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Shakewell

Who It's For

Engineering Teams

You did not sign up to be a documentation input. But your design data, parts information, and service procedures are where technical publications begin, and in most organizations that handoff is a person re-keying your work into a different system.

Where the handoff breaks

The gap between engineering systems and publication systems is usually bridged by effort rather than by integration, which means it breaks quietly and repeatedly. The symptom is a documentation team asking you for the same information twice.

  • Parts data maintained in one system and retyped into another, diverging on the first revision
  • Illustrations regenerated by hand because the source geometry was never exposed
  • Change notices that reach publications late, or as an email
  • Requests for your data in a format nothing you own produces

How we work with you

We are a development house as well as a content practice, which means the integration is something we build rather than something we specify and hand to somebody else. The aim is that your systems stay the source of truth and the publication pipeline reads from them.

  • System integrations and API development between engineering, PLM, and publication systems
  • Automated pipelines so a change in your system propagates rather than being reported
  • Parts catalogs and delivery platforms built on your live data
  • AI grounded in approved content, where retrieval is genuinely useful rather than decorative

API-first, so it survives you leaving the project

We design with clean separation between systems so the integration is extensible rather than a bespoke bridge only its author understands. Where we are building the delivery side too, the same principle applies — everything the interface can reach, an integration can reach.

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Let's Talk

Tell us where you're stuck and we'll give you a clear-eyed assessment — no obligation, and early input is where we add the most value.