--- title: "Context Supply Chain field guide — Ariesnet" description: "Why agents fail on context, not intelligence. Seven stages, the failure at each, the artifacts you keep, an L0–L5 path, and a brief to forward. Free PDF." canonical: "https://ariesnet.com/field-guide" last_updated: "2026-09-25T07:58:17.005Z" --- Field guide · Free download # The Context Supply Chain — a field guide for enterprise AI leaders Why agents fail on context, not intelligence. Seven stages, the failure you will recognize at each, the artifacts you keep, a six-level maturity path, and a one-page brief for the people who own the budget. Written to be forwarded. ## Get the guide One email, and the download is on the next page — no waiting on a message to arrive. Leave this field empty Work email required First name required Organization Role Prefer not to say Data platform Architecture AI/ML program Leadership Procurement Other Send me Ariesnet's notes on context engineering (one or two a week for three weeks, then occasional). Unsubscribe any time. Get the guide 25 pages · PDF · No data, no passwords, no sales call attached. The interview is there if you want it. Sending… Thank you — the guide is on its way. [Download it now](https://ariesnet.com/field-guide/thanks). We could not send that. Please try again in a moment. Or write to [info@ariesnet.com](mailto:info@ariesnet.com). ## What is inside - The seven stages, each with the failure you will recognize and the artifact you keep - The three incident classes, and which stage owns each - A reference architecture: where a governed model sits, and what never crosses the boundary - Where the structural map of your business should come from — and the two places it should not - The L0 to L5 maturity scale, applied per stage, with the binding constraint named - A one-page brief written to be forwarded to whoever owns the budget ## Who it is for - Data platform and architecture leads whose agents are in production and failing unevenly - AI/ML program owners deciding where the next quarter goes - Executives being asked to approve a bigger model when the failures are upstream of it - Procurement, who needs to know what is actually being bought ## What it is not - No performance percentages. We publish measured results from our own operations, and this guide states none of them as yours. - No framework you have to buy. The stages are a map; the artifacts are the work, and you keep them. - No sales call attached. The interview is on the site if you want it. Already read it? The first step is the same either way — a thirty-minute [interview](https://ariesnet.com/interview) that ends in a map of your schema landscape, yours whether or not you go further. Ariesnet Inc Incorporated 1997 · Texas, United States ARAMAI is the product group of Ariesnet, Inc., a Texas corporation. CoreModels is its platform, as part of the Schematica suite of solutions. Ariesnet contracts, builds and integrates for clients, and operates; ARAMAI does the research and makes the software. Contact - [info@ariesnet.com](mailto:info@ariesnet.com) - [+1 214-932-3900](tel:+12149323900) - Texas, United States Elsewhere - [CoreModels ↗](https://coremodels.io/) - [ARAMAI ↗](https://aramai.net/) © 2026 Ariesnet Inc. All rights reserved. · CoreModels® is a registered trademark. ARAMAI™ and Schematica™ are trademarks. · Elements of CoreModels are patent pending. ## Sitemap - [Sitemap in markdown](https://ariesnet.com/sitemap.md)