Built by a tech writer, shaped by tech writers
You write. Your docs keep themselves honest.
Topicary watches what changed, flags what's gone stale, and keeps every page answer-ready, for your readers and their AI, so a team of one ships docs like a team of ten. From $79/mo for your whole team.
Free during beta. All features, no limits, no credit card.
I spent a decade in enterprise documentation tooling: DITA, IXIASOFT, the works. Topicary is the tool I wished existed when I was a one-person docs team: it handles the surveillance and the upkeep, so I could spend my hours on the writing that actually mattered.
How it works
From draft to published in 3 steps
Write
Draft in a clean editor with inline AI. Reuse what you have already written instead of copy-pasting it, so every fact has one source of truth.
Assemble
Pull topics into guides. Show the right content to the right reader, same source, different audiences, no duplicate manuals to keep in sync.
Publish
Ship a hosted docs site in one click. Pages stay current because they are built from live content, and answer-ready for readers and AI on day one.
What you get
The work a docs team does. Minus the docs team.
Authoring, review, publishing, and upkeep in one place, the parts a lone writer or a team of 3 to 10 actually needs, without the training budget or the 6-month rollout.
Structured authoring
Write once, reference everywhere. Edit the source and every topic updates.
- Block-level component reuse with where-used tracking and orphan detection
- Conditional content with boolean expressions (AND/OR/NOT) and in-editor preview
- Variables with per-target overrides: swap product names, URLs, and terminology at publish time
Get your SMEs past “looks good”
The hardest part of docs is getting real feedback from experts. Review is built in, not bolted on.
- SME review with no login and no per-reviewer fee: send a link, experts comment on the exact passage and Approve or Request Changes per topic
- Real-time co-editing with live cursors, presence indicators, and offline support
- Track changes with accept/reject: suggest edits without overwriting, bulk approve per author
Multi-channel publishing
One source, every output format your team needs.
- Web: hosted docs on custom domains with search, dark mode, reader feedback, AI chat widget
- PDF: branded cover, table of contents, configurable headers/footers, custom page size
- Export to Markdown, DITA XML, Word, and XLIFF 2.0, plus GitHub sync and Zendesk/Salesforce integrations
AI and content intelligence
Writing assistance, content health, and LLM-ready output built into every layer.
- Inline AI with diff preview: draft, rewrite, expand, summarize, or improve any selection
- Content health: staleness flags, orphan detection, duplicate passages, reuse suggestions, search gap analysis
- LLM-ready by default: AI agents and crawlers can read, search, and query your published docs, fully resolved, not templated
Under the hood
How your docs keep themselves honest
Most tools bolted a chatbot onto flat text. Topicary's AI watches your actual content, what is reused where, what has gone stale, what contradicts what, and your own docs portal answers from it, because you control the retrieval.
Semantic index
Author-time embeddings on every topic and component, with structural metadata. Updated on save.
Content graph API
"What breaks if I delete this component?" Pure graph queries, no LLM needed.
Context assembler
Before any generation, the AI knows: this paragraph is a shared component in 6 topics, this section is conditioned for admin audiences.
Inline AI and chat panel
Cursor-style inline edits with diff preview. Multi-turn sidebar chat that queries the content graph mid-conversation.
Passive quality
Background detection of duplicate content, reuse opportunities, terminology drift, and coverage gaps.
Schema-contract validation
AI output validated against the content model. Invalid conditions, hallucinated variables, and broken structure are caught before insertion.
An MCP server lets external AI tools query your documentation’s component relationships, condition variants, and cross-references.
Comparison
Coming from an enterprise CCMS?
AI's job
Enterprise CCMS
AI bolted onto flat text: rewrite a paragraph, summarize a pageTopicary
AI watches your content for staleness, reuse, and contradictions, and your own portal answers from itPricing
Enterprise CCMS
$32K/yr (Paligo) or $1,055/mo with add-ons (ClickHelp)Topicary
$79/mo for 3 writers, with SSO, API, AI, and translation all includedGetting started
Enterprise CCMS
Annual contracts, procurement, weeks of trainingTopicary
Sign up and start writing. Learn in an afternoon.Content model
Enterprise CCMS
XML-based (Flare, DITA) or no structured authoring at all (GitBook)Topicary
Visual structured authoring: components, conditions, branching. No XML.Independence
Enterprise CCMS
VC-funded tools pivot, get acquired, or sunsetTopicary
Bootstrapped. Revenue-funded. Public changelog. Content exports anytime.Want the full picture? See the feature-by-feature comparison and honest gap list. Or compare directly: Paligo · Flare · GitBook
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You write. Your docs keep themselves honest.
Free during beta. All features, no limits, no credit card.