Data architecture, productized

The home your data lives in.

AI performance is bounded by data architecture, not model capability. Every institution still designs that architecture by hand, by whoever is in the room, and then fixes the outputs when they go wrong. Sloie fixes the roots: how each fact is created, stored and controlled, for all of your data, so the operation it was made for runs faster and the decisions built on it can be trusted.

Example:
All your data, on bedrockClients, products, transactions, contracts, people, claims, each on a floor of given facts: countries, currencies, entity types, materials, that were never yours to invent.
Cure in the processControls at the point where data is created, not a cleanup after the report. Wrong values bounce at entry.
Operations first, insight followsData is stored the way its operation needs it. Decisions read from the same place, so they agree with the business.

How a wrong decision gets made

Ask a simple question. Watch the answer get stitched together.

Nobody at the institution is careless. The number is wrong because the answer had to be assembled from five systems that never agreed on what a client, a merchant, a member or a part is. A model does the stitching in seconds and sounds certain. Pick a question.

The science

How much of your data should be structured? There is a right answer.

When a fact is structured and already aggregated, the answer is a lookup: cheap, exact, the same every time. When it is not, a model has to reassemble the number from pieces on every question, paying compute each time and getting it wrong in ways nobody can see. Structure everything and you pay to columnize material that never needed a column. The right amount is between, it is different for every kind of data, and finding it is the work our mathematicians do.

share structured → cost per correct answer
1.0×near the sweet spot for this data

Roots, not outputs

Data comes from somewhere. Fix it there.

Every fact in your institution was created by an operation: an account opened, a trade booked, a claim filed, a contract signed. Most data programs fix the report at the end. Sloie fixes the root: how the fact is created, where it is stored, and what controls it passes on the way in. The cure is part of the process, not a cleanup after it.

Given facts first

Some data was never created by your operations. Countries, currencies, legal-entity types, medicine and disease names, building materials, zoning classes. These exist before your first transaction and they are the bedrock: fixed once, controlled forever, different per industry.

Stored for its operation

A fact is stored the way the process that made it needs it: an account balance as an event, a rate as a timestamped attribute, a legal name as an identity fact. That is what makes the operation fast.

Read for decisions

Insight is not a second copy of the data and not a model's reconstruction of it. It is a lookup over the same home the operation writes to, so the board number and the operational number cannot disagree.

Controls at entry

A country code not in the list, a rate in the wrong unit, a product without an owner: caught when written, at the source system, not discovered three months later in a reconciliation.

The tech house, not the data dump

We do not clean the output and hand it back. We restructure the ground the company's systems are built on, so what they produce is right by construction.

What Sloie actually does

Reads your data. Builds the home. Keeps it standing.

Nothing moves and nothing new is installed in your stack. Sloie reads your systems where they are, then hands back the structure underneath them, in formats your systems already speak.

1 · Reads

Read-only access to your sources: the CRM, the core system, the spreadsheets, the documents. Every field is catalogued: what it is, where it lives, how many other places hold the same fact.

2 · Finds what is wrong

A list of specific defects, with the rows behind each one: the same client under three spellings, a rate in two units, a product code the catalog does not know, a total nobody can reproduce. Not a score. A list you can act on.

3 · Fixes what has a right answer

Countries, currencies, identifiers, dates, units: corrected against the reference they belong to, logged against the source, and guarded by a control so the wrong form cannot come back.

4 · Asks you the rest

What "parent" means. Which rating scale is authoritative. Whether the group limit covers subsidiaries. A short list of decisions only you can make, each with what it changes downstream. Sloie never guesses these.

5 · Builds one home per fact

Every fact gets exactly one place: on the bedrock of facts everyone agrees on, or in one of three layers above it. Your existing tables keep working as views over that home, so nothing can drift again.

6 · Proves it, then keeps it standing

The number you produce by hand in days comes out in seconds, with a trail to every source row. Then the house is re-checked as your data changes: new fields land already placed, controls stay current, and the number stays right next quarter.

What you receive

The map of your data. The defect list. The fixes and their controls. Your decision list, answered. The home itself, with your tables as views over it. The proof number with its trail. And a standing check that it all still holds.

What you keep

Everything. Your systems, your data, your vendors. The structure Sloie builds is yours in plain SQL, controls and documents. Sloie is what reads, builds and re-checks; the home is yours.

Why now

Models got better. Answers did not.

Restructuring the data underneath a model moves its accuracy more than upgrading the model does; the 2026 benchmarks say so plainly. Yet every semantic layer, knowledge graph and ontology on the market presupposes a substrate somebody else built. Nobody builds it. It is done bespoke, per institution, at cost, and it does not hold.

Sloie builds it, as a product, and keeps it standing.

60%

of AI projects without AI-ready data will be abandoned through 2026. Gartner.

95%

of enterprise GenAI pilots show no measurable return. MIT, 2025.

65→99%

agent accuracy as the data layer goes from documents to deterministic structure, same model. arXiv, 2026.

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home per datum. Our whole position, in a number.

First market: US financial institutions.

We are taking a small number of design partners for counterparty and product data. If you are the person who reconciles the number by hand, we would like to talk.

Become a design partner

Our story

Sloi means layers.

Strata of ground. Strata of a society. The word we chose for the company is the word for the thing we build. It also sounds like slow, and we kept that on purpose: deliberate over fast, work smart not hard, build once so it holds.

1The room
Chapter 1 · The room

Someone always designs the architecture by hand.

Our founder spent years inside the data organizations of global financial institutions, building the entity architecture that a payments network runs on and leading the teams that had to make it hold. The pattern was the same everywhere: combining sources and holding them to a common definition was never a product. It was a project, done by whoever happened to be in the room, redone when they left.

Chapter 2 · The proof

The standard approach compounds its own error.

Merging records into one "best" version sounds right and fails mathematically: every merge inherits the uncertainty of the merges before it. We wrote the proof, and it changed what we thought the product should be. Not a better merge. No merge at all: one home per fact, connected by identity, never collapsed.

Chapter 3 · The models arrived

AI made the cost of a wrong answer visible.

For twenty years a wrong number in a copied column was an annoyance caught at quarter end. Then institutions pointed language models at their data and got fluent, confident, wrong answers, at scale, in seconds. The benchmarks that followed said what we already knew: the ground moves accuracy more than the model does.

"The next order of magnitude does not come from better models. It comes from restructuring the ground they stand on."

Chapter 4 · The house

So we productized the architecture itself.

Sloie plugs into an institution, learns its sources, fixes what has a right answer, outlines what only the institution can decide, and gives every datum one home in a structure built to be extended. Then we stay. A house is not a delivery; it is something you keep building.

Chapter 5 · The science

There is a right amount of structure. We solve for it.

Not everything should be a column. Not everything should be a document. The right amount is different for each kind of data, and finding it is mathematics, not taste. We are building the method once and applying it to one industry at a time: financial services first, then real estate, insurance, engineering, healthcare.

What we believe

Data is correct and on time, or it is not. "Partially accurate" is not a state; the inaccurate part should be removed. Quality is not something you score after the fact. It is something you stop at the source.

What we are not

We are not a tool that sits on top of your data and reports on it. We are not a model that guesses fixes. We are the structure underneath, and we say so plainly.

Where we are

Miami, Florida. Prototype in hand, design-partner conversations open with US financial institutions. English-language product at launch; international to follow.

How it works

Five moves. One house.

Follow a single client record through an institution's systems and out the other side. Every move is deterministic. Nothing is guessed.

Learn: inventory every field and every place it lives

Read-only connectors into your existing sources. Nothing moves and nothing is written back. Sloie catalogues each field, which system owns it, how many other systems hold the same fact, and what each of them thinks it means. The result is your institution's first honest map of its own data.

You see

Every datum, every place it lives, and the ones nobody owns.

We touch

Nothing. Read access only.

Takes

Days, not quarters.

Identify: specific defects, never a score

Every finding is pulled from the data, not generated by a model. It points at the rows that prove it. Each one names a defect type, where it is, and what it does to any number computed downstream: duplicated meaning across systems, conflicting definitions of the same term, units that disagree, free text hiding in structured fields, facts with no owner, totals nobody can reproduce.

You see

A list you can act on, with the source cells behind each line.

Not a score

A fact is correct and on time or it is not. We do not grade the mess.

Typical first run

Defects the institution did not know it had, on data it reports to regulators.

Fix: correct what has a right answer, outline what does not

Countries, currencies, jurisdictions, identifiers, dates, units: these already have one correct form, so Sloie looks it up rather than guessing it, logs the correction against the source row, and put under a control so the wrong form cannot come back in. Everything else is a business decision. Sloie never guesses it. It shows you the options and what each one changes downstream, and you decide. That decision list is how you build the best house for your business.

Fixed against the reference

Facts with one correct form, with a control per field.

Outlined for you

What "parent" means. Which scale is authoritative. Which spelling is legal.

Never

A model inferring a value for a record.

Root: every datum gets exactly one home

Beneath everything, a floor of given facts: countries, currencies, entity types, the vocabularies your industry did not invent and cannot argue with. On that floor, three kinds of data your operations create: facts that do not change, facts that change and keep their history, and things that happened once. Three layers, connected by identity and never merged. Your source tables stay where they are and become views over the rooted structure, so a copy can never quietly drift from its home. Qualitative material stays unstructured, linked to the thing it is about, and searchable.

YOUR SYSTEMS · UNCHANGED CRM · onboarding Core · pricing · risk Spreadsheets · documents read only views back ONE HOME what does not change what changes, with history what happened READS FROM ONE PLACE Models · agents Regulatory reports Your house map controls on the write path: wrong values bounce at entry
Systems are read, never rewritten. Their tables become views over the one home. Everything downstream reads from one place.

Show & keep: the number, with its trail. Then we stay.

The proof is a number you already report and cannot currently reproduce without a spreadsheet and days of work: total exposure to a counterparty family, total balances in a product line. From the rooted structure it is a single traversal, and every dollar traces back to a source row. Then the house map: your whole data universe, clickable, simple enough for anyone to read, where each answer surfaces the next question.

Act 1 · Faster

Days become seconds. Measured on your figure.

Act 2 · Every issue

The defects, and what they did to the number.

Act 3 · Rebuilt

Fixes, controls, decisions, blueprint. Yours to keep.

Act 4 · Insight

What became visible only because the ground was fixed.

A house is not a delivery. As your needs change, we extend the structure and replace what needs replacing. Partnership, not handover.

Which unstructured data gets a home?

Four tests. All must pass.

Not everything that can be extracted should be. A fact leaves a document and gets a column only when it earns it.

Dependency

A hard measurement, control or decision relies on it.

Determinism

It can be pulled out as a fact, the same every time, rather than generated by a model each time it is asked.

Recurrence

It is asked for repeatedly, not once a year.

Ownership

One system can be made its home before extraction, not after.

Industries

One method. One industry at a time.

The mathematics does not care whether the facts are counterparties, claims or load tolerances. The optimum does. We solve it for each industry in turn, and each solution becomes reusable. Click a row.

Financial services

Counterparty, exposure, KYC, product data. Regulated numbers with an existing standard for "correct and on time."

Now · design partners
Where we start because it is where the cost of a wrong number is already written into regulation. Typical first proof: a family exposure or product-line balance that today needs a spreadsheet and days of reconciliation.

Real estate

Properties, titles, leases, valuations. The same hierarchy problem as counterparties, with worse source fragmentation.

Next
A building is a family of entities (parcel, structure, unit, lease, tenant) held in systems that never agreed on an identifier. The rooting method transfers almost directly.

Insurance

Policies, claims, counterparties. Claims are where structuring what was unstructured pays off first.

Then
A claim is a document that contains a handful of facts a deterministic outcome depends on. The four tests decide which ones get a home; the rest stays as the document it is.

Mechanical engineering

Parts, tolerances, test events, maintenance logs. Facts are physical and measurable; the optimum leans structured.

Then
Units and identifiers dominate the defect list. Most of what is wrong has a right answer, which makes engineering unusually fast to fix.

Healthcare

Reimbursement requests, claims, records. The largest qualitative share, so the optimum matters most.

Then
A reimbursement request is the clearest case of a document with a few deterministic facts inside it. Structuring exactly those, and only those, is what makes submission and review faster for both sides.

Talk to us

Become a design partner.

We are working with a small number of US financial institutions on counterparty and product data. If you own a number you cannot currently reproduce without a spreadsheet, we would like to run it through the house.

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