I start from the premise that the universe is intelligent or, at a minimum if that formulation doesn't work for you, that the universe is organised in a way that is a match for intelligence. More, it is a match for intelligences of many kinds, forms or varieties. That is, a bat and a bee also make sense of the universe they find themselves in and hence it is a match for their intelligences too. In this sense, organisations as entities are intelligent. Some possible measures of intelligence are capacities, processes, results, variety, etc.
Intelligence is the underlying organisational principle of the universe.