Company knowledge briefing assistant
Short executive answers with visible evidence conflicts and source freshness.
- For
- Chiefs of staff coordinating cross-functional answers
- Solves
- Executive questions require repeated searches across disconnected documents.
- Delivers
- Evidence-linked executive briefs
- Built in
- about 2 weeks of creation time, MVP in 2 days
- Investment
- $5,500 for the MVP, $17,000 for the full product
- Run it
- Inside your business, or as part of your offer to clients
What it does
For chiefs of staff coordinating cross-functional answers, turn authorized internal reports and decision records into evidence-linked executive briefs.
- Search permitted sources.
- Synthesize competing accounts.
- Cite exact passages.
- Flag stale inputs.
- Route unanswered questions.
- Save recurring briefings.
What goes in, what comes out
- Authorized internal reports
- Decision records
AI drafts, people review. Source-linked assistant and administrator console.
- Evidence-linked executive briefs
How it works
The workflow
- InStart with
Authorized internal reports and decision records
- 1
Add an approved collection
- 2
Assign source owners and access rules
- 3
Test representative questions
- 4
Let users ask questions
- 5
Retrieve supporting passages
- 6
Answer or request clarification
- 7
Hand off unresolved cases with their context
- OutFinish with
Evidence-linked executive briefs
AI does the heavy lifting, people stay in charge
Retrieve permitted passages and generate answers constrained to those sources. Use structured rules for transactional facts. Detect missing context and refuse to invent unsupported details. Store reviewer corrections for evaluation and controlled knowledge updates.
What your team sees
Key screens: Question workspace, cited answer, source freshness. Give end users a simple search or conversation surface with short answers and expandable citations. Administrators get source status, unanswered questions and handoff queues. Show the source date beside relevant answers. Keep conversation context available to the staff member receiving an escalation. In this product, the first view is question workspace, followed by cited answer and source freshness.
Accounts and administration
Source ownership, document permissions, freshness checks, conversation history, human handoff, feedback, test questions, usage limits and access logs.
Integrations and data access
Internal reports, public company information and decision registers. Approved knowledge repositories, websites, service desks and staff messaging systems. Validate access inheritance and use read-only ingestion for the initial deployment. These are candidate integration categories, not verified supported connectors.
How we build it
We build with our own AI software development factory, so most implementations take days to a few weeks of creation time, not months. You see working software at every step, and exact timing depends on availability.
- 1
Scoping call
Day 1Thirty minutes on your process, your data and how you want to run it: for your own team, or for your clients. You get a fixed scope and price for the MVP.
- 2
MVP
2 daysOne buyer segment, one recurring use case; first modules: search permitted sources; synthesize competing accounts. Manual review in the loop. Built by our AI software factory.
- 3
Paid pilot
3 daysAccounts, roles, review states, audit trail and the first integration, hardened for two to three paying pilot customers.
- 4
Full product
6 daysRemaining modules: flag stale inputs; route unanswered questions; save recurring briefings. Self-serve onboarding, billing, monitoring and the wider integration set.
- 5
Run and improve
MonthlyWe host, monitor and improve it for a fixed monthly fee, or hand it over to your team. How the retainer works.
Why we start with an MVP
An MVP, or minimum viable product, is the smallest version that your users can actually work with. It is not a cheap version of the full solution. It is a test, built to answer the questions that decide whether the rest is worth building.
- Pick the riskiest assumption. Here: will chiefs of staff coordinating cross-functional answers use it to solve "executive questions require repeated searches across disconnected documents"?
- Build only what tests it. One team, one use case, a few core modules. People do the rest by hand for now.
- Run a paid pilot. Restrict the assistant to one collection and test answered, ambiguous and unanswerable questions.
- Measure, then decide. Track verified answer usefulness and research time. Then expand, change course or stop, with evidence instead of opinions.
MVP scope for this solution. Begin with chiefs of staff coordinating cross-functional answers and one recurring use case. Build the first two modules: search permitted sources; synthesize competing accounts. Provide operator assistance for the third module: cite exact passages. Deliver evidence-linked executive briefs through a manual review queue. Perform other necessary full-scope functions manually during the pilot. Include all applicable access, accuracy and professional-review controls from the start.
After the MVP. After paid pilots establish value, automate the remaining modules: flag stale inputs; route unanswered questions; save recurring briefings. Add one validated source integration, reusable customer configuration and recurring delivery. Expand to additional teams, document formats or languages only after testing the new scope.
What the build depends on. Permission-filtered retrieval, document versioning, a question evaluation set, staff handoff and a source update process. Reliability depends on source quality and scope.
Investment
A planning range to start the conversation, not a quote. You pay per phase, so you can stop after the MVP.
- Phase 1
MVP
One buyer segment, one recurring use case; first modules: search permitted sources; synthesize competing accounts. Manual review in the loop.
- Phase 2
Paid pilot
Accounts, roles, review states, audit trail and the first integration, hardened for two to three paying pilot customers.
- Phase 3
Full product
Remaining modules: flag stale inputs; route unanswered questions; save recurring briefings. Self-serve onboarding, billing, monitoring and the wider integration set.
Indicative total, MVP to full product$17,000about 2 weeks of creation time · start with the MVP from $5,500
Running costs per month
A rough indication of monthly hosting and AI model costs once it is live, not tested. Real costs depend on usage, file sizes and the models chosen.
| Stage | Hosting and infrastructure | AI usage | Total per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| MVP and paid pilotabout 3 customers | $30–$60 | $60–$120 | $90–$180 |
| Full productabout 50 customers | $110–$210 | $530–$1,050 | $640–$1,260 |
Run it or resell it
For your own team
Chiefs of staff coordinating cross-functional answers run it inside the business: authorized internal reports and decision records in, evidence-linked executive briefs out, reviewed by your people.
As part of your offer
Agencies, consultancies and software companies can offer it to their own clients under their brand. We build and maintain it; you sell and deliver it.
Your brand, or this one
Run it under your own brand, or start from this concept style.
- primary
#769127 - accent
#5c54c9 - surface
#eef1e4 - ink
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- Headings
- Playfair Display
- Text
- Source Sans 3
- Voice
- Brief, sharp, evidence-first
Selling it to your own clients: the go-to-market playbook
Pricing to test
Test USD 500-2,000 setup plus USD 150-600 monthly for one defined source collection and usage allowance. Price multi-location deployments and specialist support separately. Validate willingness to pay; these are hypotheses.
Message to test
Company knowledge briefing assistant for chiefs of staff coordinating cross-functional answers. Short executive answers with visible evidence conflicts and source freshness. Demonstrate the claim through a source-linked answer to a real cross-functional question.
Where to find buyers
Executive operations communities
Lead magnet
A source-linked answer to a real cross-functional question
The first 30 days
- Week 1: interview five prospective buyers in this segment: chiefs of staff coordinating cross-functional answers. Ask to see a recent example of the problem and their current process.
- Week 2: prepare this demonstration using authorized or synthetic material: a source-linked answer to a real cross-functional question.
- Week 3: present it through executive operations communities and seek one narrowly scoped paid pilot.
- Week 4: review verified answer usefulness, research time, total delivery effort and a concrete renewal decision before increasing scope.
Paid pilot
Restrict the assistant to one collection and test answered, ambiguous and unanswerable questions. Run supervised use before wider rollout. Measure correctness, escalation quality and staff effort. For this solution, use authorized internal reports and decision records and evaluate evidence-linked executive briefs. Agree success thresholds with the buyer before starting; collect a baseline for verified answer usefulness, research time. A positive signal is payment and repeat use with acceptable quality and delivery cost, not a favorable demo reaction alone.
Success metrics
Verified answer usefulness, research time
Retention and expansion
Review unanswered questions and source freshness monthly. Expand to another source collection or team only after the existing assistant meets its agreed accuracy and handoff criteria.
Why clients would pick it
A maintained domain knowledge collection, realistic evaluation questions, useful escalation paths and integrations in the customer’s daily work. For this solution, build around short executive answers with visible evidence conflicts and source freshness. This advantage requires execution and accumulated customer trust; the base model alone is not a defensible asset.
Alternatives and positioning
Manual search, static FAQs, general chat tools and support or intranet suites. Differentiate on this specific proposed advantage: short executive answers with visible evidence conflicts and source freshness. Test it against the buyer's current method on the same task. Competitor coverage and uniqueness have not been established.
Main delivery costs
Document ingestion, retrieval and generation, source maintenance, support, evaluation and staff time handling unresolved cases.
Safeguards
Show source dates and distinguish evidence from strategic assumptions. Keep sensitive company plans restricted to authorized participants. Validate source access and reviewer availability during the pilot. Maintain customer-level access, data deletion controls and a record of final approvals.