SIE.1:2 - Problem

Without a receiving-use contract, “semantic integration” expands toward every source and every possible reuse. Similar labels are merged without a loss budget, freshness is treated as an implementation detail, and a passing schema or sample query is reported as success. The project cannot distinguish an informative unmatched row from a defect, or a harmless delay from a stale answer that changes action.

Technology then supplies the hidden contract. A graph platform encourages graph-shaped outputs, a warehouse encourages copying, and an API encourages whichever fields are easiest to expose. None says which answer claims the receiver may rely on, who owns them, or when the correct result is to stop.