Keep knowledge when staff leave: how a company memory works
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When a key person leaves, their know-how can leave too. Here is how a shared company memory keeps prices, clients, and processes in the business.
When someone leaves, you lose more than a pair of hands. You lose the prices they remembered, the client quirks, and where the files live. A company memory keeps that knowledge in the business.
What actually gets lost
Most of it was never written down: why a client gets a certain rate, which supplier is reliable, how a tricky job was handled. It lives in email threads, texts, and one person's head.
How a company memory helps
- It starts from what you have. Past quotes, job notes, handbooks, and client files are connected in one place through a company knowledge graph.
- It answers with sources. The next person asks a question and gets an answer they can verify. See reasoning search.
- It builds over time. Each new job and document adds to the memory, so it doesn't depend on one handover meeting.
Before someone leaves
Connect their files and ask the questions you'd normally ask them. Gaps show you what to capture while they are still around.
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