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Your business has years of answers in it. Living Library puts them to work.
Feed it what you know. It produces what you need — automatically, on a schedule, or on demand.
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Sound familiar?
I know we figured this out before — where did that go?
I have to answer the same question for the tenth time this year.
There's a vendor email from two years ago that has exactly what I need right now. I will never find it.
My best employee left and took half of what we knew with them.
I've been in business eight years and I still feel like I'm starting from scratch every time something goes wrong.
We made this exact mistake three years ago. I just can't remember how we fixed it.
Every new hire takes six months to actually know anything. We keep teaching the same things.
I have notes from that consultant we hired. I have no idea where they are.
We said we'd document this. We never documented this.
I have three different versions of the same process living in three different places.
The answer is in a Slack message from two years ago. I'm not going to find it.
I built all of this knowledge. I can't access any of it.
If I got hit by a bus tomorrow, this business would lose ten years of context overnight.
We keep reinventing the wheel because nobody can find where we put the original one.
I know exactly what the answer probably is. I just can't prove it fast enough to act on it.
I know we figured this out before — where did that go?
I have to answer the same question for the tenth time this year.
There's a vendor email from two years ago that has exactly what I need right now. I will never find it.
My best employee left and took half of what we knew with them.
I've been in business eight years and I still feel like I'm starting from scratch every time something goes wrong.
We made this exact mistake three years ago. I just can't remember how we fixed it.
Every new hire takes six months to actually know anything. We keep teaching the same things.
I have notes from that consultant we hired. I have no idea where they are.
We said we'd document this. We never documented this.
I have three different versions of the same process living in three different places.
The answer is in a Slack message from two years ago. I'm not going to find it.
I built all of this knowledge. I can't access any of it.
If I got hit by a bus tomorrow, this business would lose ten years of context overnight.
We keep reinventing the wheel because nobody can find where we put the original one.
I know exactly what the answer probably is. I just can't prove it fast enough to act on it.
THE ONES THAT KEEP YOU UP AT NIGHT
These are the types of problems the Living Library was built to solve.
The Problem
How Living Library Solves It
The Result
LIVING DOC
Onboarding Playbook
v3.2 · updated today
LIVING DOC
Returns Process
v2.1
LIVING DOC
Engineering Runbook
v5.0
LIVING DOC
HR Handbook
v1.8
Leaving →
14 docs preserved
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Apex Supply Co.
TRACKED
N
Northwind Ltd.
TRACKED
C
Crestline Inc.
TRACKED
Asked 47 times. Answered once.
COMPLETED
Q2 Campaign
ACTIVE
Q3 Campaign
Built from Q2 learnings
N
Northwind Co.
Last contact · Jun 2
IndustryLogistics
StageRenewal
Last contact2 days ago
BRIEF READY
Email
Social
Proposal
UNIFIED
Brand Voice Guide
Apex Logistics
Jan 2024
Initial Contract
Aug 2024
Price Renegotiation
Feb 2025
Terms Update
Jun 2026
Renewal Due
TECHCRUNCH
AI tooling reshapes mid-market ops
Workflow
HBR
Knowledge debt is the new tech debt
Strategy
STRATECHERY
The compounding library thesis
Frameworks
SYNTHESIS UPDATED
THE IDEA BEHIND LIVING LIBRARY
The most valuable thing you can do is build a second brain for your business.
INSPIRED BY ANDREJ KARPATHY'S LLM KNOWLEDGE BASE CONCEPT
THE CYCLE
Five steps. No technical expertise required.
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Stop starting from scratch.
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