What
The task or knowledge itself.
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Preserve what experience knows
People leave.
Experience shouldn't have to.
Tacit Legacy helps capture the knowledge, judgement, skills and practical experience that people develop over years—so it can be preserved and passed on.
The problem
What happens when experience walks out the door?
A company can have thousands of pages of documentation and still lose something when an experienced person leaves.
The manual may remain.
The experience may not.
The mechanic who recognises a strange sound. The carpenter who knows when timber is right. The chef who knows it needs another 30 seconds. The engineer who knows why a process works. The family member whose traditional skill was never written down.
The difference
Don't just document what people know.
Draw out the thinking behind it. Conventional knowledge systems ask people to write things down. Tacit Legacy uses guided conversations to uncover the layers beneath an answer.
How
The method in practice.
02Why
The reason behind the method.
03Judgement
How a decision is made.
04Experience
What repetition has taught.
05The Tacit Interview
Ask the questions nobody thought to write down.
A guided conversation follows the details an expert might otherwise overlook.
I always check the bearing first.
Tacit Legacy asks
Why?
“Because after a certain amount of wear you start noticing a vibration.”
What does that vibration sound like? What would make you stop the machine?
This is where tacit knowledge begins to emerge.
How it works
From conversation to continuity.
- 01
Capture
Start a Knowledge Session and talk about your experience.
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Structure
Tacit Legacy transcribes and organises the conversation.
- 03
Preserve
Create structured knowledge while retaining the original source.
- 04
Transfer
Make approved knowledge searchable and available to others.
What gets preserved?
The knowledge behind the work.
What I Know
01How I Do It
02Why I Do It
03How I Decide
04Common Mistakes
05Warnings
06Lessons Learned
07Decision Paths
08Practical Experience
09Everyone has experience
Your experience doesn't have to fit a box.
Tacit Legacy is designed for many forms of experience. If a category does not fit, create your own.
ProfessionalsTradespeopleEngineersCraftspeopleTeachersChefsFarmersBusiness ownersRetired expertsParentsGrandparentsHobbyistsFamiliesCommunity membersCreate Your Own
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Person
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Experience
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Capture
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Structure
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Preserve
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Transfer
Founding community
Help us preserve what experience knows.
Tacit Legacy is being built for the people who carry knowledge that was never written down.