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For UK corporate boards

From Meeting Pack to board record.

Governance infrastructure for corporate boards, committees, and the groups behind them.

For the FTSE 100s, FTSE 250s, and private groups whose duties stretch across the board, every committee, and every subsidiary. One record. Every meeting. Every resolution. Every entity.

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From the board record: Reviewed at the November Audit Committee. Committee concluded going concern appropriate based on the 18-month cash-flow model and banking covenants headroom.

Source: Nov Audit Cttee minutes
Owner: CFO
Next review: half-year

Annual Report & Accounts

FY25 · filed

Current

Going concern paper

Nov '26

Current

Section 172 statement

FY25

Filed

TCFD disclosures

FY25

Review due

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

The Pain: Audit, Remuneration, Nomination, Risk, ESG: each with its own rhythm, papers, and minutes. The portal treats them as a shared drive. Section 172 evidence, board evaluation artefacts, and subsidiary governance live anywhere but the place a director would look first.

The Solution: 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 "that" 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 LTIP draft

S172 Section 172 statement FY25

SG Subsidiary governance 47 entities

BE Board evaluation Year 3

committees per listed board

Audit, Remuneration, Nomination, Risk, ESG. Each with its own papers, minutes, chair, and calendar. One platform that treats them as first-class, not folders.

FRC

code aligned from day one

UK Corporate Governance Code principles mapped to the artefacts that evidence them. When the board evaluator asks for proof of Provision 21, you open a query, not a filing cabinet.

s.172

duty, structured not scrambled

Stakeholder consideration, long-term consequences, environment, community: the six matters, traceable through the papers and minutes that delivered them. Your FY statement writes itself.

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.

Articles, terms of reference, minutes, resolutions, section 172 papers, TCFD, going concern, LTIP models, board evaluations. Versioned, permissioned, audit-ready. The NED rotates off; the record stays.

ToR

Audit Committee ToRv4.2

Annual Report FY25Filed

LTIP model & paperDec '26

Going concern paperCurrent

Collaboration Space.

The work between meetings.

Chair-SID conversations, NED queries, audit-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.

LTIP thresholds · RemCo Thread

C Claire (RemCo Chair)

ISS flagged the 8% EPS threshold as soft. @David can we raise to 10% with ESG underpin?

Vote · Revised LTIP thresholds 5 / 5

Meeting Flow.

Pack → capture → minutes.

Assemble the board or committee pack from the vault. Directors read, annotate, and ask questions before the meeting. Knowa Verse captures the discussion. Minutes draft in 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. Articles, board and committee minutes, terms of reference, resolutions, LTIP models, section 172 papers, TCFD disclosures, 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 disclosure?" resolves in seconds, not a half-day.

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What did the Remuneration Committee agree about LTIP targets? ⚡ Ask

From the board record: At the December RemCo, the Committee agreed revised LTIP targets for the CEO — 3-year EPS growth threshold raised from 8% to 10%, with an ESG underpin tied to Scope 1 & 2 reduction. Approved for inclusion in the FY27 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.

Risk register

Strategic, operational, financial, ESG. Each risk scored, owned, and reviewed on cycle. Feeds the Audit Committee, the viability statement, and principal-risk disclosure in the Annual Report.

CyberMedium

Climate transitionMedium

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 · covenant headroom paperQ2

Owner: CFO · Audit Cttee

Conflicts register

Director declarations logged, reviewed annually, and visible to the Chair. Gates recusal on specific agenda items. Companies Act s.175–s.177 alignment without a side-spreadsheet.

David · external directorshipsUp to date

Next review: annual

Board evaluation

FRC Provision 21 external review every three years, internal in between. The evidence the evaluator asks for — attendance, challenge, composition, succession — already lives in the record. Responses cited to source.

FY25 evaluationExternal

6 recommendations tracked

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 chairing the quarterly board to the company secretariat assembling the resolutions, Knowa is built for everyone who carries a duty under the Code.

Chair, SID & NEDs

Read the pack on the train. Ask questions between meetings. Find "where did we land on that?" in seconds. Meet the s.174 duty of skill and care 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

Section 172 evidence on demand. Audit Committee governance. Going concern, viability, and ESG reporting grounded in the artefacts that delivered them. Listing Rule and DTR obligations, structured.

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.

Code & reporting alignment

The UK Corporate Governance Code, referenced not recited.

Every Code principle maps onto an artefact the board actually produces. Knowa holds the artefacts and the trail they leave behind — so "comply or explain" is answered from the record, not rebuilt at year-end.

Code Principle A–B
Leadership & purpose Board papers articulating strategy, culture, and purpose — with the discussion that produced them, threaded to the minute that recorded the decision.

Code Principle J
Composition & succession Skills matrix, diversity data, succession plans, tenure tracking. The Nomination Committee's working artefacts, not a static PDF refreshed once a year.

Code Provision 21
Board evaluation External evaluation every 3 years, internal in between. Evidence of challenge, attendance, composition, and recommendation follow-through — cited from source.

Code Section 4
Audit, risk & internal control Audit Committee pack, going concern, viability statement, principal risks. Connected to the risk register and the minute that signed them off.

Code Section 5
Remuneration Remuneration policy, LTIP paperwork, shareholder engagement. The RemCo's deliberations, the ISS letter, the chair's engagement notes — one thread, one record.

Companies Act
Section 172 The six matters, evidenced from the board papers that delivered them. Stakeholder consideration, long-term consequences, environment, community. Your s.172 statement writes itself.

TCFD & SECR
Climate & energy Governance, strategy, risk, metrics & targets. TCFD-aligned board oversight, SECR energy & emissions reporting — evidenced from the papers the board saw.

Listing Rules & DTRs
Disclosures Inside information, continuing obligations, corporate governance statement. Evidence of board oversight for every disclosure that required it.

Code, s.172, TCFD, Listing Rules. Evidenced from how the board actually works.

Security

Enterprise-grade security, built for listed UK boards.

Inside information, pre-announcement drafts, LTIP models, 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

Talk to us about pricing for your organisation.

Every deployment is scoped to your structure, user count, and integration needs. We'll walk you through the options and tailor a proposal to your board's requirements.

On the horizon · Autonomous Governance

When the record is live, the governance runs itself.

A new FRC guidance note drafts the board briefing. A covenant threshold alerts the Audit Committee chair. A board-evaluation recommendation fires on its annual review. 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 how UK corporate boards are running committees better, evidencing the Code without trying, and leaving a record that holds up to any evaluator.

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