AI Knowledge Base · Durham
AI Knowledge Base in Durham
Turning a Durham organisation's scattered internal knowledge into something people can ask questions of. The uncomfortable finding in most of these projects is that the content is the problem — contradictory documents and superseded policies produce contradictory answers, and no amount of retrieval quality fixes that.
Why this comes up
The problem
The answers exist somewhere across an intranet, a shared drive and several people's inboxes. New staff ask colleagues instead, and the same explanation gets given repeatedly.
What you get
What we deliver
- Sources connected — intranet, document stores, wikis, policy libraries
- Content conflicts surfaced, because the system will find them whether you look or not
- Answers with citations, so people can check rather than simply trust
- Ownership assigned per document, since knowledge with no owner goes stale
- Search where users already are, typically Teams or Slack rather than another portal
- Unanswered-question reporting, which shows what your documentation is missing
Want this scoped for your business in Durham?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what ai knowledge base would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Durham
North East
Durham's economy is dominated by its university and cathedral, so the commercial base is small and much of the local demand comes from spinouts and suppliers attached to the institutions rather than from independent industry.
Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones.
Sectors we work with in Durham
- Higher Education
- Tourism & Heritage
- Public Sector
- Retail
- Research
What we work with
Technologies and platforms
- Anthropic Claude
- pgvector
- SharePoint
- TypeScript
- Slack API
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- Professional services
- Healthcare
- Manufacturing
- Education
- Local government
Why us
Why Durham businesses choose Asionis
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise
How we work
- Step 1
Free consultation
A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.
- Step 2
Proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.
- Step 3
Build
Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.
- Step 4
Launch and support
We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.
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AI Knowledge Base in Durham — common questions
- What if our documents contradict each other?
- The system will surface it, sometimes uncomfortably. That is genuinely valuable — those contradictions were already causing inconsistent advice, just invisibly. Expect some content cleanup as part of the project rather than treating it as a surprise.
- How do we stop it giving outdated answers?
- Ownership and review dates on documents, and excluding superseded material from the index rather than leaving it there. A knowledge base is only as current as the content behind it, which is a governance job more than a technical one.
- Where should people ask questions?
- Wherever they already work — Teams or Slack, usually. A separate portal requires people to remember it exists, and adoption of a tool that needs remembering is consistently disappointing.
- How do we improve it over time?
- By reviewing the questions it could not answer. That list is a precise, evidence-based description of the gaps in your documentation, and it is usually more useful than any content audit anyone would have commissioned.
- Do you work with businesses across County Durham?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout North East, including Durham and the surrounding County Durham area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Durham businesses do you usually work with?
- Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones. Beyond that we work across Higher Education, Tourism & Heritage, Public Sector, Retail and Research.
- Do you cover the areas around Durham?
- Yes — we work throughout North East, including Newcastle, Sunderland, York. Durham is an urban area of roughly 70,000+, and we take on work across the wider County Durham region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about AI Knowledge Base in Durham
A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise