The Logos Project
Studying the intersection of language and action, discourse and reality.
The Mission
The Logos Project builds platforms that track the flow of discourse across domains where language shapes outcomes. We strive to maintain a comprehensive view of these domains so that we can study the ways in which the language can be traced to concrete outcomes, measured in business, politics, legislation and beyond.
Methodology
We implement the W3C PROV-DM standard — a formal model for describing the provenance of digital artifacts. Every piece of information in Logos carries its complete lineage.
The PROV Model
PROV-DM provides a standardized way to represent the history of data. In Logos, every document, extracted claim, and derived insight is linked through a directed graph that answers: Where did this come from? How was it transformed? Who is responsible?
- •Entities — Data objects at any stage: source documents, extracted claims, entity mentions, computed analyses, and final reports.
- •Activities — Transformations that create or modify entities: document ingestion, NLP extraction, entity resolution, claim verification, and summarization.
- •Agents — The actors responsible: original publishers, news organizations, automated pipelines, LLM processors, and human reviewers.
This creates a complete accountability graph. When Logos reports “Organization X made Claim Y on Date Z,” you can trace that assertion through every extraction and transformation step, back to the original publication — with full transparency into the methods used.
Why Provenance Matters
Any authority of the claims of the Logos Project fall through directly to the source material of the claims combined with the logical validity of the ways that we handle the information presented in that material. The PROV model is the most rigorous model we could find that combines both source attribution and chain of custody.
- •Combating Misinformation — When tracking false narratives, you need to prove the chain of evidence. Who said what, when, and where did they get it?
- •Research Integrity — Academic and policy research requires citations. Logos maintains source attribution at every step of extraction and transformation.
- •Reproducibility — Any claim in Logos can be traced back to its original source, through every processing step.
- •Audit Trails — When information influences decisions, stakeholders need to verify the path from raw data to insight.
Current Focus Areas
We are currently actively tracking information across these domains:
Energy & Climate Intelligence
Monitoring the global conversation around renewable energy — tracking political, economic, and social dynamics as the world navigates the energy transition. Producing actionable information for the renewable energy initiatives.
Misinformation Watch
Identifying misleading information that operates through psychological manipulation or fallacious reasoning — then disarming those techniques. We deconstruct the rhetoric to reveal the logical gaps, presenting claims in a way that clearly exposes their lack of cogency.
Think of it as inoculation: just as an inert virus builds immunity to the live one, exposure to deconstructed misinformation builds resistance to the real thing.
Science-to-Policy Translation
Deep analysis of how scientific testimony translates to legislative action. Understanding what makes expert communication effective — and what gets lost in politics.
About the project
The ancient Greeks understood λόγος as the principle of reason and order underlying reality — the rational structure behind existence. Since ancient times, humans have dramatically increased our impact on reality. We now have the ability to track the discourse surrounding these impacts at scale. We study logos in a modern context, tracking how language, properly deployed, becomes action and shapes the world.
Capabilities
The Logos Project utilizes a variety of cloud services and a private datacenter, allowing us to handle both public and private datasets. We are not equipped to handle sensitive or classified information at this time.