Beyond the Model: Anchoring AI in the “Knowledge Garden” of Human Wisdom

India AI Impact Summit #1

My journey with AI technologies is more than a decade old now- starting well before the LLM days In recent conversations, I am often asked – “Which model would you recommend to address this problem?” or “We have no doubts about AI’s capabilities. But , do we have enough data?” and more recently, “Which roles or persons would this AI initiative replace?”

We, at Intellect Design Arena Ltd, looked at it differently. We started with our first principles thinking augmented by human centric design thinking principles. We therefore reflected on how organisational processes run and decisions are made – so that the resultant design could create true Business Impact.

It is well established that structured data constitutes a small part of Organisational intelligence, with unstructured data complementing it with a larger share. AI technologies harness these well. We believe that the most valuable part of organisational knowledge, however, is with Human capital – undocumented principles of judgement, Human memory that is contextualised to each situation and invisible decision logic that guides many situations. AI’s impact will be hugely limited if we do not discern these and translate them to a scalable architecture

We therefore saw AI not replacing, but leveraging and further augmenting and amplifying human potential. We started by applying “Empathy”, a key ingredient of Design Thinking, to understand how humans, think, analyse, consult, collaborate and decide.

The Enterprise Knowledge Garden EKG design – arises from this belief of anchoring collective organisational knowledge and establishing an explicit, shared, governed knowledge base from the tacit roots it emerges from – which could then be leveraged at scale

Purple Fabric, our Business Impact AI platform builds on this foundation , further equipped with Digital Experts, robust security and governance – all essential for creating an Enterprise wide Impact

We are participating in the India AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam , New Delhi between 16th and 20th February. I look forward to building on this conversation with Business leaders and policymakers on how this “Made in India” platform can make a difference to proliferate AI’s impact responsibly and at scale for Global Corporations