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The arguments underneath the product. Why company context is the bottleneck, and what a brain has to do about it.

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01First Principles

Company brain glossary: the vocabulary of the context layer

Plain definitions of the terms behind company brains and context layers: governed write, provenance, MCP, RAG, grounding and thirteen more.

Aug 29, 202611 min
02First Principles

Governed context: why an agent must not pass as a person

Agents now write into company knowledge as well as read it. What governed context means, what provenance must record, and why an agent write needs a label.

Aug 29, 202613 min
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03First Principles

What is a company brain? A definition, and how to build one

A company brain is one maintained store of what your business knows, readable by people and retrievable by AI agents. What it is, and how to build one.

Aug 29, 202613 min
04First Principles

Why your AI agents keep forgetting what your company knows

Every chat starts from zero, and a smarter model won't fix that. A governed place to keep what your company knows, read by the agents you already use, will.

Jun 12, 20268 min
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