A computer-implemented method for automated handling of intents in an intent-based network (IBN), including a plurality of intent managers, is provided. The method is executed by a first intent manager. The method comprises generating a first set of embeddings representing relationships between one or more of intents, issues, contexts, proposals and / or knowledge artifacts; receiving, from a second intent manager, an intent context including a set of intents; encoding the received intent context to a second set of embeddings representing relationships between one or more of intents, issues, contexts, proposals and / or knowledge artifacts; identifying from the second set of embeddings knowledge relevant to the received intent context; decoding the identified knowledge from the second set of embeddings; and sending, to the second intent manager the decoded knowledge for use by the second intent manager for a proposal to fulfill the set of intents.