Why UK software companies hire technical writing specialists

Illustration showing scattered code, support messages, and product screens being organised into a clear software documentation and help-centre system.

Software companies hire technical writing specialists to solve a business need. They do it when the product has outgrown the knowledge held in developers’ heads, support tickets, Slack threads, and half-finished pages in a help centre. At that point, poor documentation starts to affect sales, onboarding, support workload, security assurance, and customer confidence. It becomes… Read more »

What would Technical Writers do with 10,000 AI helpers?

There is a idea doing the rounds: AI becomes less visible when people can break their work into well-defined tasks and delegate those tasks to thousands of capable helpers. The claim is deliberately provocative. Most people do not literally have 10,000 agents working for them. Nor would giving 10,000 poorly briefed agents access to company… Read more »

Three documentation processes. Can you spot what went wrong?

Can you spot what’s wrong with these documentation processes? We’ve created three short, interactive exercises that put you in the technical writing reviewer’s seat. Each exercise presents a Slack conversation about a documentation project. Your task is to work out what has gone wrong and identify the type of problem each message reveals. They’re designed… Read more »

From Prompts to Workflows: 4 Practical Ways Technical Writers Can Use AI

Many technical writers have experimented with ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or Gemini, but experimenting is not the same as integrating. How do you turn those one-off prompts into reliable workflows that genuinely improve documentation quality and reduce manual effort? This webinar introduces four practical approaches to using AI in technical writing and documentation management: chatbot agents,… Read more »