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The AI governance operating system for Boards and advisers.

Good governance fails in the gaps between your documents and your decisions.

Knowa is the intelligence layer that closes the gaps: connecting every document, every meeting, every decision into one living record.

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Teams collaborating on governance work with Knowa

The governance problem

Good governance is being let down by bad infrastructure.

Trustees, governors, and directors join to contribute judgement. They end up hunting for historical minutes across three shared drives, four inboxes, and the clerk's memory.

The paperwork expands. KCSIE updates annually, TPR codes evolve, Charity Commission expectations sharpen. The time available does not.

And when someone leaves, the institutional memory leaves with them. The next cohort starts over.

Email · 14 Mar "Can someone find last year's SIP?"
Inbox · 47 threads
Shared drive /2022/policies/SAFEGUARDING_v2_FINAL_v3.docx
Which is current?
WhatsApp · Chair "Did we agree the reserves target?"
3 messages · unresolved
Teams / chat Draft minutes · 3 versions in circulation
Last edit: 19 days ago
Spreadsheet Actions_tracker_FINAL.xlsx
Last opened: 6 months ago
Clerk's notebook "I think we agreed something in June?"
Institutional memory

Who it's for

Built for the boards that care.

Knowa is designed around the duties of specific Boards: pension schemes, charities, schools, family offices.

Pension funds

For trustee boards and pension managers. TPR Code-ready evidence, SIP and covenant tracking, a defensible record for every investment decision.

For pension funds →

Charities

For trustees and CEOs of charities and foundations. CC3-aligned governance. Trustee onboarding in an afternoon. The memory stays when the board rotates.

For charities →

Schools

For governors, clerks, and MAT boards. KCSIE and safeguarding evidence. Ofsted-ready without the weekend scramble. Single school or sixteen-school trust.

For schools →

Family offices

For principals, GCs, and family councils. Board, executive, and family. Three secure spaces, one platform. Ringfenced by design, audited end to end.

For family offices →

The vision

Knowa (Core) is what we've built. Knowa (Core)nected is what it unlocks.

Good governance isn't a feature. It's a necessity. Knowa is there to deliver it.

Proven LIVE
Knowa (Core).
Why
A single source of truth for the board's work.
How
The Smart Vault, the Collaboration Space, and Meeting Flow. Every document, decision, and rationale in one place, captured as you work.
Prize
Nothing gets lost. Nothing gets duplicated. The record survives the turnover.
The Horizon ROADMAP
Knowa (Core)
Why
Administration is automated. Judgment is supported.
How
When the data is live, governance tasks trigger themselves: a review cycle fires, a risk threshold alerts the right trustee, a regulatory update drafts the action. Humans sign off on judgement, not admin.
Prize
The board's time goes to the things only humans can do. The platform handles the rest.

The evidence

Governance, at scale.

Not a PDF on an iPad. No old tech you love hating. The operating model for modern Boards.

1,000+
Boards
on the platform
£300bn
Assets under
governance
3×
UK Pensions Tech Winner
2020 · 2022 · 2024
ISO
27001 certified
UK-hosted infrastructure

Security

Enterprise-grade security, built for Boards.

The boards using Knowa hold members' pensions, children's safeguarding, and donors' money. Security isn't a feature. It's the foundation.

ISO 27001 certified infrastructure
UK-based data hosting
Enterprise-grade encryption (TLS 1.3 + AES-256)
Role-based access and audit logs

What boards say

From the chairs, clerks, and secretaries who live in it.

★★★★★
Pension Scheme · £1bn+

"As Chair, I have come to see it as invaluable. It's the portal I reach for first, and the one I would not want to be without."

Phil · Chair of Trustees
★★★★★
National Charity

"Knowa has made my life so much easier and the board love it. Meetings run better. Minutes are quicker. Decisions are clearer. And it's inexpensive."

Sally C · Secretary to the Trustees
★★★★★
School

"An exceptional productivity tool"

Bernard M · Chairman
★★★★★
Company

"Best system around"

Simone L. · CEO

Verified and vetted by independent reviewers

UK Pensions Awards Winner · 2020 · 2022 · 2024

Rated 4.9 / 5 by the people who actually use it.

Verified reviews across Capterra, Software Advice, and G2 — written by the trustees, secretaries, and chairs who work in Knowa every day.

Capterra
4.9 / 5
★★★★★
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Software Advice
4.9 / 5
★★★★★
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G2
4.8 / 5
★★★★★
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Ease of use 4.8  ·  Customer service 5.0

Frequently asked

Questions from boards and their advisers.

What is a board governance platform?
A board governance platform is a single, secure home for everything a board needs to govern well — papers, minutes, decisions, actions, and risks. Instead of scattering that record across shared drives, inboxes, and WhatsApp threads, Knowa keeps it in one living, auditable record, so the right information is always to hand and nothing is lost when the board rotates.
Who is Knowa for?
Knowa is built for the UK boards that serve something bigger than themselves — pension trustee boards, charity and foundation trustees, school governors and MAT boards, family offices, and company boards — along with the advisers, EBCs, and professional trustee firms who serve them. Each sector gets governance shaped to its own duties and regulators.
How is Knowa different from a shared drive, board portal, or email?
A shared drive stores files but understands nothing about them. A traditional board portal distributes the pack but stops at the meeting. Knowa connects the whole governance cycle — documents, discussion, decisions, and actions — into one record, then lets you query it in plain English with Knowa Q. The institutional memory stays with the board, not in one person's inbox.
What is Knowa Q?
Knowa Q is the platform's AI assistant. Ask a plain-English question — "What did we agree about the reserves policy?" or "When did we last review the SIP?" — and it answers from your board's own documents and history, with sources cited. It turns years of papers and minutes into something you can actually search and trust.
Does Knowa help us meet our regulatory obligations?
Yes. Knowa gives each sector a defensible, timestamped record aligned to the standards that apply to it — the TPR General Code for pension trustees, CC3 for charities, KCSIE and Ofsted expectations for schools, and the UK Corporate Governance Code for companies. Every decision, action, and supporting paper is captured as you work, so demonstrating a prudent process is straightforward when a regulator, auditor, or member asks.
How secure is Knowa?
Knowa is ISO 27001 certified, with UK-based data hosting, enterprise-grade encryption (TLS 1.3 and AES-256), and role-based access with full audit logs. The boards using Knowa hold members' pensions, children's safeguarding, and donors' money — so security is the foundation, not a feature. Knowa never uses your data to train AI models.
How long does it take to get set up?
Most boards are up and running quickly, with no IT project required. Onboarding, data migration, and training are handled as part of the subscription, and a new trustee or governor can be brought fully up to speed in an afternoon rather than over months.
Can advisers and clerks manage multiple boards in one place?
Yes. EBCs, professional trustee firms, clerks, and company secretaries can run multiple boards or entities from a single platform — every committee, scheme, or subsidiary kept in its own secure, ringfenced space. It's how advisers scale their book without scaling headcount.

The board's mission deserves infrastructure that keeps up.

See how 1,000+ Boards are running better meetings, making better decisions, and leaving a record that speaks for itself.

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