Problem
Intent is repeated
Domain meaning is copied into several layers. Each copy can drift.
Cohesive Systems
Cohesive is a semantic compilation platform for authoring durable system meaning as readable artifacts and accumulating it into an executable semantic system graph.
Building Blocks
Compose your system graph
Each Cohesive block contributes capabilities to the system graph (state transitions, relations, workflows, APIs, UIs, infrastructure, agent context, etc).
Cohesive.Core
public sealed class ShipmentShape : Shape
{
public ShipmentShape()
{
Identity(nameof(Shipment.Id));
Field<TenantId>(nameof(Shipment.TenantId));
Field<ShipmentStatus>(nameof(Shipment.Status));
}
}The problem
Software meaning is scattered
Modern systems express the same decisions in many places: schemas, services, APIs, interfaces, jobs, and documentation.
As the system evolves, those expressions drift apart and the reasoning that connects them disappears into files, frameworks, and conventions. AI increases the pace of change without making the resulting system easier to understand.
Problem
Structure is implicit
Behavior hides in framework conventions and local assumptions. The system's semantics are hard to inspect.
Problem
Agents reconstruct intent
Without explicit semantic source, agents infer intent from code, tests, documentation, and conventions. Those signals may be incomplete, stale, or contradictory.
The Cohesive approach
Cohesive captures system meaning in a directly inspectable graph authored through readable semantic artifacts. The graph expresses structure, behavior, constraints, interfaces, runtime requirements, and agent context. A deterministic compiler turns that model into supported code and runtime artifacts.
Together, the artifacts form a connected graph that people, agents, and compilers can inspect through views suited to their work.
Step 1
Author the semantic graph
Define accepted system meaning, including its constraints and operational obligations, through modular, readable, and reviewable Cohesive artifacts.
Step 2
Connect and analyze
Resolve identities and relationships across the graph, then evaluate dependencies, consistency, capability requirements, and affected regions.
Step 3
Compile and verify
Compile the graph into supported executable artifacts and compare those realizations with their semantic requirements.
Graph-first
Semantic-source-first, not code-derived
Code-derived graphs help navigation, but they are still reverse engineering. They explain code after it already exists.
Cohesive artifacts are authored first. They carry explicit semantics and compile into a graph that can generate or check code and runtime artifacts.
Code-derived graph
Descriptive
Inferred graphs help humans navigate code, but they remain downstream and inherit its gaps.
Cohesive source
Deterministically accumulated
Readable semantic artifacts compile into graph state that can check constraints, guide change, and drive supported projections.
Migration can start from existing code, but the destination is not a permanent mirror. The destination is explicit semantic source whose accumulated graph can govern implementation.
A graph agents can read
Agents use the same graph at build time and runtime.
Build time
Development agents
Use the graph as structured context for generating, refactoring, and testing code from declared semantics.
Runtime
Operational agents
Use the graph to understand allowed actions, effects, permissions, evidence, approval boundaries, and recovery paths.
Semantic layer
A semantic layer above the stack
Cohesive does not replace your database, cloud, frontend, workflow engine, IDE, or agent tool. It defines the semantic layer they can read from and write back to.
The graph describes what the system is; the compiler projects it into the technologies teams already use.
Explore
Try the code
Start with the building blocks and see graph-authored semantics become code and runtime artifacts.
Direction
See the vision
Read how semantic system graphs change authoring, operations, and AI context.
Contact
Get in touch
Share what you are building or ask about applying Cohesive to an existing system.