Your team knows more than any of its members.
The knowledge is all there. It is just allocated one head at a time.
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Narration from this original film. Soft instrumental music plays underneath.
Every company runs on things nobody wrote down. Who decided, why, and how it gets done.
Your team rebuilds that context every quarter, one meeting and one hallway question at a time.
Kept is a voice interview. June calls, asks about your work, and keeps what you say, in your words, in a jar that’s yours.
Six months later a new lead asks why planning is quarterly. Kept answers in one line and shows the words you said on the call.
Your team gets the why without booking a meeting with you. Kept. Keep the knowledge behind the work.
Managing is watching knowledge move at the speed of interruptions: the new hire waiting on the veteran, the handoff that lost its context, the question that dies when its answerer is on leave. Every quarter the team re-buys knowledge it already owned.
Kept captures what each person knows through real conversation and keeps it cited for the team. You see coverage: what is kept, where it is thin, as a simple band per person for how much, never a score of anyone. Onboarding halves. The favors become lookups.
Keeping a knowledge item does not promise permanent access to its original transcript. Sources can become unavailable after retention or removal. Check what evidence is available before relying on an answer.
Read personal and workspace controls. The overview above is available as text; explore the guided text walkthrough for a step-by-step example.