The company knowledge foundation

Knowledge base, chatbot or Business Brain?

Different layers solve different problems.

Illustrative knowledge owner reviewing company procedures
Illustrative work scenario, not a customer testimonial.

Separate storage and interaction

A knowledge base organizes information. A chatbot provides a conversational interface. Those functions alone do not establish which information is approved or who owns a decision.

Look for the foundation

A Business Brain focuses on company context, approval, applicability and maintenance for connected experiences. Ask what your workflow needs before selecting the layer.

The Brain needs more than a pile of documents. Together, we identify the knowledge owners, useful source material and decisions that require a person. Changes to a procedure should have an owner and a clear way into the maintained knowledge foundation.

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Current approved solution

What starts with every Brain.

Simpl Brain is the required foundation shared by your solution sets. Your proposal defines the source material, access, instructions and workflows included in scope.

  • Employees ask a question in their own words rather than searching through scattered folders or relying on whoever happens to be available.
  • Source-grounded answers include citations, so someone can inspect the material behind a response instead of treating a confident answer as proof.
  • Training, administrative workflows, marketing and sales can use one shared foundation instead of rebuilding company knowledge for each program.

Employee-facing assistant

A place for employees to ask questions grounded in company knowledge.

Answers with citations

Responses connected to approved sources, with references that support checking the answer.

Instructions and guardrails

Defined guidance about the assistant's role, boundaries and handling of the workflow.

Human handoff

A path to a person when the request needs judgment, an exception or action outside the assistant's role.