# Inside our effort to improve the Mintlify assistant

DevFeed: [Inside our effort to improve the Mintlify assistant](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/inside-our-effort-to-improve-the-mintlify-assistant-30981.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.mintlify.com/blog/assistant-improvements>)

Author: Patrick Foster

Published: 2025-12-12T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [analysis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analysis.md>), [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [customer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/customer.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>), [model](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/model.md>), [pipeline](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pipeline.md>), [quality](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/quality.md>), [query](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/query.md>), [responses](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/responses.md>), [script](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/script.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [thread](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/thread.md>), [trends](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/trends.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how Mintlify analyzed and improved its assistant by rebuilding the feedback pipeline, moving conversation data into ClickHouse, and classifying negative interactions with an LLM. The analysis identified documentation search quality as the assistant's main weakness, while other responses were generally strong.

## Source excerpt

A data-driven look at improving the assistant, powered by ClickHouse and deeper feedback analysis.