Sharing Compiled Context Across a Team Is Still Too Hard

Being able to share important, "compiled" context across team members is one of the most impactful things I'm seeing in my day to day work.

An agent first, but human friendly knowledge base is incredibly useful. Product detail, tribal knowledge, brand guidelines, positioning, company strategy and goals, customer language, etc. in a format you own and can use anywhere. My clients keep finding new use cases for them. I keep finding new use cases for mine.

I'm amazed at how hard it is still to share and maintain the most important context for a team or company that stays effective and usable across more than one person, even if you're all in on a shared team or enterprise plan for a single provider.

I keep looking for something to use off the shelf that handles versioning, permissions, and human interaction easily, and I've yet to find something satisfactory. Notion and Google Drive, etc. have their place but they don't work nearly as well as the git backed systems I've built so far at least in my experience. But, git needs a lot of software layers on top of it to work for people who aren't software people, even with agents driving.

I'm game to be convinced there's a better way because I did not set out to build and maintain this myself or sell it as a product - but I will continue to do it if that's the only way to be this effective!

If you've got a better mouse trap, please tell me about it.

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