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Glossary

Ontology

A shared model that defines the key entities in your business, the attributes that describe them and the relationships that connect them.

Ontology gives structure and meaning to your information. It tells your systems what things are, how they relate and how to reason about them. It’s the common language behind your data, workflows and decisions.

How we put it to work

In Decidr, ontology is the backbone of your intelligent organisation. It’s the model that lets every app, workflow and decision system speak the same language. Instead of each tool defining “customer,” “opportunity,” “capacity” or “outcome” differently, ontology creates one shared structure that everything plugs into.

This matters because most organisations run on scattered logic. CRMs define one thing, finance tools define another and the real knowledge lives in people’s heads, Slack threads and spreadsheets. When those people leave, the logic disappears with them. Ontology solves this by making meaning explicit and computable.

Inside Decidr, your ontology doesn’t just describe what exists. It shapes how your intelligence behaves. It formalises your entities, attributes, workflows, beliefs and goals so your apps can reason together. A marketing app and a finance app aren’t working in silos, they’re using the same definitions, the same relationships and the same goal structure to understand what’s happening and why.

Ontology gives you:

  • A shared language across your organisation
  • Traceability from belief to goal to decision to action
  • Reasoning at scale because meaning is machine readable
  • Interoperability across apps, workflows and functions

Decidr extends ontology beyond assets and transactions. It includes goals, beliefs, outcomes and the logic that links them. This is what moves you from automation to agency. Your apps don’t just execute tasks, they understand the context behind those tasks.

And because your ontology evolves as your business evolves, it supports continuous alignment. As you introduce new workflows, add capabilities or shift strategy, your apps stay coherent because they’re grounded in the same underlying model.

In the agentic networked economy, ontology becomes your core advantage. Without it, you get disconnected systems and faster chaos. With it, you get networked reasoning — intelligence that can connect, coordinate and act with purpose.