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What to put in a knowledge bot, and what to keep out.

A one-page map of what belongs in a company knowledge bot, and, more importantly, what to keep out so it never answers from a stale or half-true doc.

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What the map covers

The full worksheet, include, exclude, and why.

  1. In
    Sources to include

    Current, owned, and single-source-of-truth docs.

  2. Out
    Sources to exclude

    Drafts, duplicates, and anything you can't vouch for.

  3. Rule
    Conflict handling

    When two docs disagree, which one wins.

  4. Test
    Coverage check

    The questions it must answer before you ship it.

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We’ve built useful software against much bigger odds.

Nick Horob and Jaryd Krishnan built Harvest Profit into a leading farm-management software business with a six-person team and $280,000 in outside funding. They competed with companies employing 10 to 20× more people and, in some cases, raising roughly 100× more capital before John Deere acquired Harvest Profit in 2020.

Nerd Out carries forward the same belief: stay close to the problem, use technology well, and build genuinely useful products and businesses without a bloated team or budget.

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$280K
raised
6-person
team
Acquired
by John Deere · 2020

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