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Research

What is Decision Intelligence — and why Gartner rates it transformational in 2025

Gartner classified Decision Intelligence as transformational for the first time in the 2025 AI Hype Cycle and published a dedicated Magic Quadrant. We take the definition apart and explain why the discipline is moving out of the research haze and into the boardroom right now.

Leonardo Bornhäusser

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Research

Why we bet on ontologies — and what we think Palantir gets right

When data is fragmented and decisions run across system boundaries, no bigger LLM helps — a shared vocabulary does. We show why ontologies are the backbone of traceable AI, and what lesson we draw from the Palantir model, without giving away the methodical details of our own work.

Leonardo Bornhäusser

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Team & Company

How cNode came to be — from a startup operating system to a decision-intelligence backbone

cNode did not begin as a vision but as our own tool. An MVP consulting practice became an AI wrapper, that became a startup platform, and in the end — through an honest look at our own competitiveness — a scientifically grounded decision-intelligence platform for the mid-market.

Leonardo Bornhäusser

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Policy & Regulation

The basics: data protection, AI regulations — and what the AI Playbook EU does about them

Before any model goes live, the fundamentals must be in place: GDPR, EU AI Act, industry-specific regulations. We show what really matters — and how our AI Playbook EU shortens organizations' path to audit-readiness, with legal support in the background.

Leonardo Bornhäusser

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Policy & Regulation

Ontologies in the public sector — how formal models make compliance verifiable

Public authorities and municipalities need AI that not only works but stays traceable. We show how ontology-based architectures pull compliance requirements from GDPR and the EU AI Act directly into the system structure — and why exactly that makes the difference between a pilot and production.

Leonardo Bornhäusser

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