Knowledge belongs in your hands.

We started Ghost Citadel to redefine process intelligence and put detailed knowledge of how work happens in everyone’s hands, for free.

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01 / The company

Understanding your own processes should not be a privilege.

Your organisation did the work. Your systems recorded it. You should be able to understand it. Ghost Observatory lets you inspect the process, question the finding and examine the calculation behind it. Understanding your own operation should not depend on paying a vendor to interpret your records.

Ghost Observatory turns process records into findings you can inspect. Its calculations and methodology build on peer-reviewed academic work in process analysis, statistics and formal methods. You should be able to question the method as well as the result.

Our background in cybersecurity and large financial institutions taught us to question what a system accepts as true. Ghost Observatory gives each calculation one authoritative definition. If the records cannot support a result, it stays unknown, with a stated reason. Invalid records are identified and excluded. Missing information does not become zero.

A plausible number is not good enough. It has to survive scrutiny.

We build games to push GPUs on modest hardware and find ways around their limits. Rendering, memory and responsiveness have to earn their place in every frame. That pursuit carries into Ghost Observatory, which we run on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 16 GB of RAM. We would rather push the software than tell you to buy another machine.

We want organisations to own the knowledge and capabilities they depend on. When they can see where work stalls, what wastes capacity and which systems hold them back, they can challenge the assumption that outsourcing is inevitable. An End to Outsourcing is the wider argument. This is how we are building toward it.

02 / See the work

What you can try today.

Ghost Observatory and five games are coming soon. You can explore a complete synthetic Observatory result, view actual Reader captures and play Rally Protocol today.

Inspect the work and the company.

Inspect the sample. Read the methods. Check who stands behind the work.