# How Apollo Built an AI-Powered Style Guide Reviewer for Documentation

DevFeed: [How Apollo Built an AI-Powered Style Guide Reviewer for Documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-we-taught-an-ai-to-nitpick-docs-23393.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.apollographql.com/blog/how-we-taught-an-ai-to-nitpick-docs>)

Author: Daniel Abdelsamed

Published: 2026-03-16T12:33:22Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Apollo Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/apollo-blog.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/documentation.md>), [AI Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-development.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [cost](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cost.md>), [docs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/docs.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [false-positives](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/false-positives.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [parallelism](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/parallelism.md>), [speed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/speed.md>)

## AI overview

Apollo's documentation team built an AI-powered style guide reviewer that applies documentation rules contextually and reports findings to authors in GitHub. The article explains how restructuring the style guide, integrating the review into the existing workflow, and optimizing speed and cost made it practical to run on every commit.

## Source excerpt

Learn how Apollo's docs team built an AI-powered style guide reviewer that runs on every commit -- and the three things that made it actually work: restructuring the style guide as a pattern library, integrating results directly into GitHub, and optimizing for speed and cost with caching, line-level review, and parallelism.