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Developers not adopting your API or abandoning integrations?

We write API documentation, SDK references, developer portals, and SaaS software documentation — built by engineers who’ve shipped the products they’re documenting, from REST APIs to hardware SDKs.

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Aptos developer portal, built to launch

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Where developer documentation breaks down

Your engineers are your support team

When developers can’t find answers in your docs, they look to Slack, tickets, and the calendar of whoever built the integration. Engineering hours, support volume, and adoption all suffer.

Developers drop off before the first working integration

The window between sign-up and first successful API call is where adoption is won or lost. Developers who don’t make it through often aren’t even filing complaints.

Auto-generated API references give developers a schema, not an understanding

Every endpoint and parameter is documented. The examples, implementation notes, and error guidance that get a developer to a working integration are not.

Documentation lags behind every release

New features are released, workflows change, and edge cases emerge, leaving developers to reconcile the differences between the application and the outdated documentation.

What we build

Documentation engineers actually want to use.

API documentation

Written by engineers who can read your codebase, not just your brief. Complete reference documentation with working code examples, authentication walkthroughs, error handling guides, and use-case tutorials that get developers to a working integration faster.

Developer portals

We go deep before building anything by interviewing your users, support team, and internal engineers to get a complete picture of where and why the portal is failing. Navigation, search, versioning, and feedback mechanisms come from that picture.

Information architecture

Most documentation problems are architecture problems. We redesign the structure underneath the content: navigation, hierarchy, taxonomy, and content models that scale with the product and work for humans and AI systems.

SDK and reference documentation

Written by people who've shipped integrations themselves. Reference docs, guides, and changelogs that turn your SDK into something developers recommend to colleagues.

Docs-as-code workflow

When documentation lives in version control, gets reviewed like code, and deploys with the product, it stays current. We build the infrastructure, set up the pipeline, and train your team to maintain it.

Agent-ready documentation

AI agents and copilots surface answers directly from your documentation. We build the content foundation that makes your AI tools reliable: structured, retrievable, and scoped so agents know exactly what applies to which context.

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Beyond this page

We build the whole stack.

Most documentation agencies write the content and hand it off, but we go further. DevDocs designs and builds developer portals from scratch, automates documentation testing against your live API via CI/CD, instruments your docs to surface where developers are getting stuck, and integrates analytics so your team has full visibility, always. We're engineers who write, which means we can own the whole stack, not just the words.

Portal design and development from brief to launch
Automated documentation testing via CI/CD
Analytics instrumentation: see where developers get stuck
Internal team training and handoff documentation

Featured work

Qualcomm

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faster information retrieval for engineers

EnterpriseAI SDK Documentation2024

Rebuilding the Qualcomm AI Engine Direct SDK documentation from the ground up

The challenge

Engineers across Qualcomm's developer ecosystem couldn't find what they needed. Integration time was too long. Documentation had grown organically without structure: technically accurate in parts, but impossible to navigate as a whole.

What we did

We rebuilt the entire documentation architecture, restructuring the information hierarchy, writing new conceptual guides, adding working code examples and error handling references, and establishing a docs-as-code workflow that the Qualcomm team could maintain going forward.

“Working with DevDocs is incredibly straightforward due to their deep technical expertise and seamless integration of AI into their workflows. They consistently delivered exceptional results.”
— Logan Lawler — Dell AI Workstation

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While you're here

Engineered to merge into your pipeline.

We write documentation in version control, review it with the product, and ship it through the same release path. The docs move with the feature.

docs/api/authenticate.mdx

---
title: Authenticate a request
slug: /api/authenticate
---
 
## Authenticate a request
 
Every API call requires a bearer token in the
Authorization header. Tokens are issued per
workspace and scoped to a set of permissions.
 
```bash
curl https://api.yourapp.com/v1/docs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"
```

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