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Opinion · 1 September 2026 · 6 min read

What happens when your best expert leaves?

On the last day everything looks fine. The bill arrives months later: slower answers, work done twice, and one colleague who becomes the new bottleneck. What you actually lose, and how you keep that knowledge in your company.

Steven Lemmens
Steven Lemmens
Opinion · 19 August 2026 · 5 min read

Automating technical customer questions: the best way

A technical customer question given to your developer costs more than the five minutes it looks like. What the interruption really costs, and how you keep most of those questions away from your engineers.

Steven Lemmens
Steven Lemmens
How-to · 13 August 2026 · 5 min read

Building a knowledge base when you have nothing

You rarely start from zero: your answers are already in your sent folder. How to pick your first twenty articles, skip the structure debate and let the rest grow out of the questions that come in.

Steven Lemmens
Steven Lemmens
Advice · 6 August 2026 · 5 min read

Capturing knowledge before a key employee leaves

Your best person just resigned and you have weeks, not months. How to choose what to capture, why talking beats writing, and how to test that the handover actually worked.

Steven Lemmens
Steven Lemmens
Advice · 23 July 2026 · 5 min read

Automate customer support without a big investment

No support team, no weeks-long documentation project. You connect Sarrai to your website, let it answer the easy questions, and the knowledge base builds itself while you work.

Steven Lemmens
Steven Lemmens
How-to · 8 July 2026 · 7 min read

How to keep your docs in sync with a product that ships weekly

When you ship every week, your docs are out of date by default. A practical workflow to keep the gap small: check the docs with every change, keep each edit small, and let real questions drive the backlog.

Steven Lemmens
Steven Lemmens
How-to · 24 June 2026 · 4 min read

How quickly can you get started with Sarrai?

Register, add your documents or website, and your knowledge base writes itself. We walk step by step through how you're chatting with your own AI agent within the hour.

Steven Lemmens
Steven Lemmens
Opinion · 16 June 2026 · 7 min read

Why documentation goes stale (and how to fix it)

Stale documentation is a side effect of shipping software. Here's why your docs drift, how to fix the articles that already went wrong, and how to keep new ones current.

Steven Lemmens
Steven Lemmens
Advice · 5 June 2026 · 7 min read

What does an AI chatbot cost for your website?

Between €30 and €150 a month, but that figure tells you almost nothing. The chatbot itself is now the cheapest part; the real cost and the real value sit in the knowledge you feed it. We do the math transparently.

Steven Lemmens
Steven Lemmens
Opinion · 2 June 2026 · 8 min read

Nobody looks it up anymore

A new colleague no longer opens the knowledge base. They just ping Tom, because that's faster and more reliable. That's how a knowledge base dies: not with a crash, but with silence. And that very gap is the most valuable signal you have.

Steven Lemmens
Steven Lemmens
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Advice · 13 May 2026 · 7 min read

You lose half your workday to the same questions

You'd actually planned to start today on that one project that's been sitting for weeks, but the inbox has taken you hostage again. Under the guise of 'delivering service' you let it happen. But that isn't delivering service anymore. It's the opposite.

Steven Lemmens
Steven Lemmens
How-to · 28 Apr 2026 · 7 min read

What happens when Tom goes on vacation?

Why does documenting processes so often fail, and what can we do about it? A handy insight into how to make your next documentation project actually succeed.

Steven Lemmens
Steven Lemmens