Cognatum

Knowledge governed. Intelligence everywhere.

Your company's knowledge isn't missing. It's unusable. Cognatum changes that.

Knowledge Approver D. Whitfield
Draft 26 In Review 41 Approved 318 Stale 27 Archived 9
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Which retention period applies to client trade communications? Q&A Records Approved in 214 days 38
Standardise retention schedules on the records policy Decision Compliance Approved in 149 days 31

Information sprawl is real. We solved it.

Who we work with.

  • Salesforce
  • Snowflake
  • Confluence Cloud
  • Notion
  • GitHub
  • Box
  • GitLab
  • Coda
  • Quip
  • Zendesk Guide
  • ServiceNow Knowledge
  • Dropbox
  • Jira
  • HubSpot
  • Airtable
  • Smartsheet
  • Workday
  • Databricks

Without Cognatum

Nobody owns the answer. People guess.

With AI today, guessing runs at machine speed.

Your company already has the answers in documents, shared drives, chat threads and business systems. Which is right? What is it approved for? When people don't know, they guess. So does AI.

Knowledge

Time

What your company knows

Where Cognatum works

What is verified and current

With Cognatum

Source right answers all the time, every time.

Cognatum is a governed knowledge management system for regulated enterprises. It gives an organization a single approved home for what it knows, and serves that knowledge to people, applications, workflows, and AI systems, with a named approver, a timestamp, and a source on every entry. With Cognatum's 50+ connectors, get a single pane of glass access to all your company knowledge.

  • Cited to an approved source. The citation links to the exact record and version the answer came from.
  • Approved by a named person. A real person signs it off, and the record keeps who approved and when.
  • Sealed so it cannot be edited quietly. The link from source to answer is logged, and any change is visible.
  • Honest when nothing is a confident match. The answer says so and points at the sources, instead of sounding sure.
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Related Knowledge Approved knowledge related to your question was found, but no single item was a confident direct match, review the cited sources before relying on this answer.
Retrieval strength Show breakdown
47%

Based on similarity of matched sources, not a correctness guarantee

Mean of 10 retrieved source scores

  • 75%
  • 60%
  • 61%
  • 56%
  • 52%
  • 35%
  • 32%
  • 41%
  • 35%
  • 24%

No migration

You work the way that you already work.

Cognatum does not ask you to move anything or tidy anything up first. You tell it where to look: SharePoint, a shared drive, a business system, a folder of files, RocketDocs. It reads what is there, and it keeps reading.

What it stores is the answer, not a second copy of your files. Each approved answer is one record with a type, an owner, a state and a version. That is what separates this from search. Search can find the file. Search cannot tell you which answer inside it was approved, by whom, or whether it's still valid.

Where the work already happens

  • Documents
  • Email
  • Business systems
  • Collaboration tools
  • Storage

Knowledge base

Governed, for people and AI

Holds the approved answer itself, not a second copy of your files. Each one is a record with a type, an owner, a state and a version.

Every entry is

collectedorganizedcuratedapprovedmaintainedpermissionedreusable

source · version · approver · permissions

Who asks

  • Employees
  • Business applications
  • Workflows
  • AI assistants and agents
  • Customer portals
  • Compliance and audit

Gaps

Your knowledge has gaps. Cognatum knows what they are.

Every question that gets asked and has no approved record gets recorded. You close the gaps that matter on your own schedule, instead of finding them the hard way.

The list is ranked by how often each question was asked, by people and by assistants. Beside it sit the counts for the whole library:

  • What is approved
  • What is in review
  • What has gone stale

A missing answer and a stale one are different problems, and the queue belongs to a named person.

Health Approver D. Whitfield

Approved records

318

In review

41

Flagged stale

27

Open gaps

37

Asked, with no approved record Times asked
  • Which regions are approved for data residency? 24
  • Who approves a retention exception over seven years? 19
  • What evidence do we keep for a supervisory review? 17
  • Which model versions are approved for regulated answers? 14
  • How is a superseded procedure withdrawn from every channel? 11

Governance

Answers you can defend, answers you can trust.

The difference is structural. Traditional search and AI cannot version, approve, or attest to content. Cognatum stores the approved entry, which is what makes the rest of this possible.

A source on every answer

Each answer names the record it came from, so a reader can open it and check.

A named approver

A person approves the entry, and the record keeps their name and the date.

Nothing goes stale in silence

Change a source and every answer built on it is flagged and routed for re-check.

One version, not many copies

The approved entry is stored and versioned, so there is one thing to correct.

Wording matters

When what you say is regulated, wording matters. Answers are never reworded.

Conflicting information is surfaced

When multiple approved sources conflict, they are routed to a person, not combined into one "Confident" AI answer.

Governance review is where an AI initiative stalls: someone asks how you would prove an answer was right, and there is no answer. Every entry carries the evidence a reviewer asks for: a named approver, date, source, version, and who is allowed to view.

Centrally governed

Governed centrally. Used everywhere.

Whether a person or machine, they need to know:

What is right? What is current? What is approved? What can I use? What applies to me?

Search alone cannot solve that. AI alone cannot solve that. Governed organizational knowledge does. And once the knowledge is governed centrally, intelligence can happen anywhere.

Served to one approved entry
Your peopleBusiness applicationsWorkflowsAI assistants and agents

Cognatum governs the entry

source · version · approver · permissions

Who it is for

Made for industries that have to be right.

Supervision, records, examination

Financial services

A named approver and a version on every answer, the wording of a regulated policy returned exactly as written, and a record of who approved what and when.

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Quality, validation, inspection

Life sciences

Controlled documents kept current, superseded procedures withdrawn from every channel at once, and an audit record an inspector can follow entry by entry.

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Suitability, market conduct, records

Insurance

A named approver and a version on every answer, filed wording returned exactly as written, and a record of what was recommended and on what basis.

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Export control, contract flowdown, assessment

Aerospace and defense

Technical data served only to people cleared to receive it, export wording returned exactly as written, and a refusal recorded every time an answer is withheld.

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Reliability standards, audit, restricted data

Energy and utilities

The revision in force on every answer, information about your systems served only to people cleared for it, and audit evidence written as the work happens.

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Traceability, supplier controls, recall

Regulated manufacturing

The controlled instruction in force on every answer, hazard wording returned exactly as written, and a traceability record built as the work happens.

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Privacy, coverage policy, device quality

Healthcare

Answers that stop at the boundary of who asked, approved notice wording returned exactly as written, and a record of who approved what and when.

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Knowledge governed. Intelligence everywhere.

See it on your own content, in your own environment.