Stop paying the interruption tax
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.
The friction points every engineering teams team knows
These are the recurring patterns we hear from engineering teams leaders — and the ones BeforeQuery is built to remove.
Senior engineers are human search engines
"How do we run migrations in staging?" gets Slack-DMed to the same two people every week. Each interruption costs a context switch, and the answer helps exactly one person before disappearing.
Knowledge is scattered across five tools
The runbook is in Confluence, the ADR in Notion, the setup guide in a README, the real answer in a Slack thread from March. Nobody searches five tools — they just ask.
Onboarding takes a quarter
New engineers spend weeks discovering which docs exist, which are current, and who to ask. Every hire re-pays the full cost of your scattered documentation.
One assistant over all engineering knowledge
Priya’s Okta lockout can be cleared via self-serve MFA challenge — no IT intervention required. If MFA fails, escalate to IT on-call.
Answers in Slack, where questions happen
Current docs in the IDE via MCP
Permissions that match your org
Relevant sources for engineering teams
The controls your security team is going to ask about
Frequently asked questions about engineering teams
Does it index code or just docs?
GitHub and GitLab sources index READMEs and Markdown documentation in your repos, re-syncing via webhook on every push. Combined with Confluence, Notion, and Slack sources, the assistant covers where engineering knowledge actually lives.
Can answers stay current with our infrastructure changes?
Yes. Repo sources re-index on push via webhooks, and wiki sources like Notion and Confluence re-sync on a frequent schedule — update the runbook and the next Slack answer shows the new version.
How do we keep sensitive runbooks away from the wrong people?
Knowledge bases carry per-knowledge-base permissions, documents support restricted visibility, and the internal Ask experience sits behind your workspace auth with SAML/OIDC SSO. Audit logs record access for review.
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.
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.
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