About Vellum
not another place to store docs — a place that checks them.
Vellum exists for one fact. Pages age. Most wikis ignore it. We built the one that doesn’t.
The problem
the wiki nobody trusts.
Every team has one. Hundreds of pages. Half of them right. Nobody knows which half.
so people ask in chat instead.
Week 1
the page is written.
It’s accurate. Someone is proud of it. Nobody writes down who owns it.
Month 3
the process changes.
A tool is swapped. A step moves. The page stays exactly as it was.
Month 8
a reader gets burned.
Someone follows the old runbook at 2 a.m. The wiki looked current. It wasn’t.
Month 9
the wiki loses its audience.
People stop searching. They ask a person. The library becomes a graveyard.
Principles
four rules we build by.
- 01
every page has an owner.
A page without a name on it is a rumor. Ownership is a field, not a favor.
- 02
age is visible.
Readers should see how old an answer is before they act on it. Not after.
- 03
writing stays fast.
A review system nobody tolerates is worse than none. The editor gets out of the way.
- 04
structure grows with you.
Spaces nest. Permissions cascade. The tree you start with still works at a thousand pages.
How it’s made
built to stay quiet. supported by people who read the docs.
A wiki is infrastructure. It should behave like it.
the build
Editor
real-time, not real-heavy.
Live cursors and inline comments that anchor to the exact line. History on every plan.
Clock
reviews run on a schedule.
Cycles of 30, 60 or 90 days per page. The queue shows what’s Fresh, Due soon and Overdue.
Arrival
imports keep the tree.
Notion, Confluence and Google Docs come across with structure, files and comments in place.
the support
Changelog
changes are written down.
Every release gets a plain entry. What moved, what it affects, what to do.
Archive plan
a named success manager.
Companies that answer to auditors get one person who knows their library.
Where it’s going
next on the shelf.
Direction, not dates. We say what we’re working toward and ship it when it’s right.
- 1
Sharper nudges
reminders that fit the day.
Smarter timing for owner reminders, so a review lands when someone can act on it.
- 2
Deeper search
more sources, same box.
More connected apps feeding the one search field, each result carrying its freshness.
- 3
Audit depth
proof for the people who ask.
Richer retention and review history, for companies that must show their work.
One thing won’t move. Freshness stays visible to every reader, on every plan that has owners. That’s the product.
give the library an owner. start with a plan.
From $99 a year. Billed yearly.