About Knowa
For the people
Behind the decision
Knowa. The AI-powered board platform for governance in full.
Knowa. The AI-powered board platform for governance in full.
Why Knowa exists
A board decides on behalf of people who will never sit in the meeting. That is why governance standards exist. It is why a pension scheme is called a trust: because it is one. A trusted obligation between the people in the room and the people who are not.
And yet boards have always worked against complexity, dispersed material and time. Neither their commitment nor the obligation they took on was partial. Their view of it was.
Knowa believes every document, email and action matters. Each is part of a decision made on someone's behalf. So the platform keeps the evidence, history and collective knowledge of a board in live connection. Everything board members joined to achieve, within their reach.
That is governing to the full extent of the trust.
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To help board members fulfil everything they joined to achieve. And to make sure the people not in the room are represented in full.
An AI-powered governance platform for boards and the advisers who work with them. Decisions that are comprehensively informed, consistent and compliant.
Knowa holds everything a board knows and puts it in reach. Every document, decision and action, held securely and read intelligently.
Trustees, governors and directors. Chairs, secretaries and clerks. Actuarial, investment and legal advisers. In-house teams on the sponsor side.
Meet the people behind the decision →Why it matters
Why the standard exists, what the board can now reach, and who can now reach it.
The board keeps a promise to people who will never be in the room. The promise is identical for everyone. The handling of it never has been, because consistency depended on whether the earlier case could still be found.
With Knowa, it can.
The duty was always to take account of every relevant factor. No board member could hold decades of material in view at once. Now thirty years of history is readable inside the time a board actually has.
Precedent found before the decision, not remembered after it.
Standards can now rise across the board. A small board without a secretariat prepares to the standard of a large one. Consistency stops living with whoever has been on the board longest.
Advisers admitted to a single matter, with scoped access and an audit trail.
Here to support the expertise and judgement of the board. Never to replace it.
The company
Knowa was founded in 2017 by Amédée Levillain, after twenty-five years in pension scheme governance and investment advisory. He had watched boards govern complex, regulated organisations while relying on scattered email chains and shared drives.
Knowa began with UK pension trustee boards and now serves charities, schools and academy trusts, family offices and company boards, and, with the Plan Sponsor Council of America, US retirement plan committees.
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