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Shakewell

Who It's For

Technical Writers & Authors

You are the person who actually has to make the content compliant. Everyone else discusses the standard; you write against it, in whatever tool the program bought, to a deadline set before anyone asked how long structured authoring takes.

What usually goes wrong

Almost every authoring problem we are called into looks the same from the writer's chair. The specification is treated as a delivery requirement rather than a working method, so compliance gets checked at the end instead of enforced while you type — and by then the fix is expensive and yours.

  • Validation happens at delivery review, not in the editor, so errors surface weeks after you made them
  • Nobody can tell you which business rule you broke, only that the file failed
  • Applicability gets solved by copy-and-paste, and three near-identical procedures drift apart
  • Reuse is theoretically available and practically unusable, because nothing was modeled for it

How we work with you

We train writers in the specification as a working method rather than as a reference document, and we set the environment up so the standard helps you instead of ambushing you. Where we are doing the authoring alongside your team, we embed rather than deliver from a distance.

  • Hands-on training in the standard you actually author in, using your content and your business rules
  • Authoring setup where schema and business-rule validation fires as you write
  • Content models designed so reuse and applicability are the easy path, not the heroic one
  • Working sessions on the real backlog, not exercises against a toy dataset

What changes

The measure we care about is how often you are surprised. When validation moves to authoring time and the content model matches the work, the review cycle stops being an archaeology exercise and the schedule stops depending on how many late failures turn up.

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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.