Socrates

Putting clarity into critical thinking

SocratesTM is a collaboration platform for structuring complex arguments and decisions. Originally developed for safety and cybersecurity assurance, this platform can also be used for collaborative decision-making by professionals in business, government, healthcare and scientific research.

A complex argument or decision can be structured into multiple levels of increasing detail, tracing from a top-level claim or decision to supporting evidence and justification. Using SocratesTM, geographically distributed teams can navigate through complexities to converge on a common understanding.

You control your data

We understand that assurance cases contain sensitive information. Socrates can be deployed within the IT infrastructure of your organization, so your data remains entirely under your control. We also provide a web-based option.

Built by engineers for engineers

At Critical Systems Labs, systems assurance is in our DNA. We have extensive experience working on critical systems across domains. We have built Socrates to bring our knowledge and experience into your organization.

System assurance is a team sport

In complex systems of systems, one person cannot fully understand all aspects of assurance. We have designed Socrates from the ground up to be a collaborative tool so everyone on your team can contribute to your assurance case, anytime and from anywhere.

State of the art

Socrates supports state-of-the-art assurance case techniques and notations, including Goal Structured Notation (GSN) and Eliminative Argumentation (EA). Socrates provides multiple views of your assurance case, so you can focus on systems assurance instead of getting caught up in notational details.