Alkiviades¶
An agentic AI consultant for strategic communications, political campaigns, and marketing. Ask a question — Alkiviades grounds its answer in a curated knowledge base, consults current news, and modulates every response along three ideological axes you control.
Start using it at alkiviades.cc — no registration required for guest access.
What It Is¶
Alkiviades is a chat-based strategic advisor. It combines:
- A curated knowledge base — 2,461 document chunks covering political documents and strategic communications theory, in Greek and English.
- Real-time web intelligence — agentic search over a vetted set of Greek and international news sources, with results cached and cited.
- Three-axis modulation — every response is shaped by your settings on three continuous axes: ethical, economic alignment, and social freedom.
- Session reports — a three-phase pipeline (gap analysis → research → synthesis) turns any conversation into a structured report.
How It Works, in One Line¶
Question → Retrieval (knowledge base) → Web search (as needed) → LLM with tools → Axis-modulated answer, with source citations
The agent works in a tool-calling loop: it retrieves relevant passages from the knowledge base, may call web search for current events, and composes a response grounded in the retrieved material. Every claim that comes from the knowledge base or the web is cited inline.
The Three Axes¶
| Axis | -1 |
1 |
|---|---|---|
| Ethical | No ethical restraint | Absolute ethical adherence |
| Alignment (economic) | Right / capitalist | Left / socialist |
| Social freedom | Authoritarian | Libertarian |
Each axis snaps to 7 discrete positions and is configurable per session, in real time, from the sidebar.
Capabilities at a Glance¶
| Capability | Description |
|---|---|
| Grounded answers | Responses cite the exact documents and web sources they draw from |
| Current events | Agentic web search for what is happening right now |
| Strategic reports | Synthesize any conversation into a structured markdown report |
| Session history | Conversations persist and can be revisited, renamed, or deleted |
| Greek and English | The knowledge base and conversation both work across both languages |
Documentation¶
| Document | Content |
|---|---|
| User Guide | Using the chat interface, axes, commands, and reports |
| Architecture | System components, data flow, and security model |
| AI Pipeline | How retrieval, the tool loop, and streaming work end to end |