Business understanding
Make the business behind the data legible to AI.
Percidian models the clients, matters, agreements, obligations, decisions, and evidence behind your data so AI can reason about the work as a connected whole instead of treating every document and record as an isolated fragment — and assembles the part a task needs into one permissioned brief, for every approved AI system.
- Client: Northstar
- Client: Northstarled byContact
- Client: NorthstarownsMatter
- Client: Northstarparty toAgreement
- AgreementgovernsCommitment
- CommitmentcreatesRisk
- Matterdecided inDecision
- Decisionsupported byEvidence
- Riskcited byEvidence
From evidence to decision-ready context
Give the model what an experienced colleague would gather before answering.
Five steps from a request and an identity to a brief every point of which cites its source.
Request
Task · sets what the brief leads with
Bounded by her source access · every line cited
Requested by Maya Chen · Account lead
Prepare the Northstar renewal meeting
Assembled from the business model for this request — not an indiscriminate dump of search results.
Illustrative example
Understand more than nouns
Know what exists, how it relates, what changed, and what follows.
The shared foundation names them; the Legal, M&A, Investment, Finance, and Biotech ontologies add what they mean in each domain.
Objects
Clients, matters, transactions, contracts, people, obligations, decisions, risks, and evidence.
Relationships
Who owns what; which agreement governs which obligation; which evidence supports which conclusion.
History
What was true at each point, what changed, which version is current, and which decision followed.
Consequences
Which workstream, forecast, client, deadline, risk, action, or decision is affected.
The outcome
AI that answers the work question.
Instead of returning everything that mentions Northstar, Percidian explains which commitment is late, which agreement governs it, which relationship is affected, who owns the remedy, and which evidence supports the answer.
What search returns
- A list of matter files.
- A folder summary.
- Every new document.
- Every CRM activity.
- Every meeting mention.
What Percidian answers
- Prepare the partner.
- Explain the deal risk.
- Show what changed the thesis.
- Recommend the client follow-up.
- Identify the decision and owner.
History & memory
Approved work becomes memory. Drafts do not.
What a workflow produces and is worth keeping is written back to the client, the agreement, and its evidence — for the next authorized task, in the next approved AI system, to start from. Your organization should not have to introduce itself to AI twice.
Bring your business into every AI decision
Give every approved AI system the context to do its best work.
Connect the knowledge your organization already has. Preserve what it learns. Apply the permissions it already trusts. Make that understanding available wherever people and agents work.