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Generate a collection with separate evidence and review gates

Ten steps make the work visible from the development signal to publication. Source completion, technical certification, and editorial release decisions remain distinct.

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Business goal
Increase efficiency
Business metric
Docs ready at release

Carry the feature through ten production steps

Make documentation a release criterion, identify source and certification owners, and establish templates, rule checks, and a final publication gate.

The task in this example

Document the new bulk invoice editor for release 26.4.

  1. Step 1

    Open the documentation ticket

    Create work from the customer-facing feature change.

    System

    The development workflow records the required documentation and release milestone.

  2. Step 2

    Supply sources

    Collect the demo, designs, specification, and API changes.

    Product or customer data

    The people building the feature supply authoritative behavior and limits.

  3. Step 3

    Validate completeness

    Apply the source rubric and resolve gaps.

    Content team

    Generation waits for sufficient evidence rather than treating missing detail as a writing opportunity.

  4. Step 4

    Generate topics and a map

    Draft the required topic types and proposed collection.

    Model

    Use maintained templates and checked sources; preserve unanswered questions.

    Content team

    Own the content models and structure rules the generator must follow.

  5. Step 5

    Certify technical accuracy

    The product expert reviews each topic.

    People

    Record whether the content is accurate and complete, with substantive corrections returned for revision.

  6. Step 6

    Check terms and style

    Run maintained rule-based checks.

    Taxonomy

    Approved terms and checkable style rules are data; violations produce reviewable findings.

  7. Step 7

    Classify topics

    Assign curated metadata.

    Taxonomy

    Review suggested feature, edition, role, and release tags before retrieval or publication uses them.

  8. Step 8

    Perform final documentation QA

    Review the collection as a reader’s path.

    People

    Check usability, consistency, omissions, and transitions; send technical gaps back to the expert.

  9. Step 9

    Store valid source

    Convert into the content system’s required structure.

    Content team

    Preserve metadata, IDs, and reuse rules.

    System

    Validate the resulting source and record its version.

  10. Step 10

    Place and publish

    Fit topics into existing guides and release them.

    People

    A documentation professional decides placement and approves publication; the proposed map is not automatic authority.

This framework provides a practical baseline shaped by experience. Every organization operates under distinct technical and operational realities that require tailored design and governance. While you can adapt these measures independently, we frequently partner with teams to customize governance, integrations, and rollout. Performance outcomes will naturally vary.

Why these content layers matter

Intelligent content

Maintain source rubrics, topic models, templates, and source rules. Generated topics must meet the same structure and reuse requirements as existing content.

Taxonomy

Use approved terms and curated classification values for edition, role, release, and feature. Rule-based checks enforce checkable terms and style rules.

Verify the result and handle exceptions

Check source-rubric failures, certification records, rule results, metadata, builds, and the reader path through the published collection. Re-test feature questions after indexing.

Incomplete sources stop generation. Technical rejection returns to the source owner; final QA can return the collection for revision. Do not publish a structurally valid set while substantive questions remain.

How we work
with your team

We can guide your team, work alongside it, or deliver the work for you. Combine these approaches as your needs and capacity change.

Lead

Build capability

We guide your people through the work, building capability that stays with your team.

Support

Add specialist backup

Your team owns the work. We provide experienced backup and specialist help where you need it.

Do

Delegate delivery

We handle work that is one-time, specialized, or outside your core business, without adding an ongoing burden to your team.

What would make generated documentation ready for your release?

Intuitive Stack can help define source rubrics, content models, and review gates for a complete new-documentation workflow with your product and docs teams.