The knowledge existed.
It just wasn't usable.

Maria's team handled transfer credit across a growing network of partner institutions. The knowledge was all there — articulation agreements, past decisions, course outlines, spreadsheets, emails, internal notes — but it was scattered across different systems and buried in people's memory.
As the network grew, so did the chaos. Students expected quick answers, but staff kept searching for decisions they'd already made and re-evaluating course matches that had been reviewed before. Every new request started closer to zero than it should have.