We built the category. So we get to name it.— Chris McNulty, Chief Product Officer, Reveille Software
We’ve earned our reputation the hard way. Reveille is the best in the industry at three things: improving your content processes, raising service levels, and preventing downtime. That’s the work. We’re proud of it.
Here’s what got harder.
A decade ago, this was simple to explain. The world ran on ECM, and everyone knew ECM meant enterprise content management. One acronym. One shared understanding. You could say it out loud and people nodded.
Then the ground moved. We worked our way through wave after wave of structured data. And that was complicated enough back when the whole story was the cloud. Just the cloud.
The last four years changed the stakes. AI didn’t just add to your enterprise content. It accelerated how fast that content gets created and how much it matters. And it surfaced a hard truth: the quality of your content is the quality of your AI. Agents can’t succeed on bad grounding. They fail quietly when the data is missing, and worse, you never find out.
So what do we actually do?
For years, the honest answer took two or three minutes. We’d say it’s basically application performance monitoring, but for content. For your documents. Etc., etc. And we’d watch people’s eyes while we cleared our throats.
Frankly, we got tired of it.
APM has the same problem ECM does. It meant something once. But back then, all anyone cared about was the local server sitting on-premises. That ship has sailed. In an AI world, content is king. More than ever.
So we stopped clearing our throats.
What we do is content observability. Not ECM. Not APM. Not systems monitoring. It’s the discipline of knowing, continuously, whether your content is healthy enough for AI to trust, and catching the gaps before your agents do.
We built the category. So we get to name it.
Content observability.
Quick answers
What is content observability?
How is content observability different from application performance monitoring (APM)?
Why does content observability matter for AI?
Who defined the content observability category?
Live Address · Hear It From Chris
We Built the Category. So We Get to Name It.
Chris McNulty takes the stage to define Content Observability — live. Tuesday, September 1, 2026 · 1:00 PM ET. Bring your questions. He’s done clearing his throat.




