The Flare Taxonomies are the result of two decades of careful design and improvement that enable clear, precise categorisation of a document according to its type (for example, a plan, a proposal, or a report); what it’s about (perhaps, a project, a platform, a well, or a seismic survey); and the types of information it contains (which might be biostratigraphy, wellbore deviation data, a final wellbore schematic – or perhaps, all three).

Stored within the graph database of the Sirus Platform, the Flare Taxonomies support precise, detailed classification of documents as part of document management system migration, M&A rationalisation, records retention, and similar projects. They are key to the high performance and recall of Intelligent Search: as an example, all the synonyms for “EOWR” are just one hop away along our knowledge graph. They also enable concept harmonisation for AI query parsing and agentic retrieval. The taxonomy knows what an EOWR is called by everyone in your business, helping AI agents with query classification, and to minimise hallucination.

They also enable smart and dynamic reclassification of documents in bulk. The GEOL_EOWR classification tag used by the North Sea Transition Authority is simply a mapping to five Taxonomy Product Types – enabling our MiNDR product to automatically classify and flag such content for reporting.