Overview
An AI agent can retrieve the correct enterprise record and still misunderstand what it means. Getting the data does not tell the agent what it means for the business or how it may be used for a given task.
A record has a technical description, a business meaning, supporting evidence, and rules for its use. This sketch shows CIOs and architects how to identify the context a workflow needs and test whether the agent uses it.
What Is Happening
Enterprise data platforms increasingly supply agents with business definitions, relationships, lineage, and governance information alongside records.
An MIT Technology Review Insights survey of 300 senior technology and data executives found that 32% identified insufficient business context and semantics as a constraint on their existing data platforms. The report also describes efforts to connect metadata with ownership, quality, and usage constraints.1
Structured data is not self-explanatory. A status field …