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Dr. Oliver Grasl

transentis runs its own business on metapad. This post opens up two of our working models — a marketing model that holds our strategy, brands and content as a queryable graph, and a masterdata model that acts as a digital twin of the practice, with a real-time view of our sales, project and financial KPIs. A worked example of the workOS pattern, from the inside.

Dr. Oliver Grasl

Your notes are everywhere and nowhere — scattered across apps, folders and half-finished systems. We show why a knowledge graph makes a better second brain than a pile of documents, walk through metapad's features for personal knowledge management, and give you a Zettelkasten-style template you can fork and make your own.

Dr. Oliver Grasl

Prospects keep trying to fit Metapad into a category it doesn't belong to. The clearest definition is sometimes the negation: Metapad is not a wiki, not a spreadsheet, not a whiteboard, not a static diagramming tool. What it is is a tool for building computational knowledge graphs — connected, living, queryable, conversable maps of an enterprise that you can talk to and watch grow as the conversation unfolds. The graph doesn't just describe your business — it runs it: at transentis we use these graphs for marketing, masterdata (our internal digital twin), CVs and project references, systems documentation, and — with our clients — their operating models. Websites, manuals, RFPs, and dashboards are projections of the same graph.

Dr. Oliver Grasl

Most conversations with an LLM end when the tab closes — and most of the thinking that happened in them goes with the tab. We use Metapad to fix this: every conversation becomes a typed graph the next conversation can read. This post walks through the loop we've settled into — conversation, metamodel, graph — and why it changes how the team thinks together.

Dr. Oliver Grasl

What if you could track every step of your supply chain—from ingredient to finished product? What if you could instantly understand how changes at one supplier affect your entire production line?

Dr. Oliver Grasl

What if you could have a conversation with your entire business? What if every strategy session started with perfect knowledge of how every piece of your organization connects, competes, and creates value? We've built an enterprise ontology of a carsharing business and transformed it into an intelligent knowledge graph that you can actually talk to.

Dr. Oliver Grasl

We haven't written a single line of Metapad's code by hand. Every component, algorithm, WebSocket handler — generated by AI, guided by humans. Here's how the process actually works, and what it taught us about where engineering is going.

Dr. Oliver Grasl

Are metamodels and ontologies different disciplines or the same idea in different vocabularies? More overlap than most people realize — but the differences matter. Metapad's choice: metamodeling as the interface, with ontology-grade expressiveness underneath.

Dr. Oliver Grasl

60–70% of enterprise transformations fail to hit their objectives — not because the vision was wrong, but because no one truly understood the starting point. The fix: build a model first, then explore, design, and transform with confidence.

Dr. Oliver Grasl

Spreadsheets flatten relationships, documents bury them, relational schemas freeze them. Knowledge graphs make connection itself first-class — and that's why they matter for AI, for complex enterprises, and for the questions strategy actually has to answer.