A new structure, grounded in applied Data, analytics, machine learning and decision systems. 20+ years turning data & machine learning into business decisions.
The path is conditional: a difficult problem starts in Works, a repeatable system finds its place in Atelier, and only autonomous software enters Arcana. Field Notes keeps the evidence visible throughout.
91,515 horse-racing profile cards, one entity graph, one bounded narrative layer — the vertical is just the demonstrator.
Case: Entity-360 · production data, aggregated & anonymized
91 515profile cards generated & cached
THE PROBLEM
Rich data. A hard read.
A racing catalogue holds history, form, rivalries, comments and pedigree. The challenge isn’t writing more text — it’s making the signal legible at the right moment.
Content must follow business reality, not the other way round.
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THE METHOD
The model doesn’t calculate. It verbalizes.
Facts are prepared upstream in a structured base. The model receives a bounded context and produces a controllable narrative — the card is then stored, not regenerated on every read.
Fidelity is a property of the architecture, not a prompt setting.
SQL / FACTS→LLM / NARRATIVE→API / CACHE
ENTITY-360
The card is only the visible surface.
One pivot table gathers current state, aggregates and proximities. It becomes a contract shared by recommendations, the API and the content layer.
One entity. Several readings. Zero duplicated logic.
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AT SCALE
Industrialized. Still under control.
91,515 cards generated and cached, refreshed only when a business event justifies it — expert-validated on sampled review.
Figures cover content generation only, not total operating cost.
98%expert-validated on samples
ATELIER / LORE
One vertical. One general pattern.
The same engine becomes Customer-360, Company-360 or Asset-360 elsewhere. This is the proof behind Hocus Lore — contextual content at scale.
Proprietary engines & agents. Multiplying the work.
Hocus has built a small team of specialised engines and agents. Each handles a distinct kind of work; together they extend the team across Works, Atelier and Arcana.
AcquireGremlin
Signals, sources and market inputs.
Understand / DecideDecision engines
Business reasoning, including Stolas and future engines.