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Cherryleaf

Documentation Agencies

A long-established UK technical communication consultancy offering software and API documentation, documentation audits, technical author recruitment and training courses.

cherryleaf.com

Scriptorium

Documentation Agencies

A content strategy and operations consultancy specialising in structured content, DITA implementations and publishing toolchains, with its own LearningDITA training platform.

scriptorium.com

CyberText Consulting

Freelance Technical Writers

The consultancy of Rhonda Bracey, an Australian technical communicator offering technical writing, editing and long-document tooling help, alongside a long-running blog.

cybertext.com.au

Heroic Technical Writing

Freelance Technical Writers

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.

heroictechwriting.com

Stephanie Morillo

Freelance Technical Writers

The site of Stephanie Morillo, a content strategist for software companies who offers consulting engagements and short strategy sessions for developer-focused content.

stephaniemorillo.co

Read the Docs

Docs-as-Code Tools

A hosting platform that builds and publishes documentation from a Git repository, with versioned builds and pull-request previews for Sphinx and MkDocs projects.

about.readthedocs.com

Draft.dev

Documentation Agencies

A technical content agency that writes developer-focused tutorials, blog posts and guides using subject-matter-expert writers who are practising engineers.

draft.dev

Starlight

Docs-as-Code Tools

Astro's official documentation framework, providing navigation, site search, internationalisation and dark mode for content written in Markdown or MDX.

starlight.astro.build

JetBrains Writerside

Docs-as-Code Tools

A documentation authoring environment from JetBrains that combines Markdown and semantic markup with live preview, build and automated quality checks.

jetbrains.com

Doctave

Docs-as-Code Tools

A hosted documentation platform built around a docs-as-code workflow, publishing Markdown from a Git repository with search and broken-link checks.

doctave.com

Docusaurus

Docs-as-Code Tools

An open-source documentation site generator built on React. It handles versioned docs, translations, blog sections and MDX content out of the box.

docusaurus.io

WriteTech Hub

Documentation Agencies

An organisation that combines technical writing training and community programmes with outsourcing and hiring services for documentation projects.

writetechhub.org

Mintlify

Docs-as-Code Tools

A hosted documentation platform where content lives as MDX in a Git repository and API reference pages are generated from an OpenAPI description.

mintlify.com

Altuent

Documentation Agencies

A knowledge management and technical content consultancy, formed from the technical writing business previously trading as Technically Write IT.

altuent.com

Chris Chinchilla

Freelance Technical Writers

The site of Chris Chinchilla, a technical communicator who produces documentation, articles, videos and podcasts explaining technical products.

chrischinchilla.com

GitBook

Docs-as-Code Tools

A hosted documentation platform with a visual editor that can stay in sync with a Git repository, aimed at product and developer documentation.

gitbook.com

Precision Content

Documentation Agencies

A consultancy that helps organisations restructure enterprise technical content into governed, structured knowledge for people and AI systems.

precisioncontent.com

StrayGoat Writing Services

Freelance Technical Writers

The practice of Paul Ballard, a UK freelance technical writer who produces software user documentation and advises on documentation processes.

straygoat.co.uk

ClickHelp

Authoring & Help Tools

A browser-based documentation platform for authoring, hosting and maintaining online user guides, knowledge bases and context-sensitive help.

clickhelp.com

Expert Support

Documentation Agencies

A documentation and training services company producing technical content, user assistance and instructional material for software products.

expertsupport.com

IEEE Professional Communication Society

Communities & Newsletters

The IEEE society dedicated to professional and technical communication, publishing a peer-reviewed journal and running an annual conference.

procomm.ieee.org

Write the Docs

Communities & Newsletters

A global community of people who care about documentation, running conferences, local meetups and an active chat network for documentarians.

writethedocs.org

3di Information Solutions

Documentation Agencies

A UK technical writing and localisation company that combines an in-house team with specialist freelance authors on documentation projects.

3di-info.com

RWS

Documentation Agencies

A large language and content services group offering translation, localisation and content management for technical documentation at scale.

rws.com

Author-it

Authoring & Help Tools

A component content authoring and management platform built around reusable topics, aimed at regulated and enterprise documentation teams.

author-it.com

Content Design London

Documentation Agencies

A London content design consultancy offering training and delivery work, and the publisher of the openly available Readability Guidelines.

readabilityguidelines.co.uk

Firehead

Documentation Agencies

A recruitment and talent agency specialising in technical communication and content roles, placing writers on permanent and contract work.

firehead.net

tekom Deutschland

Communities & Newsletters

Germany's professional association for technical communication and the largest such body worldwide, running conferences and certification.

tekom.de

tekom Europe

Communities & Newsletters

The European association for technical communication, coordinating national associations, professional qualifications and industry events.

technical-communication.org

I'd Rather Be Writing

Communities & Newsletters

Tom Johnson's long-running technical writing blog, covering API documentation, AI in documentation and trends in technical communication.

idratherbewriting.com

MadCap Software

Authoring & Help Tools

The vendor behind MadCap Flare, a long-established help authoring tool for single-sourced online help, print manuals and knowledge bases.

madcapsoftware.com

Document360

Authoring & Help Tools

A knowledge base platform for product documentation and self-service help centres, with versioning, analytics and API reference support.

document360.com

Oxygen XML Editor

Authoring & Help Tools

A full-featured XML authoring and development environment with strong DITA and DocBook support, widely used by structured-content teams.

oxygenxml.com

Paligo

Authoring & Help Tools

A cloud component content management system based on a DocBook-derived model, with topic reuse, versioning and multi-channel publishing.

paligo.net

Technical Writer HQ

Courses & Certifications

An online training provider offering technical writing certification programmes and career resources aimed at people entering the field.

technicalwriterhq.com

Swagger

API Documentation Tools

The long-running family of OpenAPI tools, including Swagger UI, Editor and Codegen, for designing, documenting and consuming REST APIs.

swagger.io

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