Reference ontologies

The Ontology Library

These packs are starting points — versioned, signed, installed like a model. The ontology that actually runs your business is built with you, in workshops led by people who have modelled businesses for twenty years — and then it grows, from the data it learns, like a living organism. It is the one part of this platform nobody can generate. Every pack sits on Discern, the semantic core we share with EdgeSec, and adds your vertical's entities, verbs and rules on top of it. Every pack ships as entities · links · actions · rules and keeps growing from the data that flows through it.

What every pack inherits

Every fact in your graph is typed when it arrives, records who asserted it and how sure they were, and is KNOWN, CONFLICTED or UNKNOWN. A model can propose a fact; only a sensor or a person can make it known. The same entities are visible to your operations and to your security team, because both sit on the same core.

The work is the workshop

A pack gets you to the first conversation. What it cannot know is what your business means by a confirmed booking, a sellable night, a returning guest — and who gets to decide. Those are decisions, not data. They are made in the room, and they are the ontology.

Discovery. We sit with the people who run the business and learn your systems, your vocabulary, the questions your people actually ask, and who owns each definition.

Modelling. We write the definitions, the rules and the exceptions — with the owner of every term named — and wire them to the systems that hold the facts.

Growing. Then it lives. Connectors feed it, it learns from the data that flows through it, and a person on your side reviews what it proposes. It does not stop growing. How we grow it is our trade-craft.

Why there is no shortcut. AI-generated code can wire a screen in an afternoon. It cannot sit with your general manager and find out that a dirty room is not inventory, or that a hold is not a booking until the slow channel acknowledges it. The complexity is in the business, not the software, and it takes human hours to model. We don't sell shortcuts here, because there aren't any.

Who does it. Ontologists with twenty years in the field — people who have modelled operations before there was a model to put them in.

pack · v2.1hospitality-guest

Hospitality · Resorts & Hotels

EntitiesGuest · Booking · Unit · Party · Activity · Release · Task · Rate · Policy · Channel
LinksGuest holds Booking · Booking occupies Unit · Activity requires Release
Actionsbook · reschedule · send-release · route-workorder · escalate
RulesNo activity without signed release · quiet hours · refund thresholds

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pack · v1.4field-service

Field Service · HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical

EntitiesCustomer · Site · Equipment · Job · Technician · Invoice · Contract · Part
LinksEquipment serviced-by Job · Job assigned-to Technician · billed-as Invoice
Actionsdispatch · quote · order-part · schedule-maintenance
RulesWarranty gates · SLA clocks · permit requirements by county

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pack · v0.8 · in developmentinsurance-agency

Insurance Agencies

EntitiesPolicy · Insured · Carrier · Coverage · Claim · Renewal-Clock · COI · Producer
LinksInsured holds Policy · Policy written-by Carrier · Claim opened-on Policy
Actionsverify-coverage · open-claim · issue-COI · renewal-outreach
RulesE&O-safe: graph-only coverage answers · licensed-state routing · catastrophe mode

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pack · v1.2dispatch-center

Answering & Dispatch Centers

EntitiesBrand · Caller · Script · Escalation · Shift · Account · Ticket
LinksCaller reaches Brand · Ticket escalates-per Account rules
Actionstake-message · page-oncall · open-ticket · transfer
RulesPer-brand greetings · HIPAA lines · on-call rotations

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pack · v1.0freight-fleet

Freight & Fleet

EntitiesTruck · Driver · Load · Lane · Stop · HOS-Clock · Broker · Invoice
LinksDriver operates Truck · Load moves-via Lane · HOS constrains Dispatch
Actionstender · assign · detention-claim · check-call
RulesHOS-aware always · detention clocks · lumper approvals

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pack · v0.9clinic-front

Clinics · Front Office

EntitiesPatient · Appointment · Provider · Insurance · Referral · Room
LinksPatient holds Appointment · Appointment with Provider
Actionsschedule · verify-coverage · recall · remind
RulesPHI never leaves · consent gates · no-show policies

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pack · v0.9mfg-metrology

Manufacturing · Metrology & QA

EntitiesPart · Program · Measurement · Machine · Lot · NCR · CAD-Asset
LinksMeasurement of Part per Program · NCR opened-on Lot
Actionsrun-report · flag-drift · quarantine-lot
RulesDesign IP never leaves · calibration windows · sign-off chains

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Packs are starting points, not ceilings — the ontology we build with you has unbounded entities, links and action types. It is yours: open formats, Cypher export, documented, portable. Read the field guide →