Approved sources
Documents should enter the knowledge layer through an ownership and approval process rather than uncontrolled personal uploads.
ZYK Knowledge
Generic AI becomes institutional AI when it knows the right things — and only the right people can access them.
ZYK Knowledge is the proposed governed RAG and institutional knowledge layer for curriculum, rubrics, policies, procedures, handbooks and other approved school resources.
Beyond file upload
A school knowledge system needs governance, not just embeddings.
Permissions
Students, teachers, leaders, HR and administrators should not automatically see the same institutional knowledge.
Versioning
Policies, curricula and rubrics change. The system should know which version is current and when older material should be retired.
Provenance
Where appropriate, assistants should identify the approved source behind an answer instead of presenting unsupported text as institutional truth.
Knowledge domains
One platform, multiple controlled collections.
Curriculum
Scope-and-sequence documents, schemes of work, unit plans, approved resources and subject guidance.
Assessment
Rubrics, moderation guidance, marking principles, test specifications and school-owned question resources.
Policy
Safeguarding, acceptable-use, data-handling, academic-integrity and other institution-approved policies.
Operations
Handbooks, procedures, admissions information, IT guidance, HR processes and internal service knowledge.
Multi-campus design
Shared knowledge where useful. Local knowledge where necessary.
A school group or education bureau may need common policies and curriculum resources while individual campuses retain local calendars, staff guidance, operational documents and contextual resources.
Regional / group collection
Common approved documents and policy baselines shared across participating institutions.
Campus collection
School-specific knowledge visible only within the appropriate campus context.
Role-specific collection
Sensitive administrative material can remain restricted to defined roles rather than becoming part of a universal chatbot context.
Why it matters
The institution's knowledge layer can outlast individual models.
Models will improve and change. A well-governed corpus of approved school knowledge, permissions, sources and workflows is a more durable institutional asset. ZYK's architecture is intended to let the model layer evolve without rebuilding that knowledge environment.
ZYK Knowledge is a content-v2 strategic product concept organising RAG and school-knowledge capabilities already present in the broader ZYK plan. It should be treated as a product-development direction until implementation status is validated.