Intelligence infrastructure

Build AI your customers can trust.

Governed domain intelligence for enterprise data, AI product infrastructure, and investment decisions.

Where we work

Data Harmonization
Enterprise semantic control plane

For enterprise organizations managing post-acquisition integration, multi-system fragmentation, or AI deployments that are underperforming. Hypericum installs governed domain intelligence that replaces inconsistent taxonomies with versioned, auditable structure.

AI Product Infrastructure
Classification layer for software products

For software vendors whose AI features stall in production because client data means different things across different implementations. Hypericum builds the governed semantic layer your AI operates against, so the feature ships and the outputs can be trusted.

Investor Intelligence
Curated knowledge for investment and strategy

For investors and strategy teams who require proprietary signal and structured market knowledge rather than commodity data feeds. The structured foundation that makes AI-driven investment intelligence defensible and auditable.

Insights
Sector analysis and research

Hypericum's research and analysis across enterprise data, AI product infrastructure, and investment intelligence. Perspectives on classification, AI readiness, and the semantic layer that connects them.

Where the gap is

Every AI system depends on the layer beneath it meaning what it should mean. Most tools govern everything except that layer.

AI features · LLM · RAG · Agentic workflows
Classification layer Hypericum
Transformation · dbt · data pipelines
Master data · MDM · records governance
Raw data · source systems · APIs
The gap

Transformation tools move data. MDM governs master records. Semantic layers define metrics. None of them govern what your entities, categories, and concepts mean across systems, clients, or acquired portfolios.

That is the classification layer. It is what your AI operates against. Without it, every system above it, however well built, is reasoning from inconsistent inputs.

Hypericum builds and governs the classification layer other tools depend on but do not provide.

Who we work with

"Our data is structured. It just doesn't always mean the same thing in different systems."

"Our AI features perform in demo. Across our client base, they are not reliable."

"Our investment models are only as good as the classification layer beneath them. That layer isn't governed."

Our team

Technical work led by Professor Scott Deerwester, inventor of Latent Semantic Analysis and a foundational contributor to AI embeddings and semantic search.

Professor Scott Deerwester
Inventor of Latent Semantic Analysis. Founding father of AI embeddings and semantic search.
Mark Baines
Founder. Decade in large-cap PE at Onex, $30bn+ AUM. Player-manager at PE-backed portfolio companies.
Andrew Jillings
Exited founder. Scaled Tigers Logistics to $300m revenue, acquired by JAS.
Dr. Yabebal Fantaye
Pioneer in predictive AI. Chair, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
Michael Eagleton
PE-backed infrastructure and SaaS. Investor turned founder/operator.