts confirm and refute events over time, source reliability ratings are continuously refined — creating a compounding institutional memory that makes the platform more accurate and discriminating the longer it is in operation.
Confidence Tiers
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High Confidence
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Medium Confidence
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Low Confidence
The confidence rating is displayed alongside the classification code on every event record, every map icon tooltip, and every analyst report — ensuring that source quality context is never separated from the intelligence itself.
03 — Semantic Categorisation
Deep Semantic Event Categorisation
Generating a classification code is not a simple keyword lookup. Krataxis subjects every incoming event record to a multi-layer semantic analysis pipeline that evaluates the full intelligence text against a comprehensive library of operationally significant categories — covering the complete spectrum of conflict activity, from kinetic strikes and drone engagements to infrastructure targeting and force disposition.
Conflict Event Categories
Air-delivered munitions, missiles, and artillery fire events
FPV, loitering munitions, and unmanned aerial system engagements
Post-strike damage assessment — structural collapse, scarring, craters
Fires, smoke, and secondary explosions following a strike or engagement
Interceptor engagements, downed assets, and debris field events
Direct fire clashes, troop contact, and small-arms engagements
Points of Interest & Asset Categories
Bases, command posts, garrisons, training facilities, and headquarters
Bunkers, weapons caches, tunnel networks, and hardened missile sites
Warships, submarines, auxiliary vessels, ports, and naval aviation facilities
Airbases, aircraft, hangars, runways, and air defence platforms
Main battle tanks, APCs, IFVs, and engineering vehicles
SAM systems, early warning radar, anti-aircraft batteries, and radomes
Refineries, power stations, logistics nodes, bridges, and transport corridors
Multi-category resolution. A single event can and frequently does trigger multiple categories simultaneously — a strike on a naval base, for example, is both a kinetic event and a military installation point of interest. Krataxis resolves the full set of matched categories before deriving the final symbology code, ensuring that multi-dimensional events are correctly represented rather than arbitrarily collapsed to a single dimension.
04 — Map Iconography
Classification-Driven Map Icons
The classification code is not just a database attribute — it is the direct input to the Krataxis map icon renderer. Every dimension of the code maps to a corresponding visual property of the icon displayed on the 3D Battlespace globe, so that the full intelligence picture encoded in the five-character code is immediately readable from the map without opening a single detail panel.
When a Battlespace contains hundreds or thousands of events — a scale that is routine in active conflict monitoring — the ability to discriminate at a glance between a confirmed airstrike on critical infrastructure and an unverified ground engagement at a minor checkpoint is not a quality-of-life convenience. It is an operational necessity.
The icon system is consistently applied across every data source that feeds the Battlespace, regardless of origin — ensuring that an analyst working across a diverse intelligence picture sees a single, coherent visual language rather than a patchwork of incompatible symbol sets from different source formats.
Icon Visual Properties
Encodes the primary event type — distinct geometry per action class
Encodes actor attribution — immediate force identification at map scale
Encodes status — solid for confirmed, hatched or faded for unverified
Scales with assessed severity — higher-severity events are more prominent
Active or developing events animate to draw analyst attention
At zoomed-out scales, events group with a count badge — colour reflects the highest-severity event in the cluster
05 — Operational Value
What standardised classification delivers operationally.
Structured classification is not an analytical luxury. For organisations managing live intelligence across contested environments — whether in defence, government, critical infrastructure protection, or crisis response — standardised, machine-generated classification is the foundation that makes scale possible.
Immediate Situational Awareness
Analysts joining a Battlespace mid-operation do not need to read through raw reports to understand what has happened. The classification and icon system delivers a complete operational picture at first glance — reducing onboarding time from hours to minutes.
Consistent Cross-Team Interpretation
When every event carries the same structured classification regardless of source or analyst, different teams — tactical, strategic, legal, communications — work from a shared understanding. There is no ambiguity about whether two teams are interpreting the same event the same way.
Scalable Filtering and Prioritisation
Classification codes are fully filterable. A team focused exclusively on air domain threats, or on events affecting civil infrastructure, or on events attributed to a specific actor, can isolate exactly that subset of the intelligence picture in seconds — without manual tagging or analyst annotation.
Defensible Reporting
Every classification decision is traceable to the underlying confidence scoring and semantic analysis that generated it. When analysts produce reports or assessments based on Krataxis-classified events, the evidentiary chain — from raw intelligence to classification to conclusion — is preserved and auditable.
Pattern and Trend Detection
Consistent classification across time enables pattern analysis that would be impossible with inconsistently tagged data. Increases in a particular event category, shifts in domain or target type, changes in actor attribution rates — these signals emerge clearly when the underlying data is structured and uniformly coded.
Reduced Cognitive Load at Sustained Tempo
During high-tempo operations, analyst cognitive load is a genuine operational risk. Classification that is automatic, consistent, and visually encoded reduces the number of decisions an analyst needs to make per event — preserving capacity for the higher-order judgements that only a trained human can make.
Worked Example
From raw intelligence to classified event — in seconds.
The following illustrates how Krataxis processes a single incoming intelligence item through the full classification pipeline automatically, without any analyst intervention.
Raw Input
Classification Output
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