What is 7lens

7lens is the context layer that lets people and AI understand, govern, and operate the enterprise. It gives an enterprise one connected picture of its landscape, built inside the customer’s own environment.

The problem

Cloud, security, finance, inventory, and operations tools already hold the facts. Each tells a different story, in different words, and part of the knowledge lives in people’s heads. AI can act safely only on a company it understands: what exists, what each thing is, how things relate, and what AI is allowed to touch.

The answer

1. Describe the enterprise once: the Ontology, four axes (Groups, Organization, Technology, Business).
2. Fill it with the customer’s real facts, inside the customer’s environment: the Context.
3. Let every person and every AI agent read that same picture through the lens that fits their role: the seven lenses.

The path of a fact

1. Collector receives information from the systems the customer already uses.
2. The Ontology is the model: what kinds of things exist, and how they are allowed to connect.
3. The Semantic Engine turns source information into one connected picture, the Context.
4. People and AI agents read that picture through seven lenses. Software and AI assistants read the same picture through an API and through MCP.

Invariant

AI proposes. Trusted data, fixed rules, and an explicit check decide what is true.

Where it runs

7lens runs in the customer’s own environment. The data, the filled-in model, the processing, and the Context stay there. A management plane runs as a service and receives human configuration only, no customer data. If it is unavailable, the running system keeps operating. See Architecture.

What 7lens is not

Not a scanner that finds assets, a service desk, a cloud console, a security monitor, a cost-management product, or a data lake. The systems that produce the original facts stay in place and stay the authority for those facts. 7lens is the authority for the connected meaning.

How to read these docs

You want to	Start with
Understand the model in ten minutes	Data model (interactive)
See how data flows and where it runs	Architecture (interactive)
Set up 7lens for your enterprise	Onboarding in under 40 hours
Configure a use case	Configuring the 7 Lenses
Check an exact rule or field	Reference: the canonical docs, copied from the 7lens app repository
Map a tool or framework	Integrations