diff --git a/aeon/base/_base_collection.py b/aeon/base/_base_collection.py
index ea3b21ed32..4d7f4b4564 100644
--- a/aeon/base/_base_collection.py
+++ b/aeon/base/_base_collection.py
@@ -1,4 +1,24 @@
-"""Base class for estimators that fit collections of time series."""
+"""
+Base class for estimators that fit collections of time series.
+
+    class name: BaseCollectionEstimator
+
+Defining methods:
+    preprocessing         - _preprocess_collection(self, X, store_metadata=True)
+    input checking        - _check_X(self, X)
+    input conversion      - _convert_X(self, X)
+    shape checking        - _check_shape(self, X)
+
+Inherited inspection methods:
+    hyper-parameter inspection  - get_params()
+    fitted parameter inspection - get_fitted_params()
+
+State:
+    fitted model/strategy   - by convention, any attributes ending in "_"
+    fitted state flag       - is_fitted (property)
+    fitted state inspection - check_is_fitted()
+
+"""
 
 from abc import abstractmethod
 
diff --git a/aeon/classification/deep_learning/base.py b/aeon/classification/deep_learning/base.py
index 2ed56bc0bc..61ddeb3a72 100644
--- a/aeon/classification/deep_learning/base.py
+++ b/aeon/classification/deep_learning/base.py
@@ -1,6 +1,23 @@
 """
 Abstract base class for the Keras neural network classifiers.
 
+    class name: BaseDeepClassifier
+
+Defining methods:
+    fitting         - fit(self, X, y)
+    predicting      - predict(self, X)
+                    - predict_proba(self, X)
+    model building - build_model(self, input_shape, n_classes) (abstract method)
+
+Inherited inspection methods:
+    hyper-parameter inspection  - get_params()
+    fitted parameter inspection - get_fitted_params()
+
+State:
+    fitted model/strategy   - by convention, any attributes ending in "_"
+    fitted state flag       - is_fitted (property)
+    fitted state inspection - check_is_fitted()
+
 The reason for this class between BaseClassifier and deep_learning classifiers is
 because we can generalise tags, _predict and _predict_proba
 """