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From Meeting Pack to board record.

The next-generation governance platform for boards, committees, and the groups behind them.

FTSE 100, FTSE 250, and private boards are moving to Knowa. One home for every meeting, decision, and action — with an intelligence layer that connects them all.

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From the board record: Reviewed at the November Audit Committee. The Committee was satisfied the company has enough cash and headroom for the next 18 months.
  • Source: Nov Audit Cttee minutes
  • Owner: CFO
  • Next review: half-year
Annual Report & Accounts
FY25 · filed
Current
Going concern paper
Nov '26
Current
Stakeholder report
FY25
Filed
Climate & ESG report
FY25
Review due

Your board runs four committees. Your portal runs one folder structure.

The problem: Audit, Remuneration, Nomination, Risk, ESG — each with its own rhythm, papers, and minutes. Your portal treats them as one shared drive. The thing a director needs lives anywhere but the place they'd look first.

The fix: Knowa holds the complete record of the board, every committee, and every entity in the group. Ringfenced access. One audit trail. One answer when the Chair asks "where did we land on that?" — whether it was last month or three years ago.

K Your group · one record Live
BD Board & committees 5 spaces
AC Audit committee Q4 pack
RC Remuneration committee Pay policy draft
SR Stakeholder report FY25
SG Subsidiary governance 47 entities
BE Board evaluation Year 3

Why boards are switching

FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 boards are choosing Knowa over traditional board software.

Because they can see where governance is heading. The old portals were built to store a Meeting Pack. Knowa was built to run governance — and to think alongside the board. That's the next generation, and the best boards are already there.

Traditional board software
  • A place to file the Meeting Pack
  • You dig through folders to find an answer
  • Knowledge walks out the door when a director does
  • Every committee is just another folder
  • Built for storage
Knowa
  • A living record of every meeting, decision, and action
  • You ask a question and get an answer, cited to source
  • The record stays — continuity is built in
  • Every committee gets its own connected space
  • Built to govern, with intelligence on top

Three parts. One group record.

Built for the way corporate boards actually work: multiple committees, ringfenced but connected, with an audit trail that survives turnover at every level.

Smart Vault.
Every committee, one workspace.

Terms of reference, minutes, resolutions, board papers, reports, and evaluations. Versioned, permissioned, and audit-ready. The director rotates off; the record stays.

ToR
Audit Committee termsv4.2
AR
Annual Report FY25Filed
PR
Pay & reward paperDec '26
GC
Going concern paperCurrent
Collaboration Space.
The work between meetings.

Chair conversations, director questions, committee sign-offs. Every discussion, vote, and decision threaded to the paper or resolution it relates to. Directors @mention, debate, and vote between meetings. The discussion becomes the record.

Executive pay targets · RemCo Thread
C Claire (RemCo Chair)
Our adviser flagged the bonus target as too soft. @David can we raise it before the AGM?
Vote · Revised pay targets 5 / 5
Meeting Flow.
Pack → capture → minutes.

Meeting Flow is the work of the meeting itself: the pack assembled cohesively from Knowa and external content, directors reading, annotating, and asking questions in advance, the discussion captured live, minutes drafted within the hour with resolutions and actions already in the tracker.

1 · Pack → 2 · Verse → 3 · Minutes
Draft minutes · Q4 Audit Cttee
Going concern approved. 3 resolutions recorded, 6 actions logged.

Connected Governance · the intelligence

When the board's record is connected, one question finds it all.

Knowa Q reads across the entire record. Board and committee minutes, terms of reference, resolutions, board papers, reports, and subsidiary filings. Ask it anything. Get an answer grounded in your own documents, cited to the paper or minute it came from.

No searching. No guessing. Every answer cited to source. The Chair's "what did RemCo agree?" is one question away. The General Counsel's "where did we land on that?" resolves in seconds, not a half-day.

Ask Knowa Knowa Q
What did the Remuneration Committee agree about executive pay? Ask
From the board record: At the December RemCo, the Committee agreed to raise the CEO's long-term bonus target and tie part of it to the company's climate goals. Approved for next year's policy.
Source Dec 2026 RemCo minutes

Connected Governance · live Modules

Not just documents. Connected Modules that talk to each other.

The risk register feeds the Audit Committee pack. The action tracker flows from every committee minute. The conflicts register gates agenda items. The board evaluation cites the evidence it asks for.

RR
Risk register

Strategic, operational, financial, ESG. Each risk scored, owned, and reviewed on cycle. Feeds the Audit Committee and the risk reporting in your Annual Report.

CyberMedium
Climate transitionMedium
AT
Action tracker

Every action from every board and committee meeting, with owner, deadline, and audit trail. Created from Verse, closed in the thread, surfaced at the next meeting. Never forgotten in an inbox.

CFO · cash headroom paperQ2
Owner: CFO · Audit Cttee
CR
Conflicts register

Director declarations logged, reviewed annually, and visible to the Chair. Flags who steps out on which agenda items. No more side-spreadsheet.

David · external directorshipsUp to date
Next review: annual
BE
Board evaluation

An external review every three years, internal in between. The evidence the reviewer asks for — attendance, challenge, composition, succession — already lives in the record. Responses cited to source.

FY25 evaluationExternal
6 recommendations tracked
SG
Subsidiary governance

For group structures. Each subsidiary, joint venture, and regulated entity gets its own space — ringfenced by design, united under one group record. Local directors, local minutes, one audit trail.

47 group entitiesLive
3 regulated · 2 JVs · 42 others

Who uses it

The board. The committees. The group.

From the Chair running the quarterly board to the team assembling the resolutions, Knowa is built for everyone who sits around the board table.

Chair, SID & NEDs

Read the pack on the train. Ask questions between meetings. Find "where did we land on that?" in seconds. Show you've done your homework, with evidence.

Company Secretary

Every committee's record in one place. Pack assembly in minutes, minutes drafted in the hour. Resolutions, written resolutions, and filings without the attachment hunt.

General Counsel & CFO

Stakeholder and governance evidence on demand. Audit Committee oversight. Going concern and ESG reporting grounded in the papers that delivered them. Every disclosure backed by the record.

Group Secretariat

The subsidiaries, the JVs, the regulated entities. Each with its own ringfenced space, consistent governance model, and one place to prove it. Governance at scale without scaling headcount.

Aligned with the UK Corporate Governance Code and your reporting duties — evidenced from how your board already works.

Security

Enterprise-grade security, built for listed Boards.

Price-sensitive information, pre-announcement drafts, pay proposals, board evaluations. Security isn't a feature. It's a precondition.

ISO 27001 certified infrastructure
UK-based data hosting
Enterprise-grade encryption (TLS 1.3 + AES-256) & immutable audit log
Granular access & ringfenced committees
★★★★★
Listed group · Company Secretary

"We'd tried three portals. The problem wasn't the portal, it was that the board needed more than document storage. Knowa is the first thing where the minutes and the resolutions and the committee work hang together."

Company Secretary · FTSE-listed group
★★★★★
Audit Committee Chair

"The question I ask most as Audit Chair is 'what did we decide last time and why?' It used to take half a day. Now it takes a sentence."

Audit Committee Chair · Private group

Pricing

Scoped to your board. Always bespoke.

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On the horizon · Autonomous Governance

When the record is live, the governance runs itself.

A new piece of guidance drafts the board briefing. A risk threshold alerts the right committee chair. A review recommendation fires on its due date. Directors sign off on judgement, not admin. The board's time goes to the things only directors can do.

The board's duties deserve infrastructure that keeps up.

See why FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 boards are moving to Knowa — running committees better, and leaving a record that holds up to anyone.

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