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How to make your company's policies and documents easy to find

Stop hunting through shared drives. Connect the folders that matter as a Knowledge Pack in ORCA Opti so people can just ask, and get the answer with a citation.

In one sentence: If people waste time hunting through shared drives for a policy, template or document they know exists, connect those folders as a Knowledge Pack in ORCA Opti so anyone can just ask, and get the answer with a link to the source.

A Knowledge Pack is the body of knowledge ORCA Opti reads from: your folders, documents and written content. Once it is connected, people stop searching and start asking, and every answer cites exactly which document it came from.

How to do it

  1. Pick the folders and documents that matter most. Start with the ones people ask about, the ones that are hard to find, or the "ask the person who knows where it is" ones.
  2. Create a Knowledge Pack. Connect those sources by reference, so nothing is uploaded, copied or moved out of your tenancy. Fewer, more relevant sources beat a giant dump.
  3. Let it index. ORCA reads the sources so it can retrieve from them, without duplicating your files.
  4. Ask, don't search. Open Ask Opti and ask in plain language. The answer comes back with a citation to the source document.
  5. Put it where it is used. Attach the Knowledge Pack to a Workspace or a Pearl so the right team always has the right knowledge on hand.

Why "by reference" matters

Your documents stay where they are, in your own tenancy. ORCA reads them in place rather than taking a copy, so there is no second, stale version drifting out of date, and nothing leaves your control.

See What is a Pearl in ORCA Opti? for how Knowledge Packs power specialists and teammates.

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