Semantic Drift Intelligence™

KPI Disputes in Every Executive Meeting

The same metric produces different numbers in different dashboards. Finance reports one revenue figure. Sales reports another. Both are built from the same source data — but the definitions diverged somewhere between the SQL and the report, and nobody documented when or why.

Governance That Cannot See What It Is Governing

Data governance programs focus on access controls, metadata, and lineage. None of them monitor whether the business definitions encoded in SQL and BI logic still match the business definitions in documentation and policy. The gap grows silently.

AI Models Trained on Unstable Definitions

LLMs, copilots, and ML models inherit the semantic environment they are trained on. When that environment contains drifted, inconsistent, or contradictory definitions, the model learns them — and produces outputs that reflect and amplify the inconsistency. Hallucinations are often semantic failures, not model failures.

Audit Exposure from Undocumented Definition Changes

Regulators in healthcare, life sciences, pharma, and financial services require organizations to demonstrate that their reporting definitions are controlled and consistent. When SQL logic diverges from documented business rules without a change record, that gap becomes an audit finding.

Drift That Accelerates as Organizations Scale

The problem compounds with scale. More data sources, more BI developers, more documentation systems, more AI use cases — each one a new surface for semantic divergence. Organizations that tolerate drift at 50 metrics cannot govern it at 500.

No Existing Tool Addresses This Directly

Data quality tools monitor freshness, completeness, and schema. Data catalogs document lineage and ownership. Neither detects semantic drift — the divergence of meaning across systems — because neither was designed to. SDI defines and owns this category.

The agent extracts meaning, not data. Your data never leaves your environment.

The SDI agent connects to SQL warehouses, BI workspaces, documentation systems, and AI logs using read-only access. It normalizes definitions into semantic units and sends those units to the control plane for comparison and drift analysis. No raw data, no query results, no record-level information is ever transmitted outside the client environment.

01

Semantic Registry

The authoritative source of truth for business definitions, metrics, and semantic metadata. The registry stores canonical definitions with version history, ownership, and lineage — giving every downstream system a single reference point for what each term means and how it has changed over time.

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Drift Detection

Continuous monitoring of SQL pipelines, BI logic, documentation, and AI agent behavior for semantic inconsistency. Detection uses a combination of deterministic rules, embedding-based comparison, and LLM reasoning to identify where definitions diverge, contradict, or have evolved without documentation. Drift events are scored by severity and business impact.

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Governance Workflows

Ownership assignment, resolution tracking, and audit logging for every drift event. Governance workflows make semantic change a managed operational process — not an ad hoc incident. Every resolution is documented with lineage, giving organizations an auditable record of how their definitions evolve.

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Prevention and Remediation Agents

Once the semantic registry is trusted and governance workflows are established, SDI introduces prevention agents that flag potential drift before it reaches critical metrics — and, at the highest maturity level, remediation agents that propose and execute safe definition changes with human approval. Agents are introduced only after the foundational trust is in place.

Data and BI Leaders

Need semantic stability as the foundation for trusted analytics. SDI surfaces where definitions diverge across SQL and BI tools, prioritizes what to fix first, and tracks resolution — so reporting disputes are resolved at the source, not in the meeting.

AI and ML Teams

Need semantically consistent definitions to train and operate models safely. SDI monitors AI agent behavior for semantic drift and hallucination patterns, and ensures models are built on a stable, governed definition set — reducing unpredictable outputs and governance failures.

Data Governance and Stewards

Need continuous monitoring, not periodic audits. SDI replaces manual governance cycles with automated drift detection and structured remediation workflows — enforcing meaning, not just metadata.

IT and Security Leaders

Need a deployment model that satisfies data residency, access control, and audit requirements. The SDI agent extracts semantic artifacts only, communicates outbound-only, and authenticates via Entra ID Workload Identity Federation — no raw data leaves the client environment.

Compliance and Audit Functions

Need documented evidence that reporting definitions are controlled, consistent, and traceable. SDI produces an auditable record of every definition change, every governance decision, and every drift event — satisfying the traceability requirements of FDA, GxP, HIPAA, SOC, and equivalent frameworks.

Executives and Decision Makers

Need to trust the numbers and scale AI with confidence. SDI eliminates the KPI disputes and dashboard discrepancies that slow decision cycles — and creates the semantic foundation that makes enterprise AI adoption safe and predictable.