Forematter for people teams

Your company, explained properly (even when you're the only one explaining it)

Same question, different new starter, every single week. Forematter is a company assistant that answers from your own approved documents, shows its working, and routes anything it can't answer to the right named person, not to you by default. It also runs paced onboarding, built from those same documents, so what someone reads and confirms is recorded properly rather than just, you know, assumed.

It's in development right now and not open to customers yet. You can join the list to hear when it opens.

What it actually does

Ask, with sources. Staff type a question in plain English. Forematter answers using only documents an admin has approved, plus facts people have confirmed, and shows the source, when it was last updated, and who owns it. If the evidence isn't solid enough it says so, instead of guessing, and sends the question to the topic owner or the person's manager. The reply comes back into the same conversation. An admin can publish it as a saved answer so the next person just gets it, instantly.

Conversations that pick up where they left off. Employees can reopen past conversations and carry on. No re-explaining themselves.

Documents with actual authority. Upload PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Markdown or plain text. Everything's screened on the way in, and anything containing instructions aimed at AI is held for review rather than used. Admins set each document's authority (canonical, approved, informational, historical or unverified), give it a review date, and control who sees it by department, role, location or seniority. Sensitive documents stay hidden unless someone matches every single rule.

Ownership, mapped. A company map of who owns or approves what (who signs off the expenses tool, that sort of thing), plus "meet your team" introductions so new starters know who they're actually talking to.

Journeys you approve first. Onboarding modules are generated from your documents: explainers, meet-the-team pieces, quick checks, policy acknowledgements and tasks, paced out day by day. They're grounded only in your source material, and they sit as drafts until an admin publishes them. Nothing goes live unseen.

Evidence that can't be quietly rewritten. Completions and acknowledgements record the exact wording and version shown, and they can't be edited afterwards, not by admins and not by Forematter. Export them as CSV whenever you need to. Useful when someone asks "did they actually see this?" and you'd like an answer that isn't a shrug.

Managers see their own patch. Their direct reports' progress, anyone falling behind, and questions that were routed to them.

The gaps report. Every night, a report of the questions your documentation doesn't answer well, and a way to turn any gap straight into a draft module. So the thing that used to live in your head as "oh, I get asked this constantly" becomes a list you can actually fix.

The bit people always ask about

Is this reading everyone's private chats? No. Conversations are private to the employee by default. A company can choose to let admins and the employee's own line manager read them, but only after the employee has been clearly told, only what they ask after that point, and every read is logged where the employee can see exactly who looked and when.

Can Forematter's own staff see our stuff? No, unless an admin grants time-limited, read-only access, and that access never includes conversations.

Where's the data? In the UK, in London. Each company's data is isolated at the database level and tested against an automated attack suite. Forematter never uses your content to train AI models.

What about the tools we already use? Notion is next, then Google Drive and Microsoft SharePoint. Single sign-on, billing and self-serve signup are planned too, but they aren't available yet.

Who it's for

Forematter is built first for UK knowledge-work companies (agencies, consultancies, software teams, professional services) where new starters lose weeks just figuring out how things work. If you'd rather not answer the same onboarding question for the umpteenth time, that's the problem it's aimed at.