Make your docs answer back
Turn your documentation, API reference, and community threads into a cited assistant that lives on your docs site, in Discord, and inside the IDE via MCP — and shows you exactly which docs to write next.
The friction points every devrel & docs teams team knows
These are the recurring patterns we hear from devrel & docs teams leaders — and the ones BeforeQuery is built to remove.
You answer the same Discord question every single day
The install-and-auth question gets asked, answered brilliantly, and scrolls away within the hour. DevRel time goes to repetition instead of content, talks, and community building.
Coding assistants hallucinate your API
Developers ask their AI assistant instead of reading your docs — and it answers from stale training data, recommending endpoints you deprecated a year ago. You get the ticket either way.
You have no idea which docs are actually missing
Docs roadmaps get planned by gut feel. The questions developers actually fail to answer never make it back to the docs team in any structured way.
Ask AI on your docs site
Priya’s Okta lockout can be cleared via self-serve MFA challenge — no IT intervention required. If MFA fails, escalate to IT on-call.
MCP server for in-IDE answers
Discord and Slack bots with the source shown
Gap analytics as a docs backlog
Relevant sources for devrel & docs teams
The controls your security team is going to ask about
Frequently asked questions about devrel & docs teams
How do answers keep up with releases?
Website sources re-crawl on a schedule, and GitHub/GitLab sources re-index via webhook on every push. Ship a docs change and the assistant answers from the new content — no retraining step.
What exactly does the MCP server expose?
A JSON-RPC endpoint at /mcp with search_docs, ask_question, and list_sources tools, authenticated by a client key that scopes it to one knowledge base. Any MCP-compatible client — Cursor, Claude, and others — can use it.
Can we index community answers, not just official docs?
Yes. Discourse forums, Stack Overflow tags, Slack channels, and YouTube videos can all be indexed alongside official docs, with source groups keeping official and community content separable at retrieval time.
How long does setup take?
Most teams are live the same day. Connect a source — a docs URL, GitHub repo, Notion workspace, or a file upload — and BeforeQuery crawls, normalizes, chunks, and embeds the content automatically. The website widget is a single script tag, and the Slack/Discord bots install in a few clicks.
Are answers backed by source paragraphs?
Yes. Every answer includes a structured sources list with the URL, title, and excerpt of each source used, so users can click through and verify any claim against the original document.
Is my content used to train AI models?
No. Your indexed content, semantic vectors, and conversations are isolated to your workspace and are only used to answer your own questions. Content is never shared across customers, and data is encrypted at rest and in transit.
Is there a free plan?
Yes. The Free plan includes 1 knowledge base and 100 AI questions per month — no credit card required. Pro comes with a 14-day free trial, and Enterprise plans add SSO, audit logs, and advanced governance features.
Solutions for other teams
Docs teams are judged on questions their pages actually resolve, not on word count. BeforeQuery layers an AI assistant on top of your existing docs (Mintlify / Docusaurus / GitBook / ReadMe / VitePress / any HTML) — so the same pages answer questions on your site, in Slack, in the IDE, and via API — and closes the loop with gap analytics that turn unanswered questions into a prioritized editorial backlog.
Deflect repetitive questions at the widget and the support form, and give agents cited draft replies inside the helpdesk — so humans handle only the tickets that need them.
Runbooks, ADRs, READMEs, and postmortems become a cited assistant in Slack and the IDE — so senior engineers stop being the search engine for the rest of the team.
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