AI + Data Product Infrastructure

The control plane for AI & data products

Dataknobs transforms parameters into dynamic control surfaces. Turn assumptions, policies, evaluation datasets, retrieval settings, and model behavior into knobs you can tune, test, and govern—without rewriting core logic.

1st-class
Knobs as data constructs, not config flags
Model-agnostic
Works across data stacks, models, and orchestration layers
Continuously tunable
Improve behavior through control, testing, and iteration
Knob Control Graph
From reality to runtime behavior
World knobs
Risk tolerance, freshness, confidence, compliance posture
Data knobs
Golden sets, edge cases, corpus slices, evaluation scenarios
Behavior knobs
Retrieval depth, ranking weights, prompts, schemas, output filters
Outcome
Reproducible, explainable, tunable AI data products
Why knobs matter

AI systems need more than prompts and pipelines

Modern AI products are probabilistic, context-dependent, and hard to govern. Static code cannot fully capture domain judgment, changing policies, or the test cases needed to validate behavior. Dataknobs makes those variables explicit and operable.

Model reality

Represent complex operating conditions like risk posture, recency bias, confidence tolerance, and business rules as explicit world knobs.

Test intelligence

Use curated datasets, edge cases, and large-corpus examples as data knobs that probe how your system performs under real conditions.

Govern outcomes

Turn policies, constraints, and validation thresholds into auditable controls that shape outputs without retraining or branching code.

How it works

Build systems from knobs, not brittle logic

Dataknobs gives you a control graph for composing data processing, retrieval, generation, evaluation, and governance into reusable products.

01

Define knobs

Create first-class control objects for assumptions, prompts, schemas, retrieval settings, rankings, datasets, thresholds, and policies.

02

Compose recipes

Link knobs into reusable recipes that define how a system behaves across transformation, inference, evaluation, and governance layers.

03

Ship data products

Deliver APIs, tables, embeddings, search systems, or agent workflows with explicit provenance, test coverage, and control over behavior.

Raw Data
Text, tables, events, docs
Knob Layer
World + data + behavior + policy
AI Data Product
Tunable, explainable, governed
Control layers

One abstraction across the full AI lifecycle

Knobs operate at multiple levels, from abstract representations of the world to concrete examples that test behavior in production-like conditions.

World knobs

Interpret reality

Encode semantic operating conditions such as trust, risk, freshness, and compliance posture.

Data knobs

Probe system quality

Use golden sets, failure cases, representative corpus slices, and adversarial examples as control inputs for evaluation.

Behavior knobs

Shape output distributions

Tune retrieval depth, ranking weights, generation settings, structured outputs, and post-processing logic.

Policy knobs

Govern with precision

Externalize security, privacy, auditability, and business constraints into inspectable, versioned controls.

Use cases

Built for AI data products that must adapt

Dataknobs helps teams move faster where behavior changes often, quality is hard to measure, and governance cannot be an afterthought.

Retrieval-augmented products

Tune chunking, retrieval, re-ranking, grounding, and answer filters with explicit controls instead of hidden defaults.

Document intelligence

Control extraction rules, schemas, confidence thresholds, exception handling, and review datasets for OCR and unstructured content systems.

Governed agent workflows

Constrain tool use, model decisions, escalation rules, and quality checks so agents remain tunable and auditable.

Architecture

Separate control from execution

Dataknobs keeps the definition of behavior separate from the systems that execute data processing and model inference.

Control plane

Where knobs live

  • Definitions for world, data, behavior, and policy knobs
  • Versioning, observability, and evaluation lineage
  • Reusable recipes and governed deployment rules
Execution plane

Where systems run

  • Data warehouses, vector stores, applications, and model providers
  • Transformations, retrieval, inference, ranking, and validation
  • Products shipped with behavior driven by the control plane

Stop hardcoding. Start tuning.

Dataknobs gives you a unified way to represent judgment, test intelligence, and control outcomes across modern AI and data systems.