Welcome to Krataxis
Krataxis is a geospatial intelligence fusion platform. It aggregates streams of verified open-source reporting — news, broadcast and wire material, conflict-event data, humanitarian and environmental feeds, and geolocated observation — and helps analysts turn that raw, contradictory signal into defensible ground truth: corroborated, credibility-weighted intelligence you can put your name to.
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 health-event tracking. You don't need to read it in order — start with the article that matches what you're trying to do.
What problem it solves
In any contested situation, the hard part isn't finding information — it's that there's too much of it, and none of it arrives with a reliable signal of how much to trust it. Three reports of the same strike might be one event seen by three independent observers, or one press release copied three times. A claim might come from an actor with a track record of accuracy, or from one that habitually exaggerates.
Krataxis exists to resolve that. It does the collection and the first-pass weighting for you, 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 | Verified data 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. The fifth — judgement — is yours, and the platform keeps a full record of every decision so your conclusions stay defensible.
Your first session
A good way to get oriented in ~15 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.
How to use this knowledge base
- Browse by category in the left sidebar; each category opens with an overview.
- Use the search field at the top of the sidebar to jump 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, then jump to the category that matches your first task. The docs are reference material, not a manual to read cover to cover.
Core vocabulary
A handful of terms recur throughout:
| Term | What it means |
|---|---|
| Workbench | The operational domain you're working in — Conflict, Health, or Disaster. It reconfigures the whole interface. |
| Battlespace | A scoped workspace for one situation — a conflict, region, or investigation — that contains 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. |
Don't worry about memorising these; every category explains them in context where they're used.
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.