Ontologue - Philosophy is all you need

Cyril Soler-Bonnet

Philosopher & AI Ontologist
Building Conceptual Architecture for AI Systems
Founder, éditions localement transcendantes

Philosophy is all you need.

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AI first disrupted my translation business, then recruited me.

After watching generative AI upend my profession in 2023, I chose to understand the technology from the inside. My philosophy background (Sorbonne) and 700+ hours evaluating language models for Anthropic gave me deep insight into how these systems structure knowledge.

That experience revealed something fundamental:

AI doesn't have a technology problem. It has a conceptual architecture problem.

You want to think outside the box?
You have to see the boxes first.

That's what philosophers have been teaching for 25 centuries. And it's what businesses need most today—someone who can map the conceptual structures that determine what's possible.

Most consultants know either philosophy OR technology. I studied formal logic and mathematical foundations at Sorbonne, then left academia to become an independent philosopher—which taught me how business actually works.

I'm an ontologist. I do that work.

Before AI can understand your business, someone has to map its conceptual structure—modeling what exists, how it relates, what constraints apply. That's ontology, drawing on formal logic, category theory, and graph theory.

What I Do

I build semantic infrastructure for companies with proprietary knowledge bases.

Recent work: TUIO payment platform (20,000+ users)

  • 263 pages scraped and indexed (PostgreSQL + pgvector)
  • 855 semantic chunks, 659 vector embeddings
  • 15 Wikidata entries establishing authority signals
  • Production RAG system with Cloudflare Workers

The real bottleneck isn't technology. It's understanding what your business actually does, what makes it distinct, and how to represent that knowledge in ways AI systems can discover, cite, and build upon.

That requires someone who sees the boxes first.

Background

Work With Me

I work with companies that have proprietary knowledge bases and need AI systems to understand them.

EdTech. HealthTech. Enterprise knowledge management.

If you're sitting on unique data and need someone to map its conceptual structure, let's talk.

Email: [email protected]

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