Welcome to Krataxis
Krataxis is a geospatial intelligence fusion platform. In plain terms: it pulls in a continuous stream of open-source reporting — news wires, broadcast material, conflict-event data, humanitarian and environmental feeds, geolocated observations — and helps you turn that noisy, contradictory pile into something you can actually stand behind: corroborated, credibility-weighted intelligence with a clear trail showing how you got there.
This knowledge base is your companion as you learn the workstation. It runs from your first sign-in through advanced workflows like reporting, investigations, and outbreak tracking. You don't need to read it cover to cover — start with the article that matches what you're trying to do, and follow the links from there.
The problem it solves
When you are tracking a global crisis, the hard part isn't finding information. The hard part is that there's far too much of it, and none of it arrives with a label telling you how much to trust it.
Think about what happens when a strike is reported. Three reports of the same strike might be one event witnessed by three independent observers — strong corroboration. Or they might be one press release copied three times — no corroboration at all, just an echo. A claim might come from an actor with a solid track record, or from one that habitually exaggerates. Sorting genuine signal from repetition and spin is slow, careful work, and doing it by hand for hundreds of items a day simply doesn't scale.
It's the same problem an auditor faces: a company's own statement that it paid an invoice is one thing; the matching bank transfer is another. You want both before you sign off. Krataxis does that receipt-matching for you, continuously, across everything that comes in — so the time you spend is spent on judgement: deciding what is confirmed, what it means, and what to do about it.
The mental model
Almost everything in the platform follows the same five-stage arc. Hold this in your head and the rest of the interface makes sense:
| Stage | What happens | Who does it |
|---|---|---|
| Collect | Reporting is aggregated from trusted sources in near real-time and reconciled into one stream. | Automatic |
| Weight | Every item is scored for credibility across several independent factors. | Automatic |
| Assign | Items are resolved to the actors involved and routed to the battlespaces they're relevant to. | Automatic |
| Correlate | Related items are linked across space, time, actor, and topic. | Automatic, you confirm |
| Conclude | You escalate what matters into confirmed events and brief from the result. | You |
The first four stages run on their own, around the clock. The fifth — judgement — is yours, and the platform keeps a full record of every decision so your conclusions stay defensible. If a conclusion is ever challenged, you can walk back through exactly which items supported it and how they were weighted.
Notice the shape of that pipeline: it's a funnel. A wide mouth taking in everything, progressively narrowing as items are scored, routed, and linked, ending at the narrow spout where a human decides. Most of this documentation is really just explaining one part of that funnel or another.
The pieces you'll meet
A handful of terms recur throughout the platform. Don't memorise them now — every category explains them properly in context — but here's the cast of characters so nothing surprises you:
| Term | What it means |
|---|---|
| Workbench | The operational domain you're working in — Conflict, Health, or Disaster. Switching it reconfigures the whole interface. |
| Battlespace | A scoped workspace for one situation — a conflict, region, or investigation — containing the relevant intel, actors, events, and reports. |
| Intel item | A single piece of source material: a report, article, post, image, or geolocated observation. |
| Actor | A person, unit, organisation, or asset tracked across many intel items over time. |
| Event | A confirmed occurrence with a time and place, usually built from several corroborating intel items. |
| Credibility / validity | The weight the platform assigns an item or source, derived from several factors and refined by your decisions. |
| Module | A reusable analytics block — network graph, hotspot map, timeline — you drop onto a dashboard or into a report. |
The same concepts carry across domains. A Battlespace in the Conflict workbench works exactly the same way as an Outbreak in the Health workbench — one is a container for a security situation, the other for an epidemiological one, but the machinery underneath is identical. Once you've learned an idea in one workbench, you've learned it everywhere.
Your first session
A good way to get oriented in about fifteen minutes:
- Read this article, then A Tour of the Workstation to learn the layout.
- Open a battlespace (or create one) so the firehose narrows to a single situation — see Battlespaces.
- Watch the intel feed land scored items, and open one to see how its credibility was derived — see Credibility & Validity.
- Escalate a corroborated item to a confirmed event and find it on the map.
That loop — focus, read, decide, escalate — is the heart of daily work. Everything else in the platform is elaboration on it.
How to use this knowledge base
- Browse by category in the left sidebar; each category opens with an overview article.
- Use the search field at the top of the sidebar to jump straight to a topic.
- Inside the app, click the ? button in the bottom-right corner to open the help panel — it searches this same content without leaving your work, and often pre-seeds a query relevant to the panel you have open.
New here? Read this article, then jump to the category that matches your first task. The docs are reference material, not a manual to read in order.
Where to next
- Creating an Account & Signing In — getting in and staying in.
- A Tour of the Workstation — the layout, named region by region.
- Choosing a Workbench — pick the right operational domain first.