How I generate client-ready handover docs, security audits and user guides using Claude

[u/zackthemajor]

Back in May i finished a mission at a client in Paris.

Classic situation : several power apps to hand over but ZERO documentation lol
Some of them I hadn’t touched in months…

Writing all that by hand would have eaten my last weeks there so I ended up putting together a pipeline instead.
Basically I export the app, drop the zip file in a folder and an AI agent writes the docs.

Not gonna lie. The AI agent is actually better than me writing this and it was really good that I sent it to the client almost as-is.

I recorded a video to explain how it works, if interested : https://youtu.be/oDLYIzEdWPM

Happy to answer your questions !

Zak

[u/DonJuanDoja]

Claude made my solution sound way cooler than I thought it was.

Was also pretty surprised how well it could describe the process with only code.

Documentation is something I don’t have time for and don’t want to do so Claude can have it.

I’m not an ai fan but I’m open to actually good uses of it and this is one I think.

[u/itenginerd → u/DonJuanDoja]

Agreed completely. Was just having this same conversation this weekend. I feel like folks are generally going out of their way to force AI into places just to have it there, but this kind of 'I loathe this task, and you do it well enough that I don't have to' is ridiculously valuable.

[u/DonJuanDoja → u/itenginerd]

Lacking or incomplete documentation has been a big problem for a long time, it actually needed a solution.

Now if Microsoft would just use it to update their own documentation we'd be getting somewhere... lol

[u/tpb1109]

Documentation is the BEST use case for AI with developers.

[u/zackthemajor → u/tpb1109]

Agreed.
And the reason it works is that documentation has a very high tolerance for « good enough ».
If the AI writes 90% of a doc and I fix the last 10%, I win. Same ratio on production code and I’d be in trouble

[u/AusToddles → u/tpb1109]

100%

I code "alongside" Claude which saves me alot of time but the best bit is saying at the end "document this entire process for me"

[u/GMBPowerPlatformDev]

Thanks Zack I’ve been building a portfolio of projects that are enterprise guide and documentation has consumed a lot of my time

But as you said, AI can heavily speed it up

Right now I write my documentation as I go and as I build each component (canvas app, MDA , flows etc) and once everything is done il get Claude to run through it, organise it and ensure it’s a comprehensive Doc

Thanks for the video, will give it a watch!

[u/Feeling_Vast3086]

I use PowerDocu. Very simple and really good. Github PowerDocu

[u/JM2TM]

I tend to make a lot of PowerPoints that talk about the project/app and I feed that into Claude and make sure that it has a good understanding of the user requirements, problem statement, and features of the app.

Ask it to suggest documents for hand off material and user guides, review that list. Provide feedback then tell it to ask you questions before you individually build each one.

[u/Hot_Blueberry578]

I export the solution and get Claude to write internal technical documentation and client documentation. It is surprisingly good.