Christopher Schmidt

VP, Solutions Engineering and AI - Enterprise AI, iLink Digital

I write on ontologies, knowledge graphs, and real-time intelligence in Microsoft Fabric — the shift from historical analytics to embedding data into business processes. I created the Data and AI Readiness Framework (DARF), a two-pillar model for whether you can trust an AI system's answer, and whether you can trust it to act on that answer.

Christopher Schmidt

Framework

The Data and AI Readiness Framework (DARF) — Semantic Readiness and Operational Readiness, eight layers, a scored maturity rubric. This is the canonical, current version of the framework.

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Recent Writing

Newsletter

The Real Time Dispatch goes out weekly on Substack — covering Eventhouse, Eventstream, KQL, and the shift from dashboards to action systems.

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Also on LinkedIn as a shorter native excerpt.