Governed AI knowledge layer

Your documents know the answer. Now your team can just ask.

Connect SharePoint, Google Drive, and Confluence into one governed knowledge layer. Your team asks a question in Teams, Slack, or web chat, and gets a source-backed answer from documents you have approved.

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ISO/IEC 27001 aligned
G-Cloud listed
UK hosted
ISO/IEC 42001 in progress
Slack · #policy-questions
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Sarah Chen · 10:24
What’s our process for renewing GDPR data processing agreements with vendors?
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AnswerVault · 10:24 Governed
DPAs must be renewed 30 days before expiry. The vendor management team initiates renewal via the standard template; legal review is required for vendors handling Category-1 personal data.
Source · SharePoint
Vendor Management Policy v3.2 · updated 14 Mar 2026
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Also available in Teams · Web · CLI
Connects to your existing document estate
SharePoint Google Drive Confluence Microsoft Teams Slack
What it costs you today

Three numbers worth putting on the procurement table.

Document fragmentation, ungoverned AI, and US-jurisdiction hosting are quiet line-items in every UK and EU buyer’s budget right now.

9 hrs
per knowledge worker, every week

Average time spent searching for documents that already exist somewhere in the organisation. At 100 employees, that’s ~46,000 hours a year: spent searching, not deciding.

McKinsey · replicated since
15–27%
hallucination rate, general-purpose AI

Industry studies put factual hallucination rates for general AI assistants between 15% and 27%. For policy, regulatory, or audit-bearing questions, that is not a usable answer.

Aggregate public benchmarks · 2024–25
June 2025
when “EU-hosted” stopped being enough

Microsoft confirmed under oath to the French Senate that it cannot guarantee EU data on its infrastructure will never be accessed by US authorities. Hosting region alone no longer resolves the question.

French Senate hearing · public record
How it works

From a scattered document estate to source-backed answers, in three steps.

No migration, no parallel knowledge base to maintain, no LLM subscriptions. AI is included.

01 · Connect

Connect your sources.

OAuth into SharePoint, Google Drive, and Confluence. We index where your documents already live.

  • OAuth setup~2 min
  • First index~12 min
  • Permission mappingautomatic
02 · Build

We build the graph.

Documents are indexed and structured into a knowledge graph that maps how policies, procedures, and updates relate.

  • Vector indexincluded
  • Graph relationshipsauto
  • Managed AIno API keys
03 · Ask

Your team asks.

Web chat, Teams, Slack, CLI, or API. Every answer cited and audit-logged.

  • Surfaces5
  • Audit logall queries
  • Source citationsevery answer
Used across the organisation
Engineering teams· HR· Operations· Customer support· External access· Distributed teams
All use cases →
Why AnswerVault

Four things general-purpose AI assistants structurally cannot do.

Independent of any competitor. These are the product’s own advantages.

Governance

Governed knowledge bases.

Surface answers only from approved, curated document sets, not everything a user can see. Full audit trail on every query.

Reach

External access without licences.

Contractors, partners, and citizens get governed access without an M365 or Google Workspace seat.

Coverage

Cross-ecosystem search.

SharePoint, Google Drive, and Confluence indexed with equal depth. One layer, regardless of which team uses what.

Retrieval

Graph-powered retrieval.

A knowledge graph maps relationships between documents, entities, and concepts, not just similarity.

Enterprise sovereign tier

Hosting in the EU is not the same as removing US legal exposure.

The CLOUD Act follows corporate control, not data location. AnswerVault’s Enterprise sovereign tier deploys on non-US infrastructure where neither the hosting provider nor AnswerVault has a US legal presence.

Deployment spectrum

  • ProAWS LON1
  • BusinessAWS, region selectable
  • EnterpriseHetzner EU/UK
What it costs to buy

Annual cost at 50 users.

Published list pricing or analyst estimates. AnswerVault includes managed AI, no token costs, no LLM subscription bolted on.

AnswerVault Pro £7/user/mo
£4,200
Claude Team
~£11,850
Guru
~£12,000+
Microsoft Copilot + M365 + IT setup
~£14,220
Glean 3-month enterprise sales cycle
~£30,000+

At 200 users, the gap to Glean widens to ~£103,000 a year. AnswerVault is live in 15 minutes; Glean takes three months of procurement just to get a price.

Notes & briefings

From the AnswerVault team.

Practical guidance on governed AI, sovereign deployment, and getting more out of your document estate.

20 May 2026

Why AI Organisational Knowledge Is the New Competitive Moat

AI organizational knowledge is the new competitive moat in 2026. What rivals copy (process, software, talent) and what they cannot: your governed judgement.

cross-ecosystem Craig Cook
7 min read
12 May 2026

Copilot Alternatives for Organisations That Can't Risk Their Data

Copilot alternatives in 2026 are no longer a feature comparison. For regulated UK and EU buyers, the question is whether the AI processing layer can be kept out of US jurisdiction at all.

governance Craig Cook
7 min read
8 May 2026

Internal Knowledge Base Software: The 2026 Landscape

Internal knowledge base software in 2026 covers four distinct product shapes. Why most existing KBs hit limits when AI is layered on, and how to evaluate replacements.

cross-ecosystem Craig Cook
6 min read
8 May 2026

Glean Alternatives in 2026: Glean vs Guru vs Sovereign Comparison

Glean alternatives in 2026 fall into three structural categories. Where Glean and Guru fit, and where sovereign alternatives like AnswerVault solve a different problem.

cross-ecosystem Craig Cook
6 min read
8 May 2026

Enterprise Search as a Service: What It Is and Who It's For

Enterprise search as a service is the SaaS model for governed AI search. What ESaaS covers, who it suits, and where sovereignty constraints split the market.

cross-ecosystem Craig Cook
6 min read