AI for knowledge work: demonstrably safe, measurably faster.
For consultants, editorial teams, researchers and makers of learning materials.
Searching, sorting and the first draft go out of your hands. Whatever goes out has a source and your approval.
Every answer shows its source
Conclusion
The advice to extend the contract rests on one evaluation, and that evaluation on the 2023 figures.
Evaluation report 2023, p. 14
Approval
Approved•••• 2023
Most of the work is routine work.
More time spent organising, applying and accounting than on the thinking itself. The question is there, and often the answer too. First comes the routine work, and the demand that every conclusion holds up when someone asks.
ApproachConsultancy · the proposal
The fourth proposal this month, started again from a blank document while three-quarters is already written somewhere.
Three-quarters already exists
“That is where the hours sit, and where time can be won without giving anything away.”
The Working SessionFour fields, one standard.
Education, consulting, publishing, research. Pick your field and see what changes in the work, and what doesn't.
Education and learning materials
What changes: course material checked against the new core standards in one go.
What stays: the teacher approves.
Education and learning materials
Consulting and strategy
What changes: the fourth proposal no longer starts from a blank document.
What stays: the advice carries the consultant's name.
Consulting and strategy
Publishers and editorial teams
What changes: one piece, five channels, in an afternoon.
What stays: one editor-in-chief who approves.
Publishers and editorial teams
Research and think tanks
What changes: the source list and the first draft are ready.
What stays: every conclusion traceable to the page it rests on.
Research and think tanks
One agreement: what may go faster, and what stays human work.
AI is already in this work. In the searching, the sorting, the summarising, the first draft. What is missing is a shared way to do it well. The profession has not yet defined what responsible use is, so everyone does it their own way, often without saying so out loud.
VergeLabs sets that way of working down in one agreement. Not a promise, but something you can check.
Approach01
Every outcome shows its source.
Not “the AI says so”, but: this is stated there, and you can read it back. What cannot be traced does not come out.
02
When in doubt, no guess.
If the source is missing, the answer is “I don't know”. No invention that sounds convincing.
03
Whoever approves, decides.
The AI searches, sorts and prepares. Whatever goes out has been seen and approved by the expert.
04
Judging becomes the heart of the work, and only someone who knows the craft can judge.
Twenty years in a field and you see at a glance what holds and what is missing. Judging becomes the heart of the work, and only someone who knows the craft can judge. That is why the setup keeps the judgement with the expert. That is where the value sits.
First measure, then set up, then work.
Measure, Set up, Work.
Measure
Together we map how your knowledge work actually runs. Where the thinking sits, where the routine work sits, and what that routine work costs in hours and euros. AI is strong at some steps and weak at others, and the line falls in a different place than you expect.
You get: one A4 with three observations and one recommendation.
ApproachSet up
Sometimes the answer is choosing an existing tool well and setting it up safely. Sometimes a training. Sometimes a custom system. And sometimes the answer is: AI adds nothing here. Whichever route, everything works with citations, rules and checks. Not a demo that collapses in week two.
You get: a report in plain language, with an order of attack and a cost estimate. The report is yours, whether we continue together or not.
ApproachWork
The AI takes over the routine work: searching, sorting, preparing, first drafts. Whatever goes out passes the expert first. The AI starts, you approve.
You get: every outcome with its source, every result accountable when someone asks.
ApproachThe gains from AI are real. Yet most organisations get stuck, and that is rarely down to the technology. It is down to three questions that are rarely answered well: is the use safe, can every outcome be traced, and who is responsible when it goes wrong. As long as those questions are open, restraint is common sense. We make sure the three questions are answered before anything runs.
Here's what that looks like in practice.
Three different worlds, one principle: the AI does the work, the human checks and approves.
DocentRAGDocentRAGA knowledge assistant for teachers
The engine behind TeachFoundry. A teacher asks a question about formative practice and gets an answer from a curated knowledge base, source included, plus course material ready to use. Multilingual. The teacher approves before anything goes into the classroom.
BookaflowBookaflowA booking system that stops the moment a human needs to decide.
The same principle also works outside the thinking professions.
ValoraValoraA valuation engine that turns a judgement call of hours into minutes, with every calculation step traceable.
One question almost never comes up when buying AI, and it is the most important one: will the team be more capable in five years, or less?
Our systems are built on the first. The AI does the routine work, the thinking stays exercised.
Start small, go far.
Want to look for yourself first? The supplier scan and the Chain check are free and need no conversation. The supplier scan The Chain check
Intro call, free.
A half-hour conversation about where the time leaks away for you. No sales talk. Afterwards you know whether this is for you, and so do we.
Book an intro callThe Working Session, € 399.
Ninety minutes with the core team along your own workflow. Where it may go faster, and where credibility is at stake. You get one A4 with three observations and one recommendation. The amount is credited against a scan within three months.
The Working SessionThe Accountability Scan, fixed price.
We go through your AI use and knowledge work. What is demonstrable, where the gaps are, where the routine work sits and what it costs. You get a report in plain language, with an order of attack and a cost estimate. The report is yours, whether we continue together or not.
The AI Accountability ScanAfter that: setting up a tool, training a team, or building a system. And when it pays off, a standing partnership in which the AI use is externally reviewed at regular intervals, with a written report. What that involves is in the offer.
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Not a tool that disappears. A human who stands behind it.
You can't hold an AI tool accountable for anything. The tool gives an answer and is gone. It cannot take responsibility. When you work with us, there is a human you can look in the eye who stands behind the system. That person explains why the system does what it does, and fixes it when it falters. That is what AI cannot do, and what your profession asks for.
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Half an hour, and you know where the time leaks away.
No obligation, no sales talk. An honest picture of where the routine work sits, what could go faster there, and where you currently cannot show what something rests on.
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Build systemsPartnerupkeepAssess & scanTraining & policyBuild systemsPartnerupkeepHalf an hour. Afterwards you know where your hours go and which part of them can go faster without credibility suffering.