Qordoba - AI Writing Assistant for Businesses Reviews 3

Qordoba is not a generic style guide. On top of standard spelling, grammar and usage checks, Qordoba lets us add the custom rules of our brands' particular style decisions, word choices, inclusivity guidance, etc. to fit our customer experience. And with ML it gets even more valuable over time.

Qordoba is key to our content strategy at Intuit. It's much more than a writing assistant, but you can use it as a small, lightweight tool if you prefer. We're using the language checkers to improve the quality, consistency and readability of content created across teams. We're also integrating it into our development process to empower our content designers to own and deliver text strings into the product.

Qordoba fills a gap in UI content management and tooling. As a content strategist, I've been watching this space for a long time, waiting for a product solution to come to market. I get emotional just writing about Qordoba!

Twitter hired me in January 2019 to help scale our content practice. Here are some of the ways Qordoba is helping to do just that.

* Streamlined content authoring, revision, optimization, and publishing processes
* Improved content quality/consistency
* Tailored content experiences to user segments
* Streamlined localization processes
* Content preservation for legal/compliance purposes
* Simple inventories and audits, with instant content scoring
* Easier collaboration with stakeholders, most notably, engineering

Speaking of engineering, we all know it takes a lot of tedious dev time to put content into production. The Twitter Dev team is as excited as any team at Twitter about the efficiencies Qordoba offers. At Twitter, we’re using the Qordoba API to integrate Qordoba with our proprietary strings management platform. Content strategists can now write, score, revise, request feedback and approval, and select to complete a string, all within the platform. With a status of Complete, the Qordoba API then pushes the strings to our proprietary strings management platform, which in turn pushes strings to our production environments, slashing the amount of time engineers spend writing, updating, and wrangling the strings in the code.

Yay!

I’ve waited for Qordoba my whole career and I can’t recommend it highly enough. My DMs are open. Don't hesitate to message me if I can provide additional info.

Lisa Jennings Young
Twitter Design
@LJenningsYoung

I switched to Qordoba from Grammarly because the latter was giving me incorrect grammatical tips, and I've so far been really pleased not only with the accuracy of Qordoba's editing platform but also for its tools to create your own built-in style guide that can give you live recommendations as you type as to what's wrong. I also love that it includes tools for inclusive language and legal compliance - those are enormous factors that can greatly impact your business with just a few words.

The only recommendation I would make for Qordoba is to make the user interface a little simpler; creating a new grammar rule or style rule can be difficult without guidance from a Qordoba user or expert who's already done it, and this makes it hard to learn the tool and onboard others who need to use the tool.

I give Qordoba a 7.5/10 - their platform is useful and has a lot of potential, but there are still a lot of kinks to work out.