Consulting Services for AI, Knowledge Graph & Enterprise Architecture
From siloed data, modernisation programmes and legacy debt, to governed AI and production knowledge graphs — we consult across the full architecture lifecycle.
Deep, hands-on consulting across six core disciplines.
AI Consulting for Regulated Enterprises
Designing safe, governed AI systems grounded in real enterprise data
Most organisations deploying AI are moving fast and discovering the risks later. At Graph Research Labs, we take a fundamentally different approach. Our AI consulting is built on symbolic AI and semantic web standards – formal, machine-readable knowledge structures that constrain what AI systems can do, what they can access, and how they are audited.
We hold patents in this area. This is not AI hype. This is AI engineering – and it is what regulated industries need.
Where others bolt AI onto ungoverned data and hope for the best, we design systems where every AI answer is traceable to your knowledge graph, every action is validated against your ontology, and every gap in knowledge is detected before it becomes a compliance exposure.
A structured engagement model that delivers
results in weeks, not years.
Your Systems Designed by an Elite-Level
Distinguished Architect
Every Graph Research Labs engagement is led by a Distinguished Architect whose career spans some of the largest and most demanding organisations in the world.
That depth of experience cannot be replicated, and it means faster results and architecture that works in production first time.
Dougal is one of fewer than 700 people worldwide certified as a Distinguished IT Architect by The Open Group. He is also an IBM Certified Enterprise Architect, IBM Certified Information Architect, and TOGAF Distinguished Architect - qualifications earned through decades of hands-on delivery, not certification courses.
Over a 30-year career consulting across four continents, Dougal has led enterprise architecture programmes, legacy modernisations, and complex data transformations for major organisations, always at the intersection of strategic architecture and practical delivery. He does not just work with ontologies and AI - he has invented patents in them, turning deep technical invention into practical enterprise solutions.
As a former IBM Chief Technologist, Dougal operated at the highest levels of enterprise technology: advising C-suite executives, designing systems that serve millions of users, and solving problems where getting it wrong costs organisations millions. Every tool in the GRL platform, every methodology, and every consulting engagement draws from real-world experience over 30+ years.
Industries We Serve
We bring deep domain expertise across regulated and complex industries.
Government
& ESG
Technology Ecosystem
We integrate with the enterprise platforms you already use, bringing ontology-driven AI and knowledge graph capability into your existing stack.
Microsoft
AWS
SAP
Oracle
Google Cloud
IBM
Boomi
Confluent
Snowflake
Databricks
ServiceNow
Salesforce
Our tools work with your ontologies,
or we can create one for you.
An ontology is a formal model of your business - its concepts, rules, and relationships - that machines can read, reason over, and build from.
Whether you already have ontologies or are starting from scratch, our team can help. We design and engineer ontologies tuned to your business domain, or we can use your own ontology with our GRL generators to produce production applications, APIs, and data pipelines directly from them - in minutes, not months.
- Banking
- Payments NZ API Specification
- Climate Related Financial Disclosure
- Insurance — Lloyds Core Data Record
- Regulatory Compliance
- Healthcare
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Whether you need a full architecture programme or targeted expertise on a specific challenge, let's talk.