Folium
A documentation site with the diagrams still live in it
A folium is your organisation's documentation site. Pages nest into a contents tree, every page is searchable, and the whole space publishes on your own subdomain. Embedded blueprints stay live.
Team and up
Reading through a documentation space, opening an embedded blueprint, then asking AI Assist a question.
Why Folium
Long-form doc spaces alongside your diagrams.
Pages nest into a tree
The contents tree sits on the left, the page in the middle, its headings on the right. Open a section and its pages appear under it.
Diagrams live in the page
Embed a blueprint or a Vellum board in a page. The canvas renders live and changes when the original does.
Search it, or just ask
Search runs across every page in the space. AI Assist answers from those pages and links the ones it used.
Features
More about Folium
On your own subdomain
Your organisation's subdomain, with your logo, colours and footer on every page.
Public or members-only
Publish a product manual to the world, or keep the space to signed-in members. Same editor either way.
Built for search engines
Server-rendered pages, canonical URLs, sitemaps, and hreflang tags on every translated page.
Edit rights of its own
Folium editing is its own permission. The technical writers can own the docs without touching a diagram.
Examples
Written up in a folium
Published work where the prose carries as much as the drawing.
Rivulet webhook relay
Rivulet's architecture, delivery state machine and database schema, with installation instructions, operating notes and a short walkthrough.
Order data model
Kestrel Outdoor's operational schema, order events and warehouse model, with keys, constraints and a column-level data dictionary.
Brightwater platform proposal
Arbor's proposed managed platform for Brightwater Foods. Includes design options, costs, risks, the workshop drawing and the service handbook.
FAQ
Questions about Folium
What is a folium?
An organisation's documentation site. Pages nest into a contents tree, the page sits in the middle and its headings on the right.
Where does it publish?
On your organisation's own subdomain, with your logo, colours and footer on every page.
Can I keep a space private?
Yes. Publish a product manual to the world or keep the space to signed-in members. The editor is the same either way.
Can I put a diagram inside a page?
Yes. Embed a blueprint or a Vellum board and the canvas renders live rather than as an image.
Will search engines index it?
Pages are server-rendered and carry canonical URLs, sitemaps, and hreflang tags on every translated page.
Who is allowed to edit it?
Folium editing is its own permission, so the people who write the docs do not need rights over the diagrams.