MYCELIUM · INTERNAL KNOWLEDGE BASE
The writing that work leaves behind lives in work mail, an issue tracker, a document tool, code review, local files, source code, product manuals and company policy. Each has a search box that only sees itself, so opening eight windows and merging the results was a person's job every time. This tool removes the merging.
WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE
There is no separate app to open. Typed into work chat or into a terminal, the same question takes the same path.
"Who fixed PROJ-1234?"
This is company material, so the content of the answer is masked — the question, the path it takes and the way sources are attached are unchanged.
WHY IT EXISTS
Buying one more tool did not fix it. What was removed is not a tool but the manual step a person did in between.
BEFORE — EVERY SINGLE LOOKUP
NOW — MYCELIUM
Each tool's own search sees only itself — "who filed the PR that fixed this issue" has no answer there. Commercial AI search holds none of the company's data and stays generic.
WHERE THE NAME COMES FROM
The organism itself is mycelium — a web of white threads under the soil that links separate trees root to root and moves water and nutrients between them. Here the trees are mail, issues and documents, and the threads are the relationships that connect them.
HOW IT RUNS
FOUR WAYS TO LOOK
This is where a single method failed. Meaning search alone is weak on relationships; narrowing by the graph alone can never surface what the graph does not hold.
By meaningVECTOR
Different words still match if the sense is close — "that competitor write-up from a while back" turns up a document whose title contains none of those words.
By relationshipKG
Traversal from node to node — "who filed the PR that fixed this issue" is the kind of cross-tool question that resolves here.
By countingSQL
"The last five", "December only", "how many" — narrowing by number and date. Counting is arithmetic, not a model.
By exact tokenFTS5
An issue key such as PROJ-1234 is matched character for character and pulled up directly.
WHAT IT CAN HOLD
Connectors are chosen to fit the site. Eight source types are connected today, and more can be added.
Where the material sits and who can see it
WHAT PEOPLE ASK
You do not have to phrase it carefully. Ask in the sentence you would use anyway.
"What is the travel expense policy?"
Finds the clause in the company policy held in the groupware system
"Who would know about this?"
Proposes people from worklog, pull request and issue history
"Book a room on floor 11 at two."
Picks a free room and completes the reservation
LIMITS
The tool never invents an answer outside its range. When nothing is found it answers not confirmed within the search scope, rather than filling the gap.
IN TECHNICAL TERMS
The same thing said in industry terms.
MEASURED
Each figure carries what was measured and when.
The index has grown since that scored run; the old figure stays until it is measured again. Scale differs from site to site, so per-installation counts are never used as figures.
You ask from the work chat and the terminal you already use. There is no new screen to open.