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Documentation and training systems

The most valuable knowledge in most businesses isn't written down anywhere. It's in the head of someone who has been there nineteen years, and it leaves on a date you already know.

EngagementDefined project
Typical first phase4 to 10 weeks
Written fromObservation, not interviews
Talk to us about this What drives the cost
Fixed budgetAgreed before work starts. Scope flexes, the number doesn’t.
No vendor pays usNo commissions, referral fees or markup. Ever.
You own everythingCode, documentation, credentials — throughout, not at the end.
Nearly 20 years2,000+ projects for 500+ organizations, from SOHO to Fortune 1000.

What's included.

Scoped and priced up front. Exclusions written as explicitly as inclusions.

Process capture and SOPs

Written from watching the work rather than asking about it. What people describe and what people do reliably diverge.

Work instructions at the point of use

Findable at the station, in the truck, on the floor — not filed somewhere nobody looks during the task.

Onboarding programmes

Role-based, sequenced, with a measurable definition of when someone is competent rather than merely trained.

Certification and competency tracking

Who is qualified for what, when it expires, and what evidence exists for an auditor.

Product and partner documentation

The same underlying content serving staff, dealers and customers with different framing.

Maintenance and ownership design

A system nobody updates is wrong within a year. Ownership and review cadence are part of the build.

How we approach it.

In this order, because doing them out of order is how these go wrong.

01

Watch the work

Six days on site beats six weeks of interviews. The gap between stated and actual process is where the useful knowledge lives.

02

Write for the person doing the job

Documentation written for a manager's mental model doesn't help someone standing at a machine with gloves on.

03

Build the system around the content

Not the other way round. Plenty of businesses own a platform nobody uses because content was migrated without structure.

04

Assign ownership before we leave

Who updates it, how often, and what triggers a review. Without this it decays regardless of quality.

Typical first phase
4 to 10 weeks
One role or one department, end to end
Often needs
Onsite time
Process capture rarely works remotely
Most common trigger
A retirement
Or rapid hiring, or a second location

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Tell us what's actually happening and we'll say which part of this applies — or that a different approach fits better, or that you don't need us yet. That last answer is more common than you'd expect.

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What we work with.

Chosen on fit. We take no commission or referral fee from any of them.

DoceboTalentLMSSharePointNotionConfluenceCustom knowledge basesVideo and screen captureCompetency frameworks

If this shouldn't be a project.

Some of this work never really ends. When that's true, we'll say so rather than selling you a project that restarts in three years.

Onsite delivery

LiquidIQ

The programme built for this, including crew on site for process capture and hands-on training.

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Continuous ownership

Champion1 Foundation

When documentation has to keep pace with systems that keep changing, which is most of the time.

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Straight answers.

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No qualification questionnaire. No nurture sequence. A person reads it and replies within a business day — and tells you plainly if we're not the right fit.

About documentation and training systems

Three fields. We'll ask the rest on the call.

We won't add you to a sequence or send a proposal you didn't ask for.

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Described as a symptom

Get off paper“Filing cabinets, carbon forms, binders on the shop floor.”Onboard and train faster“Six weeks before a new hire is any use.”Reduce manual work“The same data gets typed into three systems.”

Continuous programs

LiquidIQKnowledge and process, onsite capable, national.

Tell us what's breaking.

We'll tell you roughly what this costs, how long it takes, and whether it's worth doing at all — including when the honest answer is that you don't need us.

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