6 Key Concepts for Building a Company Brain
femke_plantinga · x · 2026-07-14
Many teams simply connect a bunch of MCPs without actually building a "Company Brain." This post outlines 6 essential concepts for constructing an enterprise knowledge system:
- Knowledge Graph: Connects relationships between people, projects, decisions, customers, and product domains to provide AI with structured context.
- MCP: A protocol that lets AI connect to tools and execute actions, but "having access" doesn't equal "having memory."
- Skills: A higher-level task orchestration logic above MCP, used to define the steps needed to complete specific work.
- Hybrid Search: Keyword search + semantic search, solving exact matching and semantic understanding respectively.
- Agentic RAG: RAG equipped with routing, validation, and dynamic decision-making capabilities.
- Company Brain: A continuously updated, permission-controlled, and contextually coherent shared knowledge system that both AI and humans can rely on to work.
The author's core takeaway is that the competitive focus in 2026 won't be adding more AI touchpoints, but rather giving AI a shared brain.
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