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FeaturedMar 15, 2026/ 10 MIN READ

Garbage In, Garbage Out Is Simple to Understand but Difficult to Execute

Everyone gets the concept of Garbage In and Garbage Out. What's difficult is clearly filtering - what's garbage and what's not.

Vivek Khandelwal
Vivek Khandelwal· Chief Business Officer, CoFounder @ CogniSwitch
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[AI Safety]Mar 8, 2026

Phantom Human-In-The-Loop

Every enterprise AI pitch ends with "Don't worry, we have a human in the loop." But human-in-the-loops today feel like performance theater.

Vivek Khandelwal
Vivek Khandelwal
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[Compliance]Feb 13, 2026

Guardrails — Status Quo vs What's Needed

Everyone claims having guardrails for their agents yet pilots get blocked. What do the guardrails do vs what's needed?

Vivek Khandelwal
Vivek Khandelwal
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[Compliance]Feb 6, 2026

Evals Are NOT Audits

Evals are being looked at as the missing piece in the AI stack. For most part, they are. But to close the feedback loop, you need a more deterministic output.

Vivek Khandelwal
Vivek Khandelwal
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[Research]Jan 30, 2026

Ontologies: What They Are, Why They Matter Now

The spotlight is on ontologies, semantic layers, and taxonomies. These are familiar to data practitioners but for the rest — overwhelming. A plain-language breakdown.

Vivek Khandelwal
Vivek Khandelwal
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[Research]Jan 22, 2026

Neuro-Symbolic AI — A Practitioner's Taxonomy

Five architectures. Six dimensions. A simple framework that starts with your workflow — not vendor pitch decks.

Vivek Khandelwal
Vivek Khandelwal
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[Research]Jan 19, 2026

Context Graphs: The Missing Piece from Pilot to Production?

Context graphs capture what people actually do. But without reconciling with SOPs and policy, you're routing around the problem — not fixing it.

Vivek Khandelwal
Vivek Khandelwal
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[Research]Dec 10, 2025

CogniSwitch: An Ontology-Governed Approach to Enterprise AI

We are building CogniSwitch for organizations where inconsistent AI gets you fired - or fined. This is how we approached the problem of deterministic, auditable enterprise AI.

Vivek Khandelwal
Vivek Khandelwal
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[Compliance]Dec 1, 2025

The End of Deploy and Pray

After 3 years of ChatGPT, Gartner analysts, investors and most importantly, enterprises are still asking the question they should have asked earlier: when does it all get real?

Vivek Khandelwal
Vivek Khandelwal
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[Product]Oct 1, 2025

Intelligence Migration is NOT Possible

Can you export not just your data, but the intelligence layer - all the learned relationships, orchestration logic, and reasoning patterns?

Vivek Khandelwal
Vivek Khandelwal
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[Research]Dec 1, 2023

Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Journey Towards Collaborative Intelligence

A founder who built Expert Systems in 1989 explains why LLMs and Knowledge Graphs need each other - and why vector databases alone won't fix hallucinations.

Dilip Ittyera
Dilip Ittyera
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