The freshness tax
Blog post from Frigade
SaaS companies often face a "freshness tax," an operational cost arising when product updates outpace documentation and training materials, leading to discrepancies between product functionality and external descriptions. This tax impacts various departments, as support teams give incorrect advice, onboarding tours become outdated, sales demos show obsolete screens, and marketing materials misrepresent features. The solution lies in shifting the source of truth from static documents to the product itself, allowing automated agents to continuously update their understanding of the product by interacting with it as a user would. This approach reduces the burden on human teams by automatically updating workflows and documentation, thus transforming rapid product releases from a liability into an asset by minimizing surprises for customers and eliminating the need for constant manual updates.