Generative AI Fundamentals Map

Map/Agents and organisations/Wave 6

Shared ontology and wiki

One structured source of truth that people and agents both read and write.

capabilityEmerging Open on the map →

Facts

Lane: Agents and organisations
Wave: 6 of 12 (build order, not a date)
Needs: 0 boxes all the way back through hard links
Unlocks: 5 boxes downstream through hard links
Leverage: 0.4 points · stands in the way of 3 of 53 stages · rank 24 of 57
Cluster: Agents at work

Evidence as of October 2026

The NANDA report finds generic tools fail inside companies partly because they cannot absorb the company’s specific processes.

01Why 95% of AI pilots fail, on the MIT NANDA report (VC Cafe)

Around it

Needs · 0

Nothing beyond the detail list. It can start at any time.

Unlocks · 3

Correction propagationcapability · Emerging
Divergent-copy reconciliationcapability · Speculative
Knowledge-rich agentsstage · Emerging · helps, not required

Loops and off-ramps

Company knowledge loopreinforcing loop

Openings researchers' judgement, October 2026 scouting

Startup room 53/100 · rank 24 of 124 Research room 51/100 · rank 61 of 124

Crowding4 Lab overlap4 Small-team fit2.5 Buyer today4 Research openness4

Depth: deep
Players: Palantir Ontology/AIP; Microsoft Fabric IQ; Google OKF; Atlan; Snowflake/dbt semantic layers (OSI); Jedify ($24m A); Cognee
Wedge: Review and merge layer for agent-proposed ontology edits on open formats (OKF, OSI) with measured review cost, entity-merge policy and drift detection against source systems. startup