CompassDocsOne knowledge base, many jobs.
However your team captures knowledge — standard operating procedures, IT runbooks, an employee handbook, company policies — CompassDocs gives it a searchable, versioned, self-hosted home. Here's how different teams and industries put it to work.
By job to be done
The document types teams reach for CompassDocs to run.
SOP software
Turn tribal knowledge into standard operating procedures people can find in seconds. Draft in a rich editor, route through review and approval, and publish a clean versioned page.
Learn more → Runbooks & internal KBIT runbooks
Give engineers and IT one self-hosted place for runbooks, incident playbooks, architecture notes, and network documentation — with Mermaid diagrams and version history built in.
Learn more → Employee handbookEmployee handbook
Replace the stale PDF handbook with a living, searchable one. Publish policies and how-we-work docs, keep them versioned, and ask people to acknowledge the ones that matter.
Learn more → Policy managementPolicy management
Own the full policy lifecycle in one place: draft, route for approval, publish a versioned page, request acknowledgements, and prove completion with an audit log.
Learn more →Switching from another tool
Moving off a hosted wiki? Here's how CompassDocs compares.
Confluence alternative
If Confluence feels heavy, expensive, or you need it on your own servers, CompassDocs is a modern open-source alternative: spaces and permissions, an approval workflow, and full version history.
Learn more → Notion alternativeNotion alternative
Love Notion's writing feel but need self-hosting, SSO, approvals, and data you fully control? CompassDocs pairs a rich block editor with the governance a growing company needs.
Learn more →By industry
How specific industries put a self-hosted knowledge base to work.
MSPs & IT services
Managed service providers live and die by documentation. Give techs per-client spaces for runbooks, network docs, and SOPs — versioned, approved, and searchable with AI answers.
Learn more → Healthcare & clinicsHealthcare & clinics
Healthcare teams need procedures that are current, acknowledged, and auditable. CompassDocs keeps clinical SOPs versioned and approved, and tracks who acknowledged each one.
Learn more → Manufacturing & operationsManufacturing
Standardize how work gets done. Author illustrated work instructions, route revisions through approval, and keep a version history operators and engineers can trust.
Learn more →By team
The same platform, organized around who's using it.
Engineering teams
From architecture decisions to incident retros to dev onboarding, engineering knowledge scatters fast. Give it one versioned, searchable home next to your runbooks.
Learn more → For HR teamsHR teams
HR owns the documents everyone eventually needs. One searchable place for the employee handbook, policies with acknowledgements, onboarding guides, and the people directory.
Learn more →Don't see your use case?
If your team writes it down, CompassDocs can hold it — free and open-source to self-host, with unlimited users and documents.
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