Stop losing knowledge.
Start governing it.
Shale is the governance layer on top of your existing tools. Every document gets an owner, a lifecycle and an answer. Your files never move.
From scattered files to governed knowledge.
Shale connects on top of the tools you already use and applies governance automatically. No migration, no new habits, no big bang project.
Connect, without moving a file.
Shale plugs into SharePoint, Google Drive, Slack, Teams, Notion and Confluence. Only metadata and semantic vectors are stored. The files stay exactly where they are, with your existing permissions.
- Read only connectors, live in hours
- Files and permissions stay in place
- Only metadata and vectors stored
Give every document an owner.
Each connected document gets an identified, traceable owner. Orphans are detected automatically and AI suggests the most relevant person. When someone leaves, a guided reassignment workflow kicks in, integrable with your HR system.
- Orphans detected automatically
- AI suggests the best owner
- Offboarding triggered from your HR system
Ask your documents anything.
Search in natural language and get answers backed by their source documents. Spot duplicates and stale files, and see who knows what across the organization.
- Answers cite their source documents
- Duplicates and stale files flagged
- Expertise mapped across teams
Everything document governance needs.
Where Shale earns its keep.
Teams bring in Shale when scattered drives start costing real hours and knowledge leaves with every departure. These are the most common starting points.
- Employee offboarding. Every document a leaver owns is reassigned before their last day.
- Duplicate cleanup. Copies and near copies are detected across drives, one governed version remains.
- Stale policy detection. Freshness alerts flag procedures that are past their review date.
- Finding the expert. Expertise mapping shows who actually works on which topics.
- Audit preparation. Show an owner and a lifecycle for every critical document.
- Internal Q&A. Ask questions in plain language, get answers backed by sources.
Plugs into the tools you already run.
Shale connects on top of your existing stack. Files never move and permissions stay untouched.
- SharePoint and Microsoft 365, including Teams.
- Google Drive and Google Workspace shared drives.
- Notion pages and databases.
- Confluence spaces and documentation.
- Slack channels and shared files.
- HR systems to trigger offboarding reassignments automatically.
- Document metadata can feed the Basalt BASIN for company wide reporting.
Is Shale right for you?
Shale is built for organizations that already have the tools, but not the governance. You will recognize yourself here.
- Your documents live in several tools and nobody clearly owns them.
- People keep asking where the latest version of a policy lives.
- Offboarding means losing track of what a leaver knew and owned.
- You want governance without migrating files or retraining teams.
- Compliance asks for owners and review dates you cannot produce today.
Questions teams ask about SHALE
Common questions from IT, HR and operations leaders evaluating document governance.
What is SHALE?
SHALE is a document governance platform that adds an intelligent layer on top of SharePoint, Google Drive, Slack, Teams, Notion and Confluence. It assigns an owner to every document, manages offboarding, detects duplicates and stale files, and maps internal expertise, without moving your files.
Does SHALE store or move my documents?
No. SHALE connects to your tools and stores only metadata and semantic vectors. Files are never copied, moved or migrated. They stay exactly where they are, with your existing permissions.
Which tools does SHALE connect to?
SharePoint, Google Drive, Slack, Teams, Notion and Confluence through standard connectors, plus HR systems such as Personio and SD Worx to trigger offboarding workflows automatically.
How is SHALE different from a DMS or a knowledge base?
A DMS asks you to migrate files and change habits. SHALE governs documents where they already live: ownership, lifecycle, duplicates and expertise are managed as a layer on top, so teams keep working exactly as before.
What happens when an employee leaves?
SHALE generates the full inventory of documents the person owns, runs a guided reassignment workflow validated by the manager, and produces a closure report confirming every document has a new owner.
Ready to govern your documents?
Bring one messy drive to a 30 minute demo. We'll show you the owners, duplicates and answers Shale finds in it.