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Retrieval Is Not Enough: Why Organizational AI Needs Epistemic Infrastructure

Carlo Ferrero, Federico Bottino, Nicholas Dosio, Pierfrancesco Beneventano

Organizational AI is limited by missing epistemic structure in knowledge rather than by retrieval quality alone.

arxiv:2604.11759 v2 · 2026-04-13 · cs.AI

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Claims

C1strongest claim

the ceiling on organizational AI is not retrieval fidelity but epistemic fidelity--the system's ability to represent commitment strength, contradiction status, and organizational ignorance as computable properties.

C2weakest assumption

That the added epistemic metadata and the Knowledge Gravity Engine can be maintained at acceptable cost in real organizations and that the claimed convergence and quality gains survive when token budgets are equalized.

C3one line summary

OIDA adds typed knowledge objects, decay-based importance scores, contradiction edges, and an inverse-decay QUESTION primitive for ignorance to raise epistemic fidelity beyond retrieval.

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First computed	2026-05-25T02:02:15.187166Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Canonical hash

daff6a791d65a88ffdfebf2f5eadc512a28ae985574813c619893629f2c15c8b

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arxiv: 2604.11759 · arxiv_version: 2604.11759v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2604.11759 · pith_short_12: 3L7WU6I5MWUI · pith_short_16: 3L7WU6I5MWUI77P6 · pith_short_8: 3L7WU6I5

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