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Cherryleaf
A long-established UK technical communication consultancy offering software and API documentation, documentation audits, technical author recruitment and training courses.
Scriptorium
A content strategy and operations consultancy specialising in structured content, DITA implementations and publishing toolchains, with its own LearningDITA training platform.
CyberText Consulting
The consultancy of Rhonda Bracey, an Australian technical communicator offering technical writing, editing and long-document tooling help, alongside a long-running blog.
Heroic Technical Writing
The site of Bart Leahy, an independent technical writer and consultant who writes about the business side of freelance technical communication and takes on client work.
Stephanie Morillo
The site of Stephanie Morillo, a content strategist for software companies who offers consulting engagements and short strategy sessions for developer-focused content.
Read the Docs
A hosting platform that builds and publishes documentation from a Git repository, with versioned builds and pull-request previews for Sphinx and MkDocs projects.
Draft.dev
A technical content agency that writes developer-focused tutorials, blog posts and guides using subject-matter-expert writers who are practising engineers.
Starlight
Astro's official documentation framework, providing navigation, site search, internationalisation and dark mode for content written in Markdown or MDX.
JetBrains Writerside
A documentation authoring environment from JetBrains that combines Markdown and semantic markup with live preview, build and automated quality checks.
Doctave
A hosted documentation platform built around a docs-as-code workflow, publishing Markdown from a Git repository with search and broken-link checks.
Docusaurus
An open-source documentation site generator built on React. It handles versioned docs, translations, blog sections and MDX content out of the box.
WriteTech Hub
An organisation that combines technical writing training and community programmes with outsourcing and hiring services for documentation projects.
Mintlify
A hosted documentation platform where content lives as MDX in a Git repository and API reference pages are generated from an OpenAPI description.
Altuent
A knowledge management and technical content consultancy, formed from the technical writing business previously trading as Technically Write IT.
Chris Chinchilla
The site of Chris Chinchilla, a technical communicator who produces documentation, articles, videos and podcasts explaining technical products.
GitBook
A hosted documentation platform with a visual editor that can stay in sync with a Git repository, aimed at product and developer documentation.
Precision Content
A consultancy that helps organisations restructure enterprise technical content into governed, structured knowledge for people and AI systems.
StrayGoat Writing Services
The practice of Paul Ballard, a UK freelance technical writer who produces software user documentation and advises on documentation processes.
ClickHelp
A browser-based documentation platform for authoring, hosting and maintaining online user guides, knowledge bases and context-sensitive help.
Expert Support
A documentation and training services company producing technical content, user assistance and instructional material for software products.
IEEE Professional Communication Society
The IEEE society dedicated to professional and technical communication, publishing a peer-reviewed journal and running an annual conference.
Write the Docs
A global community of people who care about documentation, running conferences, local meetups and an active chat network for documentarians.
3di Information Solutions
A UK technical writing and localisation company that combines an in-house team with specialist freelance authors on documentation projects.
RWS
A large language and content services group offering translation, localisation and content management for technical documentation at scale.
Author-it
A component content authoring and management platform built around reusable topics, aimed at regulated and enterprise documentation teams.
Content Design London
A London content design consultancy offering training and delivery work, and the publisher of the openly available Readability Guidelines.
Firehead
A recruitment and talent agency specialising in technical communication and content roles, placing writers on permanent and contract work.
tekom Deutschland
Germany's professional association for technical communication and the largest such body worldwide, running conferences and certification.
tekom Europe
The European association for technical communication, coordinating national associations, professional qualifications and industry events.
I'd Rather Be Writing
Tom Johnson's long-running technical writing blog, covering API documentation, AI in documentation and trends in technical communication.
MadCap Software
The vendor behind MadCap Flare, a long-established help authoring tool for single-sourced online help, print manuals and knowledge bases.
Document360
A knowledge base platform for product documentation and self-service help centres, with versioning, analytics and API reference support.
Oxygen XML Editor
A full-featured XML authoring and development environment with strong DITA and DocBook support, widely used by structured-content teams.
Paligo
A cloud component content management system based on a DocBook-derived model, with topic reuse, versioning and multi-channel publishing.
Technical Writer HQ
An online training provider offering technical writing certification programmes and career resources aimed at people entering the field.
Swagger
The long-running family of OpenAPI tools, including Swagger UI, Editor and Codegen, for designing, documenting and consuming REST APIs.
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