Systems and methods for improving builds of software applications are described herein. In an embodiment, an ontology comprises one or more translation cells comprising context data and software code and a plurality of pearl schema nodes, each of which defining one or more attributes in the ontology. When input data is received at a translation cell, context data in the translation cell is used to translate the input data into canonical data. Context data is then used to translate the canonical data into output data which can be provided to a client computing device.