By Craxel Founder and CEO David Enga
April 6, 2025
The era of AI-powered decision making is upon us. Every organization should be seeking productivity gains and cost reduction, and more automation and data-driven decision making is the answer.
But nobody that tries to connect legacy data infrastructures directly to AI is going to be able to realize the promise of AI-powered decision making at scale. Can you imagine trying to integrate agents or analytics against every data stovepipe you want them to connect to? Point to point integration is a bad plan. Tech has tried a bunch of ways to do this now for 25 years. Remember SOA? Hadoop? ..or when people thought cloud would somehow miraculously solve the data integration problem? Today's data swamps aren't working either.
No, the answer is a universal knowledge infrastructure, where knowledge can be extracted from data stovepipes and ontology can be applied - so that algorithms can be built on a set of common models AND those models can by dynamically extended without rebuilding everything. Anyone believe that legacy data tech, whether commercial or open source, is up to this challenge? They simply don't have nearly enough speed at scale, they consume way too much fuel, and their data models are too brittle. No, graph is the answer. But not graph databases as the world currently knows them.
The knowledge infrastructure for AI-powered decision making is going to be driven by Craxel's multidimensional hash algorithm. The reason is that both knowledge graphs and vectors can be indexed at line speed, millions per second, with ontology applied. The data is available immediately and can be processed on the fly efficiently. Another reason is transactional consistency or ACID. Craxel's knowledge graphs are not just for analytics - they are fit for online transaction processing (OLTP). Ever heard of an OLTP knowledge graph? You have now. Finally, data is not simple - much of the world's information needs to be modeled and queried in higher dimensions.
For all of these reasons and more including security, we believe Black Forest is THE knowledge infrastructure for AI-powered decision making AT ANY SCALE. This also means when the time comes to divest yourself of a legacy system, you can rebuild its capabilities quickly using Black Forest. Contact us if you'd like to learn more about how our unique tech can give you a massive advantage on your journey to AI.
