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.
Sound familiar?
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.
How BeforeQuery helps devrel & docs teams
Ask AI on your docs site
The embeddable widget adds chat, search bar, and Cmd+K modes to your docs, answering from your indexed documentation, OpenAPI specs, GitHub READMEs, and changelog with citations to the exact page.
MCP server for in-IDE answers
Each knowledge base exposes an MCP endpoint (search_docs, ask_question, list_sources) so Cursor, Claude, and other MCP clients retrieve your current docs instead of guessing from training data.
Discord and Slack bots with citations
The bot answers community questions instantly from your docs, so good answers stop scrolling away — and your team only steps in for the genuinely novel questions.
Gap analytics as a docs backlog
Every question the assistant could not answer well becomes a prioritized gap, and doc proposals draft the missing pages for your team to review, edit, and publish.
Relevant sources & integrations
Common knowledge sources and delivery channels for devrel & docs teams.
Frequently asked questions
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 per knowledge base at /mcp/knowledge-bases/:id with search_docs, ask_question, and list_sources tools, authenticated by a client key. 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 citations?
Yes. Every answer includes a structured citations 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, embeddings, 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, 500 indexed pages, 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
Support Teams
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.
Engineering Teams
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.
Sales Teams
Product docs, security answers, pricing rules, and battlecard knowledge in one cited assistant — in Slack, mid-deal, without waiting on a sales engineer.
Bring cited AI answers to your devrel & docs teams
Connect your knowledge sources and see cited AI answers in minutes — free, no credit card required.
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