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begin with better meaning.

Understand where ontology can help your organisation—and what evidence to demand before you invest. Explore practical guidance, reference architectures and the delivery methods behind our services.

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THE BUYER’S QUESTION

“Will this help us make a better decision?”

Start with a workflow. Connect the necessary meaning. Evaluate the result.

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Decision guidesExpert deliveryTechnical papersEvidence of capability
Featured perspective

From disconnected data
to a decision you can explain.

Read this first if you are deciding whether to fund an ontology or knowledge graph initiative.

SDS / BUSINESS PERSPECTIVEWHAT DOES
YOUR DATA
MEAN?
Ontology · Evidence · Enterprise AI
For data leaders, architects & business sponsors

Why enterprise ontology matters to business decisions

How shared definitions, connected relationships and source evidence can support decisions about suppliers, financial exposure and internal operations.

  • When ontology is worth investigating
  • What it can—and cannot—establish
  • How to define a practical investment decision
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How SDS approaches delivery

Expertise made visible
in the work you receive.

Ontology delivery combines domain understanding, formal modelling, engineering and evaluation. The engagement scope establishes responsibilities and deliverables.

01 / DOMAIN & ONTOLOGY

Translate the business question

Ontology specialists work with your domain reviewers to clarify terminology, decisions, identities and relationships.

What you inspect
  • Competency questions and definitions
  • Domain model and modelling assumptions
  • Standards-reuse decisions
02 / GRAPH & INTEGRATION

Connect the source evidence

Graph and data engineering turns agreed concepts into mappings, linked entities and queryable relationships.

What you inspect
  • Source mappings and identity rules
  • Provenance and example queries
  • Validation findings and exceptions
03 / AI & EVALUATION

Test the workflow

AI and evaluation work connects retrieval to the business question and compares the proposed approach with a baseline.

What you inspect
  • Evaluation set and scoring criteria
  • Supported answers and failure cases
  • Cost, latency and access tradeoffs
04 / GOVERNANCE & HANDOVER

Establish lasting ownership

Governance and enablement define who changes the model, how it is released and what your team needs to maintain it.

What you inspect
  • Ownership and change workflow
  • Documentation and handover plan
  • Production-readiness recommendations
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Selected service engagements

Experience behind
the service approach.

Service engagements include SWARMCARE, PARA GROUP LLC and Bessemer Trust. Discuss the experience relevant to your requirements with SDS.

SWARMCARE
PARA GROUP LLC
Bessemer Trust

Organisation names identify service experience and do not imply endorsement. Project scope and any shareable references can be discussed during discovery.

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Evidence of capability

Judge the thinking.
Inspect the approach.

Explore the public work behind SDS’s service approach. Demonstrations and reference patterns are distinct from customer results.

Interactive demonstration

Follow an evidence path

Inspect a synthetic example of how business concepts connect source information to an AI question.

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Engineering patterns

Review the delivery logic

Explore reference patterns for entity identity, research retrieval and cyber-to-business dependencies.

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Standards-aware approach

Understand the foundations

Inspect how open standards can inform modelling, validation and provenance. Referencing a standard does not imply certification or endorsement.

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Research agenda

Research questions behind
practical enterprise decisions.

Each research track connects a difficult enterprise question to an implementable ontology, graph or validation pattern.

R·01
⌁

Temporal Market Knowledge

Point-in-time identity, event time, observation time, lineage and versioned relationships for stocks, ETFs and portfolios.

  • Temporal subgraph retrieval
  • Corporate-event propagation
  • Reproducible signal evidence
R·02
◎

Ontology-Grounded GraphRAG

Hybrid graph and vector retrieval in which governed concepts guide extraction, traversal, ranking and explanation.

  • Domain-tuned extraction
  • Competency-question evaluation
  • Evidence-aware responses
R·03
◇

Cyber-Financial Reasoning

Connecting threat intelligence and technology dependencies to instruments, data products, decisions and regulatory impact.

  • STIX/UCO mappings
  • Business-impact paths
  • Control and resilience semantics
R·04
✓

Executable Semantic Governance

Converting data-quality, policy, access and model-risk requirements into portable graph constraints and rules.

  • SHACL validation modules
  • Rule provenance
  • Agent action guardrails
Technical paper library

Architecture translated into
reusable engineering knowledge.

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SDS / TECHNICAL PAPER 01ONTOLOGY
AS THE
AI BRAIN
Financial Intelligence Architecture
Financial Ontology · 12 min

Ontology as the Semantic Brain for Financial AI

A governed context architecture for models, GraphRAG and enterprise agents.

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SDS / RESEARCH NOTE 02TEMPORAL
MARKET
GRAPHS
Stocks · ETFs · Events · Signals
Market Intelligence · 9 min

Temporal Market Knowledge Graphs

Preserving point-in-time truth and evidence for explainable signals.

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SDS / STANDARDS WATCH 03SHACL 1.2
RULES &
GUARDRAILS
Emerging Semantic Standard
Standards Watch · 7 min

From Graph Validation to Executable Rules

What emerging SHACL 1.2 work could mean for governed AI platforms.

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Technology advancement radar

What we adopt, trial
and watch.

Our radar separates production-ready foundations from promising capabilities that require controlled evaluation.

ADOPT

Production foundations

  • RDF / OWLFormal, interoperable enterprise semantics
  • SHACL 1.0Executable graph quality and constraints
  • FIBOShared financial-industry concepts
  • PROV-OLineage and evidence modeling
TRIAL

Controlled implementation

  • Ontology-guided GraphRAGGraph + vector enterprise retrieval
  • Temporal graph featuresTime-aware signal and risk context
  • Semantic agent policiesGraph-constrained tool use
  • FINOS CDM alignmentExecutable transaction lifecycles
WATCH

Emerging standards

  • SHACL 1.2 CoreNext-generation shape semantics
  • SHACL 1.2 RulesRDF-native inferencing and generation
  • UCO evolutionCyber investigation model development
  • Agent interoperabilityPortable semantic context services
Standards observatory

Research grounded in
open, authoritative foundations.

FIBOFinancial meaningEDM Council ↗ FINOS CDMTransaction lifecyclesFINOS ↗ SHACLGraph validationW3C ↗ SHACL 1.2Emerging shapesW3C Draft ↗ STIX 2.1Threat intelligenceOASIS ↗ UCOCyber investigationUCO Community ↗
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builders and decision-makers.

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Bring us a business question that needs better meaning.

We turn the question into competency questions, a semantic model, a graph experiment and measurable evaluation criteria.

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Make an informed decision

Before you invest,
ask better questions.

Practical guides to choosing the architecture, defining deliverables and evaluating a pilot.

When Does Your AI Need a Knowledge Graph?

A practical decision guide for enterprise teams evaluating graph retrieval, shared business definitions and evidence-linked AI.

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How to Evaluate an Enterprise GraphRAG Pilot

Define a baseline, question set and acceptance criteria for an evidence-linked enterprise AI pilot.

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What Should an Enterprise Ontology Pilot Deliver?

Understand ontology pilot deliverables, client inputs, boundaries and production handover considerations.

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