Understand the Estate Before Anything Runs.
You cannot deliver an outcome reliably without understanding the goal, the current state and the gap. Planning and Discovery build that understanding from an interview, your documents and your systems, and propose a plan the business approves. Nucleus is where it accumulates.
What Do We Know, How Sure Are We, and What Is the Gap?
Ariad says how well it understands the outcome, and how to raise that confidence: a specific question, or a service to connect.
Criteria, gap analysis, maps and workforce are generated for review. People approve or reject; an agent regenerates and shows the diff.
What one outcome learns about the estate stays for the next: how each system is reached, which fields are sensitive, which exceptions were approved and why.
Ariad tells you how well it understands the outcome, and what would improve that.
The assessment states Ariad's understanding and a confidence score, with the actions that would raise it: a targeted question, a service to connect. Findings from the interview, documents and connected services sit in one view.
- Three sources, one picture: interview, documents, connected services
- The integration catalog deepens discovery; the plan adjusts to what is found
Every criterion carries a measure, a rationale, a source and its risks. Every change to the plan is a diff you approve.
Each generated criterion carries a measure, a rationale, a source and its risks. New discovery updates the plan as a diff that needs approval. Maps and workforce are generated from the gap and reviewed at map, phase and task level.
- Approve or reject with feedback; an agent regenerates and shows the diff
- Agent configuration reviewed in place: runtime, instructions and guardrails, prompts, tools, triggers, provider and model within your approved set
Current versus target, per criterion. The plan is generated from the distance.
For every criterion: current state, target state, how far closed. The map is built to close that gap, phase by phase, so the plan answers evidence rather than a template.
- Closure per criterion, gap score overall
- Reviewable plan generation from the gap, not from a workshop
The more you connect, the more the next outcome starts knowing.
Nucleus is where the estate's working knowledge lives, available to every outcome on the platform: which systems exist and how each is reached, which data is sensitive, which identities may touch what, which exceptions a person approved and why, and what read what. Discovered at design time, kept current by the work itself.
Not a Data Platform. Not a Dashboard.
You already have a governed data layer; Ariad reads it where it lives. Nucleus holds what the operating model needs: the shape of the estate, the contracts and identities, the lineage, the judgment the work accumulates. Memory inside your environment.
In Your Words.
Is Nucleus a data warehouse or a lake?
No. It reads your governed data layer where it lives and holds the context an operating model needs: estate, reach, identities, contracts, lineage.
Does any data leave our environment?
No. Nucleus runs where Ariad runs: your cloud account, your private Kubernetes or on-premises.
Which edition includes it?
Platform Edition. Scope is agreed with you in the engagement. Planning and Discovery are part of every outcome.
Will it generate insights about our business?
Not today, by design. The order is outcomes first, proof second, insight products when the proven work supports them.
Who approves what Discovery proposes?
The business owner of the outcome. Discovery drafts; people approve, reject or send back, and every change arrives as a diff.