Know Your Build™
A governed assurance layer that shows you how your organisation actually operates before your build begins, while it is underway, or after it has gone live.
Gnósi surfaces what actually exists, governed, validated and provenance-traced, at whichever moment you need to know it, so you understand your own build before anyone else explains it to you.
Before the build. During it. After it. Know Your Build.
The world's first ERP Implementation Assurance Platform
of ERP implementations fail to meet their stated objectives. Panorama Consulting, 2025 ERP Report.
Most ERP failures are not technology failures.
They are knowledge failures. Departments that never declared their information flows. Governance gaps that went into the build and never came out. Workarounds that became permanent. This does not happen only once, at the start. It happens before the build, during it, and long after go-live, quietly, until someone finally asks the right question.
Information passed down interpreted in many ways, outcome becomes unrecognisable.
What goes undeclared.
Organisations run their build, and then their business, without a verified picture of how information actually moves. Governance gaps, undocumented flows, missing responsibilities and unresolved dependencies surface during configuration and after go-live, when change is most expensive and least reversible.
- Undocumented information flows between functions
- Ownership and responsibility never formally declared
- Dependencies discovered mid-build, or mid-operation, not before either
- Governance decisions made implicitly, by no one
- Workarounds adopted post go-live that quietly become the real system of record
The ERP explains your business according to OEM language, not yours, and by the time you are fluent enough to check it, the gap has already calcified.
Introducing Implementation Assurance.
Not an ERP. Not consulting. A governed layer that operates on your terms, at whichever point you need visibility, establishing how information flows, who owns it, and what must be resolved, regardless of where you are in the lifecycle.
We are not an ERP vendor.
Gnósi is vendor-neutral by design. It works ahead of SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, Sage and Odoo or any ERP without competing with any of them.
- End users gain a verified picture of their own information flows before scope, cost and configuration are locked.
- Consultants and system integrators inherit an evidenced blueprint instead of discovering the business during build.
- OEMs and ERP vendors see cleaner implementations, fewer disputes and faster, more predictable go-lives on their platforms.
We are not a consultancy.
Assurance is delivered as a governed platform mechanism, repeatable, evidenced and auditable, not as an opinion that leaves when the engagement ends.
We are the assurance layer.
A structured, AI and governance-driven method that turns organisational complexity into a verified, approved model of information flow owned by you, before, during, or after any build decision is locked.
From organisational complexity to continuous implementation truth.
Each stage illuminates another layer of the network, until the whole picture is visible, verified and approved, and stays that way.
Discover
Sequential elicitation captures a methodology where each role is allocated a business unit with a unique language that other business units understand, interpret and give feedback on, surfacing flows no process map contains.
Validate
Every declaration is cross-checked against its counterpart automatically, feeding directly into your AI-driven Transformation Intelligence Report (TIR).
Govern
Ownership, responsibility and control points are assigned and recorded, closing governance gaps before they reach configuration.
Approve
Multi-party approval gates lock the verified model, backed by your TIR's readiness and risk scoring.
Track
Pre-Lock Change Management absorbs change while it is still inexpensive, with your TIR rescoring continuously as configuration progresses, so drift is caught before it compounds.
Sustain
The Behaviour & SLA Analysis Agent monitors live operation against your approved model, flagging workaround formation and SLA drift before it becomes the new, undeclared normal.
Know Your Build, before you build it, while you are building it, and long after you thought the build was finished.
Six mechanisms that make assurance possible.
Together they form a defensible method for establishing verified information flow before an ERP build begins.
These mechanisms underpin steps 01 to 05. Sustain draws on the Behaviour & SLA Analysis Agent, a distinct platform component rather than a 3CQ mechanism.
Sequential 3CQ Elicitation
Three cardinal questions asked in a governed sequence, with revolutionary logic around business units that exposes productions, accountability and responsibilities, producing a complete flow record per role.
Governed Omission Control
Silence becomes a tracked event. Anything not declared is captured, escalated and resolved rather than quietly inherited into the build.
Mutual-Declaration Dependency Graph
A dependency only exists when both sender and receiver declare it. Assumed hand-offs are exposed as risk instead of treated as fact.
Pre-Lock Change Management
Change is absorbed while it is still inexpensive, before the model locks and before configuration inherits the consequence.
Multi-Party Approval Gate
Formal, evidenced sign-off across process, data and governance owners. Approval is recorded, attributable and auditable.
ERP Native Field Library + DMRA
Declared flows map to native ERP field structures, with Data Migration Readiness Assessment quantifying what is genuinely ready to move.
An enterprise workspace for implementation truth.
Dependency graphs, transformation intelligence, risk profiling and governance findings in one governed environment used by every role in the programme, before the build, during it, and after go-live, giving you one governed source of truth instead of conflicting reports.
- Intercompany settlement owner not declared
- Legacy cost-centre mapping · waived by CFO
- Supplier onboarding hand-off declared by one side only
- Approval threshold above EUR 50k unassigned
- Tail-spend catalogue import · waived by Head of Procurement
- Goods-receipt data owner undefined
- Warehouse to finance flow unconfirmed by receiver
- Third-party logistics dependency orphaned
- Nothing waived.
- Contractor lifecycle control point unrecorded
- Historic payroll archive · waived by CHRO
- Quote to order hand-off mismatched with Finance declaration
- CRM custom fields · waived by CRO
A decade inside ERP projects revealed a missing layer.
Over more than a decade of ERP implementation experience across SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, Sage and Odoo environments, one pattern repeatedly emerged.
Projects struggled not because of technology, but because organizations lacked visibility into their information flows and governance structures before implementation began.
Gnósi was created to solve that problem.
Oreva Pius
- NOVA IMS Dean's Challenge for Innovation Award 2025
- 10+ years ERP implementation experience
Emeka Ogwo
- Legal practitioner and project performance governance expert
- Seasoned in multi-layer contract management across private, government and international portfolios
Credibility earned inside live implementations.
Implementation Assurance is not a concept awaiting proof. It is operating now, in real organisations, with measurable outputs.
Live organizations
Active engagements running on the platform today, not pilots on paper.
Real engagements
Assurance delivered inside live transformation programmes with real stakeholders.
Working platform
A deployed product with role-based interfaces, governed workflows and evidenced outputs.
First of its kind methodology
A protected, defensible method underpinning every assurance engagement.
Enterprise applicability
Vendor-neutral across SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, Sage and Odoo implementations.
Build the assurance layer with us.
Each open role carries real ownership inside live client engagements and the platform itself.
Product, strategy, analysis, engineering, delivery and growth. Full role detail and applications live on the careers page.
Know Your Build
Bring clarity, governance, and implementation assurance to your next ERP transformation.