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Context Layer
Ground AI in trusted business logic with pre-built Financial and HCM semantic models, now in Early Access, that deliver deterministic, audit-ready answers across every tool.
Context Layer capabilities
Eliminate guesswork. Gain certainty.
Security tells an agent what it’s allowed to see. The Context Layer tells it what things mean, connecting agents to your governed business definitions with role-based security built in.
Query governed measures like headcount and voluntary turnover straight from pre-built business logic.
20+ years
of business logic
240+
curated business objects
1.4T
transactions per year
Context Layer benefits
Secure, aligned, and optimized.
01
Eliminate AI guesswork.
Stop hallucinated metrics. Agents inherit your exact business definitions, hierarchies, and fiscal boundaries instead of guessing at complex table joins or data structures.
02
Unify your business logic.
Get consistent answers across every tool. Allow any custom or partner AI agent to reference the exact same metric definitions, eliminating data silos and confusion.
03
Lower token consumption.
Slash enterprise AI token costs by pruning prompt context. Deliver consistent answers without hardcoding logic for every question and team.
04
Make every answer accountable.
Trace every answer back to its definition for audit, with guardrails to make it accountable.
05
Enforce real controls on real-time data.
Enforce security rules at execution, every single time. Guide agent actions based on real-time authority parameters rather than simple login status.
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