TECHNICAL OVERVIEW

NexDiscovery Intelligence Platform

From raw spreadsheets to verified, board-ready business insights — fully automated.

IN

Client data files & API connectors

CSV and Excel exports from operational systems or API connectors — no manual prep required.

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AI

Multi-agent pipeline

Seven specialized agents plan, query, verify, and enrich every insight.

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OUT

Trusted insights

Verified findings with charts and context — ready for leadership decisions.

NexDiscovery · Intelligence Platform
WHY IT MATTERS

The business challenge

Organizations sit on rich operational data, but turning it into reliable insights takes months of expertise time — and results are hard to trust at scale.

Before
  • • Manual data cleaning and schema mapping
  • • Ad-hoc SQL and one-off dashboards
  • • No automated data quality checks
  • • Lack of time & resources to explore and correlate data
  • • Insights that aren't verified against source data
  • • Weeks per analysis cycle
With NexDiscovery
  • • Automated ingest, normalization, and relationship mapping
  • • AI-generated themes and investigative questions to find insights
  • • Automated data quality checks
  • • Every claim verified against query results
  • • Repeatable pipeline — run new scenarios on demand based on your context
PLATFORM AT A GLANCE

How the platform works

Three orchestrated stages transform raw files into enriched insights. Each stage runs automatically on a single server, inside secure Docker containers.

Raw Data

CSV / Excel / API

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STAGE 1

Smart Sampling

Load into database

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Graph Map

Structured store

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STAGE 2

Schema Analysis

Map relationships

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STAGE 3

Intelligence Pipeline

7 AI agents → Insights

Orchestrated by Prefect 3 · Docker containers · Single VM
Raw files & API → Smart Ingest → Schema map → AI analysis → Verified Insights
Schema Graph (tables & joins) feeds the Intelligence Pipeline alongside the structured database.
EXECUTION ORDER

Three deployments, one end-to-end flow

Each stage is a self-contained workflow triggered from a central operations dashboard. Stages run in sequence; outputs feed the next.

1

Database Ingest

What: Loads data & file smart samples into a single analytical database.

AI: None — fast, deterministic, repeatable.

Output: Structured raw database ready for analysis.

2

Schema Analysis

What: Discovers tables, columns, relationships, and business meaning.

AI: LLM interprets column semantics and join paths.

Output: Enhanced relationship graph (the map of the data).

3

Intelligence Pipeline

What: Runs seven specialized agents to produce verified insights.

AI: Task-specific agents with validation gates.

Output: Themes → questions → SQL → insights → enrichment.

THE INTELLIGENCE ENGINE

Multiple A.I agents, each with a clear job

Agents run in a fixed order. Every LLM output passes through deterministic validation — so insights are checked against the actual data, not just generated text.

Agent 0

Builds business context from the schema graph and analysis goal

Agent 1

Cleans data, fixes types, validates joins, profiles quality

Agent 2

Generates analytical themes aligned to the business directive and data map

Agent 3

Creates investigable questions per theme

Agent 4

Plan and executes a business and technical plans against the database and assumptions

Agent 5

Produces board-ready insights and verifies every claim

Agent 6

Enriches insights with additional contextual data

Context+DQ (0&1) → Themes (2) → Questions (3) → Investigation (4) → Verify (5) → Enrich (6)
TRUST BY DESIGN

Why leadership can rely on the output

Trust mechanisms
  • • Verification gates: Agent 5 checks every numeric claim and chart against query results
  • • Deterministic validation: Themes, questions, and SQL plans are validated before proceeding
  • • Full audit trail: Every run produces timestamped artifacts (plans, queries, reports)
  • • Resumable runs: Skip completed stages and rerun only what changed
Example scenario (NGO)

"Find the strongest patterns that explain why some sites sustain engagement and others don't."

Scenario presets
  • • Site performance
  • • Staffing
  • • Financial sustainability
  • • Donor engagement
  • • Youth programs
  • • Marketing ROI

Six pre-built presets — same pipeline, different business questions.

INFRASTRUCTURE

Built for operational simplicity

The entire platform runs on a single VM. No cloud sprawl containers are pulled once and reused.

Orchestration

Workflow orchestration with a web dashboard for triggering and monitoring runs.

Data Mapping and Graphs

Two production container images — pipeline and schema analysis — version-pinned for stability.

Data Storage

Fast, file-backed analytical database. No separate database server to manage.

LangChain / LangGraph · Task Specific LLM · Agent concurrency: 3 slots · Secrets in host .env only · Artifacts per client & scenario
SUMMARY

Raw data in. Verified insights out.

NexDiscovery Intelligence automates the full journey from client spreadsheets to leadership-ready findings — with AI agents that plan, query, verify, and enrich every result.

Client CSV/Excel
& API connectors

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Ingest

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Map schema

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Multiple AI agents

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Verified enriched
insights