The facts
The domains, the glossary, the classifications, the owners you argued about for two years — they are the hardest part of a model to produce, and you already produced them. Nodwise reads them in and gives them somewhere further to go. Keeping your existing catalog running as a data source is your option, not a requirement.
What comes in
Three sources cover most of an organisation's typed reality, and none of them has to be authored by hand:
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Your data catalog
02
Your HR system
03
Your identity provider
All three arrive through Remote Services — and where it runs is your call.
source behind the firewall
source reachable over the internet
And because those nodes are read rather than authored, they cannot drift from their source. When something disappears upstream the node is demoted to Missing from Source — not left standing as a fact that quietly stopped being true.
Where your catalog ends
Strategy & Impact
Human Resource
Business
Governance & Compliance
Data & Knowledge
Application
Technology
Physical Assets
External Entities
Artificial Intelligence
This is not a gap your catalog failed to close. It is the edge of what it was built to cover, and it was the right edge to draw. Data & Knowledge is one of ten organisation dimensions, and it is the one your catalog does well.
The other nine are where the questions live that nobody can currently answer: the machine on the factory floor, the legal obligation, the sales process, the model in production, the person who is the only one who knows how any of it fits together. They are not badly governed. They are not in a model at all.
Nodwise takes what your catalog knows as the starting point and extends the same typed grammar across the other nine — so a question can cross from an asset to the process that consumes it, to the person who owns that process, to the obligation it satisfies.
What becomes answerable
Nothing new was authored. The questions below are answerable the day after the import, because each one is a path across nodes that were already there — they were simply in three systems that could not see each other.
Which critical task can only one person perform?
Which certified assets are owned by someone who has left?
If this system goes down, what stops — and who needs to know?
Who approved this, and did they hold the mandate at the time?
None of these is a report you commission. They are queries against a model that already holds the answer.
The third term
A model built from three systems is accurate on the day it is built. What keeps it true — and what turns it from something you query into something that reaches you — is the third term.