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Definition

The context gap is the distance between what AI systems can access in enterprise systems and what they understand about how the business actually operates — causing over-retrieval, token waste, and lower trust.

Key Points

  • Term used by modus founders (Daniel Shimoni, Tomer Mesika)
  • Motivation for context-warehouse products
  • Distinct from pure RAG/vector-DB scaling narratives

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