Explore House of Wisdom.
Explore how House of Wisdom brings people, knowledge and AI together. Select a capability, follow an illustrative journey or explore an application relevant to your organisation.
All examples on this page are illustrative.
Three platform pillars: Insights, Network and Solutions.
Knowledge, people and outcomes. The pillars support every kind of work on the platform, from a quick question to a recorded decision. Select a pillar to see what it does and who stays in control.
Knowledge to people
Reading a policy or case study in Insights, a manager finds a colleague with relevant experience through Network.
People to problem-solving
When an issue needs wider work, the exchange can become a Challenge in Solutions, with contributions invited.
Outcomes back to knowledge
Outcomes their owners choose to publish in Solutions are there for the next question, and Wise Owl can draw on them.
Wise Owl supports the work in each. People move in any direction and use one pillar or all three. Most exchanges need no formal approval, and nothing becomes shared organisational memory unless its owner publishes it.
- Profiles
- Folders
- My Actions
- Meetings
- Video and voice calls
- Events
- Search
- Notifications
- Kudos
- Help & Tours
Start with a conversation. Add structure only when it helps.
People choose how to work. Each pathway stands on its own. When a decision needs clear ownership, evidence and later review, an optional Decision Hub brings the related work together.
Wise Owl supports people. People keep authority.
Wise Owl works inside Insights, Network and Solutions, and in each way of working. It helps people understand information, explore questions and prepare better-informed decisions.
Contextual assistance
Help within the work in hand, using only material the people involved are permitted to see.
Reasoning you can examine
Evidence, uncertainty and options set out clearly, for people to question and challenge.
Coordinated support
Specialist capabilities selected and coordinated as each task needs them.
People keep authority
Responses are checked automatically. Decisions, commitments and publication remain human choices.
Automatic checks keep conversation flowing. Human approval is reserved for what matters.
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From a question to action and learning.
An illustrative example: a regional operations team considers a change to maintenance scheduling. Select a step.
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The director raises the question in a Conversation with two regional managers, who share what has and has not worked in their areas. For many questions, an exchange like this is enough.
Invited into the conversation, Wise Owl summarises the thread and notes the open questions.
The participants decide whether to take it further. Here, they do.
Where the same approach could help.
Illustrative applications to explore with your organisation. Select a sector.
Government
Decisions that must withstand public scrutiny and remain understandable over time.
Coordinate policy development and public-service delivery by bringing together departmental evidence, frontline experience and citizen perspectives. Help policy, finance and delivery teams compare options, agree responsibilities and review the effects of a service change.
Read the Government application →Defence
Demanding environments where decisions must stay accountable and secure over long timescales.
Support equipment readiness, maintenance planning and capability delivery by connecting engineering evidence, operational experience and supplier knowledge. Help authorised teams assess trade-offs, agree priorities and retain the reasoning behind decisions as personnel and circumstances change.
Read the Defence application →Health and care
Operational and service decisions across large, complex organisations.
Improve care pathways, discharge coordination and service capacity by bringing together clinical evidence, operational knowledge and patient perspectives. Help hospital, community and social care teams agree changes, assign responsibility and review outcomes.
Read the Health and care application →Universities and research
Institutions whose core asset is knowledge and expertise.
Bring researchers, professional services and external partners together to shape interdisciplinary projects, assess funding opportunities and plan knowledge exchange. Help teams combine evidence and expertise, agree contributions and retain learning as projects finish and people move on.
Read the Universities and research application →Critical infrastructure
Complex, interdependent systems where decisions carry wide consequences.
Coordinate asset maintenance, resilience planning and incident learning by connecting asset information, engineering expertise and operational experience. Help operators, contractors and assurance teams compare interventions, assess dependencies and review whether agreed actions address the underlying problem.
Read the Critical infrastructure application →Financial services
Regulated organisations balancing governance and pace.
Improve how teams investigate recurring customer complaints, review policies and prioritise operational change. Bring together customer feedback, case evidence and risk expertise so operations, compliance and product teams can agree proportionate actions, assign ownership and review results.
Read the Financial services application →Energy and transport
Long-horizon decisions taken under public scrutiny, on networks that must keep running.
Plan service changes and investment priorities by combining demand forecasts, asset constraints, workforce knowledge and customer perspectives. Help planning, engineering and operations teams assess options—for example, coordinating maintenance outages or timetable changes—and review their effects.
Read the Energy and transport application →Large enterprise
Complex organisations changing how they collaborate, decide and learn.
Coordinate cross-functional decisions on supplier performance, product launches and business transformation. Bring together commercial evidence, customer insight and operational expertise so teams can resolve competing priorities, assign responsibility and learn from delivery.
Read the Large enterprise application →Governance proportionate to what is at stake.
The questions security, procurement and leadership teams ask first, answered in plain terms.
Human authority
People make consequential decisions, approve stages and choose what to publish. Wise Owl recommends; it does not authorise.
Attribution and checks
Wise Owl responses are checked automatically before they are shown, and sources are cited with their relevance and limitations.
See how it fits together
A plain-language view of how the parts relate, for readers who want more than the overview.
Insights, Network and Solutions support the work throughout; they are not consecutive steps. Modules, integrations and access are configured for each deployment.
Bring us a real challenge. We will show you how HOW works on it.
There is no fixed sequence. Most organisations begin with a conversation and a demonstration or workshop, then agree scope with their IT, security and procurement teams. Deployment can be direct, phased, or start with an evaluation or pilot where that fits.
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