Knowledge audit

A knowledge audit is a structured review of what an organisation knows, where that knowledge lives, who holds it, and where it is at risk of being lost.

A traditional audit is an interview exercise: sit with each team, map their processes and systems, produce a report. It is accurate on the day it is finished and out of date within a quarter.

A continuous audit reads the same picture from the work itself. Which areas have documentation nobody has updated, which decisions have only ever been touched by one person, and which questions keep getting asked because no durable answer exists.

The output that changes behaviour is not an inventory of what you have. It is a ranked list of single points of knowledge, because that is the list that maps directly to risk and to action.