About Us
We're a small team building tools for how product teams actually work.
The Studio started in 2019 when a group of developers kept running into the same problem: content management systems were either too rigid or too complicated. You could have structure or flexibility, but rarely both. And almost never without a steep learning curve.
We thought there had to be a better way.
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Our History
The Studio began as an open source experiment. Our founders believed the best software is built in public, with real users shaping what comes next.
The first version was rough. The beginnings of the integration that is at the core of our business, plus a basic editor, some reusable components, and a publishing workflow that worked well enough for documentation sites. We released it on GitHub expecting a few dozen downloads. We got a few thousand.
Those early users taught us more than any roadmap could. They also taught us what not to build: features that looked impressive in demos but added friction in daily use.
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What We Believe
Tools should fade into the background
The best software isn't the one you notice—it's the one that gets out of your way. We design for the moment after the learning curve, when using The Studio feels like second nature.
Collaboration doesn't need to be complicated
Real-time editing, version control, and approval workflows shouldn't require a manual. If your team needs training to publish a page, the tool failed.
Small teams can build for scale
You don't need hundreds of engineers to create software that works for thousands of users. You need focus, discipline, and a willingness to say no to features that don't matter.
Open source shaped how we think
Even though The Studio is a commercial product, we still operate with open source values: transparency about what we're building, responsiveness to feedback, and a bias toward simple solutions over clever ones.