A working model of your institution

Cashmere builds an ontology — a semantic layer that names the entities in your business, the relationships between them, and the actions you can take. It's how disconnected systems finally speak a common language, and how raw data becomes intelligence you can act on.

The semantic layer

Named the way your firm actually thinks

An ontology is the standardized vocabulary of your organization — its nouns and its verbs. Rather than forcing your systems to conform to a predefined schema, Cashmere names what actually exists and how things connect: a client belongs to a household, is employed by a company, is advised by a relationship manager, and holds accounts.

One shared language across every system
Once the semantic layer exists, disconnected platforms can speak a common language — and the full picture of a relationship comes into focus.

Entities, relationships, actions

Every ontology is built from three primitives — the building blocks of how your business works.

Nouns

Entities

The things that matter to your firm — clients, households, companies, advisors, accounts, products — named and resolved into one durable record each.

Verbs

Relationships

How entities connect — who owns what, who advises whom, which households roll up to which institutions. The connective tissue isolated systems can't see.

Outcomes

Actions

What can be done — outreach, cross-sell, risk review, advisor assignment. The ontology makes every action grounded, contextual, and ready to automate.

Co-built

Grounded in how you actually operate

Financial institutions run on undocumented workflows and tribal knowledge — not on the idealized processes in a system diagram. Cashmere builds your ontology on that reality, working alongside your teams to encode the business logic that makes your firm distinct.

Your operations, not a generic template
Off-the-shelf data products can't reflect how your firm defines a household, a relationship, or an opportunity. The ontology can.
Living, not static
As your business evolves, the ontology evolves with it — new entities, relationships, and actions slot into the same shared model.
Why it matters

See the patterns no system can see alone

Without semantic alignment, an institution operates on a fraction of what its data actually contains. With an ontology in place, Cashmere recognizes patterns across domains — linking payment behavior to risk signals to life events — so the intelligence hidden in your systems finally surfaces.

Cross-domain by design
A liquidity event, a held-away asset, and an executive promotion stop being isolated records and become one connected story.