World Model Readiness The expertise walking out the door

Module · The expertise walking out the door

The Knowledge Capture Readiness Check

AI learns from what you can show it, and much of what makes your company work lives only in the heads of people who are leaving. This module checks whether that judgment is being captured before it walks out: who the critical holders are, whether capture is a habit or an afterthought, what form the knowledge takes, and whether anyone is rewarded for writing it down.

Question 1 of 5 · Critical holders identified

Do you know which people hold knowledge the company cannot afford to lose?

Every organisation has a handful of people who are quietly load-bearing: the ones others call when something breaks. If you cannot name them, you cannot protect against their departure.

Question 2 of 5 · Capture is a habit

Is capturing expert knowledge a normal part of how work gets done, or only a scramble when someone quits?

Knowledge captured in the two weeks before a retirement is a rushed brain-dump nobody trusts. Capture that works is continuous: it happens while the expert is still doing the work, not while they are clearing their desk.

Question 3 of 5 · Knowledge in usable form

Is the knowledge you capture in a form a person, or a machine, could actually learn from?

A folder of undated slide decks and a wiki nobody maintains are not usable knowledge. AI needs structure: worked examples, decision rules, annotated cases, the reasoning behind the call and not just the call.

Question 4 of 5 · Sharing is rewarded

Does anyone gain anything from writing down what they know?

Experts hoard knowledge for rational reasons: it is their job security and their status. Unless capturing it is recognised, rewarded, or simply expected of everyone, the smart move is to keep it in your head.

Question 5 of 5 · Ahead of the exits

Are you capturing critical knowledge faster than the people who hold it are leaving?

Retirement waves and turnover set the clock. If three of your five domain experts retire within two years and capture has barely started, the timeline, not the intention, is what decides the outcome.

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Three questions for the public picture

These do not affect your score. They feed the anonymised, aggregated statistics; groups under 8 respondents are never shown.

How exposed are you to retirements or turnover in the next three years?

Low exposure
Some key people
Several critical holders
A retirement wave
We have not looked

How is critical knowledge captured today?

Not captured
Only at handover
Occasionally
Systematically
Not sure

Have you already lost knowledge you could not recover?

Not that we know
We suspect so
Yes, minor
Yes, painfully
Hard to tell

Your context

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