Knowhow

Your institutional memory,
one question away.

An expandable, correctable body of knowledge, held privately and consulted by asking. Every answer carries its sources so you can check it.

Your perimeter
Capture

Documents in

A watched folder takes PDFs, Word files, e-mail and scans. Text is extracted, scans are read, dates and parties become metadata.

Index

Meaning and keyword

Every passage is indexed twice — by meaning and by keyword — so a question finds the right page rather than merely the right file.

Answer

Cited and checkable

A model on your own hardware answers with page-level citations, so every claim can be taken back to its source.

× The public internet

No documents. No questions. No telemetry. Nothing crosses this line.

Who it is for

Two kinds of memory worth keeping.

You
What did we agree with the contractor about the roof warranty — and did the side letter change anything?
itsaura
The building contract gives a ten-year warranty on the roof structure. The later side letter narrows it: damage arising through the terrace drains is excluded. contract, p. 12side letter, p. 2e-mail thread

An illustrative exchange. The product answers exactly like this, citations included.

Family offices

Decades of paper, one question away

Plenty of tools pull figures from statements and tax forms. The record that actually answers questions is everything else — correspondence, deeds, side letters, amendments, minutes — the documents that never fit a spreadsheet.

  • Answerable for principals, successors and staff alike
  • Every answer carries the page it came from
  • Not a page leaves the family's own hardware
You
Which of our precedents cap liability at contract value, and which carve-outs did we accept?
itsaura
Twelve precedents use a contract-value cap. Eight carve out IP infringement and data breaches; one also carves out wilful misconduct. playbook v7clause 14.3internal memo

An illustrative exchange. The product answers exactly like this, citations included.

Professional teams

A memory for the firm, or one per matter

As a standing system it holds your precedents, memos and playbooks, so the answer your best people would give is available to everyone. For a single matter we stand up a separate workspace for its file alone.

  • Expand it, correct it, and it improves as you go
  • Access controlled per workspace, person and matter
  • At the end of a matter: handed over, or verifiably destroyed
The interface

A box to ask in. That is the whole of it.

a knowhow workspace
Workspaces per team or per matter, documents dropped in, and one place to ask. Nothing your people need a week of training for.
Fully Scalable

Built for Size

0+ court decisions in one deployment
0 indexed passages
every passage, indexed twice
Answer
p. 4§ 2.1p. 11
answered in seconds

This pipeline is not a diagram drawn for a website. It runs in production today, answering with page-level citations.

Security

Built for people who can't afford a leak.

Whichever way we work together, the same guarantees apply.

  • Dedicated hardware — on premises or in a private location you control
  • Encrypted at rest, key-only access over a private network
  • No third-party AI calls — the models run inside
  • Open components you can inspect, down to the model
  • Access controls per workspace, person and matter
  • End of engagement: handover or verifiable destruction
Managed service

Managed means managed.

Hardware

Sized, supplied and maintained — on your premises or in a private location you choose.

Models

Open models chosen for your work, and updated as better ones appear.

Ingestion

New documents are picked up automatically — drop them in a folder and they become answerable.

Maintenance

Indexes are rebuilt and compacted on a nightly schedule, without downtime.

Monitoring

Watchdogs restart what falters. We tend to see problems before you do.

Access

Reachable only over your private network — from the office, or securely from anywhere.

If your organisation holds something worth asking questions of, we will tell you honestly whether this is the right way to make it answerable.

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