/ Corner 01
Metadata
Clean, governed contracts so agents know what data and operations actually mean. Without shared meaning, AI hallucinates the schema.
Glomidco / AI & Integration
The thesis
Most AI proofs of concept impress in the demo and stall in production. Not because the models are wrong — because the systems that the AI needs to read, decide on, and act in aren’t ready.
The result is a familiar pattern: a slick chatbot that cannot actually open a ticket, a brilliant document classifier whose output never reaches the system that needs it, an agent that reasons beautifully about data it cannot see. Each of these is an integration failure dressed up as an AI failure.
The reverse is just as true. Integration without AI is yesterday’s stack. The combination — AI grounded in real metadata, acting through real integration plumbing — is where enterprise value actually lives.
The triangle
Three things have to come together for AI to deliver enterprise-grade outcomes. Each on its own is interesting; the three together are transformational.
/ Corner 01
Clean, governed contracts so agents know what data and operations actually mean. Without shared meaning, AI hallucinates the schema.
/ Corner 02
Production-grade agents and reasoning, designed for real workflows with audit trails — not slide-deck demos.
/ Corner 03
Reliable plumbing that lets agents read, decide, and act across the stack. Where most AI projects quietly come undone.
The companies
The triangle isn’t an abstraction. Three independent companies — each founded or co-owned by the same people — address one corner of it. They share a worldview but operate independently, with their own clients and engagements.
That independence is the point. Each company can be hired for its corner alone. When a client genuinely needs two or three corners, the coordination is already there.
Metadata
Digitect Innovation B.V.
Bridges Enterprise Architecture and APIs through governed metadata. A four-layer approach — relational data, hierarchical data, message models, API contracts — that exports to OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, WSDL and RAML.
ec-api-design.comAI
Laava B.V.
Production-grade AI systems that integrate with the existing stack. Agents that read documents, classify and formulate, and take action in your systems — with approval where needed and a full audit trail.
laava.nlIntegration
Glomidco B.V.
Independent middleware consultancy — plus the open-source UTL-X transformation language and Open-M integration platform, and the commercial Glomidco XBRL Processor product line.
You are hereIn practice
For most AI projects worth doing, the work breaks down along the three corners. A typical engagement looks something like this:
The first two without the third is a demo. The third without the first two is a pipe with nothing useful flowing through it. All three together is the difference between an AI proof of concept and an AI capability.