How to Build a Context Layer and a Company Brain
Machine Learning How to Build a Context Layer and a Company Brain What it actually takes to turn a company's scattered knowledge into something an LLM can reliably use — and why the demo is 5% of the work. The demo version is a weekend project: chunk documents, embed them, retrieve top-k on cosine similarity, paste into a prompt. It works impressively well on the first ten questions — then falls apart in production, quietly.
- ▪Machine Learning How to Build a Context Layer and a Company Brain What it actually takes to turn a company's scattered knowledge into something an LLM can reliably use — and why the demo is 5% of the work.
- ▪The demo version is a weekend project: chunk documents, embed them, retrieve top-k on cosine similarity, paste into a prompt.
- ▪It works impressively well on the first ten questions — then falls apart in production, quietly.
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Machine Learning How to Build a Context Layer and a Company Brain What it actually takes to turn a company's scattered knowledge into something an LLM can reliably use — and why the demo is 5% of the work. Tomer Mesika Jul 30, 2026 11 min read Share Image by Jeroen Overschie via Unsplash Every company that adopts LLMs arrives at the same idea: “What if the model knew everything we know?” The warehouse schemas, the Notion pages, the Slack threads where decisions actually get made, the tribal knowledge about which table is deprecated and which column lies. A company brain. The demo version is a weekend project: chunk documents, embed them, retrieve top-k on cosine similarity, paste into a prompt.
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