Elemental Cognition

Elemental Cognition is a New York based artificial intelligence company founded in 2015 by Dr. David Ferrucci, the researcher who led the IBM Watson Jeopardy! project. The company builds a neuro-symbolic AI platform that pairs fine-tuned large language models with a formal, multi-strategy reasoning engine, so that answers are produced by the reasoning engine over an explicit Formal Knowledge Model rather than by the language model itself. The platform is marketed for high-stakes decision work in supply chain, life sciences, higher education, travel and investment management, and it was the reasoning layer behind Bridgewater's AI investment fund. Elemental Cognition packaged this as the Cogent and Cora enterprise applications, delivered as SaaS on Google Cloud, in a customer's own cloud, or on premises. The company does not run a public developer program: the platform generates callable cloud APIs automatically from each customer's own knowledge model, so the contract is tenant-specific and never published publicly.

Elemental Cognition is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Reasoning.

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6.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0

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Composite quality — 6.4/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.7 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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Source (apis.yml)

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name: Elemental Cognition
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  the researcher who led the IBM Watson Jeopardy! project. The company builds a neuro-symbolic AI platform that pairs fine-tuned
  large language models with a formal, multi-strategy reasoning engine, so that answers are produced by the reasoning engine
  over an explicit Formal Knowledge Model rather than by the language model itself. The platform is marketed for high-stakes
  decision work in supply chain, life sciences, higher education, travel and investment management, and it was the reasoning
  layer behind Bridgewater''s AI investment fund. Elemental Cognition packaged this as the Cogent and Cora enterprise applications,
  delivered as SaaS on Google Cloud, in a customer''s own cloud, or on premises. The company does not run a public developer
  program: the platform generates callable cloud APIs automatically from each customer''s own knowledge model, so the contract
  is tenant-specific and never published publicly.'
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