The knowledge lives in people
The real operation is held up by two or three people with years in the building. When one is away, the company improvises; when one leaves, what was learned gets learned again.
Use cases
The same mess, under five different names
A law firm calls it contract versions. A clinic calls it protocols. An agency calls it the brand book the designer has. It is the same problem and it gets solved with the same parts.
5 scenarios
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Each page names the concrete mess of that industry, what changes, and what we are not going to promise you.
Legal services A law firm Five lawyers, three versions of the same contract, and the good template sitting in the inbox of whoever drafted it two years ago. What changes One place where the current template is the one that comes up first, with the older versions beside it instead of deleted Company vaultSearch and graphDepartments and permissions Read the case Healthcare A clinic The full admissions protocol is known by the head nurse, who has ten years behind her and retires in two. What changes Operational knowledge stops being spoken and gets written where people look it up, not into a filing cabinet Company vaultSearch and graphDepartments and permissions Read the case Consulting and professional services A consultancy Every proposal is rebuilt from nothing because finding the one for the similar client takes longer than writing it again. What changes The back catalog of deliverables becomes searchable, and a proposal starts from what already worked Company vaultSearch and graphAI agent Read the case Foreign trade and distribution An importer Eighty suppliers, each with its own arrangement, and the detail of what was agreed buried in the email thread of whoever negotiated it. What changes One file per supplier holding what was agreed, what was quoted and what went wrong Company vaultSearch and graphDepartments and permissions Read the case Agencies and creative studios A marketing agency The brand book lives with the designer, the tone of voice lives with the copywriter, and every proposal is written from scratch. What changes One folder per account with guidelines, approvals and the reasoning behind each decision, not just the final files Company vaultAI agentDepartments and permissions Read the case
The pattern
Three symptoms that keep repeating
The industry vocabulary changes. The structure of the problem barely does.
The files are there and nobody finds them
Nobody lost the document. What was lost is the route to the document, which is not the same thing and costs the same: work that was already done gets redone from nothing.
Permissions are shared folders
The org chart is a PDF in HR and the actual access is administered by whoever last had time to tidy the shared drive.
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