Systems

The engines of the practice

Civitas Systems runs on a small set of engines around one core discipline — provenance. Two are public and live on this site; one is being built; more are in the shop and will appear here when they're far enough along to describe honestly.

Other engines are in the shop. The rule here is the same as everywhere on this site: nothing is described before it can be described honestly. Two of them — Panthalassa, the practice’s AI lab, and Tethys, the system-dynamics engine — now have first public notes; the rest will appear when they're ready.

The whole thing, as a graph

How it all connects

The practice is itself a system — engines, domains, capabilities, and projects held together by provenance. The systems map draws it live, as a force-directed graph you can explore; the Atlas pages on it open on click.

Status lines on this page last reviewed: July 2026.