Strategy Project

Institutional Knowledge Practice

Capture how your organization actually works, and keep it true, so the next retirement, board turnover or agency change doesn’t take your history with it.

Starting at
$12,500
To build it. Keeping it current is a separate monthly fee, quoted per organization.
Typical length
About 10 to 16 weeks to build, then ongoing
Your team’s time
Short interviews with key staff and board

How it runs

PHASE 01

Scope

start with your public records obligations, handled with your counsel.

PHASE 02

Audit

confirm who owns every account and data asset.

PHASE 03

Capture

short, structured conversations with the people who hold the knowledge.

PHASE 04

Keep it true

scheduled refreshes and updates when something changes.

The problem

Most of what a DMO knows lives in a few people’s heads: why a partner gets an exception, what the board decided in 2019, who owns which account. When those people leave, a new CEO spends a year or more rebuilding it. AI assistants pointed at a messy shared drive make it worse by repeating outdated policy with complete confidence.

What we build

A living record of how your organization actually works: mandate, funding, governance, partners, systems and the reasoning behind past decisions. Your team and your AI tools can ask it questions and see where each answer came from and when it was last checked. Then we keep it current.

Deliverables
Access & asset ownership audit
Your institutional knowledge base, owned outright
Sourced, dated answers your team and AI tools can use
Ongoing updates
Who it’s for

Organizations facing a CEO transition, a retirement, an agency change or a funding renewal, and DMOs rolling out AI tools that need something reliable to read.

Questions we get

It works more like custody. The records are refreshed on a schedule and updated when something changes.