Is your content helping or quietly hurting employees?
A practical self-check to identify content debt before trust, self-service, and AI adoption break down.
Here’s the Problem:
Most organizations don’t realize they have a content problem…
…until employees stop trusting what they find.
They hesitate.
They ask “just to be safe.”
They save local copies.
They bypass systems entirely.
The Content Debt Self-Check helps you spot those early warning signs before confusion turns into lost productivity, rising case volume, or failed AI initiatives.
This isn’t a content audit.
It’s a behavior-based diagnostic designed to reveal whether your content is working as an experience, not just an artifact..
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The checklist helps you assess content health across any environment - ServiceNow, intranets, knowledge bases, wikis, or all of the above - by focusing on how employees actually behave.
You’ll evaluate:
Trust and confidence signals
Findability and real-world search behavior
Duplication and content drift
Ownership and accountability gaps
Lifecycle and maintenance reality
Cross-system consistency
Experience under pressure
Governance effectiveness
If content debt exists, this self-check will surface it clearly and quickly.
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This self-check is designed for those responsible for clarity at scale, including:
Internal Communications leaders
HR and People Ops teams
IT and ServiceNow owners
Knowledge managers
Digital workplace and intranet teams
Governance council members
If employees rely on your content to make decisions, this applies to you.
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A practical checklist you can complete in minutes
Clear signals of where content debt already exists
Language to discuss issues without blaming tools or teams
A shared framework for HR, IT, and Comms conversations
Insight you can use before launching AI, search, or automation
No scoring gimmicks.
No vendor bias.
Just clarity.