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For the People
Behind the Decision

Knowa. The board platform for the families behind the wealth, and the people who govern it.

Every decision here is made for a family, often for a generation not yet at the table. Knowa keeps the evidence, history and collective knowledge behind it in live connection, layer by layer.

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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.

Board Space.
Full fiduciary governance.

Agendas, Meeting Packs, minutes, resolutions, and the full document library for the holding company. Board members only. Fully ringfenced. Packs assembled from the vault and distributed by secure link, not email.

SA
Shareholder Agreementv2.1
IPS
Investment Policy Statement2025
M
Board minutes Q4Ratified
R
Resolutions logCurrent
Executive Committee.
Operational governance.

A workspace for the management team. Action tracking, internal memos, and an exec-only document library, separated from board materials. The machinery between the board decisions and their execution.

Q1 exec agenda Exec only
A Andrea (Group CFO)
Draft Q4 performance pack ready. Board version shortened. @GC review by Fri?
Action · Finalise Meeting Pack Owner: GC
Family Spaces.
One private group per family.

A collaboration group private to each family unit. Secure document sharing, discussion threads, and a dedicated Knowa Q that queries only that family's own space. No cross-family visibility. Add more family groups as the structure evolves.

Family A · Family B · Family C
Isolated by design
Each family sees only its own space. Knowa Q answers only from documents inside that space. Data never crosses.

Extend Knowa Core

Connected modules.

Purpose-built apps deployed directly inside a space: structured, searchable, and linked to the governance record. The platform grows with the holding company.

RR
Risk register

Live, versioned, visible to the board. Each risk scored, owned, and reviewed on cycle. Feeds the annual board statement.

Concentration riskMedium
Cyber / ITLow
IT
Investment tracker

A structured view of the holding company's positions, managers, and performance, sat alongside the IPS it's measured against. Board and exec see one number.

Portfolio vs IPSOn band
Next rebalance review: Q1
CR
Conflicts register

Declarations logged, reviewed, and visible to the board. Gates recusal on specific agenda items. Related-party transactions flagged and tracked.

Standing declarationsCurrent
Next review: annual
DP
Distribution policy tracker

The policy, the rationale, and the history. Every distribution decision cited back to the board minute that approved it. Ready for every family question.

2025 distributionNov
Ratified · Nov '24 board
OB
Director & family onboarding

A new director, committee member, or family principal arrives, and reads the full context in their own time. Governance charter, last four sets of minutes, open actions, conflicts declared. Ready from day one.

Welcome, new director
3 of 4 induction items complete · conflicts declared
One governance OS at the centre. Every Meeting Pack, minute, decision, and document lives in Knowa, the authoritative record across all three spaces.

The obligation runs across generations. The record rarely does.

Board papers on one drive, exec papers on another, family matters in email and WhatsApp. Confidentiality assumed, rarely engineered. When the General Counsel or the Chair moves on, the memory moves with them.

Knowa engineers it. Board, Executive Committee and each family group get their own ringfenced space. Everything in the right place, visible only to the right people. The record stays when the people change.

Board, executive and family occupy three separate rooms on one shared foundation.
3 layers
ringfenced by design
Board, Executive Committee, and each Family group, fully separated. No cross-space visibility, ever.
1,000+
governance spaces on Knowa
Pension boards, charities, FTSE 100 committees and the family offices behind them.
ISO 27001
certified · UK-hosted
Enterprise-grade data protection. Enterprise-grade encryption (TLS 1.3 + AES-256). Your governance data never leaves Knowa's environment.

Who it's for

Whoever sits around the holding-co table, Knowa holds the record.

Principals & Chairs

Every decision in context. A memory that outlasts any one generation.

Group CEOs & CFOs

Run the exec in one place. Brief the board from the same source of truth.

General Counsel & Company Secretary

Minutes against the agenda. Resolutions logged and signed. An audit trail on every access.

Family Council Chairs

A private space for each family, with its own Knowa Q. Nothing crosses the line.

Knowa Q · intelligence per space

Ask the record. Space by space.

Every space has its own Knowa Q. The board queries board documents. The exec queries exec materials. Each family queries its own space. Data never crosses space boundaries.

Source references for your review. Knowa Q uses your documents and includes source references so you can review the relevant minute, resolution or policy. Nothing is sent to external AI models.

Ask Knowa · Board space Knowa Q
What's the board's standing position on related-party transactions? Knowa Q
From the board's record: Any transaction between the holding co and a family entity requires prior board approval and disclosure in the conflicts register. Ratified in the 2023 governance refresh. Last reviewed at the Q2 2025 meeting.
Source Governance charter § 4.3 · Conflicts register

Keep the evidence for board reviews and regulatory reporting connected.

Security

Held securely. Read intelligently. Built for confidential governance.

Knowa is designed for confidential governance work. Security is engineered into the platform. ISO/IEC 27001 certified, continuously audited, and aligned to enterprise best practice.

ISO 27001 certified · independent audit
UK-hosted infrastructure · data stays inside Knowa
Enterprise-grade encryption (TLS 1.3 + AES-256) · never exposed to external AI
Role-based access · space-level isolation · immutable audit log

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

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.

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Planned · Integrations

Connect more of your tools.

We are exploring connections to CRM, portfolio systems and data rooms. These integrations are planned and are not included in the current platform. Talk to us about the connections your family office needs.

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

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