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Snappie Knowledge Base

Stop searching.Start asking.

Put your handbooks, protocols, Word documents and Excel spreadsheets in one safe place. Colleagues ask questions in plain language, get answers with the source document right beside them, and see only what is meant for their team.

Snappie Knowledge Base Dedicated environment · EU
Staff handbook 2026.docx
Active HR & Personnel
Full-time employees (36 hours) are entitled to 25 days of holiday per calendar year. For part-time contracts, leave is calculated pro rata.
How many days of leave do I get as a part-timer?
According to the staff handbook, you’re entitled to 25 days of holiday a year, pro rata to your contracted hours. At 24 hours a week, that comes to 16.7 days.
1 Knowledge Base source consulted Staff handbook 2026
  • Word, Excel, PDF and websites
  • Access per team or group
  • Open source documents side by side
  • No price per user
The problem

The answer is already there.Except nobody can find it.

It sits in an eighty-page staff handbook, a care protocol in Word or a spreadsheet in Excel. Anyone who cannot find it interrupts a colleague or pastes the whole file into a public chat. With the Knowledge Base, your own policy is ready in seconds.

Public language model
How many days of leave do I get as a part-timer?
Under Dutch law, you’re entitled to four times your weekly working hours in leave per year. I don’t know what your employer gives on top of that.
Legally accurate, but those aren’t your organisation’s rules.
Snappie Knowledge Base
How many days of leave do I get as a part-timer?
According to the staff handbook, you’re entitled to 25 days of holiday a year, pro rata to your contracted hours. At 24 hours a week, that comes to 16.7 days.
1 Knowledge Base source consulted Staff handbook 2026
Your own policy, with the source document alongside.
The screens are designed examples with made-up documents. How it works is real.
How it works

From documentto reliable answer.

Four steps, all in your browser. No IT overhaul.

Drop your files in. Word, Excel, PDF or website.

Upload your existing Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDFs or text files, or fetch up to fifty pages from a website in one go. Snappie preserves headings, tables, comments and every Excel worksheet in full.

  • No silent half-measures: password-protected files or files containing macros immediately trigger a clear message.
  • Searches intelligently by meaning as well as exact domain terms and abbreviations.

You decide which team sees which document.

Keep HR documents with HR, care policies with care teams and general rules open to everyone. Set access per folder as well as per individual document, linked to Snappie groups or your own sign-in system.

  • Hard technical boundary: restricted documents never surface in search, follow-up questions or answers.
  • In Snappie Studio, you can also specify per specialist which individual documents it consults, once you enable this.

A question in plain language. The source open right beside it.

Colleagues simply ask their question in Snappie Chat. Beneath the answer, only the documents that were genuinely cited and substantively match appear. One click on the source button opens the full document alongside.

  • No clutter beneath the answer: documents only glanced at in passing are filtered out automatically.
  • Web sources are always listed separately whenever a question also searched the internet.

Share new knowledge, only after human review.

Did a colleague work out a useful instruction or letter in Chat? From My documents, they nominate it as a suggestion. The administrator immediately sees whether AI helped draft it, reviews the text and explicitly confirms before publishing.

  • Mandatory human gatekeeper for AI text: nothing becomes organisational knowledge automatically.
  • Every publication, edit and approval is recorded with name and timestamp in the audit log.
The screens are designed examples with made-up documents. How it works is real.
Privacy and security

Your knowledge stays yours.Right down to team level.

Policies, work instructions and protocols live in your own European environment—with a clear boundary between organisation-wide, team-only and private.

  • Dedicated environment in Europe

    Every customer gets a dedicated environment at Scaleway inside the EU (Amsterdam and Paris), with its own network, database and storage. The language models also run at Scaleway in the EU.

  • Group permissions without loopholes

    Restrict folders or individual documents to specific groups. Whenever you change folder or group permissions, Snappie clears previously saved answers right away so nobody sees an older answer outside their access; an updated document is immediately reprocessed for new searches.

  • Private stays private

    Anything an employee uploads or drafts in Chat cannot be opened by colleagues or administrators. Nothing from a conversation enters the Knowledge Base automatically.

  • No training on your documents

    Snappie never trains models on your documents. They are used solely to answer questions and support work inside your own organisation.

In practice

Your department,your access.

Pick a team and see how a question is answered from the right folder.

Snappie Chat
How often do we check the medication list?
According to the medication safety protocol, a second employee checks the medication list at every change, and at least once a quarter.
1 Knowledge Base source consulted Medication safety protocol
Folder Care protocols
Access Care teams only
Questions this team asks
  • Who do I call if there’s an incident on the night shift?
  • What do I do after a fall incident?
Why this helps
So the right protocol is at hand straight away, including on evening or night shifts.
The screens are designed examples with made-up documents. How it works is real.

At care organisation PSW, the same Knowledge Base also powers set Flows: a support plan went from two days of piecing information together to a reviewed draft in two minutes.

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Frequently asked questionsabout the Knowledge Base.

Can we restrict folders and documents by team or department?

Yes. Under ‘Access’, you choose for each folder and each individual document whether everyone may read it or only specific groups—such as HR, care teams or management. Permissions set on an individual document override those of its folder, and Snappie warns you beforehand if moving a document would widen access. If you use single sign-on (such as Microsoft Entra ID or Google Workspace), groups can sync automatically.

Which files and sources can I add?

Word documents (.docx), Excel spreadsheets (.xlsx), PDFs with a text layer, text, Markdown and HTML files up to 100 MB each, and web pages (fetching up to fifty pages at a time).

PowerPoint (.pptx), legacy .doc or .xls files and scanned PDFs without a text layer are not supported (so check whether text in a scan can be selected; voice recordings can be attached in Chat). Encrypted files and files containing macros are rejected immediately on upload with a clear explanation.

Does the Knowledge Base sync live with SharePoint, OneDrive or Google Drive?

No—there is no automatic live sync with SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive or Notion. That prevents unfinished drafts or broadly shared folders from quietly surfacing in answers. You deliberately choose which final documents to import; when a policy or web page changes, replace the file or fetch the page again.

What if the answer isn’t in our documents, or AI gets something wrong?

Snappie is instructed not to guess and to say honestly when your documents do not contain an answer. Because a language model can still misread a nuance, only the cited source documents appear beneath the answer, and you open the original document alongside the conversation with a single click.

Does any data leave the European Union?

Your documents, database and language models run entirely inside the European Union at Scaleway. Only when fetching a web page or searching the internet does the URL or search query go to an external search service outside Europe. For your own specialists in Studio, web search is off by default.

What does the Knowledge Base cost and how quickly can we start?

The Knowledge Base is included in the Snappie base licence: you don’t pay per user.

A fixed annual licence of €15,000 plus €500 a month for your own environment and hosting: €21,000 fixed per year for your whole organisation. On top of that, you pay actual AI usage at list price plus 15% (minimum €50 a month), bounded by an agreed hard monthly cap on AI usage (calculated at list price before the 15% markup). If that cap is reached, only new AI requests pause until the next month; the Knowledge Base, documents and administration keep working as normal.

Importing documents and setting group permissions is done directly in your browser, with no IT overhaul.

467 hours a year for the whole organisation to break even. Nine hours a week, however big you are.

Curious what Snappie does with your documents?

Not a quick sales pitch, but a half-day hands-on session built around a real challenge from your organisation — with us in Roermond or at your offices.