Don't point the LLM at the data — point it at the ontology

Here is the line we keep coming back to. Write it on the wall.

Don't point the LLM at the data — point it at the ontology, and point the ontology at the data.

We have said a version of this since January, when Palantir's Alex Karp put it plainly: buy an LLM off the shelf, point it at your stack, and wonder why it doesn't work. The AIPCon demonstration moves the claim from theory to a national, regulated, food-security deployment. The lesson holds.

And because cheering a competitor's demo is not a business, here is the honest part: the ontology is the product, and most teams are still pointing models at the wrong thing.