We start narrow and deliberately: one exhibition question, reference enquiry or provenance investigation that a specialist genuinely tried and abandoned. Your people are in every session, not briefed afterwards. Durations are the typical shape and are scoped per institution.
Your leadership and our team choose the enquiry worth answering first — usually one that crosses two or three departments and has defeated everyone who tried it.
A knowledge map: what the institution holds, what it doesn't, and where the gap is costing you.
Working sessions where your specialists make explicit what has always been implicit, and settle terminology departments have quietly disagreed on for decades.
An ontology your institution authored and owns, aligned to your existing vocabularies, plus the governance to keep it alive.
Our engineers pair with your systems staff to build the graph, connect the records that feed it, and answer the Phase 0 enquiry on top of it.
A real answer with its evidence trail attached, and the know-how behind every design decision in it.
Your team takes the next collection the whole way with us watching, then does the one after that alone. New collections attach to what exists rather than replacing it.
A knowledge management capability of your own — not a dependency on an outside firm.
How you know it worked: your team models the next collection without us. That's the deliverable — the graph is only the evidence that the capability transferred.
90 minutes. Bring your curators or librarians, and one question your institution couldn't answer.
Or write directly — hello@neogens.co