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Your Moat Is Your Data Model — Mike Phipps, Gates Foundation
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Transcript
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- 0:12 Yes, my talk today is about the title, your data models, your moat.
- 0:16 We have an enterprise wide platform that we had just rolled out here this past month.
- 0:21 And so I'll go into details on this.
- 0:24 I'll give you some, hopefully some practical lessons here and why we made decisions we made for this, how you could picture your processes within a similar type of framework.
- 0:35 So first, just a quick introduction.
- 0:38 So this gets into the title here, the talk, and the framing of what I hope you take from this, but with AI moving very fast at the frontier, what's defensible?
- 0:49 You can move, you can build things very quickly with clogged code, but once you push things to production, there's constraints.
- 0:59 You find how much of your deployed stack do you want to actually own?
- 1:04 There's monitoring, there's upkeep,
- 1:06 You know, people building dependencies off your stack that you have to be prepared to handle.
- 1:11 How much appetite do users have for decentralized access?
- 1:14 This gets into, I'll show you what we built, but you know, what's the access point for users?
- 1:21 Is it another chat app?
- 1:22 Is it Claude?
- 1:24 Is it ChatGPT?
- 1:26 Is it something else?
- 1:28 What's your product differentiation from those different SaaS products?
- 1:32 And so our team then, with this context in mind, thought through here, what's our skill set here?
- 1:39 What's our competitive advantage in this environment?
- 1:42 And this is what I really hope that you take from this talk and picture yourself in this.
- 1:47 But our moat here was our understanding of our internal processes, the tacit knowledge that you need to run successful AI.
- 1:57 And this is true, I think, no matter how good
- 2:00 AI gets, how good models get in new releases that different companies put out when, when a mythos comes out or when there's a new app from Claudia, I'm not, I'm not worried because the part that we've built is the defensible part that that's, that's durable.
- 2:15 So these are the, I'll tell you what this means here in more detail, but these are the processes, tacit knowledge that we've modeled into what we call the strategic intelligence platform or SIP.
- 2:26 And it rolled out here this past month in production for enterprise use across the Gates Foundation, so about 4,000 people.
- 2:36 So first, I know this is an engineering talk, but the scope of this talk gets into data modeling, internal operations processes.
- 2:44 And so I wanna give very quick background here over what the Gates Foundation does, because then this is what we're modeling.
- 2:52 So as you're probably familiar, the Gates Foundation has a very wide scope and it's a very ambitious work that we've been doing for the past 25 plus years.
- 3:02 And there's all kinds of broad initiatives that we're doing, whether it's for child mortality, whether it's for nutrition, agriculture, education.
- 3:14 And these are kind of broadly the different buckets that these different initiatives fit into.
- 3:19 Creating market incentives, spurring innovation,
- 3:21 collaboration between public and private sectors.
- 3:24 And then the fourth one here kind of gets into the lens that we're building here.
- 3:30 High-quality data, trying to derive data-driven insights from the actual investments, the grants that we've put out.
- 3:39 And over 25 years, there's a ton of structure, there's a ton of data that's developed, and trying to extract those insights at scale is difficult, and that's what we're trying to solve.
- 3:52 So this slide here is a snapshot of some of the different – of the work that went out in 2023 within the foundation.
- 4:01 This gives you an idea that I just put this here to show some of the structure that we have that we're working across.
- 4:08 So you have over 2,000 grants in one year.
- 4:11 Many of these are 5 million plus.
- 4:14 Many hundred plus countries that are targeted with these grants.
- 4:20 alumni, so there's 4,000 different employees of the foundation, many different strategies within the foundation, the U.S., within the U.S., across almost all the states, grantees, the total annual disbursement over $7 billion.
- 4:37 And so this gives you some idea of structure that we're working with.
- 4:40 And this one just finally here, when I show the data model, this will make more sense, but we have different divisions that funding goes out through different divisions.
- 4:49 And so this breaks down some of those divisions that you can see different priorities and it'll make more sense in a second here, but global development, global health, gender equality, USP are just a sample of the different divisions.
- 5:05 Okay, so the fun stuff here now, I hope.
- 5:07 The strategic intelligence platform, so in a nutshell here, structuring operational data for agentic retrieval.
- 5:17 So we're building a knowledge graph with the idea of the agent consumer.
- 5:24 And here is an end-to-end look of what this looks like.
- 5:27 So we have different systems of record, structured, unstructured.
- 5:33 These have been siloed traditionally.
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- 0:00 The moat question: what stays defensible as AI commoditizes
- 2:32 SIP across the 4,000 person Gates Foundation
- 3:46 The scale: 25 years, $7B a year, 2,000 grants
- 5:15 Structuring operational data for agentic retrieval
- 6:18 Tacit knowledge as the moat: engaging data owners
- 7:09 The curation pipeline and governance
- 8:30 Modeling hierarchies: funding and management lenses
- 12:32 People, org charts, and stitching siloed systems
- 13:49 Combining unstructured documents with structured data
- 15:34 Serving the graph to Claude through MCP
- 17:31 Retrieval evals and the feedback loop