Platform Data Ontology Engine

One agreed definition for every entity.

Across your systems, the same thing goes by different names and means different things to different teams: a field called "region" meaning something different three systems over. The ontology engine resolves that once; then every query, workspace, and agent reads from the same definition.

Business GlossaryHuman-EndorsedVersionedCompounding
Ontology · live mapping · select a source
engine: Qwry.AI/ontology · crm selected
entity
Customer
v3 · endorsed
customer → Customer 99%

4 → 1

Names resolved to one entity

0.99

Top join confidence, verified

v3

Endorsed definition, versioned

100%

Verified SQL behind every answer

The Problem

Two reports. Both correct. Still contradicting.

"Customer" in your CRM is not the same field as "client" in billing or "account holder" in a contract. When every source carries its own private vocabulary, no tool can give a consistent answer. Scroll the story; the panel follows along.

Today

Same question, two answers.

Sales counts anyone with an order in 60 days. Finance counts billing status. Both reports are technically correct; they disagree by 665 customers. Nobody can say which one to trust, so the meeting argues about the number instead of the decision.

The engine proposes

One definition, drafted from your data.

The ontology engine reads all four sources, finds that customer, client, account holder, and end user point at the same party, and proposes a single endorsed definition of "active". Your team reviews and confirms it: the people who know the business, not a black box.

After endorsement

Every tool reads the same line.

From then on both tools resolve "active customer" against definition v3. The numbers match because the meaning matches. When the business changes the window, the definition changes once: visibly, with a version and a name attached.

reports · unreconciled mismatch

Sales · LLM Chat

"How many active customers?"

13,096

orders in 60d

Finance · SQL Editor

"How many active customers?"

12,431

billing status

Δ 665 customers: both correct, no shared definition

"active customer": no agreed definition found
ontology · proposal review

Sales · LLM Chat

"How many active customers?"

N/A

awaiting definition

Finance · SQL Editor

"How many active customers?"

N/A

awaiting definition

Engine proposal under review by Data Governance

proposed · active = status('active') AND last_order > now()−90d
synonyms · customer = client = account holder = end user
reports · reconciled aligned

Sales · LLM Chat

"How many active customers?"

12,431

definition v3

Finance · SQL Editor

"How many active customers?"

12,431

definition v3

Identical answers: both resolved through entity#customer @v3

endorsed v3 · active = status('active') AND last_order > now()−90d
endorsed by A. Rao · Data Governance · 12 Mar

How It Works

Operational, not decorative.

Four properties keep the ontology alive. Open a card to see each one in practice.

Business glossary Speaks your language, not column names Maps the words your teams actually use ("active customer", "net revenue", "open order") to the tables and fields that hold them.
"net revenue" → finance.gl.rev_net · same field for sales, finance, and every AI agent
Human-endorsed Proposed by the engine, confirmed by people The engine drafts entities, attributes, and synonyms from your sources. Your team reviews, refines, and endorses each one.
entity#customer · proposed by relmap v1.3 → endorsed by A. Rao, Data Governance
Versioned Meaning changes on the record Every definition keeps its history and its endorser: a shift in meaning is a visible decision, not silent drift that breaks last quarter’s numbers.
v2 → v3 · "active" window 60d → 90d · changed 12 Mar · endorsed by governance
Compounding Every new source lands on agreed ground Connect a new system and the engine proposes how its vocabulary maps to definitions you already endorsed; coherence grows instead of fragmenting.
new source: zendesk · "requester" auto-mapped → entity#customer @ conf 0.94

One Definition, Live

The ontology is not documentation. It answers.

Every query Qwry.AI runs reads from the endorsed definition, with the verified SQL one tap away. Run the question and watch it resolve.

LLM Chat workspace · verified
How many active customers do we have?
resolving "active customer" → entity#customer @v3
status='active' AND last_order > now()−90d

You have 12,431 active customers, up 4.2% this quarter.

conf 0.99 crm.contacts ⋈ billing.accts
View SQL
SELECT count(*) FROM customers
WHERE status = 'active'
  AND last_order_at > now() - interval '90 days';
-- definition v3 · endorsed

Connectors

Reads from the systems you already have.

Databases, warehouses, files and the apps you run: connect what you already have, don't migrate. Every source lands in one governed graph, with 200+ on the roadmap.

PostgreSQL Live MongoDB Live MS SQL Live MariaDB Live Oracle Live SQLite Live Redis Live Snowflake Planned BigQuery Planned ClickHouse Planned CockroachDB Planned DuckDB Planned Neo4j Planned DynamoDB Live Amazon RDS Live Amazon S3 Live
AWS Live Kafka Planned Excel Live Google Sheets Live JSON Live XML Live Google Drive Live SharePoint Planned Salesforce Planned SAP Planned Zoho Live Tally Live QuickBooks Planned Razorpay Planned Stripe Planned
Shopify Planned Notion Planned Airtable Planned Microsoft Dynamics Planned Gmail Live Outlook Planned GraphQL Live OpenAI Live Claude Live LangChain Planned Hugging Face Planned

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Build your business ontology
on your own data.

Talk directly to the team who built the engine. Bring your sources; we will show you the definitions it surfaces.

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