Steve Arrants · South Burlington, Vermont

Documentation systems that survive the roadmap.

I help teams set up documentation systems developers can maintain and users can navigate. Forty years across SaaS, APIs, healthcare IT, and scientific software. Available for short-term contract and consulting work.

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3 weeks
Cut from documentation update cycles with docs-as-code workflows
30%
Improvement in content reuse across a single-source library
Writing

The Writers' Table

A free series on the craft and career of technical writing: 35 articles across 8 phases, each with an exercise. Read them in any order.

Sep 24, 2026

Contracting vs. Full-Time

The hourly rate isn't the raise it looks like.

Sep 23, 2026

Building the NDA-Proof Portfolio

What to show when everything you've written belongs to someone else.

Sep 21, 2026

The Art of Deleting: Content Audits

Docs you should delete without breaking anything.

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What I do

How teams bring me in

Documentation systems

Docs-as-code setup, content architecture, style guides, and AI-assisted workflows your team can run after I leave.

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Editing and review

Developmental and copy editing, documentation audits, and coaching for in-house writers.

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API & developer docs

Reference, getting-started guides, and code samples for SaaS platforms, integration providers, and developer tools.

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Technical writing

Product documentation for software, healthcare systems, and complex instrumentation.

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Tell me about your documentation problem

Describe what's broken and I'll tell you how I'd approach it. I take short-term, remote engagements of up to 25 hours a week.

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