AI Solution

Internal Knowledge Assistants
for Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane businesses.

An AI assistant that searches your internal documents, policies, procedures, and knowledge base, and answers staff questions in plain English. Sourced, permission-aware, and always up to date.

Perth-based. Australia-wide. Deployed in Teams, Slack, or standalone. Fixed-price scoping.

The Problem

Your team's knowledge is everywhere, except where people can find it

Every business has the same problem at scale. Knowledge accumulates across multiple systems: SharePoint, Google Drive, Confluence, shared folders, someone's inbox, someone else's head. The information exists, but finding it is the bottleneck.

Staff waste time searching. They interrupt colleagues. They follow outdated procedures because they found the wrong version. New hires take weeks to get up to speed because there is no efficient way to absorb what the business already knows.

An internal knowledge assistant solves this by giving your team one place to ask questions. It searches across all your knowledge sources and gives a grounded, sourced answer in seconds. No more hunting through folders. No more "I think that's in SharePoint somewhere." Just an answer, with a citation, and permission-aware access.

Staff member asking a knowledge assistant a question and getting an answer from internal documents
Sound Familiar?

The internal knowledge problems that bring businesses to us

If your team spends more time finding information than using it, a knowledge assistant will change the equation.

Knowledge Scattered Everywhere

Policies in SharePoint. Procedures in Confluence. Team knowledge in someone's head. Process docs in a Google Drive folder nobody remembers. Your staff search three systems before asking a colleague, and that colleague is in a meeting.

Same Questions, Different Day

"How do I submit a leave request?" "What is the process for client onboarding?" "Where is the brand guidelines doc?" The same questions come up every week. Different people ask them, and whoever answers loses 10 minutes each time.

Inconsistent Processes

The Sydney office does it one way. The Perth office another. Two people in the same team follow different steps for the same task. The procedure exists, but people just do not follow it consistently because finding and reading it takes too long.

Key Person Dependency

Three people in the business know how everything works. Everyone else asks them. When they are on leave, things stall. When they eventually leave the company, critical knowledge walks out the door with them.

Slow Onboarding

New hires spend their first month figuring out how things work. They ask questions, read documents, get confused by outdated versions, and take weeks to become productive. Every new starter goes through the same friction.

Internal Tickets Pile Up

HR, IT, and operations teams spend hours answering the same internal questions. "How do I reset my password?" "What are the expense claim limits?" "Who approves purchase orders?" Routine queries crowd out the work that actually needs their expertise.

How it runs

An internal knowledge assistant project, end to end

Three stages. No surprises. Your live operations stay untouched until cutover — delivered personally by the founder.

  1. Week 0

    Internal Knowledge Assistant Audit

    15-minute scoping call. We map your current process, the documents/data the AI will work with, and the systems the AI output must land in. Fixed-price quote inside 48 hours.

  2. Weeks 1–N

    Build & Parallel-Run

    AI system built and parallel-run against your live operations for two weeks. Every extraction, decision and integration validated before production. Human-in-the-loop where confidence is lower.

  3. Cutover

    Go-Live & Handover

    Production cutover on a planned window. Team training, monitoring active, 30 days post-launch support. Documentation, prompts and source code handed over in full.

Founder profile

Kasun Wijayamanna

Founder · Perth, WA · Started HELLO PEOPLE in 2008

18+ Years running HELLO PEOPLE

Founded in 2008. Two decades of technology-driven business transformation across Australia.

100+ Projects delivered

Startups to government agencies across mining, healthcare, legal, education and more.

HDR Researcher · Curtin University

Postgraduate research in Artificial Intelligence and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).

MBA Oil & Gas

Deep technical expertise combined with strong business and financial acumen.

Perth Based in WA

Serving businesses across Western Australia and nationally.

AU+TH International experience

Professional background in Bangkok, Thailand before migrating to Perth.

PHF Paul Harris Fellow · Rotary

Former President of Rotary Club of Booragoon. Over a decade of community service.

Read the full bio — research, career, community involvement and how HELLO PEOPLE runs projects.

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What We Build

Knowledge assistants, by type

Five assistant patterns we build most often. Most deployments start with one and expand as adoption grows.

Company-Wide Knowledge Assistant

A single place for your staff to ask any internal question. "What is our return policy?" "How do I book a meeting room?" "What are the IT security requirements for remote work?" The assistant searches your policies, procedures, and knowledge base, then gives a sourced answer.

Unlike a search engine that returns a list of documents, the assistant answers the question directly, with a citation showing which document and section the answer came from. Staff verify in a click.

HR & People Knowledge Assistant

An assistant trained on your HR policies, employment agreements, leave entitlements, benefits information, and people procedures. Staff ask questions and get accurate answers without waiting for HR.

"What is the parental leave entitlement for permanent staff?" "How do I apply for flexible work?" "What is the dress code policy for client-facing roles?" The HR bot answers from your actual policies. Not generic advice from the internet.

IT Self-Service Knowledge Assistant

An assistant that handles the IT questions that consume your helpdesk. Password resets, VPN setup, software access requests, printer setup, security queries. It searches your IT documentation and walks the user through the resolution.

For issues that need human intervention, the assistant creates a ticket with the right categorisation, priority, and context, so your IT team picks it up with everything they need. Cuts first-response time from hours to seconds.

New Starter Onboarding Assistant

An AI assistant specifically for new starters. It answers the hundred questions every new hire has: where to find things, how processes work, who to contact for what, how systems are set up. Available 24/7, always patient, always consistent.

New hires search through weeks of onboarding material in a single conversation. "How do I submit my tax file number?" "Where is the project management system?" "What is the process for booking annual leave?" Instant answers, every time.

Operations & Process Knowledge Assistant

An assistant trained on your SOPs, operational procedures, quality standards, and process documentation. Field workers, warehouse staff, and operations teams ask questions and get step-by-step answers. On-site, on their phone.

"What is the inspection procedure for the Smith project?" "What are the lifting requirements for loads over 500kg?" "How do I escalate a quality non-conformance?" Answers drawn from your actual procedures, with source references.

Company knowledge assistant answering a staff question in Microsoft Teams with source citation
HR knowledge assistant answering a leave policy question with source document reference
IT self-service assistant helping a staff member resolve a VPN connection issue
New employee using an onboarding AI assistant on their first day to find company processes
Operations team member using an AI assistant on a tablet to look up a standard procedure
Capabilities catalogue

Internal knowledge assistant services we deliver

Every capability below has been delivered for a real Australian business — from a SharePoint-only Q&A bot to multi-source company-wide knowledge assistants embedded in Teams and Slack. If your scenario is not listed, ask — we build bespoke.

SharePoint / OneDrive AI assistant

  • SharePoint AI search & Q&A
  • OneDrive document AI assistant
  • M365 Copilot alternative on your data
  • SharePoint library-scoped assistants
  • SharePoint permission-aware retrieval
  • OneDrive folder-scoped assistants
  • SharePoint + Teams chat integration
  • SharePoint metadata-aware search

Confluence / Notion AI assistant

  • Confluence AI assistant
  • Confluence Q&A bot
  • Notion AI assistant
  • Notion workspace-scoped retrieval
  • Confluence + Jira knowledge bridge
  • Confluence space-scoped assistants
  • Notion database-aware AI
  • Wiki-to-AI knowledge migration

Internal HR/policy AI

  • HR policy AI assistant
  • Leave & benefits AI assistant
  • Onboarding AI assistant
  • Performance review policy AI
  • WHS / safety policy AI
  • Code of conduct AI assistant
  • Multi-jurisdiction HR policy AI
  • EBA / award-aware HR AI

Engineering docs AI

  • Engineering specs & drawings AI
  • Architecture decision record AI
  • API documentation AI assistant
  • Runbook & on-call AI assistant
  • Code repository documentation AI
  • Engineering wiki AI
  • Diagrams & schematics AI search
  • Multi-product engineering doc AI

Sales playbook AI

  • Sales playbook AI assistant
  • Battlecard & competitor AI
  • Product knowledge AI for sales
  • Pricing & discount-rule AI
  • Proposal & SOW template AI
  • Sales objection-handling AI
  • Account research AI assistant
  • Pre-call prep AI assistant

Knowledge assistant + Slack/Teams integration

  • Knowledge assistant inside Microsoft Teams
  • Knowledge assistant inside Slack
  • /ask slash-command assistants
  • Channel-context-aware AI replies
  • @mention knowledge bot
  • Knowledge bot + ticket creation
  • Knowledge bot + Confluence backfill
  • Knowledge bot + answer feedback loop
Enterprise knowledge management system
Case Study

Enterprise knowledge search that cut research time by 85%

We built an enterprise knowledge management system powered by RAG. Unified search across 50,000+ documents delivers answers in seconds instead of hours.

Read the full case study
50,000+ Documents indexed
85% Faster knowledge retrieval
< 8s Average answer time
Key Capabilities

What your knowledge assistant can do

Not another search engine. A conversational AI that understands the question, finds the answer, and shows you where it came from.

One Place to Ask

Staff search across all knowledge sources (SharePoint, Confluence, Google Drive, internal wikis) from a single interface. No more checking four systems.

Sourced Answers

Every answer includes the document, section, and page reference. Your team verifies any answer by clicking the citation. No unattributed responses.

Permission-Aware

The assistant respects your existing document permissions. Users only get answers from documents they are authorised to access. HR docs for HR. Finance docs for finance.

Conversational

Not keyword search. Staff ask questions in plain English and get conversational answers. Follow-up questions refine the answer without starting over.

Stays Current

Auto-reindexes when documents change. Updated policy this morning? The assistant reflects the change by lunchtime. Always working from the latest version.

Usage Analytics

See what your team asks most. Identify knowledge gaps, documentation blind spots, and the questions nobody has written good answers for yet.

Business Impact

What changes when your team can find anything in 5 seconds

Team member getting an instant answer from the AI knowledge assistant without asking a colleague

Your team gets answers themselves, without waiting or interrupting

Right now, when someone has a question, they either spend 15 minutes searching or they ask a colleague. Both are expensive. Searching wastes the asker's time. Asking wastes the colleague's time. And the colleague might give the wrong answer anyway.

A knowledge assistant gives staff a self-service option that actually works. Not a search engine that returns 40 documents. A conversational AI that answers the question, cites the source, and lets the person move on with their work.

For a 100-person business, even 15 minutes saved per person per day is 25 hours a week of recovered productivity. That is a full-time role's worth of output, just from faster access to information that already exists.

Staff member quickly checking a standard operating procedure through the AI assistant

Everyone follows the same process, because finding it takes 5 seconds

Inconsistent processes are rarely caused by people not caring. They are caused by people not finding the right document in time. The SOP exists, but it takes 10 minutes to find it, so people rely on memory, habit, or what the person next to them does.

When the procedure is a 5-second question away, people actually check it. "What are the steps for processing a refund over $500?" gets answered instantly from your actual procedure document. Consistency goes up because the friction of finding information goes down.

Particularly important for regulated industries, multi-site operations, and businesses going through growth, where inconsistency creates real risk.

New employee getting up to speed quickly using an AI knowledge assistant on their first week

New starters get productive in days, not weeks

Every new hire goes through the same struggle. Where are the documents? How does this process work? Who approves what? They ask questions all day for the first two weeks, feel like a burden, and still do not know where half the things are.

A knowledge assistant gives new starters an always-available, always-patient resource. It answers hundreds of onboarding questions. Accurately, consistently, instantly. Nobody feels bad for asking the same question twice.

One client reduced new-starter time-to-productivity from 6 weeks to 3 weeks after deploying a knowledge assistant for their onboarding process. The assistant did not replace human mentoring. It just handled the 80% of questions that were about finding information.

Internal support team focusing on complex work while AI handles routine knowledge queries

HR, IT, and operations teams spend less time answering routine questions

Your internal support teams (HR, IT, facilities, operations) spend a large portion of their day answering questions that are already documented. Leave policies. Password resets. Expense procedures. IT setup guides. The answers exist; they are just hard to find.

The knowledge assistant handles the routine questions. Staff get instant answers. Your internal support teams get their time back for the complex work that actually needs human judgement.

We typically see a 40-60% reduction in routine internal tickets within the first three months. That is not hypothetical. It is measurable in your helpdesk data.

Who It's For

Knowledge assistants by team and scenario

Any team that answers the same questions, searches for information, or onboards new staff. A knowledge assistant changes how they work.

01

HR & People Teams

Leave policies, benefits information, employment conditions, workplace procedures. Staff self-service reduces HR enquiry volume by 40-60% and gives consistent answers every time.

02

IT Departments

Password help, software access, VPN setup, security procedures, system guides. Handle Tier 1 queries automatically and create categorised tickets for everything else.

03

Multi-Site Operations

Consistent answers across offices, sites, and regions. The Sydney team and the Perth team get the same answer to the same question, sourced from the same document.

04

Growing Businesses (50–500 Staff)

When your team outruns tribal knowledge, you need a better way to share information. A knowledge assistant scales with you, no matter how many new hires ask the same questions.

05

Compliance & Regulated Industries

Staff need quick access to compliance requirements, safety procedures, and regulatory obligations. Source-cited answers with audit trails meet compliance verification needs.

06

Field & Remote Workers

Workers on-site, on the road, or working remotely need access to procedures and policies from their phone. The assistant gives them instant answers without connectivity to the office network.

How We Deliver

From knowledge audit to live assistant in 6 steps

A structured process that maps your knowledge, connects your sources, and delivers an assistant your team will actually use.

Knowledge Audit

We map your internal knowledge landscape: where documents live, what formats, who uses them, and what questions staff ask most. We identify the highest-impact knowledge domains to start with.

Source Connection & Indexing

We connect to your document sources (SharePoint, Google Drive, Confluence, file servers, databases) and create the searchable knowledge index. All within your environment.

Assistant Build

We build the conversational interface: retrieval logic, response formatting, source citations, permissions, and guardrails. Configured for your specific knowledge domains and team language.

Testing & Tuning

We test with real questions from your teams: HR queries, IT problems, process questions, edge cases. We tune accuracy, citation quality, and response tone until your team trusts the answers.

Team Rollout

Deploy in Teams, Slack, or as a web app. Team training, usage guide, and a feedback mechanism so staff can flag inaccurate or missing answers. We start with one team and expand.

Expansion & Improvement

We monitor usage, accuracy, and gaps. Add new knowledge domains, connect new document sources, and expand to more teams. Monthly reporting on question volume, answer quality, and knowledge gaps.

Works With Your Systems

Connects to your knowledge sources and collaboration tools

Your knowledge lives in multiple systems. The assistant connects to all of them.

SharePoint & OneDrive

Indexes documents, pages, and lists from your SharePoint environment. Respects library permissions. Auto-reindexes on change.

Google Drive & Workspace

Connects to Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Full sync with real-time indexing as your team creates and updates content.

Confluence & Notion

Indexes wiki pages, attached files, and nested page structures. Great for teams already using Confluence or Notion as their knowledge base.

Microsoft Teams & Slack

Runs as a bot inside your messaging tool. Staff ask questions without switching apps. Answers appear inline with source links they can click.

HR & IT Service Tools

Integrates with BambooHR, Employment Hero, ServiceNow, Freshservice, and Jira Service Management for ticket creation and knowledge sync.

Custom Systems & Databases

Internal portals, SQL databases, legacy systems with APIs. If your knowledge lives in a custom system, we connect it to the assistant.

Our HR team was drowning in the same questions every week. The knowledge assistant now handles 55% of internal HR queries automatically, with sourced answers from our actual policies. HR gets their time back for the work that matters.

Head of People & Culture Perth professional services · 130+ staff
Why us

Why HELLO PEOPLE

  • We build, not just advise

    You get working software, not a slide deck of recommendations. Everything we design gets built, tested and handed over — not left as a strategy artifact.

  • Fixed-price quoting

    You know the cost before we start. No hourly surprises, no scope creep — we scope it, quote it, ship it.

  • Built for Australian business

    Perth-based team who understand Xero, MYOB, ServiceM8, simPRO, Cliniko, Deputy — the tools your business actually runs on.

  • Senior team, direct access

    You email Kasun, you get Kasun. No account managers, no offshore handoff — straight from scope to ship.

  • Full code ownership

    When it is done, you own every line of code, every credential, every artefact. No lock-in, no license fees, no black-box dependencies.

FAQs

Common questions about internal knowledge assistants

How is this different from a document chatbot?

A document chatbot lets you chat with specific document sets. An internal knowledge assistant goes broader. It connects to multiple knowledge sources (SharePoint, Confluence, Google Drive, databases, HR systems) and serves as a single point of search across your entire internal knowledge base. It is typically deployed company-wide, not just for a specific team or document collection.

How much does an internal knowledge assistant cost?

We provide a fixed-price quote after scoping. A focused deployment for one department (e.g. HR or IT knowledge) sits at the lower end of project size. A company-wide assistant connecting multiple knowledge sources with department-level permissions is larger. Ongoing costs are scoped during the build.

How long does it take to set up?

A single-department deployment takes 4 to 6 weeks. A company-wide assistant with multiple knowledge sources and permission layers takes 8 to 12 weeks. We deliver in stages: start with one department, prove the value, then expand.

Can it replace our internal wiki?

It does not replace your wiki. It makes it usable. Most internal wikis have good content that nobody can find. The assistant sits on top of your wiki (Confluence, Notion, SharePoint) and makes everything searchable through natural language questions. Your team keeps maintaining the wiki; the assistant makes it accessible.

How do you handle permissions?

The assistant respects your existing document permissions. If a finance document is only accessible to the finance team, only finance team members get answers from that document. We map permissions from your source systems (SharePoint, Google Drive, Confluence) and enforce them at query time.

What if the answer is not in our documents?

The assistant tells the user it cannot find the answer and suggests who to contact or where to look. It does not make things up. Every unanswered question is logged, giving you insight into documentation gaps you need to fill.

Is it secure?

Deployed within your Azure, AWS, or on-premise environment. Documents are indexed and stored in your infrastructure. Access controls enforce existing permissions. Full audit logging. Compliant with Australian Privacy Principles. Australian data centre hosting available.

Do you support it after launch?

Yes. Ongoing monitoring, accuracy tuning, and knowledge expansion. We review usage patterns, identify gaps, and expand to new knowledge sources and teams. Monthly reports on usage volume, question types, accuracy rates, and identified documentation gaps.

Tell Us About Your Knowledge Challenges

Where does your internal knowledge live? What do your staff ask most? We will come back with a practical plan for a knowledge assistant that works.

Prefer a quick chat? Call 0425 531 127. We answer the phone in Perth.