Case Study: StackAdapt boosts development productivity with Swimm

StackAdapt boosts development productivity with Swimm

StackAdapt, a Toronto-based advertising platform for digital marketers, needed a better way to organize engineering documentation and reduce the loss of knowledge as team members left. Before using Swimm, its docs were fragmented across GitHub, MD files, and a wiki, often outdated, and the team lacked trust in documentation—especially for legacy code.

By implementing Swimm, StackAdapt created a centralized, code-coupled documentation hub that stays in sync with the codebase and is easy to discover through GitHub integration and slash commands. The result was improved onboarding, better visibility into legacy systems, and a productivity boost for engineers, with StackAdapt reporting that Swimm saves time and helps the team share knowledge more effectively.

StackAdapt

Jack Yiu

Lead Software Engineer