Capability comparison
BELA Engineering Knowledge · Wikis & knowledge bases (e.g. Confluence, Notion, GitBook, SharePoint).
| Capability | BELA Engineering Knowledge | Wikis & knowledge bases |
|---|---|---|
| Stores pages you write | ✓ | ✓ |
| Understands your actual code | ✓ | — |
| Generates documentation from the code | ✓ | — |
| Stays current as software changes | ✓ | — |
| Answers grounded in real code | ✓ | — |
| Understands APIs & databases | ✓ | — |
| Preserves engineering decisions | ✓ | Partly |
The honest summary
If your team writes documentation by hand, a wiki like Confluence or Notion is a fine home for it — and Knowledge can complement it. The difference is that Knowledge derives understanding from your code and keeps it true automatically, so it never goes stale the way hand-written pages do.
See the difference on your code
Bring a repository and watch it get understood.