The Company Brain: AI Search Over Your Own Knowledge

Every organization forgets what it knows, and pointing a language model at the company drive does not fix it. This cursus builds the real thing: why institutional memory decays and what the 1990s knowledge-management wave already proved, then the architecture that is specific to doing retrieval inside a company (connectors, permission-aware retrieval, entity resolution, staleness), then the write path that decides whether any of it works, with evaluation, a permission regression suite, and the failure modes that end these projects.