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Aug 13, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Knowledge Compilation: The Semantic Layer Enterprise Agents Need

The article introduces knowledge compilation as a critical preprocessing step that transforms scattered enterprise documents into structured semantic assets—ontology graphs, LLM wikis, SOPs, fault trees, or data semantic layers—tailored to industry needs, and describes an iterative explore-review-confirm process enabling agents to reason accurately over business concepts, boundaries, and evidence.