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Building Speedy - Part 2: The Bot
In Building Speedy - Part 1,, we built the knowledge base - a GitHub-synced, vector-searchable mirror of the handbook. Now we wire it up to where the team actually works: Slack.
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Building Speedy - Part 1: The Knowledge Base
Meet Speedy - a teammate that never sleeps, never forgets where the docs are, and always replies like a colleague who actually wants to help. Speedy is an AI-powered Slack bot that sits right inside our team's DMs and channels, ready to answer the questions we all have but nobody wants to chase down: "I just joined - how does onboarding work?", "Who's off next week?", or "Where's that deployment guide again?" These are exactly the kind of things that eat into everyone's day. Not because they're hard, but because finding the answer means digging through docs, pinging someone, and waiting. Speedy cuts that overhead by searching our Company-as-Code handbook and pulling live data from tools like Productive.io to surface answers in seconds - so the rest of the team can get back to the work that actually needs them.
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Spec-Driven Development: The Future of AI Coding
How the team at Digital Speed uses spec-driven development to dramatically improve speed and efficiency, whilst maintaining a high standard of code quality.
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The Differentiator Between B2B products: The Developer Experience
Here at Digital Speed we are active users of AI within our day to day, a lot of us enjoy using Claude Code as part of our tool chain and we even use Spec Kit within some projects, and we can see how it has improved our pace and work.
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Choosing Your Documentation Tooling: A Practical Guide
There's no shortage of documentation tools out there. At Digital Speed, we've found ourselves reaching for a handful of tools repeatedly: Docusaurus, VuePress, Redocly, and Fumadocs.
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