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.
- Clientholds →Account
- Clientmember of →Household
- Companyemploys →Client
- Advisormanages →Client
- Accountcustodied at →Institution
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.
Entities, relationships, actions
Every ontology is built from three primitives — the building blocks of how your business works.
Entities
The things that matter to your firm — clients, households, companies, advisors, accounts, products — named and resolved into one durable record each.
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.
Actions
What can be done — outreach, cross-sell, risk review, advisor assignment. The ontology makes every action grounded, contextual, and ready to automate.
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.
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.