Step Zero reads your files and systems, maps the people, processes, and facts inside them, and builds a connected knowledge layer that powers every AI tool on top.
Step Zero ingests your business data — documents, spreadsheets, emails, chat, databases, recordings — and discovers the entities, relationships, and structure inside it.
No predefined schema. No manual tagging. No configuration. The entities, relationships, and document types emerge from your data through AI-powered extraction and clustering.
The ontology isn't an input — it's an output.
Every step is automated. Every decision is auditable. The system requires no schema, no seed data, and no domain expertise.
Point Step Zero at your data sources. Documents, spreadsheets, emails, chat logs, databases, CRM records, recordings — any format, any system. Modality-specific adapters handle the rest.
Every file type is parsed through modality-specific adapters into a common representation. Adaptive chunking splits content at meaningful boundaries — headings, topics, tables — preserving context and coherence.
AI reads every chunk and identifies the entities and relationships inside it — people, products, processes, events, organizations. The extraction is deliberately open-ended: no predefined ontology constrains what gets found.
Duplicate mentions collapse. "Jane Park", "J. Park", and "the CFO" merge into one canonical entity. Entity types, relationship types, and document categories cluster and refine through AI-powered resolution — embedding similarity, contextual signals, and LLM validation working together.
A coherent knowledge graph crystallizes. Extraction schemas emerge per document type. Targeted re-extraction fills gaps. The ontology — entity types, relationship types, document categories — is an output of the process, not an input.
The graph powers any downstream application — assistants, automations, chatbots, search, analytics. Incremental updates keep it current as new data arrives. No full re-processing. No downtime.
Not a static database. Not a document store. A connected, queryable representation of your entire business — people, products, processes, and the relationships between them.
Confidence isn't a feeling. It's a number that propagates through every layer of the system.
Every entity, relationship, and answer traces back to specific document chunks. Confidence scores propagate from extraction through resolution to the final response.
Every merge, split, and classification decision is logged with the AI's reasoning. Full reproducibility. Know exactly why the system made every choice.
Respects source-level access controls out of the box. Users and AI tools only surface information they're authorized to see. No leaking across permission boundaries.
Step Zero handles every format your business actually uses. Modality-specific adapters parse each one into a common representation.
Word, PDF, TXT, Markdown
Excel, CSV, Google Sheets
Any IMAP/SMTP provider
Slack, Teams, Discord
CRM, ERP, custom SQL
Calls, recordings, meetings
Public sites, intranets
REST, GraphQL, webhooks
Custom formats, proprietary systems — if it has data, Step Zero can read it.
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It starts with a 15-minute demo.