Agent Harness Series — Part 3 of 7 Agents and Ontologies: Why Semantics Matter A harness can stop an agent breaking the rules. It cannot make the agent understand the business. That’s why we need ontologies. “Give an agent a rulebook without an ontology and it’ll obey every sign and still end up in the […]
Fundamentals Guide What Is Declarative Generation? The enterprise technology industry has spent decades building the same things over and over. Declarative generation ends this cycle. Dougal Watt CEO & Founder,Graph Research Labs April 2026 · 8 min read Contents What is declarative generation? How does it work? Why does it matter? vs low-code / no-code […]
Fundamentals Guide What Is an Ontology? Most enterprise technology decisions start with data. The right first question is: what does this data mean? An ontology answers that question. Dougal Watt CEO & Founder,Graph Research Labs April 2026 · 7 min read Contents What is an ontology? Ontology vs data model What does an ontology contain? […]
Fundamentals Guide What Is a Semantic AI Platform? Enterprise AI has a trust problem. A semantic AI platform solves it by grounding AI in meaning — in formal, machine-readable knowledge structures that define what is true, what is permitted, and what is auditable. Dougal Watt CEO & Founder,Graph Research Labs April 2026 · 8 min […]
Fundamentals Guide What Is a Knowledge Graph? Every enterprise has data. Most of it is locked inside systems that do not talk to each other. A knowledge graph is the technology that connects all of it. Dougal Watt CEO & Founder,Graph Research Labs April 2026 · 7 min read Contents What is a knowledge graph? […]
Agent Harness Series — Part 2 of 5 Agent Harnesses and Compliance in Banking Banking invented enterprise governance. Now it has to apply it to AI agents. “Why did the AI agent fail its APRA audit? It marked its own homework and gave itself an A+.” Dougal Watt CEO & Founder,Graph Research Labs April 2026 […]
Agent Harness Series — Part 1 of 5 Are Agent Harnesses an Enterprise Architecture Problem? 2025 was the year of agents. 2026 is the year of agent harnesses. But the conversation so far is missing the point – what about Enterprise Architecture? “An AI agent walks into a bar. Orders everything on the menu. Hallucinates […]
Platform Ontology to Operational API’s, Applications and Governed Pipelines in Minutes: What Happens After You Get the Model Right? Why the integration tax between ontologies, API’s, applications and governance, kills most knowledge graph projects before they deliver value, and how an ontology-driven platform collapses a multi-vendor stack into a single deployable unit. Dougal Watt CEO […]
Ontology Engineering From Chaos to Control A Practical Methodology for AI-Assisted Ontology Engineering How to keep the speed advantages of AI assisted ontology engineering, while introducing the rigour that professional ontology work demands: an eight-step methodology that has shortened development cycles by 40–60%. Dougal Watt CEO & Founder,Graph Research Labs April 2026 · 8 min […]
Ontology Engineering Why LLMs Are Terrible Ontology Engineers (And Why That’s the Wrong Question) Understanding the five structural anti-patterns that emerge when large language models build ontologies without guardrails – and how to fix them. Dougal Watt CEO & Founder,Graph Research Labs March 2026 · 5 min read The Problem Organisations investing in knowledge graphs […]