Before an AI can be trusted with your business, it has to actually know your business. Not know about it — know it. The way a new hire knows it after a year on the job.
The usual fix is to paste in everything you've got — the wiki, the README, exports of Slack messages — one long catchall document, hoping enough of it sticks. That's context stuffing. It doesn't teach an AI your business. It pads the context window with raw text the model has to wade through on every query.
Organized retrieval works the other way — hand over only what's relevant, already structured and versioned. This machine ready context is faster, cheaper and more accurate. Compared to standard retrieval, it costs a third of the tokens for the same or better accuracy: 215 per query versus 655 to 725, per PromptOwl's own published research.
Today we are releasing a new tool to help you create that structure — Distill. Found in our Magic Context Builder, distill builds that structure for you, automatically. Distillation is an old idea — take something raw and mixed, apply heat, and what remains is the essence. Whiskey works this way. So does Distill.
Point it at a website, a GitHub repo, or a folder of documents. Distill reads through what's there and pulls out the structure — the concepts, and how they connect to each other. What's left is an ontology, or how to best organize topics for AI knowledge management.
An ontology is a bunch of buckets and how the files inside each bucket relate to other files. To put this idea in human terms, just picture your friend group. Nobody connects to just one other person. If you have five friends, they will all have their own unique relationships. Two of those five are dating each other. Three of them play on the same soccer team. One of them is also your neighbor. Draw all of that out and you get a web, not a line.
An ontology works the same way for your business. Instead of people, it's the pieces — how your team does something, who's responsible for it, why you decided to do it that way in the first place. Those pieces connect in more than one direction too: the reason behind a decision shapes how the work actually gets done, and more than one person ends up responsible for carrying it out.
That's the map Distill hands you — the facts about your business, plus how they relate to each other. Go ahead, and see what it does for you.
But you no longer start from nothing. You start from a real map — accurate enough to be useful, yours to refine — instead of a blank page.
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Note: While the results are pretty good, context is an ongoing, iterative process. And humans should review this context. Treat it as a starting place and a draft at that. Somebody still has to look at it and decide what belongs. Context keeps changing, the same way your business does.