The integration industry spent twenty years getting better at connecting systems. That was the wrong problem.
Every platform rests on an unspoken assumption: that integration is connection — more wires, more connectors, more catalogue size. A connector is a snapshot. APIs aren’t. Fields rename, auth changes, pagination shifts — and the wire snaps.
Comprehension asks a different question: what does this field mean? Once you understand it’s a customer’s email — not because someone labelled it customer_email, but because the system knows what it is — a rename stops being a catastrophe.
Connection is a fact about a pair. Comprehension is knowledge about a thing. One goes stale the moment the world moves. The other doesn’t.
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