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Critical Corporate Knowledge On-Demand

Unequivocal answers from your own documents, with the source shown.

Apply the rigour developed for Full Fathom AI to your policies, operating and safety procedures, manuals and guidance. Staff ask in plain English; answers draw exclusively from approved documents, with source checks and a clear response when the evidence is insufficient.

An operational knowledge workspace beside a process plant
Who this helps

Practitioners looking for guidance, knowledge owners and assurance teams.

The operating problem

Why the work matters.

Answers span separate systems, versions and local procedures. People need to know what is current, what applies to their role and site, and which document governs a conflict. General-purpose answers are a poor substitute for checking controlled operational knowledge.

Propel’s contribution

The approach.

Propel applies the trust principles developed for onboard knowledge to an organisation’s existing systems. Hosted or private deployment combines controlled search, access rights, source verification and explicit rules for answering, asking for clarification or referring a gap to its owner.

How it works

Follow the operational thread.

Connect the information, apply the relevant checks and make the next decision visible.

01

Connect approved sources

Use controlled interfaces or imports, preserving ownership, links, permissions, versions and effective dates.

02

Respect access and authority

Apply permissions before retrieval. Account for changed or withdrawn content and establish which policy governs a particular task.

03

Check the answer against the source

Retain conditions and exceptions, link to the relevant passage and version, and distinguish requirements from explanation.

04

Give an accountable next step

Answer where supported; clarify, refuse or escalate when evidence conflicts or is missing. Owners maintain content in its governing system.

The user experience

Different roles.
The same evidence.

Dashboards, timelines and work queues make the relevant information available before someone has to ask a question.

For the practitioner

A concise answer, its applicable sources and unresolved questions.

For the knowledge owner

Stale material, conflicting procedures and recurring unanswered topics.

For assurance

Source versions, access scope, checks and the recorded outcome.

Our glass-box approach

What the user can inspect

  • Source passage, version and local applicability
  • Permission, authority and freshness checks
  • The reason to answer, clarify or withhold guidance
The intended value

What this is designed
to improve.

  • Less searching across separate systems and versions
  • Consistent use of current requirements, conditions and exceptions
  • Specialists focused on unclear or unsupported questions
  • Duplicate, conflicting and outdated documents made visible to their owners
  • Recurring questions reveal staff needs and support induction
  • Existing document systems remain the source of record, with an audit trail for answers
How to evaluate it

Test time to verified evidence, supported and unsupported questions, source revisions and permission changes before extending the scope.

An application of the principles developed for Full Fathom AI, configured to each organisation’s document systems, access rights and answering rules.

September 2026 · The Propel Group

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Apply this to your work

Recognise the problem?

Choose one policy or operational area and a set of real questions. Agree access, document priority, updating and escalation with the owners, then test supported answers and refusals with specialists before extending the scope.

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