Steny Solitude. I build cognitive systems that turn data, content and knowledge into decisions people can act on, in the field.
I work on a new class of systems that (1) turn raw data into meaning that others can use, (2) let business reasoning steer AI rather than the other way around, (3) certify the authority, origin and recipient of every resource, and (4) bring real-time decision support to the people who act, where they act.
For decades, computing has served those who manage from a distance. Dashboards, data lakes and management systems describe the territory. They rarely help the people who have to cross it.
Large language models showed what AI can do. In a business they also showed its limit: they simulate expertise without embodying it, and they tolerate errors of context, data and interpretation that no decision-maker can sign off on.
Organisations need a Network of Meanings: knowledge that is structured, traceable and intelligible to anyone who needs it, without prior knowledge of where it came from. They need Cognitive Engines that combine AI with reasoning to deliver that knowledge in context, to the right operator, for the right task.
This is the work I do, from semantic technology for media and enterprise knowledge to real-time assistance in the operating room.
Decisions are not made on the map. They are made in the field.
The Internet links systems through IP.
→ a libraryWeb 2.0 adjusts the interface in real time.
→ an audienceCognitive Engines combine AI and reasoning.
→ expertiseA synthesis of my analysis “Why AI & LLMs are driving the rise of reasoning systems”. Large language models opened the market. They will not carry enterprise AI alone.
Fact → stable knowledge, described with a grammar
Business reasoning in command. It calls each kind of intelligence when the task needs it, and keeps every result traceable.
Observation → hypothesis → discovery
| Classic approach · data lakes | Semantic approach · ontologies & knowledge graphs |
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Six convictions that run through my work and my writing. Each one links to the essay where I argue it.
On cognitive intermediation, AI governance, data strategy and spatial computing. Read in full here, in English or French.
I am most useful where deep technology has to meet demanding practitioners and a real market.
From people who built products, companies and research with me.
Open to conversations about partnerships, advisory work and leadership roles in product, data and AI.
Steny Solitude