Company knowledge base vs. case knowledge base
Andri uses two separate knowledge bases to power its AI legal analyses: the company knowledge base and the case knowledge base. Each serves a different purpose.
Company knowledge base
The company knowledge base stores your firm's shared resources. These are documents that support all legal work across your organization.
What goes in it:
Press releases and publications
Legal templates and standard forms
Firm policies and procedures
Research papers and reference materials
Legal precedents and guidelines
Supported formats: PDF, Word (DOCX, DOC), PowerPoint (PPTX, PPT), Excel (XLSX, XLS), CSV, XAF, email (EML, MSG), images (PNG, JPG), audio and video, HTML, Markdown and ZIP archives.
Limits: 200 MB per file, 2 GB for PDFs and 1 GB for ZIP archives.
Who can access it: All team members in your organization. Only invited team members can view or add documents. It's never accessible outside your firm.
How it's used: Andri references these documents when providing legal analyses across all cases. The more comprehensive your Company KB, the better the AI assistance becomes for your entire team.
Case knowledge base
The case knowledge base stores documents specific to individual cases.
What goes in it: Case-specific files like contracts, correspondence, evidence, client documents, and case research.
Supported formats: everything the company knowledge base takes, plus RTF and the GIF, WEBP, BMP and TIFF image formats.
Limits: 200 MB per file, 2 GB for PDFs, and 1 GB for ZIP archives, audio, video and XAF files.
Who can access it: Team members working on that specific case. A colleague can also be shared in with Knowledge Base only access, which allows uploads and downloads but no chat, drafts or AI access.
How it's used: Andri uses these documents to provide case-specific analyses and answers to your legal questions.
When to use each
Use the company knowledge base for:
Firm-wide reference materials
Documents that apply to multiple cases
Building your organization's AI knowledge foundation
Use the case knowledge base for:
Documents unique to a specific case
Client-provided files
Case-specific correspondence and evidence
Both knowledge bases work together. When you ask Andri a question on a case, it draws from both the case-specific documents and your firm's company knowledge base to provide comprehensive legal analyses.
For more information, see Filling the company knowledge base or Which file types can I upload to the case knowledge base.