Research behind maqui.ai will be presented at the Industry Track of ISWC, the world's leading conference on the Semantic Web and knowledge graphs

This paper presents the technological architecture behind maqui.ai, the legal platform developed by the Innovation and Technology Transfer team at the Institute for Financial and Economic Research ( Millennium Institute ,Foundational Research on Data , IMFD). The team will present the work during the conference, which will take place in Italy, and it will rank among the most significant applications of 2026 in knowledge graph-based technologies.

The research that led to the creation of maqui.ai—the legal platform developed by the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and launched to the public in November 2025—was accepted into the Industry Track of the 2026International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), the leading international forum dedicated to the semantic web and knowledge graphs.

The Industry Track brings together applications that apply scientific research to real-world problems, and their selection involves a rigorous peer-review process. In this case, the IMFD team’s work presents maqui.ai, a platform that facilitates access to the Chilean legal system by linking laws, regulations, legal opinions, court rulings, and other sources through regulatory graphs. This allows users to navigate large volumes of legal information more quickly and efficiently.

How does it work? maqui.ai?

The platform organizes laws, regulations, legal opinions, court rulings, and other sources using regulatory graphs—structures that represent the relationships between these documents. Building on this foundation, it incorporates a GraphRAG strategy, which combines graph navigation with semantic search to deliver more accurate answers and reduce common errors in language models.

The platform is currently used by architects, real estate agencies, and local government offices, and it recently launched a connector (MCP) that allows users to access maqui.ai from ChatGPT and Claude.

For Hernán Sarmiento, Director of Innovation at the IMFD and CEO of maqui.ai, this recognition reflects one of the goals that led to the institute’s creation: to translate knowledge and research into real-world solutions:

“For the IMFD, this confirms something we have been striving for since the institute’s very inception: that cutting-edge research in graph theory, databases ,and language models can be transformed into a tangible product, with real users, that solves a specific national problem such as access to legal information.”

Sarmiento adds that the acceptance of the work also represents a milestone for the platform's development:

"For maqui.ai, this publication comes at a key moment, as having academic credentials validated by the international scientific community provides strong support for preparing funding rounds, demonstrating that our platform meets high development standards."

In addition to its presentation at ISWC 2026, the project will raise international awareness of a technology developed in Chile among researchers, companies, and investors working with knowledge graphs and artificial intelligence.

ISWC 2026 will be held in Bari, Italy, from October 25 to 29, 2026, where papers from the Industry Track will be presented as talks during the conference. “The maqui.ai team has already planned an oral presentation featuring a real-world case study, in which they will also explain the scientific and technological advances made over the past year,” adds Sarmiento.