Hippo · by GIS Analytics · Built with UCL Dept of Information Studies

Your company already knows the answer. It just can't find it.

Hippo turns what your business already knows into one connected picture: meetings, emails, spreadsheets, the things in people's heads. Ask a question in plain English and get the answer with the evidence behind it. The decision intelligence big companies take for granted, without their budget.

Nothing is written to your record until a person approves it.

Example company · not real data
§ 01 Quickstart Two minutes, then it remembers on its own

Nothing to install. One connector.

# Add Hippo as a connector. Once, per machine.claude mcp add --transport http hippo \  https://hippo.gisanalytics.uk/mcp# Sign in with the key we issue you, then just talk to it:#   "remember this"#   "what do we know about Acme?"

Every write reviewed before it lands

01

Connect it once

Add Hippo as a connector in Claude, Cursor, or anything else that speaks MCP. There is no library to import and no pipeline to change.

Access is by invitation while we are in beta. Ask us for a key and we will set your organisation up.

02

Tell it to remember

Say remember this at the end of a piece of work. Hippo records what happened, the facts worth keeping, who was involved and what is still open, attached to the project it concerns rather than buried in a transcript.

The tool is push.

03

Ask it anything, months later

“What do we know about Acme?” returns every fact, decision and open action attached to Acme, gathered from every session that ever touched it, each with the evidence behind it.

The tool is pull.

04

See how it connects

Ask for a picture and you get the map: what touches what, and on what basis. picture draws it, status tells you the connection is healthy and whether your writes go live or wait for review.

In daily use at

GIS Analytics London's Community Kitchen
Built with UCL Dept of Information Studies

Built for <teams>
that have to show
their working

Most tools give you an answer. Hippo gives you the answer and the trail behind it: which document, whose report, which decision it followed from, and who approved it.

That is the difference between an assistant you have to double-check and a record you can hand to a board, a client, or an auditor.

§ 02 What it is The gap, and how Hippo closes it

Institutional memory, with structure.

The thing small teams are missing: one connected record of your people, clients, projects, decisions and the evidence behind them, built from the documents you already produce.

It records not just what was decided but why: who proposed it, what evidence supported or contradicted it, what followed. You can ask in plain English. The audit trail assembles itself.

01

Knowledge fragmentation

Symptom · the same question asked five times
02

Decision opacity

Symptom · why did we decide that again?
03

Governance gap

Symptom · audit trail reconstructed in panic
01Ingest

Transcripts, email, exports and notes become structured records. Each one keeps a link back to the document it came from.

02Connect

Everything gets linked to whatever it relates to. The result looks like your business, not a database.

03Decide

A question pulls in everything connected to it: prior context, and the evidence for and against. The answer arrives with its sources attached.

04Act

Recommendations become actions, and every outcome links back to the decision that produced it.

§ 03 The graph Interactive · example company · not real data

One connected map of how the business runs.

This is the real viewer, embedded live. It shows a made-up example company: its people, clients, projects, decisions, evidence, and how they all connect.

Interactive demo · Demo organisation Hover for detail · click to explore · drag to move
Decision Context Evidence · supports Evidence · contradicts Agent Action · rec

About this data: the company shown is made up. Nothing about a client business appears on this site.

§ 04 Use cases Four ways SMEs and NGOs use the graph
Use case · 01

Specific Q&A

Ask a question, get the answer with its evidence attached: who decided, when, and on what basis. Not a document search: the answer comes from what the company actually knows.

who approved the discount for this client, and on what evidence?
Use case · 02

Qualitative advice

Recommendations argued from the firm's own context: prior decisions, commitments, cash position, with supporting and contradicting evidence attached.

should we hire a second analyst this quarter?
Use case · 03

Simulations

See the knock-on effects before they happen: which projects, people and revenue are exposed, traced along the firm's real relationships rather than guesswork.

what breaks if we lose our largest client?
Use case · 04

Company check-up

A structured review of the graph itself: stale decisions, contradicted evidence, orphaned actions, concentration risk. The business, audited by its own structure.

what have we left unresolved?
See it on your own data

A working session with GIS Analytics takes one hour: we map a slice of your company into the graph, and you ask it questions.

Request a walkthrough
The London's Community Kitchen cooking team outside one of its venues
A panel discussion at a London's Community Kitchen partner event
Volunteers unloading crates of surplus food from a partner van at The Kind Cafe
In the real world
The graph changed the way we see the whole operation. For the first time we can look at the entire ecosystem in one place, how our kitchens, projects and partners connect, and act on it.
Taz Khan MBE · Founder, London's Community Kitchen

London's Community Kitchen runs a café, a water brand, a youth academy and a climate hub, all in service of one food-security mission. We mapped the programmes, partners, decisions and the evidence behind them into one connected picture.

  • 778nodes in their graph
  • 4ventures in one graph
  • First clientoutside our own walls
§ 05 Decision audit Every decision keeps its receipts

Answers you can take to a review.

Each decision is a first-class node linked to its context, its evidence on both sides, the people involved and the actions that followed. The audit trail is not written after the fact; it is the shape of the data.

Why did we decide that again? Now the answer is one query, with the receipts attached.
The question every SME asks · third quarter, every year
dec-014 · demo organisation · approved Should we hire a part-time designer?
Context Three client projects need design work this quarter; no designer on staff.
Supports Outsourcing runs £2.4k per month against £1.8k for a part-time hire. Nearest client deadline: six weeks.
Contradicts Cash runway is four months; no confirmed design work after Q3.
Decision Hire part-time on a three-month contract. Proposed by the system, approved by the founder.
Actions Post the role by Friday · reallocate project budget · review at contract end.
Demo data · fictional organisation · every row is a node you can open in the viewer
§ 06 Technology Design choices · in plain language

Property graph, not RDF.

The data model treats nodes and relationships as first-class objects, each carrying properties of its own. It is close to how a founder describes their business: this client, on this project, with that contract.

The choice was made early, in consultation with the UCL team: property graphs trade some of RDF's semantic rigour for queryability, tooling maturity and a model the team can extend without recompiling an ontology.

Why this matters "Rank open recommendations by value over the last two quarters" is a single Cypher query in Neo4j. Expressing the same in RDF is possible, but takes substantially more modelling effort than a small firm can spare.
Graph DBNeo4j 5.x · property graph · Cypher
Skillsnatural-language skills · built with Claude Code
ReasoningGraph RAG · retrieval over typed structure
ViewerCanvas 2D · static JSON snapshot · no live database behind this site
Deployself-hosted · single tenant per organisation · data held under the organisation's own control
§ 07 Team & advisors GIS Analytics, with UCL Dept of Information Studies
The team GIS Analytics Limited
Illustrated portrait of Ilgaz Incedayi
Ilgaz Incedayi
Founder & Director
GIS Analytics Limited
Illustrated portrait of Luca Giacomo Sorrentino
Luca Giacomo Sorrentino
Lead Developer
GIS Analytics Limited
Illustrated portrait of Xingyuan Feng
Xingyuan Feng
Research Assistant
GIS Analytics Limited · UCL doctoral researcher
Advisors UCL Dept of Information Studies · not GIS Analytics staff
Illustrated portrait of Prof. Antonis Bikakis
Prof. Antonis Bikakis
Principal Investigator
UCL · Dept of Information Studies
Illustrated portrait of Karen Stepanyan
Karen Stepanyan
Knowledge Exchange Facilitator
UCL · Dept of Information Studies
§ 08 Contact Open to SMEs, NGOs · academics · funders

Talk to the team.

Hippo is a working system, available now. If you run a small business, ask for the one-hour walkthrough: we map a slice of your company into the graph and you question it. Academic groups with adjacent work, and funders looking at this space, are welcome too.

Response window · about two working days