Clients, engagements, experts, filings, regulations. The answers sit in the connections between them, and most AI systems discard those connections when they split documents into chunks.
Entities
1,224
Relationships
1,796
Counted from the illustrative graph on screen.
Vector search
Which of Nordvik’s suppliers fall under the EU Battery Regulation?
Vector search returns six passages that sound relevant. None of them says which supplier is in scope, so the model fills the gap with a guess.
Graph traversal
The graph follows the relationships instead.
Client to supplier to regulation. Two hops, and every edge has a source.
Calder Batteries is in scope. Morava Inverters supplies power electronics, which the regulation does not cover.
[1] Nordvik supplier list, 2025, row 14
[2] Supplier audit, Q2 2025, p. 6
Every fact keeps its source.
Each relationship records the document, page and date it came from. Answers cite the passage itself, so a reviewer can check a claim instead of trusting it.
fact
Calder SUBJECT_TO EU reg.
source
Supplier audit, Q2 2025, p. 6
extracted
2 Jul 2025
reviewed
yes, by a supply-chain lead
Facts carry dates.
Morava Inverters was a preferred supplier in 2024 and on a watchlist by mid-2025. Ask about 2024 and you get 2024, not whichever document happens to be newest.
2024
preferred, per Project Kestrel
2025
watchlist, per supplier audit Q2
One company, one node.
“Calder Batteries”, “Calder Batt. AS” and “CB Energy Storage” are the same supplier. Entity resolution merges them, so exposure, spend and history add up correctly.
Permissions on every node.
Project Heron was for Halden Power, a Nordvik competitor. Teams staffed on Nordvik never retrieve it, not even through an indirect path.
Built for firms whose answers get checked.
Strategy consultancies, law firms, private equity, research desks and regulated industries. Anywhere a wrong answer costs more than the system.
Illustrative graph. Companies and documents are fictional.
Illustrative graph. Companies and documents are fictional.
Why precision firms are moving past vector search.
17-34%
of queries answered incorrectly or with misgrounded citations by leading AI legal research tools. Every tool tested was built on retrieval-augmented generation.
Teams whose work is reviewed, cited and billed. Each one asks questions that cross documents, dates and permissions.
Strategy consulting
“What did we recommend to utilities on grid storage since 2022, and what happened afterwards?”
Engagements
Clients
Experts
Recommendations
Outcomes
Case codes
Heads of knowledge, practice leaders, CIOs
A wrong figure on a slide costs a partner’s credibility in front of a client’s board.
Law firms
“Which of our precedent SPAs include a reverse break fee above 3% under English law?”
Matters
Clauses
Precedents
Jurisdictions
Counterparties
Citations
Knowledge and innovation leads, practice support lawyers
A misgrounded citation is a professional-conduct problem, not a typo.
Private equity & M&A
“Which of our portfolio companies share a tier-1 supplier with the target?”
Companies
Ownership
Suppliers
Customers
Executives
Deal documents
Deal teams, operating partners, diligence leads
Exposure missed in diligence surfaces after signing, when it is most expensive.
Investment research
“Which covered companies changed guidance within two quarters of a CFO change?”
Issuers
Filings
Executives
Guidance
Events
Analyst notes
Research directors, data and quant teams
A model that blends quarters or confuses issuers publishes the wrong call.
Regulated industries
“Which of our product claims rely on studies superseded since the last submission?”
Products
Claims
Studies
Submissions
Regulations
Versions
Regulatory affairs, compliance and quality teams
Regulators ask for the evidence trail. The graph is the evidence trail.
The question they ask
“What did we recommend to utilities on grid storage since 2022, and what happened afterwards?”
What goes in the graph
Engagements
Clients
Experts
Recommendations
Outcomes
Case codes
Who we work with
Heads of knowledge, practice leaders, CIOs
A wrong figure on a slide costs a partner’s credibility in front of a client’s board.
The question they ask
“Which of our precedent SPAs include a reverse break fee above 3% under English law?”
What goes in the graph
Matters
Clauses
Precedents
Jurisdictions
Counterparties
Citations
Who we work with
Knowledge and innovation leads, practice support lawyers
A misgrounded citation is a professional-conduct problem, not a typo.
The question they ask
“Which of our portfolio companies share a tier-1 supplier with the target?”
What goes in the graph
Companies
Ownership
Suppliers
Customers
Executives
Deal documents
Who we work with
Deal teams, operating partners, diligence leads
Exposure missed in diligence surfaces after signing, when it is most expensive.
The question they ask
“Which covered companies changed guidance within two quarters of a CFO change?”
What goes in the graph
Issuers
Filings
Executives
Guidance
Events
Analyst notes
Who we work with
Research directors, data and quant teams
A model that blends quarters or confuses issuers publishes the wrong call.
The question they ask
“Which of our product claims rely on studies superseded since the last submission?”
What goes in the graph
Products
Claims
Studies
Submissions
Regulations
Versions
Who we work with
Regulatory affairs, compliance and quality teams
Regulators ask for the evidence trail. The graph is the evidence trail.
We study your knowledge before we build.
Every engagement starts with a Knowledge Diagnostic. We read what your firm has collected, follow how the work actually moves and watch how people use what they know. Your experts review our findings instead of filling in forms.
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Weeks 1-2
Inventory
We map where your knowledge lives: repositories, systems and people, how current it is and who owns it.
Weeks 2-4
Observe
We follow three to six core processes and read the questions people already ask, in search logs, tickets and help channels.
Weeks 3-5
Interview
Structured interviews with your experts about real past decisions: the cues, sources and judgement behind each one.
Weeks 5-6
Measure
Maturity scored against ISO 30401, a test set mined from real questions and checked by your experts, a baseline of your current tools, and a roadmap ranked by value.
Weeks 7-16
Build
Ontology, ingestion, entity resolution and provenance on every edge. GraphRAG or a decision layer wired into the tools you use, and process changes where knowledge gets lost.
Weeks 17-18
Prove
We re-run the test set and the process measures, explain every miss, then hand over runbooks and governance or stay on as stewards.
Knowledge DiagnosticBuild
The accuracy target goes in the contract.
Before we build, we agree precision and citation thresholds with you, measured on a test set drawn from the questions your people actually ask. If the system misses them at acceptance, we fix it at our cost within a remediation period set in the contract.
Example acceptance criteria
Answer precision
≥ 0.95
Citation accuracy
≥ 0.98
Abstains when unsure
required
Test set
real questions, expert-checked
Thresholds are set per engagement during the Diagnostic.
Fixed scope. Fixed fee.
Every engagement starts with a Knowledge Diagnostic. Its fee is credited in full if you continue to a Build within 60 days.
Knowledge Graph Build
A production knowledge graph and GraphRAG layer for one domain.
from$240,000
10 to 14 weeks
What’s included7
Everything in the Diagnostic
Domain ontology designed with your practice leads
Ingestion, entity resolution and provenance on every edge
GraphRAG retrieval connected to your model stack
Node-level permissions and ethical walls
Accuracy thresholds written into the contract
Deployed in your cloud or on‑premises
Everything in the Diagnostic
Domain ontology designed with your practice leads
Ingestion, entity resolution and provenance on every edge
Schema changes, new sources, monthly re-scoring on your test set, freshness checks and on-call support once the graph is live.
from$18,000/ month
Prices in USD, excluding taxes, cloud infrastructure and model usage.
What we sign, and when.
The paperwork follows the work. One framework agreement covers every stage, and each stage is a short order with its own scope, price and acceptance test.
01
Briefing
Mutual NDA, if we discuss real material
02
Vendor review
Company pack for your security and procurement teams
Proposal with fixed scope, timeline and price
03
Diagnostic
Framework agreement and the Diagnostic order
Statement of work and timeline
Data processing agreement, if personal data is in scope
Access and security terms
04
Build
Build order with acceptance metrics and the test set
Timeline with your side’s inputs: access and expert hours
Licence for our reusable components, with a list of software and models
05
Acceptance
Metrics report on the agreed test set
Acceptance certificate
Transfer of rights to what we built for you
06
Stewardship
Support agreement with service levels
Monthly report and re-scoring
Terms in every contract
You own what we build
The ontology, the graph and the integration code built for you are yours once paid. Our libraries and method come with a perpetual licence.
Payment by stage
30% when an order is signed, the rest on acceptance of that stage.
Measured acceptance
Against the metrics and test set in the statement of work, with a fixed review window.
Your data stays yours
It stays in your environment and is never used to train models.
Capped liability
The system supports decisions and your people make them. Liability is capped at the value of the order.
Templates for every document are ready before the Diagnostic starts. We can work on your paper instead.
Questions partners ask first
Do you replace our existing RAG system?
Usually not. We add the graph beneath it. Vector search stays useful for open-ended questions, the graph handles multi-hop, time-bound and permissioned ones, and a router decides which to use per query. Independent tests show the same split: graphs pay off on multi-step and corpus-wide questions, not on simple lookups (GraphRAG-Bench, 2026).
Where does our data live?
In your environment. We deploy into your cloud tenant or on‑premises, work under your NDA and security review, and never use client material to train models.
Which graph database and models do you use?
Whatever fits your stack. We are vendor-neutral across Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, Stardog, GraphDB and PostgreSQL-based stores, with hosted or self-hosted language models.
How do you measure precision?
On a test set built from the questions your people actually ask, mined from search logs, tickets and expert interviews, then checked by your experts. We report precision, recall and citation accuracy per question type, so you can see where the system is strong and where it declines to answer.
How much of our experts’ time does it take?
About 10 to 15 hours each, for 8 to 15 experts across the Diagnostic: a 90-minute interview about real decisions, then a few hours reviewing the questions and answers we mined. Nobody writes a question bank from scratch.
We already run Copilot or a RAG system. Can you just audit it?
Yes. A three-week Retrieval Audit ($35,000) scores your current system on a test set mined from your real questions and explains every failure by type. Its fee is credited toward a Build.
How long until people are using it?
A first domain is typically in production 10 to 14 weeks after the Diagnostic. Further domains reuse the ontology and pipeline, so they move faster.
Can a consulting firm or integrator bring you into a client project?
Yes. We work as a delivery partner when a client project needs a knowledge graph built, under your engagement lead and your client’s terms, or as a dedicated team of knowledge, ML and data engineers under your brand.
Add your firm to the graph.
Bring one question your firm struggles to answer, or a process where knowledge gets lost. In 45 minutes we will show how a graph would handle it, and what it would take to build.