From a pile of records to something you can assess
Intelligence, in practice, is structured information with its sources still attached.
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Most of the difficulty is not the model. It is the distance between a pile of records and a view someone can assess without guessing how it was made. That distance is the system: ingestion, processing, analysis, and a form of output that can be checked.
A knowledge graph, a set of extracted entities, or a reviewed brief are different faces of the same requirement. Each one should let a reader move from the claim to the material. If that path is missing, the output is only a summary.
Alitas treats this path as engineering. The stages are explicit so they can be changed, limited, or audited when the work requires it.
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