If you've used FinalDoc's AI Writer panel before, you know the actions: Polish, Shorten, Expand, SEO Optimize. Click a button, get a transformation, paste it in, move on.
That works fine for quick edits. But there's a whole class of documentation work that doesn't fit a one-shot button: "review my whole category structure," "find content gaps based on these support tickets," "write release notes from this changelog," "document this new API endpoint properly."
Today we're rolling out a new tab in the AI Writer panel: Specialists. Six named AI agents, each tuned for a specific documentation role, ready to have a real conversation with you.
Actions are buttons. Specialists are people you talk to.
The roster
Each Specialist has a defined role and three "skill cards" you can click as conversation starters — or you can just type freely.
Scribe — Technical Writer
Turns rough ideas into well-structured articles. Skill cards: Draft from outline, Improve structure, Add examples. Best for the moment when you have notes and need to shape them into something publishable.
Atlas — Information Architect
Reviews how your knowledge base is organized. Skill cards: Review taxonomy, Find duplicates, Plan a new section. Atlas sees your real category tree and article titles — no need to paste them. Ask "is this section grouped well?" and get specific reorder suggestions.
Beacon — SEO Specialist
Helps articles get found in Google and AI search. Skill cards: Audit keywords, Optimize meta tags, Plan a ranking article. Beacon thinks in terms of search intent, not just keyword density, and can spot keyword cannibalization across your published articles.
Pulse — Support Insight
Turns customer questions into help articles. Skill cards: Ticket → article, Build an FAQ, Find content gaps. Pulse writes in customer-first tone (never blames the user) and can check whether an FAQ already exists before recommending a new one.
Herald — Release Notes Writer
Turns engineering changelogs into customer-facing release notes. Skill cards: Draft release notes, Customer-friendly version, Migration guide. Groups changes into New / Improved / Fixed / Breaking, leads each item with the customer benefit, and flags anything that needs a migration path.
Forge — API Docs Expert
Writes reference docs developers actually want to read. Skill cards: Document an endpoint, Add code examples, Troubleshooting guide. Forge insists on auth specifics, error responses, and at least one curl example — and proactively flags missing fields.
What makes them different from the action buttons
Three things, in order of importance:
1. They hold a conversation
The action buttons in Create / Transform / Optimize are one-shot transformations: click, get output, paste, done. If you want to refine, you re-run from scratch.
Specialists hold a thread. Open Scribe, ask "improve the structure of this article," get suggestions, then say "actually, what about the intro? It feels weak." Same context, multi-turn iteration. Then "draft a stronger opening for the third section." Then "make that one paragraph shorter." It's how you'd work with a colleague.
2. They see your whole knowledge base
Every Specialist receives, on every turn:
- The article you're currently editing (full content)
- The full project taxonomy — every category and every article title (so Atlas can review structure without you pasting it, Pulse can check whether an FAQ already exists, Forge can reuse code patterns from existing API docs)
- Semantic search results from your other published articles when relevant — driving Beacon's keyword cannibalization checks, Pulse's gap analysis, Scribe's voice consistency
The previous AI Writer was article-aware. The Specialists are knowledge-base-aware. That's a meaningful difference: agents that know what already exists give better advice than agents that don't.
3. They're tuned for a role
The generic "Polish" button rewrites for clarity. Pulse actively avoids blaming the user and reframes around customer jobs-to-be-done — because that's literally what its system prompt tells it to do. Beacon thinks about AI search citations, not just Google ranking. Forge won't write API reference without auth specifics.
You don't have to know how to prompt for those nuances. The agent already does.
How conversations work
Open the AI Writer panel, click the Specialists tab, pick an agent. The first time you open them, you see their intro line plus three skill cards.
Click a skill card to send its prompt instantly, or just type your own. The agent replies, you reply back, and the thread builds. Two action buttons appear under each agent reply:
- Insert into editor — appends the reply to the article you're working on (markdown is automatically converted to HTML in rich-text mode)
- Save as draft — creates a brand-new draft article from the reply, with the title auto-derived from the first heading or first line
Conversations persist
Every chat is saved automatically. The next time you open the same Specialist within 7 days, your most recent conversation auto-resumes. Click Past in the agent header to browse older chats with that agent and pick a different one. Click + New chat to archive the current chat and start fresh.
When to use Specialists vs. one-shot buttons
Use the action buttons when you know exactly what you want and just need it done:
- "Make this paragraph shorter" → click Shorten
- "Optimize for the keyword 'API rate limits'" → click SEO Optimize
- "Convert this list to prose" → click To Prose
Use a Specialist when you need to think through something:
- "Is my Getting Started section organized in the right order?" → ask Atlas
- "What docs am I missing based on these recent support tickets?" → ask Pulse
- "Draft a customer-facing release note for this engineering changelog" → ask Herald
- "Document this new endpoint with proper examples" → ask Forge
Privacy
Specialists run on the same AI infrastructure as the rest of Ved AI. Enterprise plans support BYOK — every conversation routes through your own Azure OpenAI / AWS Bedrock / OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Your articles never leave your cloud boundary.
Try it
Specialists are live today on all paid plans. Open any article in the Documentation editor, click AI Writer (top right), and switch to the Specialists tab. Pick an agent, click a skill card, and see what happens.
If you're not on a paid plan yet, start a free 15-day trial with full access to Specialists and every other Ved AI feature.