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Internal Knowledge AI Services Australia
for Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane businesses.

Internal knowledge ai services and enterprise knowledge assistant services for real Australian 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.

  • AU-wide Perth-based · servicing Australia
  • 18+ yrs Building AI & automation
  • Fixed Price scopes, no surprises
  • 100% Code & prompt ownership
How it runs

Your internal knowledge ai services project, end to end

Three stages. No surprises. Every custom internal knowledge ai project is delivered personally by the founder, from scoping call through to production cutover.

  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

Internal knowledge ai services, by type

Five assistant patterns we build most often across our enterprise knowledge assistant services. Pick a tab to see how yours would take shape. Most deployments start with one department 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
Pricing

How we price internal knowledge ai services

No hourly billing. No vague estimates. Here is how business knowledge assistant development is scoped, from a free 15-minute call to a fixed-price proposal.

Free 15-minute call

Tell us what problem you are trying to solve. We will give you an honest answer on whether AI is the right fit and what it would involve.

Fixed-price quote

After discovery, you get a fixed price for the project. No hourly billing that spirals. You know exactly what it costs before we build.

Staged delivery

PoC first, then production build in phases. You see real value early, give feedback, and pay in milestones.

Why HELLO PEOPLE

Internal knowledge assistants
HELLO PEOPLE vs the alternatives

ChatGPT Enterprise, no-code AI tools and an in-house AI team all solve pieces of the problem. Here is how HELLO PEOPLE compares on the things that actually matter to an AU SMB.

Concern HELLO PEOPLE ChatGPT / Off-shelfNo-code AI (Zapier)In-house AI hire
Fit to your internal knowledge sources Built around your stack & sources Generic assistant, no fitTrigger-based, brittle logicDepends on the hire
Internal RAG live in 6-12 weeks SSO + eval before go-live Live in minutes, no SSOWeeks of DIY RAG glueMonths to hire and train
AU data sovereignty + SSO fit AU-hosted, SSO + roles enforced US-hosted, no SSODepends on your setupDepends on the hire
Ongoing cost Fixed price, one-time Per seat/token, per monthPer-run + prompt engineeringSalary + super + overhead
When teams or sources grow We patch, no extra charge You re-upload every timeYou rebuild the flowInternal team owns it
Direct access to the builder Email Kasun, get Kasun OpenAI support tierCommunity forumInternal AI team
Assistant code + internal data ownership You own it, nothing sits with us Vendor holds vectors & dataVendor holds middlewareYou own it internally
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.

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50,000+ Documents indexed
85% Faster knowledge retrieval
< 8s Average answer time

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
Business Impact

What ai knowledge management services actually change

Less time searching folders, faster onboarding, fewer repeat questions to HR and IT, consistent answers across the business. Here is what ai knowledge base services deliver day to day.

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.

How It Works

How our internal knowledge ai services actually run

Every project is different, but the six-step structure stays the same. Knowledge audit, source and permission mapping, sprint-based build, accuracy testing on real staff questions, deploy and monitor, then optimise and expand once you are live.

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.

FAQs

Common questions about internal knowledge assistants

What do internal knowledge ai services actually deliver?

A single AI assistant your staff use to search across every internal knowledge source: SharePoint, Confluence, Google Drive, HR system, IT wiki, policy library. Deployed in Microsoft Teams, Slack, or as a web app. Every answer cites the source document and respects existing document permissions.

How is this different from a document chatbot?

A document chatbot lets you chat with one specific document set. An enterprise knowledge assistant services deployment goes broader, connecting multiple knowledge sources and serving as a single point of search across the whole business. Typically rolled out company-wide, not just for one team or one folder.

How much do business knowledge assistant development projects cost?

Every project is scoped and quoted fixed-price. A focused ai knowledge base services deployment for one department (HR or IT knowledge) sits at the lower end. A company-wide assistant connecting multiple knowledge sources with department-level permissions is larger. Book a free 15-minute call, we scope the work, then quote once.

How long do internal knowledge ai services projects take from kickoff to launch?

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 team, prove value in 4 to 6 weeks, then expand across the business.

How do ai knowledge management services handle document permissions?

The assistant respects existing document permissions in the source system. If a finance file is only readable by the finance team in SharePoint, only finance staff get answers from it via the assistant. We map permissions from SharePoint, Google Drive and 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 invent facts. Every unanswered question is logged, giving you a clear view of documentation gaps to fill.

Where is the data stored and is it Australia-hosted?

Deployed inside your own Azure, AWS or on-premise tenancy. 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 by default (Azure Sydney or AWS ap-southeast-2).

Do we own the code, prompts and knowledge index?

Yes, 100 percent. Source code, prompts, connectors and the knowledge index all sit in your infrastructure. Handed over at go-live. No per-query licensing, no vendor lock-in. If you decide to move providers later, everything ports across cleanly.

Describe the knowledge assistant you want built

Where does your internal knowledge live: SharePoint, Confluence, Google Drive, HR system, a stack of PDFs? What questions do staff ask HR and IT on repeat? Tell us and we will come back with a clear next step and a realistic cost.

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