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Context & Chaos

Where context meets the chaos of building with AI

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ISSUE # 003

Conceptual Modeling Is the Context Engineering Nobody Is Doing

  • LLMs make context obligatory — models have a general grasp of how things work, but can't bridge to an organization's specific idiosyncrasies without explicit, governed semantic context.
  • The root cause of most enterprise AI context failures is the absence of a knowledge plane: a cross-platform, technology-agnostic layer that encodes semantic meaning independent of technical data objects.
  • Conceptual modeling — a discipline the industry abandoned in the Big Data era — provides a proven, incremental path to building that knowledge plane without a massive multi-year documentation effort.
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Vivek Dubey

Vivek Dubey

Data & AI Leader

Prukalpa Sankar

Prukalpa Sankar

Co-founder, Atlan

Tathagata Das Sarma

Tathagata Das Sarma

Data Leader

Charlotte Ledoux

Charlotte Ledoux

Data Governance Expert

Manoj Shanmugasundaram

Manoj Shanmugasundaram

Data Engineering Leader

Vince Dacany

Vince Dacany

CTO

Gaurav Ramesh

Gaurav Ramesh

Director of Engineering

Jessica Talisman

Jessica Talisman

Ontology Expert

Marc Dupuis

Marc Dupuis

CTO & Cofounder

Mahdi Karabiben

Mahdi Karabiben

Sr. Product Manager (Data & AI)

Sandipan Bhaumik

Sandipan Bhaumik

Tech Leader - Data & AI

Juha Korpela

Juha Korpela

Co-founder & Data Modeling Expert

Vivek Dubey

Vivek Dubey

Data & AI Leader

Prukalpa Sankar

Prukalpa Sankar

Co-founder, Atlan

Tathagata Das Sarma

Tathagata Das Sarma

Data Leader

Charlotte Ledoux

Charlotte Ledoux

Data Governance Expert

Manoj Shanmugasundaram

Manoj Shanmugasundaram

Data Engineering Leader

Vince Dacany

Vince Dacany

CTO

Gaurav Ramesh

Gaurav Ramesh

Director of Engineering

Jessica Talisman

Jessica Talisman

Ontology Expert

Marc Dupuis

Marc Dupuis

CTO & Cofounder

Mahdi Karabiben

Mahdi Karabiben

Sr. Product Manager (Data & AI)

Sandipan Bhaumik

Sandipan Bhaumik

Tech Leader - Data & AI

Juha Korpela

Juha Korpela

Co-founder & Data Modeling Expert

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