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Practice · Data AI/ML

Turn years of data into a moat.

A governed data platform and models fitted to your business, with every answer traced to data you trust.

Why now

One definition of every number, shared by finance, risk, the data team and every agent.

Finance, risk and the data team each bring a different number to the board. Now AI is meant to sit on top of it.

One wordCustomer

  • Finance

    An account we billed this quarter

  • Risk

    A legal entity we carry exposure to

  • Data team

    A unique ID in the CRM

Three definitions, three numbers. Put AI on top, and it repeats the disagreement.

How the semantic layer fixes it
Capabilities

From raw data to trusted answers.

Six disciplines, from the first data decision to the evidence your risk team reads.

  1. Data strategy

    Put data to work on the lines you report.

  2. Data platforms and governance

    Make every number traceable.

    Read Governance by design
  3. Data confidence and AI readiness

    Know your data is fit before AI depends on it.

  4. Data ontology and semantic layer

    Give people, reports and agents one language.

    See the semantic layer
  5. Machine learning, fine-tuning and model garden

    Fit the model to your business, and prove it.

  6. AI evaluation and assurance

    Show the evidence before anyone asks.

    Knowing the limits
Under the hood

Data your agents can trust.

Trust in AI-powered analytics starts with the data platform underneath it.

Can we trust agents?

People trust dashboards because the data under them went through engineering rigor and a governance strategy. Agents need more: the same foundation, with the semantic layer on top.

  1. Agents
  2. Dashboards
  3. Semantic layer
  4. Data products
  5. Modeling
  6. Ingestion
  7. Sources

Governance

  • Stewardship
  • Data lineage
  • Metadata management
  • Access control
  • Data security
  • Data profiling
  • Data quality

Engineering practice

  • Version control
  • CI/CD
  • Observability
  • Automated testing
  • Orchestration
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Modularity and reuse
  • The rigor runs all the way up to the dashboards.
  • Agents read through the semantic layer, not around it.

The semantic layer: one source of truth

Business logic, metric definitions and data relationships are defined once by your data team. Every agent reads the same definitions.

Defined once

Semantic layer

  • Assistant agents
  • BI agents
  • Data agents
  • Custom agents

Data access

  • Natural language to SQL
  • Extra burden of authored context for every question

Semantic accessRecommended

  • Natural language to the semantic model
  • Builds on the rigor already in your semantic model
The data moves

Four data moves, from assessment to AI-ready.

Where your data sits today decides the first step.

Where the data work goes, stage by stage

  1. Build the foundation

    Assess the data

    Current data maturity, structure and model.

  2. Migrate to the cloud

    Migrate and stream

    Historical data migrated, real-time streaming set up.

  3. Modernize for scale

    Modernize the sources

    Authoritative sources modernized, with compatibility layers for legacy tools.

  4. Prepare for AI

    Consolidate for AI

    Data consolidated across the enterprise into a shared ontology.

Honest about AI

Know where AI answers belong.

An analyst checking a printed chart against the numbers on her laptop

Knowing the limits

Natural-language analytics is strong for some decisions and wrong for others. We say which, up front.

  • Suitable for directional decisions

    Spotting which campaigns to back, reading trends like quarter over quarter, and understanding why.

  • Not suitable for critical decisions

    Avoid using it for precise financial reporting, such as SEC filings.

  • Evolving technology

    Answers can sound right and still be wrong, so we check them against governed data before anyone acts on them.

Meet our leaders

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