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Finding services across a group of companies
Short answer
An AI knowledge base in a group of companies links an employee's need, described in their own words, to the approved description of another company's service, what to include in the request, and the owner's contact. At Syntalith an AI app on company documents costs from €3,000 net. At 250 service questions a month with 20 minutes of searching each, it pays back in 1.2 months.
How we workDetails ↓
- 01Call30 minutes with an engineer, free
- 02PrototypeA working system on your process and data, free
- 03ImplementationTarget and fixed price in the contract; 50% at signing
- 04Acceptance50% once the agreed target is met
- net per application, fixed price before contract
- from €3,000
- from signing the contract to acceptance
- 4–10 weeks
- free prototype on your documents
- €0
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Author: Syntalith · 3 min read
Statistics
AI knowledge bases: statistics 2026
1.2 mo.
payback of a €3,000 app at 250 service questions a month: €2,908 of searching today, €440 with the app. Scenario.
15%
According to Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond (2025), customer support agents working with AI resolved 15% more issues an hour on average, in a study of 5,172 people.
Source: Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond, The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2025) ↗
55.0%
According to Eurostat (2025), 55.0% of large EU enterprises with 250 or more employees used AI.
49%
According to Anthropic (2024), combining contextual embeddings with BM25 search cut failed retrievals by 49%, and by 67% with reranking.
90%
According to the European Commission (2026), 90% of companies using AI say that people take the decisions, and 2% of decisions are fully automated.
Source: European Commission, Flash Eurobarometer 578 (2026) ↗
Figures checked: 22 October 2026
Start with the employee's need
A manager is preparing a product catalogue for a meeting with distributors and asks: „Can anyone in the group produce photos for the catalogue?”. The description of the studio service in another company says the team prepares product photos for group companies, and a request states what the material is for. A separate contact is used to agree the date. Before the manager finds this, they ask several departments or look for an outside supplier.
- 01NameThe official name of the service stays, for example „digital asset management”.
- 02NeedsThe owner adds the needs employees come with, such as „photos for a catalogue”.
- 03RecipientsThe description says which companies the service is available to.
- 04ContactThe current person and how to make a request.
- 05ChangesThe end of a service or a new contact goes into the catalogue.
Belonging to the same group does not mean an unlimited shared offer, so when information about recipients is missing, the assistant points to the contact and assumes nothing. A question about a service differs from looking for an expert: someone with similar skills may not provide that service to the group.
What a group services knowledge base costs and when it pays back
- Today
- 250 service questions × 20 min = 83.3 h (€2,908)
- With the system, a person checks the output in 15% of the time
- €436
- Model, 1 call per case, Claude Sonnet 5.5
- €3.90
- Cost of one case
- €11.63 today, €1.76 with the system
- Saving
- €2,468 a month
Payback of €3,000
1.2 months
The volume, the time and the checking share are the scenario's assumptions. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat. Model: 6,000 input tokens and 500 output tokens per call at Anthropic's rates, converted at the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026.
The model is a small item here. The result depends on the time that searching and asking around take today, and on how much of it is left for checking the answer.
Before we quote a build, we run a test on 20 to 100 questions the team has already asked: we compare the app's answer with what an employee found by hand and measure the time from the question to the source. The test takes 5 working days and costs €0.
Check the existing directory first
Atlassian team profiles let you describe a team's purpose and members and add links to work in Jira or Confluence. That can start a catalogue, though it says nothing about available capacity. With few services, a clear catalogue, shared naming and search are enough.
A few services, shared naming
a catalogue and search
no new app
Team profiles in the current tool
profiles with service descriptions
configuration
Needs in people's own words, descriptions across many companies
an AI app that joins the catalogues
from €3,000
Start with an internal request that was hard to route
Start with a situation where an employee spent a long time looking for help inside the group. We agree which service descriptions to share and who in the companies will help prepare them, without sharing all the project documentation. The assistant names the service without adding terms nobody agreed, and the employee settles the date and terms with the owner. According to Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond (2025), support agents with AI resolved 15% more issues an hour on average, and in a group of companies the gain is a shorter path to the right person. The scope is described on the private ChatGPT for your company page.
Worked example · Scenario
How we count the payback: answers from company documents
We run the same count for your documents in the free analysis.
€3,723
a month for finding answers to 800 questions in documents
Payback: 1 mo.
Our assumptions are 8 minutes to find an answer in documents or ask a colleague, and checking in 15% of the old time. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat, for companies with 10 or more employees. Model cost: Claude Sonnet 5.5, about 6,000 + 500 tokens per answer from documents, at the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026.
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