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I would never consider the SME my customer. Everyone I work with on a development project operates under the assumption that the end user of our software is the customer. My job is to take the SME's information and translate it into plain English. I suspect the approach you've described is not the norm.
>From: Christensen, Kent
>The tech writer's customer is always the SME.
>The external customer belongs to the SME, i.e.,
>the team or person designing the product. I don't think this formula varies
>from company to company.
