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The AI Context Stack

Your at-a-glance guide to navigating knowledge graphs, context graphs, ontologies, and semantic layers.

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Everyone has an opinion about context infrastructure.

The question is – what's right for you?

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The Problem

The AI Context Stack Isn't One-Size-Fits-All

AI is turning your data architecture inside out. Meanwhile, the board is asking where the value is. You need to do something fast – but don't know where to start.

Context is the answer to production-ready AI, but how to wrangle it remains unclear. Knowledge graphs, context graphs, ontologies, semantic layers – which is right for you?
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The Solution

Our Approach

Define the problem

AI failed in production. Now what?

Explore the solutions

The 4 types of context infrastructure

Prioritize your needs

Understanding what you're solving for

Make a plan

Get started based on your AI use cases

What to Expect

Who should read this?

CDOs & VPs of Data

Prioritize investments to accelerate your AI roadmap.

AI/ML Product Leaders

Identify the context infrastructure needed to fix AI issues.

Data Platform Architects

Map against your current stack to pinpoint context gaps.

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You'll get:

The 4 types of context infrastructure

The relationships across all 4 types

How each component differs and interacts

How to think about your own infrastructure

Next steps based on your AI use cases

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