The CCMS for BUSINESSES where accuracy matters
Precision at scale.
Your single-source for content. Precise, reusable, and built for scale wherever your business needs it.
Manufacturing
Ensure compliance, reduce errors and inconsistency, accelerate speed to market
Software
Streamline release notes, help content, and localization with ease and speed
Utilities
Deliver content that addresses utility needs clearly, concisely and consistently
Trusted by leading organizations where accuracy matters for 20+ years
Your entire content lifecycle.
Accurate, compliant, and ready to scale.
Author-it unifies creation, review, translation, and publishing - so your content stays accurate, compliant, and ready to deliver anywhere its needed. All with enterprise-grade structure, none of the DITA complexity.
Relentless Reliability
Confidence by design.
Author-it provides a structured, secure foundation for managing content at scale. Accelerate production, ensure accuracy, and support growth without limitations.
"Author-it is superior when it comes to managing large amounts of complex, single-sourced content. I know that whatever content-management challenges come up, Author-it will handle them."
Jody W., Documentation Specialist
Single Source
One source, every channel.
From one source to every audience - Author-it delivers consistent, compliant content at global scale, while preserving local relevance. More than a repository, Author-it is the definitive record of your organization’s knowledge.
"AIT allowed us to grow from one help system and 20 paper manuals to multiple help systems and well over 100 paper manuals. Single-sourcing, reuse, variants – it’s all there."
David J., Document & Knowledge Manager
Efficient Precision
Faster workflows, flawless content.
Author-it streamlines your content operations - Eliminating duplication, accelerating workflows, reducing errors, and cutting costs through intelligent automation and reuse.
"Combined with the ability to use variants for specific situations, Author-it really helps us deal with the complexity that our projects throw at us."
Industry Analyst / Tech Writer, Enterprise Software
Expertly enabled
Serious expertise.
Zero drama.
From setup to scale, our team (and trusted partners) help you build a content system that just ... works.
Smooth implementation, smart optimisation, and ongoing support that keeps the wheels turning and the headaches away. Because accurate, compliant content shouldn’t come with chaos.
Case Studies
Precision that saves.
Speed that scales. ROI that grows.
Manufacturing
$3m saved from translations
Global manufacturer cut $3m in costs and boosted NPS with Author-it CCMS.
Software
90% content reuse rate
Global software leader saved $2M annually and achieved ISO compliance with Author-it CCMS.
Utilities
Reducing risk for Utilities
Reducing Risk in Utilities: Why Modern Documentation Matters.
“Love it. I’ve loved it for years. Superb tools with forgivable compromises. We use the Cloud version for a globally distributed team. We have authors in the US, UK, Germany and India so far... I love the way you can throw yourself in as a team, be productive immediately, and tidy up using the tools as you evolve your solution”
Richard Pinegar, Executive Sponsor in Semiconductors
Write once, use everywhere.
Maximize reuse across documents, formats, and audiences. Author-it eliminates duplication, saving time on writing, reviewing, and approving - so you can focus on what matters.
Separate content from deliverables.
Stop formatting. Start creating. Author-it lets you design once and reuse everywhere, so your content stays clean, consistent, and brand-aligned - without the manual effort.
Simplify collaboration.
Author-it is more than a writing tool - it’s a unified platform for migration, creation, review, approval, translation, and publishing. Collaborate seamlessly with SMEs, reviewers, and compliance teams - all in one place.
Surface reuse. Eliminate waste.
Author-it helps you identify and maximize reuse opportunities across teams and content types. Reduce duplication, streamline updates, and ensure consistency - without micromanaging every asset.
Search smarter. Manage faster.
With rich search and filtering capabilities, you can locate, audit, and manage content down to the object level. Whether you're tracking a single component or reviewing an entire library, everything is at your fingertips.
Control access. Streamline workflows.
Author-it gives you full control over roles, permissions, and workflow stages - so you can manage collaboration, compliance, and publishing with confidence, not complexity.
Reduce costs without reducing output.
Author-it lowers localization and production costs by enabling structured reuse and automation. Scale content delivery without scaling costs - get more from the investment you have already made.
Mitigate risk with full visibility.
Shorten review cycles and reduce compliance risk with a centralized, auditable content system. Author-it provides a complete version history and object-level traceability, so nothing gets lost, duplicated, or misused.
Accelerate speed to market.
Faster workflows mean faster delivery. Author-it helps your teams deliver accurate, localized content quickly - so your content reaches your audience sooner and with confidence.
Precise. accurate. compliant.
Make content your competitive advantage, not a risk.
Discover how Author-it helps your team reduce errors, accelerate workflows, and deliver accurate, compliant content at scale and with confidence.
Author-it FAQ
A Component Content Management System (CCMS) is software that manages content at the component level - individual topics, procedures, and warnings - rather than as whole documents. This means you can write a piece of content once and reuse it across multiple deliverables, formats, and languages without duplicating effort.
A traditional CMS manages content at the page or document level. A CCMS manages content at the component level - individual topics that can be assembled, reused, and published to multiple formats from a single source. This makes a CCMS far more efficient for organisations managing large volumes of structured, reusable content.
Author-it serves organisations that need accurate, governed content at scale - particularly those with high content reuse requirements, complex translation needs, or regulatory compliance obligations. It's used by technical writers, documentation managers, compliance teams, and content operations leaders across a wide range of industries.
Author-it works with any industry that has complex documentation needs - high content reuse, multilingual publishing, regulatory compliance, or large-scale technical content. Common verticals include manufacturing, software, and utilities, but the platform is equally effective in healthcare, financial services, education, and other sectors with structured content requirements.
Author-it is an enterprise CCMS that unifies content creation, review, translation, and multi-channel publishing in a single platform. It's built for organisations where content accuracy, compliance, and reuse at scale are critical - across industries like manufacturing, software, utilities, and any sector with complex documentation needs.
Author-it pioneered the CCMS category over 25 years ago. The company has spent more than two decades helping organisations structure, manage, and publish content - making it one of the longest-standing CCMS vendors globally.
Author-it publishes content to PDF, HTML5, SCORM, Microsoft Word, eLearning packages, and AI-ready JSON via its AION output format. Content is authored once and published to any combination of formats from a single source - no reformatting required.
Author-it's AION output format converts structured, governed content into clean, metadata-rich JSON designed for consumption by large language models, RAG pipelines, chatbots, and AI agents. Because Author-it content is already structured and enriched with taxonomy and metadata, it's inherently AI-ready - giving organisations a foundation for accurate, trustworthy AI-powered experiences.
Structured authoring is a method of writing content in a rules-based, organised way that separates content from formatting. Instead of writing in a final layout, authors create modular components (topics) that can be assembled into different deliverables and published to multiple formats automatically.
Yes. Author-it is available as a cloud-hosted SaaS platform and as an on-premise deployment for organisations that require ultra-secure, locked-down environments for compliance or data sovereignty reasons. Both options deliver the same core platform capabilities.