Political Strategy
Knowledge Engine
A local-first decision intelligence platform. Retrieve relevant doctrine from a curated corpus of political strategy literature, generate structured options, and synthesise actionable recommendations with multi-model reasoning.
Corpus at a glance
How it works
Every query flows through a seven-stage pipeline that combines local retrieval, live intelligence, and frontier model synthesis.
Ingest
Scenario brief arrives via web UI or Telegram with structured context fields.
Embed
Query is embedded locally (qwen2.5:3b) and matched against the corpus via cosine similarity.
Retrieve
Top-k chunks expanded to top-60, then reranked to a final source pack of 12 high-relevance passages.
Generate
Local model (qwen2.5:14b) produces structured strategic options from the source pack.
Contextualise
GDELT live-context adapter injects real-time geopolitical event signals for timing and narrative framing.
Synthesise
Anthropic Sonnet synthesises a final recommendation with tradeoffs, projections, and first-7-days plan.
Deliver
Full strategy output rendered as interactive HTML with posture map, options breakdown, and feedback capture.
Strategic schools covered
The corpus spans nine schools of strategic thought across 441 books. Coverage is broad — from foundational political philosophy through geopolitical realism, behavioural economics, media strategy, and grassroots movement building.
Strategic modes
Each scenario runs under one of five strategic modes that shape the doctrine blend and reasoning frame.
Campaign
Electoral campaigns, candidate positioning, voter targeting, and momentum building.
Movement
Coalition building, grassroots mobilisation, narrative framing, and collective action.
Crisis
Rapid response, damage containment, stakeholder management, and recovery planning.
Negotiation
Power dynamics, leverage assessment, concession strategies, and deal structuring.
Fundraising
Donor cultivation, ask strategies, event design, and financial sustainability.
Source trust model
Every source carries provenance metadata. Only trusted sources enter retrieval.
| Level | Description | Used in retrieval |
|---|---|---|
| Canonical | Foundational works — Machiavelli, Clausewitz, Kissinger | Yes |
| Acceptable | Strong secondary works — Greene, Kahneman, Acemoglu | Yes |
| Reviewed | Verified — core canonical text | Yes |
Strategic tension controls
Four sliders shape the strategic posture of every recommendation. These aren't cosmetic — they directly weight which doctrine is prioritised and how tradeoffs are framed.
Trade decisiveness against risk analysis depth.
Broad alliances versus ideological coherence.
Staying on message versus adapting to events.
Working within systems versus applying external pressure.