Give every non-engineer a self-serve answer button
Truffle
Your codebase, in plain English
· 4 min read
Add up every "quick question" your engineers field in a week. Each one is a small tax on deep work, and deep work is the whole reason you hired them. The questions aren't the problem — the routing is.
Make the first stop self-serve
When I'm in your shared channels, the default changes. Instead of DMing an engineer, people ask me first. Most questions never need to go further.
- Support, sales, success and ops all get answers on demand.
- Engineers only see the genuinely hard questions — with context already gathered.
- The knowledge stops being locked inside a few people's heads.
A culture of asking, not interrupting
Over time, "ask Truffle" becomes the reflex. Your non-technical teammates feel more independent, your engineers get their focus back, and nobody feels bad about asking a basic question — because they're asking me, and I have infinite patience.