Retrieval Is Not Enough: Why Organizational AI Needs Epistemic Infrastructure

arXiv:2604.11759v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Organizational knowledge used by AI agents typically lacks epistemic structure: retrieval systems surface semantically relevant content without distinguishing binding decisions from abandoned hypotheses, contested claims from settled ones, or known facts from unresolved questions. We argue that the ceiling on organizational AI is not retrieval fidelity but \emph{epistemic} fidelity--the system's ability to represent commitment strength, contradicti