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title: "IT provider: searchable knowledge, permissions intact"
description: "The pattern: make internal knowledge searchable while existing permissions remain decisive and every answer shows its source."
source_name: "Gen8"
source_url: "https://gen8.app/en/cases/kennisontsluiting-it-dienstverlener/"
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source_description: "Managed AI service for SMEs. We set up, connect and manage; you stay in control."
locale: "en"
copyright: "© 2026 Gen8 VOF · Dutch Chamber of Commerce 92978789 · Delft"
published_at: "2026-09-15T00:00:00.000Z"
modified_at: "2026-10-21T20:19:57.446Z"
---

# IT provider: searchable knowledge, permissions intact

## The model must not see anything the requester may not see

Answer questions about working agreements, procedures and customer-specific setups from your own documentation, with sources and dates, without bypassing existing permissions.

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![A column of four squares: only the two filled green squares are connected by a line to a large dark green circle; the two empty outlined squares remain separate. An orange dot marks one source.](<https://gen8.app/_assets/entity_8GMMqpY6NDxThCQvqOLD.png>)

September 15, 2026 · Knowledge

**Status:** not yet approved for publication. Results on this page are only included with the customer's approval.

## Where it began

The pattern described by this case: organisational knowledge is scattered across document libraries, project folders and old notes, separated by client. Those who know the answer are asked; those who do not know it search or ask further. The information exists — finding it is the problem, and separation between clients rules out a simple search across everything.

## What we built

This type of workflow answers a question using documents the requester may access, showing where each answer comes from: the document, the location within it and when it was last changed. This reference is central — it reveals whether an answer rests on outdated material.

If no adequate source is found, the answer is that there is no source. Nothing is supplemented from general knowledge, because a plausible answer about a customer-specific setup is worse than no answer.

## Where people stayed involved

The workflow is read only: nothing is edited, moved or added. Existing permissions remain decisive and are applied again to every question; a document the requester cannot open does not exist in their answer either.

Every question and consulted source is logged. This allows accountability for who requested what, and reveals consistently missing documentation — questions with no adequate source are exactly the topics not yet written down.

The workflows are under [querying an internal knowledge base](<https://gen8.app/en/mogelijkheden/kennisbank-bevragen/>) and [making documents accessible as knowledge](<https://gen8.app/en/mogelijkheden/documenten-naar-kennis/>). Other [cases](<https://gen8.app/en/cases/>) follow the same structure.

## What it achieved

This customer has not yet approved the measurable outcome for publication. Once that happens, the results will appear here.

## Does this look like your process?

Bring it to a conversation. We assess whether the same approach fits and where the differences lie.

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