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Internal knowledge

Ask the company anything. Get the source.

The answer usually exists somewhere, in a slide, a thread or a policy nobody can find. This pipeline connects your knowledge sources, keeps them indexed with their permissions, answers questions in Slack or Teams with citations, and routes what it cannot answer to the expert who can, turning that answer into documentation.

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Answer with sources
100%
Permission-aware
−40%
Repeat questions

How it runs

Step through the pipeline.

Click a step or let it play. The question record on the right fills in as the agents work.

Step 01 of 08

Connect the sources

Wiki, shared drives, help desk, CRM notes and chosen chat channels are connected, each with its existing access permissions.

Confluence / NotionSharePoint / DriveSlack / Teams
Question record1 / 8 fields
Sources
7 sources · 48,000 documents · permissions synced
Question
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Retrieved
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Answer
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Routing
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Docs
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Freshness
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Insights
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  1. 01 · Connect the sources

    Wiki, shared drives, help desk, CRM notes and chosen chat channels are connected, each with its existing access permissions.

    Tools: Confluence / Notion, SharePoint / Drive, Slack / Teams. Output: Sources.

  2. 02 · Ask where you work

    Employees ask in Slack, Teams, the browser or the intranet, in their own language.

    Tools: Slack / Teams. Output: Question.

  3. 03 · Retrieve what they can see

    Only documents the person is permitted to read are searched, ranked by relevance and freshness.

    Tools: Velum Runtime. Output: Retrieved.

  4. 04 · Answer with citations

    The answer is short and specific, with links to the exact sections it came from, so people can check it.

    Tools: Velum agent. Output: Answer.

  5. 05 · Route the unknowns

    When no reliable source exists the question goes to the named owner of that topic, instead of a guess.

    Tools: Slack / Teams. Output: Routing.

  6. 06 · Turn answers into docs

    Expert answers are drafted into documentation for the owner to approve, so the next person gets it instantly.

    Tools: Confluence / Notion. Output: Docs. A person approves before this step completes.

  7. 07 · Flag stale content

    Documents that contradict each other or have not been reviewed in a set period are flagged to their owners.

    Tools: Velum agent. Output: Freshness.

  8. 08 · Report what people ask

    A monthly view of the most asked, least answered and fastest-growing topics shows where onboarding and documentation should improve.

    Tools: Sheets / BI. Output: Insights.

Impact

What changes when it runs.

Illustrative targets from comparable engagements. Your baseline is measured in the audit and the targets are agreed before we build.

MeasureBeforeWith agentsChange
Time spent searching for informationAbout 3.5 hours a weekUnder 1 hour−70%
Repeat questions to expertsDaily interruptionsRouted once, then documented−40%
New-joiner time to productivity6 to 8 weeks4 to 5 weeks−35%

Hours saved and ROI

What it is worth to your team.

Start from our defaults for this pipeline, then move the sliders to your numbers. The maths is simple and shown.

Hours reclaimed3 hper employee, every week

Knowledge workers commonly report several hours a week searching for or re-asking information; the assistant removes most of the searching and the repeat questions.

Worked example

150 employees each losing 3.5 hours a week to searching and re-asking at a $60 loaded hourly cost, with 60 percent of it removed: about 315 hours a week back, roughly $980,000 a year.

Gross capacity, not cash savings. Excludes implementation, software and supervision costs, which are quoted before we start.

Your numbers

150
3.5 h
$60
60%

An assumption to explore, not a promised result.

What that is worth

315 h

reclaimed every week

$982,800

value per year

1,364 h

every month

7.9 FTE

of capacity returned

Hours on repetitive work, per week

Today525 h
With agents210 h
Validate these numbers

Gross capacity estimate, not cash savings. Excludes implementation, software, and supervision costs. We validate assumptions in the audit.

Questions about this pipeline

01

Can people see documents they should not?

No. Permissions are synced from each source and enforced at retrieval time, so answers only use what the person could already open.

02

What if the documentation is wrong?

Every answer links to its source so people can check it, and conflicting or stale documents are flagged to their owners.

03

Where does it run?

In Slack, Teams, the browser or your intranet, hosted in our cloud, your cloud account or on-premise.

Want this running for your team?

We connect two or three sources for one team, measure answer quality in a pilot, then connect the rest of the company.