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Documentation Standards Audit

A structured review of your platform docs, style guides, and contribution rules against how teams actually write and ship.

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Who it is for

Engineering managers, docs leads, and platform owners who need a clear picture of where written standards diverge from practice.

What you receive

A prioritized findings report, a revised standards outline, and a practical remediation plan your writers and maintainers can follow.

Included

  • Inventory of public and internal platform documentation
  • Review of existing style guides, templates, and lint or CI checks
  • Interviews with writers, maintainers, and two representative contributors
  • Gap analysis against contribution workflows and release cadence
  • Written report with severity-ranked findings and sample rewritten pages

Not included

  • Full rewrite of every document
  • Ongoing editorial staffing
  • Custom tooling development beyond recommendations

How the work proceeds

  1. Kickoff call to fix scope, repositories, and stakeholders

  2. Remote document and repository review over one to two weeks

  3. Contributor and maintainer interviews

  4. Draft findings workshop with your leads

  5. Final report delivery and Q&A session

Practical details

Provider: Senior documentation standards consultant from Systemsource Tools

Duration: Typically three to four weeks from kickoff to final report

Delivery: Remote-first with optional on-site days in Daegu or your Korea office

Preparation: Share repository access, existing style guides, and a list of high-traffic docs pages

Constraints: Best suited for teams with at least one active documentation set and designated decision-makers

Pricing: Fixed project fee based on repository count and interview volume; see Pricing for ranges

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