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MadCap Flare

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What is MadCap Flare?

MadCap Flare is an advanced technical documentation and content development platform built to streamline the entire content lifecycle. It allows organizations to create structured documentation that can be reused and delivered across multiple channels, including web portals, PDFs, training materials, and enterprise systems. The platform supports fast migration from legacy documentation tools such as Word, Excel, FrameMaker, Confluence, and RoboHelp. During import, Flare preserves document structures, styles, and links while converting content into modular topics. This XML-based architecture enables single-sourcing, allowing teams to write content once and publish it in many formats. Integrated workflows support authoring, collaboration, review cycles, translation management, and publishing. Built-in localization capabilities help organizations translate content efficiently while minimizing duplication and costs. Flare also includes analytics features that track how documentation is used, helping teams refine content strategies based on real user data. Its structured, machine-readable content design makes documentation easier for AI systems, chatbots, and search technologies to process. The platform scales to support complex enterprise documentation projects involving thousands of topics and multiple teams. By unifying authoring, management, and delivery in one environment, it reduces the complexity of technical content operations. MadCap Flare ultimately enables organizations to create consistent, scalable documentation that supports both users and emerging AI-driven knowledge systems.

What is Author-it?

If your team is maintaining the same content across multiple documents, reformatting outputs by hand, or sending the same paragraphs back to translators every release cycle - you're paying the hidden cost of unstructured content management. Author-it solves this at the source. It's an enterprise CCMS (Component Content Management System) with over 25 years of proven deployment in industries where accuracy, compliance, and scale aren't negotiable: manufacturing, software and technology, utilities, medical devices, aerospace and defence, financial services, and government. The platform centres on a single Library - a relational content database where Topics (content components) are assembled into Books (deliverables) and published to any format from one source. Update one Topic, and every Book containing it reflects the change. No manual updates. No version drift. No missing the footnote that just changed your liability exposure. Key capabilities include structured authoring without DITA or XML expertise, component-level content reuse (customers regularly hit 60–90% reuse rates), built-in translation workflow with XLIFF export and intelligent change-tracking to reduce translator word counts, multi-stage Review & Approve with compliance audit trails, variant and conditional content for multi-product and multi-market publishing, and output to HTML5, PDF, Word, SCORM, XML, DITA, and AION. AION is Author-it's structured JSON publishing format - designed for direct ingestion by LLMs and RAG pipelines. It mirrors the full content hierarchy: books, sub-books, topics, metadata, resolved variables. This is what makes Author-it an AI Content Foundation, not just a content management tool. Your existing structured content becomes queryable, retrievable, and AI-ready without any additional transformation layer. Deployment is cloud SaaS. Implementation is services-led, with expert information architecture guidance included. Contact us @ author-it.com

Media

Media

Integrations Supported

Gears
MadCap IXIA CCMS
MadCap Syndicate
PushFeedback
SearchUnify

Integrations Supported

Amazon Bedrock
Claude
Claude Duet
Claude for Legal
Cornerstone Content Anytime
Elastic Cloud
Fluid Topics
Gemini
Honeycomb
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Word
Moodle
OpenAI
Trados Studio

API Availability

API Availability

Has API

Pricing Information

$1799 Perpetual License
Includes 12 Months Bronze Maintenance and Support. Also includes:
Electronic Download
Free Product Upgrades and Updates
Unlimited Email Support
Knowledge Base Access
Forum Access
Web-based MadCap Flare Introductory Training
Free Licenses of MadCap Capture and MadCap Mimic for Rich Multimedia
Free Trial Offered?

Pricing Information

Author-it Cloud is priced on a modular, per-seat basis. Contact for a tailored quote.

Core platform includes the Library, structured authoring, and publishing. Additional modules are licensed separately:

Translations module — Full translation workflow management, XLIFF export/import, locale variant management, change tracking to minimise retranslation costs

Reviews module — Multi-stage review and approval workflows, SME collaboration, deadline management, full audit trail

AION publishing (Included in all with no extra charge) — Structured JSON output for LLM and RAG pipeline ingestion (AI Content Foundation)

Honeycomb eLearning — SCORM-compatible course authoring and publishing

Magellan web portal — HTML5 help portal publishing with search integration

Professional Services — Information architecture consulting, implementation, onboarding, and migration support
Free Version

Supported Platforms

Windows

Supported Platforms

SaaS
On-Prem

Customer Service / Support

Standard Support
Web-Based Support

Customer Service / Support

Standard Support
Web-Based Support

Training Options

Documentation Hub
Webinars
Online Training

Training Options

Documentation Hub
Online Training
On-Site Training

Company Facts

Organization Name

MadCap Software

Date Founded

2005

Company Location

United States

Company Website

www.madcapsoftware.com

Company Facts

Organization Name

Author-it

Date Founded

2000

Company Location

New Zealand

Company Website

www.author-it.com

Categories and Features

API Documentation

Not specified

Course Authoring

Not specified

Help Authoring Tools

Not specified

Training

Not specified

Categories and Features

Content Management

Audio Content
Customizable Templates
Document Indexing
E-forms
Full Text Search
Image Editor
Text Editor
Version Control
Video Content
Website Management

Help Authoring Tools

Content Library
Import HTML / Word
Multi-Format Output
Search
Templates
Translation Tools
Version Control

Software Documentation

Access Roles / User Permissions
Collaboration Tools
Markdown Support
Multiple Formats Support
Multiple Versions Support
Version Control
Webhooks
reStructured Text Support

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