Developer Documentation
Developer docs your engineers won't quietly route around.
Bad docs don't get complained about. They get worked around. Someone reads two paragraphs, gives up, DMs a teammate, and your support queue absorbs what the docs should have answered. We write the docs that end that loop.
The real cost of docs nobody reads
Every API has docs. Most are written for the person who built the thing, not the person trying to use it. They assume the reader already knows what they're looking for, skip the one example that would have unblocked them, and bury the auth flow three pages deep.
The reader, usually a developer evaluating whether to integrate at all, makes a fast judgment from those first two minutes. If the docs feel like a chore, the product feels like a chore. You lose the integration before anyone talked to sales, and you never find out why.
What we actually write
We write docs from the developer's first request inward. The fastest path to a working call, then the reference, then the edge cases. Real, runnable examples, not pseudo-code that almost works. The auth flow explained once, properly, where they'll look for it. Error states that say what went wrong and what to do about it.
We read your codebase, we make the calls ourselves, and we write the page we wished we'd had. If a sample doesn't run, it doesn't ship.
- Getting-started guides that get a developer to a successful call fast
- Full API reference: endpoints, parameters, every response, real examples
- Auth and error handling written like the reader is in a hurry, because they are
- SDK and integration guides
- Migration and changelog docs that don't make upgrading scary
What good looks like
# Making your first API call
# This gets you to a working response in under 3 minutes.
curl -X POST https://api.yourproduct.com/v1/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"prompt": "Hello", "max_tokens": 50}'
# If you see a 401, your API key needs the completions scope.
# Add it here: https://yourproduct.com/settings/api-keysThis is the kind of example we write: runnable, scoped, with error context where errors happen.
Why a writer, not a generator, for this specifically
This is the one place the human-versus-machine question answers itself. A generated doc will confidently describe an endpoint that doesn't behave that way, an example that doesn't run, a parameter that was renamed two versions ago. An engineer spots it in seconds, and now they don't trust any of it.
We write by making the calls and checking the output. That's slower. It's also the only version a developer will actually rely on. Docs are the one product surface where "close enough" is the same as wrong.
Pricing and scope
Docs scope by surface area: how many endpoints, how deep the guides go, what shape it's all in now. So we price from a floor and scope the rest with you.
The Teardown · $400
Start with a Teardown. We'll rewrite one of your existing doc pages.
A content audit plus one page of yours rewritten. You keep the rewrite. If you sign for a retainer or project after, the full fee comes off your first invoice.