Taking over an existing system
Bring existing decisions into the shared record.
An old workaround may still protect a customer requirement—or it may no longer be needed. The new maintainer has to distinguish the two before touching it. Files alone do not settle that question.
Give the next maintainer a decision they can trace: what was agreed, where it came from and who can confirm it. AKDB lets an authorised owner preview and register an existing decision, with conflicting versions kept visible. AI cannot supply missing history as fact.
Taking over an existing system
Use the next change as the handover test.
A possible evaluation would focus on one system and a small set of decisions the new maintainer needs to understand. Agreed notes and source snapshots would provide the material; the successor would check whether the retrieved context answers the actual questions.
Record where the successor still needs help, which information is outdated and how much effort the handover takes. This is an adjacent application to explore, not a packaged knowledge-transfer service or an automatic recording of conversations.
What the product can support todayThe goal is a next change the successor can explain—not just a completed handover folder.