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AWACS OS — Knowledge Capture System

When your best engineer leaves,
the knowledge leaves too. Until now.

AWACS OS captures operational knowledge through a gated write chain — validated truth from executed commands, not memory. It stays when people leave.

Four years of knowledge. Two weeks notice. Gone.

The most expensive thing in your MSP isn't the software subscriptions. It's what lives in your senior tech's head and walks out the door.

"MSPs lose an estimated 40–60% of customer-specific operational knowledge every time a senior tech turns over."

Knowledge that survives turnover

The system captures what your techs know through the work they're already doing — then makes it permanent, searchable, and trustworthy.

Gated Write Chain

Executed truth only

Knowledge only enters the system if it came from an executed command. No memory, no inference, no copy-paste from vendor docs. If a tech ran it and it produced a result, that result is capturable. If it wasn't executed, it doesn't qualify. This is the line that separates AWACS OS from every wiki that's failed before.

Trust Tier System

Three tiers that never mix

Class A is executed and validated operational truth. Class B is official vendor documentation. Class C is community sources. They're separated, labeled, and never promoted across tiers without the full write chain. When a tech queries the knowledge base, they know exactly how much to trust what they're reading.

Tamper Detection

Every entry carries a hash

Each knowledge entry carries a sha256 hash of the raw command output it was derived from. If the content was modified after capture — accidentally or otherwise — the hash mismatch surfaces it. The integrity of the knowledge base is mechanically verifiable, not trust-based.

Decay Awareness

Stale knowledge surfaces, not hides

Environments change. A procedure that worked six months ago may be wrong today. AWACS OS tracks environment drift against knowledge entries and flags stale content instead of silently serving it. Your techs are never sent down a dead-end with false confidence.

From command execution to searchable knowledge in minutes

01

Execute and capture

A tech or AWACS OS agent runs a command in the target environment. The output is captured automatically with timestamp, source environment, execution context, and a sha256 hash of the raw output. Nothing is entered manually — the capture happens as part of normal work.

02

Analyze and gate

The Analyzer role reviews expected versus actual output, classifies the finding, and prepares a candidate entry. Five admission gate questions must pass before the entry can be considered for admission: Was it executed? Is the output reproducible? Is the scope bounded? Is it free of credentials? Is the environment context complete?

03

Admit and index

The Librarian agent writes the admitted entry to the Class A knowledge base. Domain indexes and the master table of contents update automatically. The knowledge is tagged, cross-referenced, and searchable within minutes. No manual filing, no orphaned entries, no stale indexes.

What changes when knowledge survives

turnover impact → zero

Zero knowledge lost to turnover

All operational truth lives in the system, not in someone's head. A tech leaving takes their badge, not the knowledge they accumulated on your customers.

ramp time: 3 months → 2 weeks

New tech operational fast

The full knowledge base is available from day one. New techs aren't starting from zero — they're starting from everything the previous tech knew, plus everything before that.

incident recurrence ↓ 60–80%

Incidents stop repeating

Every resolved incident becomes a captured pattern that prevents the next one. The system compounds — each capture makes the next resolution faster and cheaper.

Stop losing what your team knows

One session with AWACS OS captures more verified operational knowledge than most MSPs document in a year. The gap compounds — the longer you wait, the more you lose.

or reach out directly — dustin@awacs.ai