The Egeria Advisor – Sharing the Journey
Dan Wolfson We have to build systems that people want to use, that provide value to them individually, that makes their work life better – not just view humans as knowledge sources to train the…
Responsibilities and activities supporting data readiness for AI projects
In my first post on Data Readiness, I introduced the notion of a Data Readiness activity to provide the AI development team with the political power to make the resources (typically data and subject matter…
Data Preparation in the AI Journey (Part 2)
In my previous post, I outlined five key pillars: Scope, Compliance, Trustworthiness, Understandability, and Cost. While these pillars provide a design framework, moving an AI application from an interesting experiment to a production-grade tool is not a…
Matching the AI Data Lens to the Data Sources
Scientific data includes context information (metadata) to make its creation reusable in downstream analysis. This metadata comes with a vocabulary that is helpful in understanding how business data – that is data from the systems…
Data Preparation in the AI Journey (Part 1) – From Strategy to Operations
It’s widely recognized that data preparation is critical for AI projects. But where does it actually fit in the development process? In my previous post, AI Application Development – Building with Context Intelligence, we explored…
AI Application Development – Building with Context Intelligence
From Planning to Building In our last installment, we discussed project definition and the context and clarity it can provide. In this installment, we’re going to jump into the part that most techies hanker for—the…
Context Intelligence – Project Definition – Establishing the Foundation
In our previous blog, we introduced the AI Application Journey—a framework showing how business context flows through five connected phases. Project Definition is the first and perhaps most critical phase, establishing the foundation that guides…
Putting the Context into Context Engineering
Dan Wolfson Context engineering is one of the latest buzzwords across the AI community. The basic idea is to both improve the quality and manage the cost of a conversation with an LLM AI by…
PDR – 2025 Year in Review
December, 2025 Dear clients, partners, and friends, As we reach the end of 2025, our fourth year of operations, it is once again time to reflect on our achievements and learning over the past year,…
Introducing Context Intelligence
Many hopes and dreams are being fueled by the wonders and hype of AI systems. Yet those of us that have been through these technology-hype cycles before recognize the inevitable. AI technologies will help in…