# Company context vs knowledge base

> A knowledge base helps humans look up information. Company context helps approved agents act with the right decisions and constraints already loaded.

Company context is selective, scoped, source-linked, and action-oriented. A knowledge base can be broad and human-readable without being the right retrieval substrate for agents.

## Why Ambience

- Ambience extracts durable agent-facing context from broad sources.
- The source remains visible.
- Scopes and audit travel with the memory.

## Related

- [Ambience vs Confluence](https://ambience.sh/compare/confluence)
- [Ambience vs Notion AI](https://ambience.sh/compare/notion-ai)