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Context Engine

Not your grandma's
old RAG.

TierZero extracts investigation patterns from your operational history and replays them in-context on every request. Hybrid search, graph traversal, and trajectory replay deliver measurably higher recall, precision, and accuracy than RAG.

INGESTION

Learns knowledge and judgment.

Most AI tools ingest documents. TierZero captures structured knowledge and the reasoning traces behind every investigation — how your engineers diagnose, what they rule out, and why they reached their conclusion.

Multi-source capture

Incidents, Slack threads, code reviews, and post-mortems flow in automatically — no forms, no tagging.

Structured memories

Raw signals become typed records with confidence scores, tags, source attribution, and version history.

Reasoning traces

Every investigation path is captured — the branches taken, the branches ruled out, and the root cause found.

Service dependency mapping

Maps service dependencies, team ownership, and blast radius across your infrastructure

Team language mapping

Learns your internal names, abbreviations, and slang. When someone says 'payments' or 'checkout', the agent knows they mean svc-payments-v2 and checkout-service-prod.

Data Sources
Conversations
Incidents
Code & PRs
Documentation
Telemetry
Understand
Entity recognition
Event parsing
Conversation analysis
Structure & Link
Relationship mapping
Trace assembly
Confidence scoring
Knowledge Graph
Services & dependencies
Team ownership
Incident history
Context Graph
Investigation paths
Resolution patterns
Failure signatures
Search Indexes
Vector
Keyword
Full-text
RETRIEVAL

Retrieval that thinks, not just searches.

A query doesn't just match keywords. It walks the knowledge graph, expands through service dependencies, and replays past investigation trajectories to find answers the way your best engineers would.

Hybrid search

Vector, keyword, and summary indexes run in parallel, fused with reciprocal rank fusion for coverage and precision.

Graph traversal

Results expand through the knowledge graph — linked incidents, services, teams, and runbooks surface automatically.

Trajectory replay

Past investigation paths that match the current failure pattern are recalled, adapted, and applied to the new context.

Natural language translation

Ask in plain English. The engine resolves team slang to real services and builds the right Datadog, Grafana, or kubectl queries automatically. No PromQL or query syntax required.

MCP-native tool access

Connect custom MCPs, APIs, internal tools, and proprietary systems.

AGENTIC SEARCH
Query
Hybrid Search
Vector
Keyword
Full-text
Knowledge Graph
Services & dependencies
Team ownership
Incident history
Context Graph
Investigation paths
Resolution patterns
Failure signatures
Context Assembly
TierZero Agent
Output
CONTINUOUS LEARNING

Your agent gets smarter.

When an engineer corrects the agent, that correction becomes a structured memory in the Context Engine. Next time a similar incident occurs, the agent starts from the corrected understanding, not from scratch.

Corrections are structured, not lost

Every correction becomes a versioned memory record with source attribution, confidence score, and linked services.

Patterns compound across incidents

Investigation playbooks are extracted from past resolutions and replayed when the failure pattern recurs.

Visible and auditable

Every learned memory is inspectable, editable, and deletable. No black-box retraining.

1. Engineer shares context
Engineer correcting TierZero's root cause analysis in Slack
Saved to Context Engine
2. Context Stored
Context Engine storing engineer context as a structured fact
ADAPTATION

Measurably better for your environment.

This is not RAG and not fine-tuning. TierZero extracts investigation patterns from your operational history and replays them in-context on every request. The learning loop is mechanical, not magical.

01

Capture investigation playbooks

Every investigation records the full reasoning path: queries run, hypotheses tested, dead ends ruled out, root cause confirmed. These become reusable playbooks, not document chunks.

02

Track what actually helped

Memory attribution links each outcome to the specific memories that influenced it. The system learns which knowledge is foundational to your environment and which is noise.

03

Incorporate engineer feedback

Corrections, reactions, and direct edits to the knowledge graph take effect immediately. Every correction updates the memory the agent references next time.

04

Replay and adapt patterns

When a new incident matches a past failure pattern, the agent replays the successful investigation trajectory adapted to the current context. It starts from your team's best prior work, not from scratch.

IngestRetrieveInvestigateLearnRepeat
Benchmarks

The numbers don't lie.

We evaluated Context Engine across 12,847 real operational queries spanning incident triage, root cause analysis, and service dependency lookups.

+36.8%Recallvs RAG
+121.3%Precisionvs RAG
+58.6%Accuracyvs RAG
0%25%50%75%100%Recall97.3%71.1%Precision89%40.2%Accuracy93.3%58.8%Context EngineRAG

Recall

Measures how effectively the system retrieves all relevant information without missing critical context. Graph traversal surfaces related memories that keyword and embedding search alone would miss.

Precision

Measures how well the system filters noise and returns only relevant results. Confidence scoring and contextual ranking reduce false positives that dilute answer quality.

Accuracy

Measures how often the system produces correct, contextually appropriate answers from retrieved information. Investigation replay and relationship-aware retrieval ground answers in real operational history.

AUDITABILITY

Black boxes have no place in production.

What you can see
The Old Way

Nothing. A thumbs up/down button. Maybe a confidence score with no explanation. You have no idea what the system knows, what it’s missing, or why it gave a particular answer.

Context Engine

Everything. Every memory is a structured record with type, source, confidence score, tags, linked services, and full version history.

How you correct it
The Old Way

You don’t even know the AI used a bad memory. Something wrong slips into the context, poisons the answer, and you have no way to trace it, fix it, or prevent it from happening again.

Context Engine

Tell the AI directly, or edit it in Context Engine. Every memory is a record you can inspect, update, or delete — with full version history and audit trail.

What it becomes
The Old Way

A pile of chunks. Documents get split, embedded, and dumped into a vector store. No structure, no relationships, no memory of past investigations. Every query starts from scratch.

Context Engine

A knowledge graph that compounds. Every investigation adds structured memories and the reasoning traces that connect them.

LONG-TERM TRIBAL KNOWLEDGE

Not another agent memory that rots.

Every memory is visible, searchable, and editable. And every investigation makes the system smarter.

See everything

Search by keyword, service, team, or time range. Results ranked by relevance, recency, and confidence score.

Editable records

Review, correct, or delete any memory.

Survives team turnover

People might leave, but knowledge always stays.

Version history & audit trail

Every change is tracked with full provenance.

TierZero Context Engine showing learned knowledge for payment-service
TRUST & TRANSPARENCY

Every action. Every reason. Every source.

TierZero's Context Engine maintains a complete audit trail of all AI decisions. Every investigation cites its sources — specific log lines, metrics, commits, and past incidents. Evidence chains are inspectable, editable, and exportable to your SIEM.

Evidence chains with cited sources

Every conclusion links back to specific Datadog logs, GitHub commits, and past incidents

Full version history

Track every change to organizational memory with complete edit history

SIEM export

Export audit logs to Splunk, Elastic, or Sumo Logic for compliance workflows

SOC 2 Type II certified

Enterprise-grade security and compliance controls built in from day one

TierZero audit trail with evidence chains and cited sources

See how TierZero can help

Context Engine captures, structures, and surfaces your team's tribal knowledge.