we keep some things out our brains that just never make it to paper

ISO 9001 would like to talk to all those people and have them either document, or see the door. Not really cutting edge, more of a basic business certification to even dream about bidding for any government related project (then, people still lie and don't keep everything documented... and shit happens, but such are people).

some of them never write down their experiences

Get a humanoid learning robot, you'll have a log of everything it experienced at the end of the day, with exact timestamps, photos, and annotations.

understand and identify where solutions don't exist and go perform expansive research to extend the knowledge

Auto-GPT does it. The operator's purse is why it doesn't get used much more 😉