For UK corporate boards

For the People
Behind the Decision

Knowa. The board platform for boards, committees and the groups behind them.

A board decision should still be explainable years after the people who made it have moved on. Knowa keeps the evidence, history and collective knowledge behind it in live connection, and within reach.

Knowa Core

One governance record.

Knowa Core brings your documents, discussions, meetings and decisions together. Connected modules build on that record to support the work around it.

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.

Extend Knowa Core

Connected modules.

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

The duty was always to take account of every relevant factor. Across five committees, nobody could.

Audit, Remuneration, Nomination, Risk, ESG. Each with its own rhythm, papers and minutes. What a director needs lives anywhere but the place they would look first.

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 the board landed, last month or three years ago.

Distinct committee rooms are connected by a clear route through a shared structure.

Why boards are switching

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

The old portals were built to store a meeting pack. Knowa was built to run governance, and to think alongside the board without replacing its judgement.

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

Knowa Q

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? Knowa Q
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

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. Find where the board landed in seconds, with the evidence.

Company Secretary

Every committee's record in one place. Packs in minutes, minutes in the hour.

General Counsel & CFO

Every disclosure backed by the record. Going concern and ESG reporting grounded in the papers behind them.

Group Secretariat

Each subsidiary ringfenced. One governance model. One place to prove it.

Keep the evidence for board reviews and regulatory reporting connected.

Security

Held securely. Read intelligently. 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

White-glove onboarding

Around 30 minutes to set up.
Operational on day one.

We handle setup with you, help bring across your documents and show your team how to get started. You have a working space on day one, with a real person supporting you.

  1. You bring the essentials

    Tell us who needs access, their roles and what you want to work on first. Bring the documents for your next meeting or review.

  2. We get you set up

    Your Knowa contact sets up your space with you, helps import the initial documents and configures permissions for your team.

  3. Your team gets to work

    A short walkthrough covers finding documents, sharing a discussion and recording an action. You can start preparing your first meeting that day.

Several boards or an advisory firm? Start with your first working space, then roll out the remaining organisations with a managed migration and training plan. Historic records can move across in stages while your team is already using Knowa.

Pricing

Scoped to your board. Always bespoke.

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Planned · Automated governance workflows

Help with the follow-up work.

We are developing workflows to suggest tasks when guidance changes and prepare policy updates for review. Automated regulatory alerts, draft policy updates and cross-board checks are planned, not available in the current platform. Your team continues to review guidance and decide what action to take.

Discuss planned features and availability with us before including them in your requirements.

Govern in full, at every level of the group.

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

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