The taxonomy
Every vendor in the stack builds its own private model of your organization and reads your data into it.
Ten vendors, ten models, ten definitions of “active member,” and a question that crosses two of them
becomes a project.
Guardiant has one. A proprietary taxonomy of how a risk-bearing organization’s data fits together — members,
providers, claims, encounters, authorizations, care, the federal return files, and the rules that govern
all of it. Your sources map onto it once. Every domain reads from it. A question that crosses domains is
just a question.
And when a rule changes — a payment model, a directory requirement, a prior-authorization mandate — it is
absorbed once, against the taxonomy, and every organization on the platform inherits it. That is why we
move in weeks. The taxonomy is the tailwind.
Compute and attestation
Every regulated analytic splits into two jobs. The first is labor: sampling, scoring, calculating, matching,
reconciling. It’s most of the invoice, it recurs forever, and it’s bound entirely to data you already hold.
The rules are published; vendors hold implementations, not privileged interpretations.
The second is the sign-off: the certified quality audit, the chart abstraction, the actuary’s
certification, the clinical indemnity behind a medical-necessity decision. That carries real liability and
a name a regulator recognizes. It’s worth paying for.
Alberto takes the first job. We’ll tell you to keep the second, no larger than it needs to be. That boundary
isn’t a hedge; it’s why the consolidation holds up in an audit instead of collapsing in one.