# How DataBridge works: a connected record, and the work built on it

How it works: your data in one record · DataBridge by Walnut

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How DataBridge works: the Company Brain connects your sources into one record, and the intelligence layer turns it into answers, reports and drafts.

DataBridge connects your sources into one record where each figure read from a file points to its source. On top of it, teams ask questions, get reports and approve drafted work.

It starts with a demo on a sample of your own documents and data.

The technical detail is in the [Technical overview](https://walnut.sg/product/technical/).

## [Company knowledge lives in a dozen places](https://walnut.sg/product/#today-head)

Each team keeps its own records, in its own systems and formats.

### From scattered information to one record

DataBridge connects information across your existing systems, so everything about a customer, a supplier, a project or a document sits in one record your teams can use.

Each link points back to the file it came from.

## [Five steps from your sources to a record you can check](https://walnut.sg/product/#steps-head)

### Connect

Reads databases, documents, spreadsheets, email and the systems your teams use.

Each source connects once, and your systems carry on as they are.

### Understand

Recognises the same customer, supplier, project or person across every source and links them into one record.

When the same customer appears in a contract, a ledger and an inbox, DataBridge recognises it and links the three into one record.

### Convert

Gives each job the information in the form it needs: answers, reports, tables for analysis, and data ready for AI tools.

A new project starts from data that is already connected, so the sources do not have to be collected again.

### Prove

Each figure read from a file points to the cell, line or page it came from, and shows whether it has been checked.

Your original files are never changed, so you can open the file beside the figure.

### Protect

Runs on your machines, with the AI model you choose. Each person sees only what their role allows.

Your administrators set the roles once, and access follows each person's role from then on.

## [Where AI is used, and where it is not](https://walnut.sg/product/#model-head)

Matching records, reconciling figures, reports and exports use ordinary software and no AI. AI helps with plain-English questions and with drafting. It is the AI you choose, and what it proposes waits for a person.

## [Beside the systems you already run](https://walnut.sg/product/#beside-head)

Your systems keep running. DataBridge reads data where it sits and feeds the tools you choose, so an old system can be retired on your own schedule.

### How DataBridge compares

Data warehouses, search tools and large AI platforms each cover part of this.

## [Each part in more detail](https://walnut.sg/product/#deeper-head)

- [The Company Brain](https://walnut.sg/product/brain/)
- [The intelligence layer](https://walnut.sg/product/intelligence/)
- [Model use](https://walnut.sg/product/ai/)
- [Technical overview](https://walnut.sg/product/technical/)
- [Security and control](https://walnut.sg/security/)
- [Test results](https://walnut.sg/proof/)

It starts with a demo on a sample of your own documents and data.