Semantic infrastructure practice·est. 1996

AI, search, and platforms read your business as well as your data layer describes it.

I help businesses become coherent to machines — so every surface reading your inventory, products, or content gets a consistent, governed signal. One canonical source. Everywhere.

Operating across
Content ManagementPoint of SaleProduct & Content FeedsAd StackDiscovery & Search
01 · Where the practice operates

The machine-readable business stack.

Every layer reads from the one below. Most businesses don't have a canonical layer — they have a collection of stove-piped platforms each maintaining their own partial, inconsistent version of the same inventory.

↑ Layer 05Discovery & Search
GooglePerplexityChatGPTClaude
↑ Layer 04Ad Stack
SSPsDSPsAd ServersDMPsOpenRTBIAB 3.0
↑ Layer 03Product & Content Feeds
Product FeedsContent FeedsMRSSFAST FeedsSitemaps
↑ Layer 02Point of Sale
POSERPOMSIMS
↑ Layer 01Content Management
CMSDAMMAMPIMDXP
→ Canonical Data LayerThis is where we work
One governed source of truthEvery layer above reads from it
02 · The engagement ladder

Symptom to coherent signal, in five moves.

Most engagements begin when something stops performing and no one can explain why. The ladder turns symptoms into a governed system — one rung at a time.

1Symptom

Things aren't working. Traffic dropped. Feeds rejected. AI surfaces get you wrong. Agencies couldn't explain why.

3Build

Design and build the canonical data model above your existing platform. The platform stays. The governed layer is new.

4Conform

Wire every surface to read from the same source. Search, programmatic, distribution feeds, AI — coherent signal everywhere simultaneously.

5Optimize

Continuous loop. GSC signals, SERP changes, new AI surfaces, feed spec updates. The layer stays current without manual intervention.

03 · Entry engagement

The Multi-Surface Inventory Audit.

A structured diagnostic of how your business is represented across every machine-readable surface. Most businesses have never had this done. It usually explains everything that hasn't been working.

2-week engagement · Concrete deliverable

One source of truth, six surfaces audited, one remediation roadmap.

Designed for specialty commerce, hospitality, and founder-led businesses — not just enterprise. AI-native implementation means the cost is significantly lower than comparable infrastructure work from a consultancy.

You receive
  • Visual systems map of every machine-readable surface
  • Contradiction report — surface by surface
  • Priority matrix ranked by impact and effort
  • Recommended canonical model
  • Remediation roadmap with sequencing
01

Structured data

JSON-LD, OG tags, schema accuracy and completeness.

02

Taxonomy consistency

IAB, product categories, entity labels across surfaces.

03

Feed conformity

Google Merchant, Roku, Amazon, ad stack — spec alignment.

04

AI discoverability

How AI systems currently represent your business.

05

SEO / AEO / GEO gaps

Entity coverage, intent alignment, citation readiness.

06

Contradiction mapping

Where surfaces are reading different things about the same inventory.

04 · Proof in production

Same methodology. Different inventory.

From CTV streaming at 8M users to a specialty bike shop in Seattle — the same canonical-layer methodology, sized to the business.

STIRRflagship · CEO

Streaming · CTV · FAST · Vodlix

The most complex version of the problem at production scale. Per-surface SSAI validation, Roku / Iris / Google TV feed conformance, brand suitability signals, AI surface enrichment. Every surface reading from the same canonical model.

IAB 3.0OpenRTB 2.6FAST feedsSEO/AEO/GEO
8M+
Monthly users · zero paid acquisition
Metier Seattlepaying client

Specialty retail · cycling · Shopify + Lightspeed

Canonical data layer above Shopify and Lightspeed. Editorial voice encoding, product copy optimized for search and AI surfaces, closed-loop GSC optimization.

ShopifyLightspeedSEO/AEO/GEOEditorial AI
250+
Products enriched · GSC impressions up MoM
Go-Cottagelive deployment

Cottage rental · WordPress · hospitality inventory

Canonical layer above WordPress for travel and hospitality inventory. Entity enrichment for AI search, structured data for discovery surfaces, continuous optimization loop.

WordPressTravel searchSEO/AEO/GEO
3
Surfaces governed from one canonical model
05 · The lineage

Thirty years of machine-readable media.

The methodology isn't a pivot to AI — it's the same thesis, finally cheap enough to deploy outside the enterprise.

1996
Busy Box · MPEG-7 standards committee

First practical systems for embedding metadata into digital media files. ISO MPEG-7 participant — in the room where machine-readable media description was formally defined as a standards problem.

origin of the thesis
2009
Magnum Photos

Unlocked $20M in latent print sales by reconciling 10M archive prints to known metadata via image annotation and Linked Open Data.

WiredThe AtlanticMIT Tech ReviewNYT
2010
Tagasauris · NEH grant · patent

Human computation platform for semantic media annotation at archive scale. Patent: task-agnostic integration of human and machine intelligence.

2014
HyperTED · EU Horizon 2020 · EURECOM

EU-funded research. Fragment-level entity annotation, cross-content hyperlinking for TED Talks. Required a consortium and five external APIs. Now runs in a single LLM prompt.

research foundation for current methodology
2019
SEEEN PLC · LSE: SEEN

Video AI taken public on the London Stock Exchange. 10× improvement in Google Search funnel metrics via governed structured data and semantic conformity.

2024
STIRR — acquired from Sinclair Broadcasting

8M+ monthly users. 70+ local news stations. Full canonical data layer running in production. The most advanced proof of the methodology.

8M+
Monthly STIRR users
$30M+
Raised · 3 exits
$20M
Unlocked at Magnum
3
Verticals in production

Make your business coherent to machines.

Start with a multi-surface inventory audit. Two weeks. A complete picture of where your machine-readable signals contradict each other — and a roadmap to fix them.