Let there be truth in your data.
Most organizations spend heavily on building faster data plumbing, yet still struggle to trust their reporting or AI. Forcing the complex, interconnected reality of a business into rigid tables strips away crucial context.
We call this The Fidelity Gap.
At fiatlux.io, we fix the meaning of your data, not just the movement of it.
Closing the Fidelity Gap
We partner with technical and business teams to design data ecosystems that accurately map real-world operations. We help organizations stop treating data as a byproduct to be stored, and start treating it as a high-fidelity model of their business reality.
Our advisory practice focuses on:
- Semantic Architecture: Moving beyond brittle schema-on-write systems to flexible, context-rich frameworks.
- Ontology Design: Defining the universal language and structure of your specific business reality.
- Knowledge Graphs: Bridging the gap between raw data and actual meaning to make your data trustworthy, scalable, and ready for advanced reasoning and AI.
- Data Strategy: Untangling complex legacy environments and optimizing modern data stacks without adding unnecessary administrative bloat.
About the Principal
David Schofield provides candid, practical guidance to technical leaders navigating critical architecture decisions.
Drawing on over 20 years of experience in data engineering and architecture—including leading the teams that built the foundational streaming analytics and ETL platforms at Netflix—David specializes in evaluating complex environments and managing large-scale infrastructure transformations.
Today, his work is exclusively dedicated to semantic architecture: helping teams transition from rigid relational models to systems built on truth and context.
Connect
Ready to mind the gap in your data architecture?
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: David Schofield
Manifesto: The Fidelity Gap: Why Your Modern Data Stack is Lying to You (Link to article)