Occam is the next-generation data platform that puts you in control of your business data. Built on a powerful human-language-driven architecture, Occam captures the full structure and meaning of your business logic and uses it to build the exact system your business needs.
With Occam leading the advancement of modern information system design, it is now significantly cheaper, faster and lower risk to build exactly what you need. You no longer need to accept a system created in a different era by someone who doesn’t understand your business, for a world that no longer exists.
Data unified across three major systems in ten days; 50 new business processes; integrated with inventory hardware; warehouse management system finally unjammed.
IoT data platform built for ML/AI; v1.0 in three weeks; corrects anomalies across IoT data; unified with external and internal datasets; deep new meaning in source data.
National Kauri Dieback data platform emerged from a two-week unification of 100+ Excel files across multiple government agencies and local councils; accessible, adaptable solution.
Why Occam?
Occam enables faster, clearer decisions with data that actually reflects your business. Occam models how you see the world, not how someone else thinks you should. Built on a platform that adapts with you — no more costly rework, no more patches.
The Occam platform
Occam uses human language not just to describe the system, but to build the system. We call this ‘metadata as execution’: business logic, data structure, and relationships all expressed as metadata, then compiled into systems that are consistent, scalable, and easily modified.
That’s what makes Occam different — and why it stays robust even as your business evolves, no matter how your data, processes, or priorities change. This flexibility and simplicity is entirely unique to Occam.
Occam replaces the traditional patchwork of databases, spreadsheets, and siloed applications with a single, dynamic platform that enables real-time visibility, compliance, and decision-making at scale
With Occam, your data reflects how your business actually works, not how a developer once modelled it. When the business changes, your system evolves with it. No rewrites. No reinvention. No breakages. Just clarity, consistency, and total confidence in the data you use to make decisions.
Legacy systems were never designed for AI. Their foundational data models — built decades ago on rigid, siloed structures — can’t support the complexity, agility, or context that AI demands. Occam is different. It provides AI with what it really needs: clean, connected, meaningful data. No hacks, no translators, no brittle layers.
That’s why Occam doesn’t just support AI — it makes AI make sense.
“Data engineering is largely unchanged since the relational database was commercialised in 1979 — and it’s long overdue for a fundamental shift. Everything IT has done in data engineering so far has been a prototype. It’s time for Data 2.0.”
Occam Founder, Steven MacLeod
The Occam Framework
The Occam framework does not push you in one direction and force pre-defined relationships on you.
When building your world:
Your problem has been solved.
Model entities, rules, and relationships in human-readable logic.
Occam compiles your metadata into an organic, constantly evolving system.
Bring your siloed or third-party data into alignment with your model.
Modify logic, categories, or relationships — the system adapts.
AI Agentic AI can flow effortlessly through the entire stack without the need for interpretation.
Need to keep legacy systems running? Or retire brittle systems that no longer serve you? Occam supports both. Integrate where needed and replace where it counts — so you can adapt and improve on your terms.
FAQ
Occam can be hard to label, because it isn’t just another tool in the stack. It’s a foundation. So yes, you can do what you imagine — only faster, cleaner, and future-proof.
Yes — but not in the old sense. Traditional information systems are built app by app, stitched together with connectors and middleware.
Occam generates the information system itself from metadata and ontology, giving you a single, coherent foundation where meaning and execution stay aligned.
Occam goes beyond warehousing. It unifies operational and analytical data in the same model.
The warehouse is always consistent with live operations — no pipelines, no reconciliation, no lag. Analytics are a by-product of the system, not a separate stack.
Yes — but Occam is bigger than CRM. CRMs describe leads and sales cycles. Occam models all relationships: customers, partners, suppliers, regulators, and teams.
You can generate a CRM if you want, but Occam gives you a universal relationship model that scales across the enterprise.
Yes. Logistics, finance, HR, environmental data, IoT — all can be expressed as ontology.
Because the Universal Data Model spans domains, Occam adapts horizontally across industries without re-engineering. One foundation, infinite use cases.
Occam works for any organisation serious about clean, coherent systems. It’s especially powerful for enterprises dealing with silos, technical debt, or AI readiness.
Whether you’re modernising legacy stacks or building new ones, Occam adapts to where you are.
Yes. Business logic evolves — and with Occam, your system evolves too.
Update the ontology once, and the database, APIs, analytics, and apps regenerate automatically. No rebuilds. No breakage. Change is absorbed, not resisted.
Occam generates web applications — but it’s more than that. It produces the full stack: database, APIs, logic, UI, and analytics.
The application isn’t hand-coded; it’s generated from metadata, making it consistent, secure, and adaptable.
Low-code platforms speed up development, but they still rely on humans writing logic on rigid schemas.
Occam flips the model: the ontology defines the system, and the system generates itself. That’s not low-code — it’s no-code at the foundation.
Yes. The metadata model is the system. When you define your business logic, Occam generates the database, the APIs, the UI, and the reporting — instantly.
Implementation isn’t a separate project; it’s automatic.
Traditional bespoke apps fail because they’re hand-coded and brittle. Occam is different. Every app is generated from the same ontology, so change in one place is reflected everywhere.
You get the flexibility of bespoke without the fragility.
Absolutely. Occam is AI-native by design. AI needs structured, consistent, human-readable definitions to operate effectively.
Occam provides that foundation, so AI can reason with business logic directly — safely, deterministically, and at scale.
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