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What a Lingua Franca for Business Data Actually Means
It's the phrase I use most often to describe what Inferrex is, so it's worth defining properly. A lingua franca isn't a translator sitting between two systems. It's a shared language that sits above all of them — one every system can speak through without giving up its own.
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By Aaron Gammon · Founder, Inferrex · June 2026
I describe Inferrex as the lingua franca of business data more than any other way, and I've come to realise the phrase does a lot of quiet work that's worth unpacking. People hear "lingua franca" and reach for "translator" — and that's wrong in a way that matters, because translation is exactly the trap the whole industry is stuck in.
This is a piece about the concept, with the analogies I actually think in. Where it touches what Inferrex does, I keep to what it produces, not how. Live platform figures are at inferrex.com/claims — I don't bake them into essays because they move.