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Yurii Rashkovskii outside Plug and Play wearing an 'AI INFRA / Inferal' attendee badge
company7 min read

Palantir for the Rest of Us

Why we stopped pitching Inferal as a database and started pitching it as operational intelligence.

Yurii Rashkovskii
Yurii RashkovskiiFounder
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A field coordinator uses visual, audio, tactile, and ambient interfaces while a software system responds through a wetland floodgate.
perspectives8 min read

Interaction Is Not Interface

Applications have been the center of software. AI gives us a chance to put the person, their role, and their goal there instead.

Yurii Rashkovskii
Yurii Rashkovskii
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A futuristic ontology expert surrounded by incompatible diagrams, captioned: One Million Ontologies. And Still No Shared Definition of Customer.
perspectives5 min read

One Million Ontologies

Our systems already disagree about what things mean. Inferal is designing for a million small ontologies that make those differences explicit enough to act on.

Yurii Rashkovskii
Yurii Rashkovskii
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engineering4 min read

Time Is Part of the Business Logic

When a business rule includes time, the system can act at the relevant boundary instead of polling every day.

Yurii Rashkovskii
Yurii Rashkovskii
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Nighttime operational map showing vessel routes converging on a port and branching through inland economic networks
perspectives5 min read

What Rules Know That Code Forgets

Rules make business logic visible. Implication graphs make consequences traceable. That difference matters when every operational decision has a downstream path.

Jeremy Tregunna
Jeremy Tregunna
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Robotic hands operate e-commerce tools connected through a glowing network inside a head silhouette.
product5 min read

Building Context-aware AI agents for E-commerce

AI agents can call APIs and make decisions, but they have no model of how your business runs. That gap is an operational model problem, and it's what Inferal solves.

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Vish V
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NASA Mission Control workstation with an amber CRT monitor displaying a branching rule engine diagram
tutorial8 min read

What NASA Knew About If/Else That You Don't

In 1985, NASA built a rule engine called CLIPS. Forty years later, it still has lessons for every developer whose business logic is buried in procedural code.

Yurii Rashkovskii
Yurii Rashkovskii
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Streams of blue data converge at a luminous junction and depart along bright routes across a city at night.
perspectives6 min read

Fresh Data In, Fast Decisions Out

Most rule engines failed to gain adoption because database integration was weak. In today's fragmented data landscape, getting data in and decisions out isn't optional. It's the foundation.

Yurii Rashkovskii
Yurii Rashkovskii
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Thousands of birds form an emergent, flowing shape in a blue dusk sky.
perspectives8 min read

Code Is the Wrong Abstraction

Temporal, DBOS, Windmill, and Lambda Durable Functions solve state durability. But code itself is the problem: workflows aren't sequences you build. They emerge from conditions. And code can't express emergence.

Yurii Rashkovskii
Yurii Rashkovskii
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A small robot faces a wall covered in instructions, with three yellow notes highlighted among hundreds of white pages.
engineering7 min read

Why AI Agents Ignore Your Instructions

We ran experiments to find out why AI agents forget project-specific rules. The results were surprising: less is more, prohibition beats reframing, and recognition doesn't equal adherence.

Yurii Rashkovskii
Yurii Rashkovskii
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Streams of data converge into a glowing geometric core on a dark field.
perspectives5 min read

Understanding Agent-Native Data Systems

Traditional databases follow a request-response pattern that leaves agents waiting, ignorant, and inactive. Agent-native systems flip this model.

Yurii Rashkovskii
Yurii Rashkovskii
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engineering6 min read

Inferal Workspace Architecture: How We Work

A deep dive into our Git-based workspace that combines knowledge management, multi-repository operations, and AI-native integration through MCP servers.

Yurii Rashkovskii
Yurii Rashkovskii
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