This is work we do together, in earnest.
The engagement has succeeded when your own team can carry it further without us.
Your specialists’ time is the real cost of the engagement
Not our fees — your team's calendars. Expect senior specialists in working sessions on a regular rhythm. If that time can't be committed, the work will not hold.
Only your own specialists decide what counts as fact — not an AI
The system holds claims and their evidence. It never adjudicates — a curator or a subject librarian does. Anyone telling you a machine can do that research is selling you a liability.
This is a design exercise before it is a technology one
The hard part is reaching agreement on the names and terms each department has held quietly for decades. There is no shortcut, and it is a good chance to finally talk about it.
We won't take this on as an outsourced digitisation project
If you want a firm to go away and return with a finished knowledge graph, we're the wrong partner — and work like that tends to be abandoned within a year anyway.
We don't do institution-wide big-bang programmes
One collection, one enquiry, end to end — then widen. Modelling everything at once is how these projects die.
If this is close to what you have been thinking, let's find a time.
90 minutes. Bring your curators or librarians, and one question your institution couldn't answer.
Or write directly — hello@neogens.co