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+ Knowledge and documents

Knowledge that stays when the person leaves.

Wiki, document storage and templates in one place, searchable through the assistant. What has been written down once does not have to be explained a second time.

01 · The problem

The knowledge is not lost. It just cannot be found.

The year-end accrual procedure lives in a Word file on a drive, the exception to it in an email from 2024, and the actual reasoning is known by the person retiring this summer. While she is here everything works, because you can ask. Afterwards the same procedure is reinvented, usually slightly worse, and the exception is missed the first time round. That is not a documentation problem. It is a findability problem.

02 · Under the hood

What separates documentation from a storage location.

Filing something is quick. Making it findable is the work. These five points take it on.

  • Wiki for procedures and decisions, Processes and the reasons behind them written down, rather than living in heads and old emails.
  • Storage with approved templates, Contracts, quotes and reports come from templates somebody has signed off.
  • The assistant answers from it, Questions are answered from what the company holds, with a reference to the source.
  • Permissions apply, It reads only what the person asking already has access to. No knowledge through the back door.
  • Connected to the record, A document hangs off the project, contract or customer, instead of disappearing into a folder tree.
03 · What it's worth

The retirement that no longer triggers a project.

Work it out with your own numbers. The running part is the time that goes daily into questions whose answer already exists in the building, in many firms ten to twenty minutes per person per day. The other part is rare but expensive: the departure or retirement of a key person. If a procedure has ever had to be rebuilt after someone left, you know the order of magnitude, and you also know the damage is not in the hours, it is in the mistakes of the first months afterwards.

04 · Who it is for

Who this is built for.

This is built for Swiss companies with roughly ten to a hundred employees whose procedures have to exist in writing: fiduciary and consulting firms, technical services, planning and construction, manufacturing with quality assurance, organisations in care and education. Typically there are directives on a shared drive, templates in several versions, and a handful of people who get asked whenever something is unclear.

It carries most where the same work is done by changing people: part-time roles, stand-ins, apprentices, seasonal peaks. The more hands a procedure passes through, the more often it gets explained, and the more it pays off when the explanation stands once and can be quoted next time with its source.

05 · Switching

The move starts with what is already written down.

You upload what already exists: Word files from the drive, PDF directives, Excel lists, presentations. On upload the text is read out so the document becomes searchable; the file itself stays in its original format and opens as before. The wiki does not then fill up in one sitting, it fills up along the questions of everyday work: whoever has answered a question turns the answer into an entry. Templates for contracts, quotes and reports you approve once.

After that the work shifts from explaining to adding. What you do not have to bring along is the folder structure that grew over the years, the naming convention from the last decade and the standing argument over whether a document belongs to the customer or to the project: it hangs off the record it belongs to, and you look for it through the question rather than through the path.

06 · The platform

Knowledge and documents is one module — here is the rest.

07 · Frequently asked

What managing directors and team leads ask first.

We have a drive holding documents from many years. Do we have to tidy that up first?

Tidying up is not the precondition, it is the result. You upload the material as it stands today and work through questions rather than through folders from then on. Every answer comes with the document it came from. If that makes visible that three versions of the same directive sit side by side, that is exactly the place where tidying up actually pays off.

How do we know that an answer comes from our own material?

Because the source is right there. Every answer comes with the wiki entry or the document it came from, and you open the passage in question with one click. What is being judged is therefore not a statement by the platform but your own text. Anyone reusing the answer, in an e-mail to a customer for instance, can pass the source along with it.

Does every person then see everything that is documented in the house?

No. The permissions on the material apply to the answer as well: what a person may not open in the storage does not appear as an excerpt in their answer either. Payroll-relevant documents stay with the HR department, contracts with those entitled to them, the general part is open to everyone. The same question is therefore answered to a different extent depending on the role.

Our material holds contracts and personnel data. Where does it sit, and what of it goes to an AI model?

Your data is hosted in Switzerland. Before anything is sent to an external AI model, our Sensitive Data Guard masks or blocks personal, contract and financial data, only the released, non-identifying content is forwarded, under no-training agreements. Hosting is in Hostpoint's ISO 27001-certified data centres, and our own security processes are aligned with ISO 27001.

Which file formats can we store?

PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, text files, Markdown and CSV, plus the common code and data formats. On upload the text is read out so the document becomes searchable; alongside it the file stays in its original format and can be downloaded as before. For everyday work that means an existing document is filed as it is, rather than being converted into a new format first.

Who maintains all this when everybody is caught up in day-to-day business?

Maintenance hangs off the work, not off an editorial plan. Whoever has answered a question turns the answer into an entry, and that takes about as long as the e-mail that would otherwise have been written. Which topics are still missing shows itself, because the same question gets asked a second and a third time.

How do we make sure everyone uses the same quote template?

By keeping the template where the document is created. Contracts, quotes and reports are produced from approved templates instead of being copied out of a colleague's last version. If a clause changes, somebody changes it on the template, and the next document carries the new wording. Who is allowed to approve is a question of role.

A key person is retiring. What do we actually do about it?

You start with the procedures that today run only through this person, and work the list down over the remaining months: one entry per procedure, with the steps, the exceptions and the reasoning. The reasoning is the part that otherwise leaves with her. After that the successor asks the same question and gets the answer together with its source, instead of deriving it again.

Ask the assistant a question about your own material, in 30 minutes.

We show you a wiki entry, a document produced from an approved template, and a question to the assistant answered from both, with a reference to the source. No contract, no preparation.