The business advisor that knows your business.
Cognisance reads your handbooks, contracts and policies once and remembers, like a veteran employee who knows where everything is. Ask anything in plain English and get answers grounded in your own documents and the law for your state, with the source behind every claim.
No credit card required · Your data stays yours
Ask once. Watch it check everything.
One question, three sources, and a pay-rate mismatch the owner would have missed, caught, weighed against the law that applies in her state, and nothing changed until she approved it.
Scripted walkthrough of real product behaviour, every answer in Cognisance works like this.
Tired of starting from scratch every time you ask?
You’ve already written it all down, in handbooks, contracts, emails and spreadsheets. The problem was never information; it’s that nothing could hold it together and reason over it the way you would.
Sick of re-explaining your business?
Generic AI forgets your business every session. Cognisance reads it once and remembers.
Legal fees draining you?
Get jurisdiction-aware answers to the routine questions before you call your lawyer or accountant.
Answers that don't know your situation?
We weigh your handbooks, contracts, and roster against the law that applies where you operate.
A memory for your business, not another chatbot
Generic AI forgets you the moment you close the tab. Cognisance builds a private, structured record of your business from the documents you already have, then reasons over it like a seasoned adviser who has read every file.
Reads everything, once
Contracts, employee handbooks, leases, policies, financials, even scanned PDFs. Cognisance pulls out the people, agreements and obligations and links them into one living map of your business.
Answers your situation, not the internet's
Ask in plain English. Every answer weighs your own documents against the law that applies where you operate, and links back to the exact page and clause it came from.
Knows what it doesn't know
When something is missing or ambiguous, Cognisance says so and sets it aside for your review, instead of inventing an answer or guessing at the law.
Keeps up as you change
Tell it a manager left or a rate changed and the old fact is retired everywhere, with the full history kept. Your record is always today's truth, with an audit trail.
Three steps to an advisor that already knows you
No setup project, no integration, nothing to install, three steps from the paperwork you already have to answers that know your business.
Upload your documents
Handbooks, contracts, financials, policies, even scanned paperwork. We read them once and build a private map of your business.
Ask anything in plain English
Type the question the way you would say it. We weigh your context against the Australian law that applies where you operate.
Get answers that know your business
Cited, jurisdiction-aware, explicit about what we're inferring versus what we know. No hallucinated case law.
The questions you’d rather not pay $400 to ask
Cognisance won’t replace your lawyer or accountant. It handles the routine questions in between, and gets you to them prepared, with the sources in hand.
- Can I let a casual go after six months?
- What notice does a part-time employee in QLD get?
- Is this role award-covered, and at what rate?
- When does our lease renew, and what's the notice period?
- Which suppliers are we locked into past December?
- What did we actually agree to pay Marlo & Pine?
- What are my super and PAYG obligations for a new hire?
- Do I need to register for GST yet?
- Which of our policies are out of date?
Your business record changes only when you say so
An advisor is only useful if you can trust it. Cognisance is built so you can check, correct and control everything it knows about your business.
Everything cites its source
Every answer links back to the document, page and line it came from. You never have to take Cognisance's word for it.
You approve what it learns
When Cognisance reads something new about your business, it asks before it commits. Facts it isn't sure about wait for your review.
Corrections stick
Tell it something changed (a new manager, a new rate, a new address) and the old fact is superseded everywhere, with the history kept.
End-to-end encrypted
Documents encrypted with your own data key. We never train on your data.
Australian-resident
Your data lives in Australian regions, full stop.
Your data is yours
Export everything at any time, no friction, no lock-in.
Every plan gets the full product
$100 USD a month, less than half an hour with your lawyer. Nothing is locked to a higher plan: plans differ only by how many people log in and whether you run one business or many.
Solo
For owner-operators and one-person operations.
- 1 seat (you)
- Virtually unlimited documents and questions
- Every live AU jurisdiction
- Email support
Team
For small teams where more than one person needs to be in it.
- Everything in Solo, the same full product
- $40 / month for each extra seat
- Conflict-resolution dashboard
- Priority support
Practice
For accountants, bookkeepers, and consultants serving multiple clients.
- One book, many client businesses
- The same full product on every client
- Your own branding
- SLA + named CSM
Monthly or annual (pay for 10 months, get 12). Cancel any month, export everything, your data is yours.
Questions owners ask us
Straight answers on safety, accuracy, and what you’re actually signing up for.
Is my business data safe?
Yes. Your data is stored in Australia, encrypted with keys unique to your account, and never shared with other customers or used to train AI models. You can export or delete it at any time.
Is this legal or financial advice?
No. Cognisance gives you general information grounded in your own documents and the rules that apply to your jurisdiction, with sources you can check. For decisions with legal, tax or financial consequences, talk to a qualified professional, Cognisance helps you arrive prepared.
What do I need to get started?
Just the documents you already have, contracts, policies, invoices, employee agreements, even scanned paperwork. Upload them and start asking questions; there's no setup project and nothing to install.
What if Cognisance gets something wrong?
Every answer shows its sources so you can verify it, and anything Cognisance isn't sure about is set aside for your review rather than assumed. When you correct a fact, the correction sticks.
Can my accountant or bookkeeper use it too?
Yes, the Team plan covers multiple people in your business, and the Practice plan is built for advisers managing several clients. Everyone sees the same single source of truth.
What happens if I cancel?
Your plan runs to the end of the billing period, and your data is deleted within 30 days of closing your account, it's your business, not ours.
Register your interest
We’re in early access and onboarding in batches. Tell us about your business and we’ll be in touch as spots open up.