30. Where it came from

Semantic Engineering was assembled over eight years of client work at Accion Labs, from 2017 to 2025. In 2017, an internal Accion Labs framework called Breeze set out what product owners, UX designers and architects need to produce. Teams maintained the Breeze documents by hand, and tended to drop them under deadline pressure. In 2022, on a drug-discovery project for a pharmaceutical client, connecting the AI model to a knowledge graph kept its hallucinations, the answers it invents, under control. In 2023, the knowledge-graph approach became a commercial platform, KAPS, used across customer engagements. By 2024, the Breeze guidelines had become the four layers of the knowledge graph, with agents built around them, in a platform named Breeze.AI. The method took the name Semantic Engineering in 2025. The framework and concepts of Semantic Engineering are public and free to apply. The methodology runs on Breeze.AI for new and existing applications, and on ASIMOV for legacy modernization. Teams can adopt the methodology with Accion Labs, and an engagement can start with a two-day workshop.

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