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Most enterprise software is organized by department. HIVO is organized around the thing the company earns from: the project, the container, the asset. Every department sees the same object from its own angle.

An operational site from above, with the model's lattice drawn over it

The operational system of record for enterprise AI

We have built your shape before

We do not start from a blank page. An operational business runs on a shape we have built before, and the work is fitting it to what you actually do.

That is why deployment is measured in weeks, not quarters.

These are the questions a manager asks about a project, a building, a shipment or a production order. The object changes. The questions do not.

  1. What did it cost?

    Committed, spent and forecast, in one number the finance team recognises.

  2. Who approved it?

    The decision, the person who made it, and the day it was made.

  3. What governs it?

    The contract it sits under, not the folder somebody filed it in.

  4. Where does it stand?

    One state the whole organization works from, instead of four departments each holding their own.

Answering them today means asking four departments and reconciling what comes back. From one record they are a single question with a single answer, and an agent can act on it without being told what the data means.

  1. The invisible layer

    Discovery produces the specification, agreed with every department before anything is built.

    You never see this layer. Everything above it depends on it being right.

  2. The visible layer

    The model becomes the management system of the organization. Workflows, departmental views, controls, and the interfaces people use every day.

    It is also why the record stays current. The work happens inside it, not alongside it.

Someone sits inside the organization until it works

A forward deployed engineer (FDE) works inside the client's operational environment.

  1. 01 / 05

    Map departments

  2. 02 / 05

    Connect existing systems

  3. 03 / 05

    Run pilots

  4. 04 / 05

    Train teams

  5. 05 / 05

    Stay through adoption

Every organization has a different data structure and different people at the edge.

This is the difference between a system that was delivered and a system that is used.

Two people working through an organization's processes, seen through a glass wallInside the client's operational environment

Three things require judgement and agreement every time:

  1. Lifecycle states and approval rules

    What counts as done, and who signs off.

  2. Semantic conflicts between departments

    Which department's word for the same object becomes the record's.

  3. Field-level mapping into existing systems

    Where each number actually lives today, and which one the record trusts.

Everything below them can be generated.

Saying so is the difference between a claim and a promise.

Reading your systems is easy. Writing back into them - safely, with approvals - is the hard part.

Retrieval systems answer questions. HIVO changes the state of the business.

The model layer is swappable by design. Models will keep improving and getting cheaper.

The structured account of how one company works only becomes more valuable as more of the organization depends on it.

The record compounds

See how the model gets built inside a real organization

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