Knowledge Capture
Before they retire. Capture institutional knowledge from senior engineers through document analysis. One week, on-premise, persistent.
The Problem
You know which engineer has 30 years of project knowledge in their head. You know what happens when they leave.
Signal captures that knowledge before it walks out the door.
How It Works
One week. Their document environment: proposals they wrote, standards they applied, projects they led, specifications they reviewed. Everything that already exists in your files.
Signal reads those documents and builds a structural model of what that engineer knows, what it connects to, and what would be lost without it.
No interviews. No questionnaires. No months of knowledge management consulting. The knowledge is already in the documents. It just needs to be perceived.
What You Get
| Deliverable | Description |
|---|---|
| Structural knowledge model | Every domain, standard, project type, and decision pattern extracted from their document history |
| Gap analysis | What is documented vs. what exists only in their head (inferred from structural gaps) |
| Dependency map | What downstream work depends on knowledge this person carries |
| Risk assessment | Which knowledge gaps create the highest operational risk when they leave |
| Persistent database | Everything stored in a database you own, on your hardware, queryable forever |
What It Costs
The Audit: $25,000. One week. Yours forever.
You keep everything. The model, the database, the reports. It runs on your hardware. Nothing leaves your network.
Who This Is For
AEC firms with 50-200 staff where a principal or senior PE is within 5 years of retirement. Firms where one person's departure would leave a visible hole in institutional capability.
Why This Is Different
Kyle Vines spent 13 years in geotechnical and civil engineering and ran a firm. The operational complexity that Signal perceives, and the cost of losing a senior engineer's knowledge, is something he understands from the inside, not from a sales script.
Capture the knowledge before it leaves
Schedule a 30-minute conversation. We will tell you whether your document environment has enough signal for a knowledge capture engagement, before you spend anything.
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