WikiSure — The semantic foundation of meaning
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description: The knowledge graph WikiSure governs: approved business definitions, the governance concepts that make them durable, and the AI concepts that depend on them.
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description: Meaning is the shared interpretation a term has across the people, systems and AI that use it. In an enterprise, meaning is what determines whether a decision is consistent or not.
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subject of: Meaning is anchored by Canonical Definitions
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has defined term: Semantic Governance
has defined term: AI Alignment
has defined term: Meaning Infrastructure
has defined term: AI Agent Governance
has defined term: Enterprise Meaning Management
has defined term: Customer
has defined term: Risk
has defined term: Claim
has defined term: Incident
has defined term: Policy
has defined term: Partner
has defined term: Product
has defined term: Compliance
has defined term: Control
has defined term: Exposure
has defined term: Approval
has defined term: Ownership
has defined term: Accountability
has defined term: Consistency
has defined term: Governance
has defined term: Alignment
has defined term: AI Agent
has defined term: Context Resolution
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  description: Shared Meaning → Shared Understanding → Trusted Collaboration → SynsureTech
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    from: WikiSure — The semantic foundation of meaning
    steps:
      label: Shared Meaning
      note: WikiSure governs one approved meaning per term, inside the enterprise.
    steps:
      label: Shared Understanding
      note: Parties that resolve to the same definitions can interpret the same situation the same way.
    steps:
      label: Trusted Collaboration
      note: Shared understanding is the precondition for collaboration that does not require reconciliation.
    to: SynsureTech
      note: SynsureTech is the Coordination Graph. It extends trusted collaboration across enterprise boundaries — on top of the Meaning Graph WikiSure has already governed.

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description: Shared meaning is the state in which humans, systems and AI agents — across teams, partners and ecosystems — interpret the same business term in the same approved way. It is the substrate that turns coordination into trust.
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Canonical Definitions
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description: A canonical definition is the single approved version of a business term — versioned, owned by an accountable person and made available in the same form to humans, applications and AI agents.
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Meaning Resolution
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Semantic Drift
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description: Semantic drift is the silent divergence of meaning that happens when the same business term is independently re-defined across teams, applications, contracts, dashboards and AI models.
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Semantic Governance
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AI Alignment
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description: AI alignment is the practice of ensuring that AI systems behave consistently with the organization's intent — including the meaning of the business terms they reason about.
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  description: AI cannot stay aligned without one approved meaning per business term.
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Meaning Infrastructure
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description: Meaning Infrastructure is the layer that captures, governs and serves the approved meaning of business terms to every human, system and AI agent in the enterprise. It treats meaning the way modern enterprises treat identity or data: as a first-class infrastructure layer, not as documentation scattered across decks and wikis.
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AI Agent Governance
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description: AI Agent Governance is the discipline of ensuring that every AI agent acting inside the enterprise resolves shared business terms to the same approved meaning — and that its decisions can be traced back to that meaning.
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Enterprise Meaning Management
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description: Enterprise Meaning Management is the practice of managing the lifecycle of approved meanings — proposal, approval, versioning, resolution, retirement — across the whole enterprise, so every team, system and AI agent operates from the same semantic baseline.
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  description: approved business definitions are the unit being managed across the enterprise.
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Customer
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description: A customer is a party that has an active commercial relationship with the organization. The exact scope — prospect, active, lapsed, household, legal entity — varies by team and system.
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Risk
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  description: regulatory obligations often extend to the conduct of partners.
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  description: many incidents trigger specific compliance obligations.
  value: Incident
subject of: Compliance depends on Semantic Governance
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: depends on
  description: compliance becomes defensible only when the meaning of terms is governed.
  value: Semantic Governance

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-level
value: 2

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-priority
value: important

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-parent
value: Business Definitions

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-future-node
value: Compliance Evidence

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-future-node
value: Regulatory Definition Mapping

Control
type: DefinedTerm
description: A control is a deliberate mechanism that prevents, detects or mitigates a risk. Every control implicitly relies on definitions of the entities it acts on.
additional type: entity
subject of: Control implements Compliance
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: implements
  description: controls are how compliance obligations are operationalized.
  value: Compliance
subject of: Control is monitored for Incident
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: is monitored for
  description: controls exist to prevent, detect or mitigate incidents.
  value: Incident
subject of: Control mitigates Risk
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: mitigates
  description: controls are the practical response to defined risks.
  value: Risk
subject of: Control depends on Semantic Governance
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: depends on
  description: control effectiveness depends on stable meanings of the entities controlled.
  value: Semantic Governance

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-level
value: 2

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-priority
value: future

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-parent
value: Business Definitions

Exposure
type: DefinedTerm
description: Exposure is the quantified extent to which the organization stands to be affected by an adverse outcome. It can be expressed in monetary, capacity or contractual terms.
additional type: entity
subject of: Exposure consumes Claim
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: consumes
  description: claims consume the exposure carried under policies.
  value: Claim
subject of: Exposure is bounded by Control
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: is bounded by
  description: controls are designed against defined exposure thresholds.
  value: Control
subject of: Exposure is carried by Policy
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: is carried by
  description: policies are the carriers of exposure in the portfolio.
  value: Policy
subject of: Exposure quantifies Risk
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: quantifies
  description: exposure is one of the primary ways risk is measured.
  value: Risk

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-level
value: 2

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-priority
value: future

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-parent
value: Business Definitions

Approval
type: DefinedTerm
description: Approval is the act by which an accountable owner certifies that a business definition is the one the organization will operate against. It transforms a candidate definition into the authoritative one.
additional type: entity
subject of: Approval creates Accountability
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: creates
  description: approval is the moment accountability for a definition is fixed.
  value: Accountability
subject of: Approval promotes a definition to Canonical Definitions
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: promotes a definition to
  description: approval is what turns a candidate definition into the canonical one.
  value: Canonical Definitions
subject of: Approval is granted by Ownership
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: is granted by
  description: only an accountable owner can issue an approval that holds.
  value: Ownership
subject of: Approval is an act of Semantic Governance
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: is an act of
  description: approval is one of the core operational acts of semantic governance.
  value: Semantic Governance

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-level
value: 2

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-priority
value: future

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-parent
value: Semantic Governance

Ownership
type: DefinedTerm
description: Ownership is the assignment of a named, accountable party responsible for the meaning of a business term — its content, its currency and its resolution.
additional type: entity
subject of: Ownership establishes Accountability
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: establishes
  description: ownership is how accountability for meaning is made concrete.
  value: Accountability
subject of: Ownership grants Approval
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: grants
  description: the owner is the party empowered to approve a definition.
  value: Approval
subject of: Ownership stewards Business Definitions
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: stewards
  description: owners are the stewards of business definitions over time.
  value: Business Definitions
subject of: Ownership is the basis of Governance
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: is the basis of
  description: no governance regime works without clearly assigned owners.
  value: Governance

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-level
value: 2

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-priority
value: important

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-parent
value: Semantic Governance

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-future-node
value: Definition Owner Role

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-future-node
value: Ownership Transfer

Accountability
type: DefinedTerm
description: Accountability is the property that, for every approved business definition, there is a named party answerable for its meaning, its currency and the decisions taken on its basis.
additional type: entity
subject of: Accountability is anchored by Approval
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: is anchored by
  description: the approval record is where accountability is captured.
  value: Approval
subject of: Accountability is required by Compliance
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: is required by
  description: regulators require accountability for the definitions used in reporting.
  value: Compliance
subject of: Accountability is the goal of Governance
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: is the goal of
  description: governance exists to produce demonstrable accountability.
  value: Governance
subject of: Accountability is made concrete by Ownership
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: is made concrete by
  description: ownership is the operational expression of accountability for a definition.
  value: Ownership

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-level
value: 2

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-priority
value: important

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-parent
value: Semantic Governance

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-future-node
value: Accountability Record

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-future-node
value: Audit Evidence

Consistency
type: DefinedTerm
description: Consistency is the property that the same business term carries the same approved meaning across every team, system, contract and AI agent that uses it.
additional type: entity
subject of: Consistency is the foundation of Alignment
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: is the foundation of
  description: alignment between humans, systems and AI starts from consistent meaning.
  value: Alignment
subject of: Consistency is produced by Canonical Definitions
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: is produced by
  description: consistency follows automatically when every actor resolves to the canonical definition.
  value: Canonical Definitions
subject of: Consistency is enforced by Meaning Resolution
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: is enforced by
  description: resolution is how consistency is achieved at runtime.
  value: Meaning Resolution
subject of: Consistency is broken by Semantic Drift
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: is broken by
  description: drift is the gradual loss of consistency that resolution exists to reverse.
  value: Semantic Drift

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-level
value: 2

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-priority
value: future

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-parent
value: Semantic Governance

Governance
type: DefinedTerm
description: Governance is the system of ownership, approval and oversight by which an organization manages how decisions are made. Applied to meaning, it determines what business terms mean and who can change them.
additional type: entity
subject of: Governance is exercised through Approval
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: is exercised through
  description: approvals are how governance decisions about meaning are recorded.
  value: Approval
subject of: Governance underpins Compliance
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: underpins
  description: compliance is one of the regimes that depends on governed meaning.
  value: Compliance
subject of: Governance operates through Ownership
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: operates through
  description: governance is exercised by named owners, not by committees alone.
  value: Ownership
subject of: Governance is specialised as Semantic Governance
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: is specialised as
  description: semantic governance is the application of governance to meaning itself.
  value: Semantic Governance

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-level
value: 2

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-priority
value: important

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-parent
value: Semantic Governance

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-future-node
value: Governance Operating Model

Alignment
type: DefinedTerm
description: Alignment is the state in which humans, systems and AI agents act on the same intent — starting from the same definitions of the business terms involved.
additional type: entity
subject of: Alignment is the AI-specific form of AI Alignment
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: is the AI-specific form of
  description: AI alignment is alignment extended to autonomous systems.
  value: AI Alignment
subject of: Alignment depends on Consistency
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: depends on
  description: alignment is impossible without consistent meaning across actors.
  value: Consistency
subject of: Alignment is rooted in Meaning
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: is rooted in
  description: alignment starts with shared meaning of the terms in play.
  value: WikiSure — The semantic foundation of meaning
subject of: Alignment is enabled by Semantic Governance
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: is enabled by
  description: governance of meaning is what makes durable alignment possible.
  value: Semantic Governance

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-level
value: 2

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-priority
value: important

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-parent
value: Semantic Governance

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-future-node
value: Cross-Functional Alignment

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-future-node
value: Cross-Enterprise Alignment

AI Agent
type: DefinedTerm
description: An AI agent is an autonomous or semi-autonomous system that interprets inputs, reasons about business concepts and takes actions on the organization's behalf.
additional type: entity
subject of: AI Agent must achieve AI Alignment
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: must achieve
  description: agents acting in the enterprise must be aligned on the meaning of business terms.
  value: AI Alignment
subject of: AI Agent depends on Context Resolution
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: depends on
  description: agents need a way to resolve ambiguous terms at runtime against approved meaning.
  value: Context Resolution
subject of: AI Agent calls into Meaning Resolution
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: calls into
  description: agents resolve terms through the same resolution layer that humans and systems use.
  value: Meaning Resolution
subject of: AI Agent is amplified by Semantic Drift
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: is amplified by
  description: ungoverned agents are a fast source of new semantic drift inside the enterprise.
  value: Semantic Drift

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-level
value: 2

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-priority
value: important

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-parent
value: AI Alignment

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-future-node
value: Agent Definition Resolver

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-future-node
value: Agent Governance Boundary

Context Resolution
type: DefinedTerm
description: Context resolution is the act of selecting the approved meaning of a business term for the specific context in which it is used — a process, a contract, a regulatory regime, an AI agent's task.
additional type: entity
subject of: Context Resolution is required by AI Agent
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: is required by
  description: agents need contextual resolution to behave correctly across different tasks.
  value: AI Agent
subject of: Context Resolution selects from Canonical Definitions
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: selects from
  description: context resolution picks the canonical definition that applies to the situation.
  value: Canonical Definitions
subject of: Context Resolution is the contextual form of Meaning Resolution
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: is the contextual form of
  description: context resolution narrows generic resolution to the specific context of use.
  value: Meaning Resolution
subject of: Context Resolution is governed by Semantic Governance
  type: PropertyValue
  property ID: is governed by
  description: context-specific meanings must themselves be approved and governed.
  value: Semantic Governance

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-level
value: 2

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-priority
value: future

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-parent
value: AI Alignment

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-future-node
value: Context Profile

PropertyValue
property ID: architecture-future-node
value: Context Negotiation