[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"content:features:en:reviews":3,"content-list:useCases:en":81,"content-list:compare:en":537,"content-list:features:en":720},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":12,"details":17,"extension":48,"faq":49,"icon":68,"meta":69,"mockup":70,"name":71,"navigation":72,"order":73,"path":74,"seo":75,"stem":78,"summary":79,"__hash__":80},"features_en\u002Freviews.md","Knowledge that stays true.",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":13},"minimark",[9],[10,11,12],"p",{},"Most wikis rot quietly: two pages drift apart, one goes out of date, and nobody notices until someone follows the wrong one. Contour finds pages that duplicate or contradict each other and tells their owners. Every page has an owner and a review date, so everyone sees at a glance whether a page is verified, due or stale.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":16},"",2,[],[18,21,24,27,30,33,36,39,42,45],{"title":19,"body":20},"Stop docs from contradicting each other","With AI enabled, Contour reads pages that cover the same ground and flags real conflicts, such as one page saying a restore takes 30 minutes and another saying two hours. The owners of both pages get a notification in the app and by email.",{"title":22,"body":23},"Duplicates found every night","Each night Contour compares published pages and finds pairs that cover the same ground. This works without AI, on every plan and when self-hosted.",{"title":25,"body":26},"One list of duplicates and conflicts","The Duplicates & conflicts tab on the Reviews page shows conflicts first, then near-duplicates with how similar they are. Filter to your own pages or all of them, and dismiss a pair so it stays hidden.",{"title":28,"body":29},"Update instead of starting over","While you write a draft, a hint points to similar published pages, so you can update the existing page instead of starting a second one.",{"title":31,"body":32},"An owner for every page","Pick a person or a group as the page's owner. Until someone does, whoever created the page owns it. With a group, every member shares the responsibility.",{"title":34,"body":35},"Verify in one click","Verify confirms a page is still correct, without editing it. It lasts the space's review interval of 30, 90, 180 or 365 days, 90 by default, or a length you pick when verifying, including no expiry.",{"title":37,"body":38},"Verified, due or stale","A badge in the page's meta line shows the state at a glance. Pages are due 14 days before the review runs out and stale once it has. Open the badge to see who verified the page, change the owner or verify it again.",{"title":40,"body":41},"Reminders that reach the owner","Owners get a notification when a review falls due and again when it goes stale, plus a weekly email digest on Mondays. Each member can turn the digest off.",{"title":43,"body":44},"Every verification on record","Verifications and owner changes appear in the page's history and in the admin audit log, with who, when, until when and from whom to whom.",{"title":46,"body":47},"Search and AI prefer verified pages","Search ranks verified pages higher and stale ones lower. Ask AI and the MCP tools see each page's state, prefer verified pages and say when an answer relies on a stale one.","md",[50,53,56,59,62,65],{"q":51,"a":52},"Does duplicate detection need AI?","No. Finding pages that cover the same ground runs on Contour's own search, without AI, on every plan and when self-hosted. Only the conflict check, which reads both pages, needs AI.",{"q":54,"a":55},"What does the conflict check cost?","With Contour AI it uses your workspace's AI credits. With your own API key it costs nothing extra from us.",{"q":57,"a":58},"Does verifying a page count as an edit?","No. The page's content and its last-edited date stay the same; the verification is recorded separately in the history.",{"q":60,"a":61},"Who can verify a page?","Anyone who can edit it. The owner is who gets the reminders, but the review is not locked to them.",{"q":63,"a":64},"Can a page never expire?","Yes. Set the space's review interval to none, or pick no expiry when you verify a single page.",{"q":66,"a":67},"Can we verify pages through the API?","Yes: POST \u002Fapi\u002Fv2\u002Fpages\u002Fverify, and pages\u002Flist filters by needs_review and owned_by_me. 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Then connect Claude, ChatGPT and coding agents through the built-in MCP server, and every assistant answers and works with the same, current knowledge.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":91},[],[93,96,99,102],{"q":94,"a":95},"What is an AI context hub?","A single place where your team's knowledge lives in a form both people and AI assistants can use. In Contour that is your wiki: people write and edit it, and assistants read and update it through MCP with the permissions you grant.",{"q":97,"a":98},"Which assistants can connect?","Any MCP client that supports remote servers over Streamable HTTP. We use Claude Code, Claude and ChatGPT ourselves. Clients that only support static headers can connect with a personal API key.",{"q":100,"a":101},"Can an assistant change our docs?","Only if you grant read and write access when connecting it. Its changes appear in the revision history like any other edit, and you can restore an earlier version at any time.",{"q":103,"a":104},"Do assistants see everything in the workspace?","No. A connected assistant acts with the permissions of the person who connected it, so it only reaches pages that person can open. You can disconnect it in your settings at any time.",[106,107,108],"ai","search","collaboration","brain-circuit",{},"AI context hub",1,"\u002Fai-context-hub","Every assistant knows the internet, but not how your company works. Context lives in heads, chat threads and stale docs, so every prompt starts from zero.",{"title":116,"description":117},"AI context hub: a knowledge base for AI assistants – Contour","Give Claude, ChatGPT and coding agents your team's real context through MCP. 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The assistant asks for access and you approve read, or read and write.",{"title":127,"body":128},"Share one context","Every assistant works from the same source, only sees what its person may see, and its edits land in the revision history like any other change.","One source of truth that every AI assistant on your team can read.",[131,135,139,143],{"who":132,"title":133,"body":134},"engineering","Coding agents that read the docs first","Claude Code looks up architecture notes and runbooks through MCP before it changes code, and updates the docs when something changes.",{"who":136,"title":137,"body":138},"everyone","Questions from the desktop","Claude and ChatGPT on the desktop, connected through MCP, answer how-do-we questions from the wiki instead of guessing.",{"who":140,"title":141,"body":142},"in contour","Ask AI with sources","In Contour itself, Ask AI answers in search and links every page it read, so people can check the source.",{"who":144,"title":145,"body":146},"support","Support replies from the docs","Support drafts answers to customer questions with an assistant that reads the knowledge base, so replies match what the docs say.","How we use it ourselves","1fA9_pn8Vq09NZj_Y252WNoc4GT9ssmt7Y3wBh3mlso",{"id":150,"title":151,"body":152,"description":156,"extension":48,"faq":159,"features":169,"icon":170,"meta":171,"mockup":70,"name":172,"navigation":72,"order":15,"path":173,"problem":174,"seo":175,"stem":178,"steps":179,"summary":151,"workflows":189,"workflowsTitle":201,"__hash__":202},"useCases_en\u002Fstartups.md","Write it down before you scale.",{"type":7,"value":153,"toc":157},[154],[10,155,156],{},"Start free with up to 10 people. 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Your own AI key works on every plan; Team adds Contour AI.",[190,194,198],{"who":191,"title":192,"body":193},"first hires","Handbook and onboarding","How you work, written down once, so hire number eleven doesn't need the founders for every question.",{"who":195,"title":196,"body":197},"product","Decisions and product notes","Templates for decisions and specs, linked with backlinks, so the reasoning survives the next pivot.",{"who":136,"title":199,"body":200},"Shared context for AI","One wiki every assistant on the team reads through MCP, instead of pasting the same context into every chat.","What small teams start with","EOJtj8ZU0kd-JOsU_wrGAzFs37A4F7oB98Pmem4D630",{"id":204,"title":205,"body":206,"description":210,"extension":48,"faq":213,"features":223,"icon":225,"meta":226,"mockup":227,"name":228,"navigation":72,"order":229,"path":230,"problem":231,"seo":232,"stem":235,"steps":236,"summary":205,"workflows":246,"workflowsTitle":259,"__hash__":260},"useCases_en\u002Fagencies.md","One wiki for your agency and every client.",{"type":7,"value":207,"toc":211},[208],[10,209,210],{},"Give every client a space, invite them as free guests, run projects from your playbook templates, and hand over clean documentation when the project ends.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":212},[],[214,217,220],{"q":215,"a":216},"Do clients cost extra?","No. Guests are free on Team and Business and don't count as members.",{"q":218,"a":219},"Can a client see other clients?","No. Guests only see the spaces you share with them.",{"q":221,"a":222},"Can we use our branding?","Your workspace logo appears in the app and on public pages, and on Team and Business you can hide the Contour badge.",[224,108,107],"sharing","briefcase",{},"comments","Agencies & client work",3,"\u002Fagencies","Client knowledge is scattered across inboxes, shared drives and the head of whoever ran the project.",{"title":233,"description":234},"Client wiki for agencies – Contour","A space per client, clients invited as free guests, playbooks as templates, and clean documentation handover at the end of a project. Hosted in Germany.","agencies",[237,240,243],{"title":238,"body":239},"A space per client","Briefings, decisions, contacts and project docs in one place, with permissions per space.",{"title":241,"body":242},"Invite the client","Clients join as guests and only see their own space. Guests are free on Team and Business.",{"title":244,"body":245},"Hand over at the end","Export the space as Markdown, HTML or JSON, or publish it as a public page for the client.",[247,251,255],{"who":248,"title":249,"body":250},"account teams","Clients as guests","The client reads and comments in their own space instead of in email threads, and never sees another client's work.",{"who":252,"title":253,"body":254},"delivery","Playbooks as templates","Kick-off, briefing and retrospective templates, so every project starts the same way.",{"who":256,"title":257,"body":258},"project end","A clean handover","Everything the client needs, exported or published as a page with navigation, instead of a folder of attachments.","How agencies use it","BxyfgOU3sUCMajYSlUm-9cO4TZljfxf8BqK_oK27sqw",{"id":262,"title":263,"body":264,"description":268,"extension":48,"faq":271,"features":281,"icon":282,"meta":283,"mockup":107,"name":284,"navigation":72,"order":285,"path":286,"problem":287,"seo":288,"stem":291,"steps":292,"summary":263,"workflows":302,"workflowsTitle":147,"__hash__":314},"useCases_en\u002Fit-msp.md","Procedures your whole team runs the same way.",{"type":7,"value":265,"toc":269},[266],[10,267,268],{},"Turn every recurring job into a template, start it from ⌘K with its checklist, and let people and assistants find the right procedure instead of asking the one colleague who knows.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":270},[],[272,275,278],{"q":273,"a":274},"Can we keep customer docs separate?","Yes. Spaces have their own members and can be private, so each team sees what it should.",{"q":276,"a":277},"Where is the data stored?","Contour Cloud runs on servers in Germany. Self-hosting is comming soon.",{"q":279,"a":280},"Do people notice when a procedure changes?","Follow a template or a space to get notified, and see exactly what changed in the revision history.",[107,106,224],"server",{},"IT teams & MSPs",4,"\u002Fit-msp","Every technician does it a little differently, and the one who knows how is on holiday.",{"title":289,"description":290},"IT documentation and procedures for MSPs – Contour","Standard procedures as templates, started from ⌘K, and assistants that find the right procedure through MCP. IT documentation hosted in Germany.","it-msp",[293,296,299],{"title":294,"body":295},"Write procedures as templates","Customer onboarding, server setup, offboarding: each a template with steps, task lists and a status label. Network diagrams go right next to them in draw.io.",{"title":297,"body":298},"Start every job from one","Pick the template in ⌘K, tick off the checklist as you go, and the finished page documents what was done.",{"title":300,"body":301},"Ask, don't search","Ask AI and assistants connected through MCP find the right procedure and link the page.",[303,307,311],{"who":304,"title":305,"body":306},"service desk","Standard procedures","Recurring jobs as templates, so the work looks the same no matter who does it.",{"who":308,"title":309,"body":310},"operations","Runbooks next to everything else","Runbooks sit in the same wiki as the rest of the team's knowledge, linked with backlinks.",{"who":136,"title":312,"body":313},"Assistants that know the procedures","Connected through MCP, an assistant answers how-do-we questions from the procedures instead of guessing.","qFkiwqpzfPSvZI5YNal-quKZ0tES9sulRyzwmq0eF48",{"id":316,"title":317,"body":318,"description":322,"extension":48,"faq":325,"features":335,"icon":336,"meta":337,"mockup":338,"name":339,"navigation":72,"order":73,"path":340,"problem":341,"seo":342,"stem":345,"steps":346,"summary":356,"workflows":357,"workflowsTitle":147,"__hash__":370},"useCases_en\u002Fengineering-docs.md","Engineering docs your team, and your coding agents, actually read.",{"type":7,"value":319,"toc":323},[320],[10,321,322],{},"Write architecture notes, API docs and decision records in Markdown, with diagrams that render live. Coding agents read them through MCP before they change code, and update them afterwards.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":324},[],[326,329,332],{"q":327,"a":328},"Can we keep writing Markdown?","Yes. Markdown shortcuts work as you type, pasted Markdown is converted, and every page can be copied or exported as Markdown.",{"q":330,"a":331},"Which diagram formats are supported?","Mermaid, with a live preview in the editor. diagrams.net (draw.io) isn't supported yet.",{"q":333,"a":334},"Can an agent change docs without anyone noticing?","Agents only get write access if you grant it when connecting them, and every change shows up in the revision history, where you can compare and restore versions.",[106,107,108],"code",{},"history","Engineering docs","\u002Fengineering-docs","Architecture lives in one person's head, decisions in a chat thread from two years ago, and the README hasn't changed since launch.",{"title":343,"description":344},"Engineering documentation and decision records – Contour","Architecture and API docs in Markdown with live Mermaid diagrams, decision records linked by backlinks, and coding agents that keep docs current via MCP.","engineering-docs",[347,350,353],{"title":348,"body":349},"Write in Markdown","Markdown shortcuts, code blocks with syntax highlighting and Mermaid diagrams that render as you type. For architecture, draw a draw.io diagram right in the page and edit it again later.",{"title":351,"body":352},"Record decisions","A decision record template for every significant choice. Backlinks show every page that references a decision.",{"title":354,"body":355},"Let agents keep it current","Coding agents read the docs through MCP before a change and update them afterwards. Every edit lands in the revision history with highlighted changes.","Docs your engineers, and your coding agents, actually read.",[358,362,366],{"who":359,"title":360,"body":361},"decisions","Decision records","Each significant decision gets a page from a template: context, options, decision, consequences. Backlinks connect it to the docs it affects.",{"who":363,"title":364,"body":365},"architecture","Architecture and API docs with diagrams","Services, data flows and endpoints documented next to Mermaid diagrams that live in the text, so they change with it.",{"who":367,"title":368,"body":369},"coding agents","Docs updated by Claude Code","Claude Code looks up the relevant pages through MCP before it changes code, and writes the doc update when it's done. We review the change in the history.","WMhgvTE3rRBPN3tb0cJsRp2IlWdPllkOB6ewFT2lzfA",{"id":372,"title":373,"body":374,"description":378,"extension":48,"faq":381,"features":391,"icon":392,"meta":393,"mockup":70,"name":394,"navigation":72,"order":395,"path":396,"problem":397,"seo":398,"stem":401,"steps":402,"summary":373,"workflows":412,"workflowsTitle":425,"__hash__":426},"useCases_en\u002Fonboarding-handbook.md","An onboarding new hires can do on their own.",{"type":7,"value":375,"toc":379},[376],[10,377,378],{},"Write the handbook once in Contour. Every new hire starts from a first-week checklist, can ask the handbook questions with AI, and gets access before their first day.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":380},[],[382,385,388],{"q":383,"a":384},"Can new hires see everything right away?","Only what you share with them. Spaces have their own members and can be private, and guests only see the spaces you invite them to.",{"q":386,"a":387},"Does asking the handbook need a paid plan?","Ask AI works on every plan with your own AI provider's key. Team and Business also include Contour AI with EU-hosted models.",{"q":389,"a":390},"How do people notice when a policy changes?","Anyone can follow a page or a whole space and gets a notification when it changes. The revision history shows exactly what changed.",[107,106,224],"book-open",{},"Onboarding & handbook",6,"\u002Fonboarding-handbook","Every new hire asks the same twenty questions, and the answers live in five different places.",{"title":399,"description":400},"Employee handbook and onboarding wiki – Contour","Write your handbook once, give every new hire a first-week checklist, and let them ask the handbook with AI instead of a colleague. Hosted in Germany.","onboarding-handbook",[403,406,409],{"title":404,"body":405},"Write the handbook once","Policies, how-tos and team pages live in spaces, written together and kept current by the people who own them.",{"title":407,"body":408},"Hand out a checklist","A first-week template with task lists and due dates: create it on day one, and the start date fills itself in. Overdue tasks stand out.",{"title":410,"body":411},"Let them ask","Ask AI answers from the handbook, with links to the pages it read, so the answer and its source are one click apart.",[413,417,421],{"who":414,"title":415,"body":416},"people team","A first-week checklist","Laptop, accounts, coffee with a buddy, a first task: one template, duplicated for every new person.",{"who":418,"title":419,"body":420},"new hires","Ask the handbook","How do I book holidays? Where is the expense policy? Ask AI answers from the handbook instead of a colleague having to.",{"who":422,"title":423,"body":424},"before day one","Access before the contract starts","Invite a new hire as a guest to just the onboarding space, so they can read up before their first day. Guests need Team or higher and are free.","How teams use it","VohJp_nHSpdFsmXpohbn75SFuh0fm3tNzCJ2NWW5S6w",{"id":428,"title":429,"body":430,"description":434,"extension":48,"faq":437,"features":446,"icon":447,"meta":448,"mockup":227,"name":449,"navigation":72,"order":450,"path":451,"problem":452,"seo":453,"stem":456,"steps":457,"summary":429,"workflows":467,"workflowsTitle":480,"__hash__":481},"useCases_en\u002Fpublic-sector.md","A wiki for schools, administration and associations, hosted in Germany.",{"type":7,"value":431,"toc":435},[432],[10,433,434],{},"Contour runs on servers in Germany under the GDPR. Write handbooks and processes together, work with external partners as guests, and publish pages for parents, citizens or members.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":436},[],[438,441,443],{"q":439,"a":440},"Is there a discount?","Registered nonprofits, schools and universities get 40% off Team and Business. Apply through our contact form.",{"q":276,"a":442},"On servers in Germany. Contour is developed and operated near Mainz.",{"q":444,"a":445},"Can we host it ourselves?","Self-hosting comes with the public release: one Docker image with every feature, free for your own organisation.",[108,224,107],"landmark",{},"Public sector, schools & nonprofits",7,"\u002Fpublic-sector","Knowledge sits with individuals, documents travel as email attachments, and US clouds aren't an option for many organisations.",{"title":454,"description":455},"Wiki for schools, administration and nonprofits – Contour","Hosted in Germany under the GDPR. Write handbooks together, invite partners as guests and publish pages for the public. 40% off for nonprofits and education.","public-sector",[458,461,464],{"title":459,"body":460},"Hosted in Germany","Contour Cloud runs on servers in Germany under the GDPR. A data processing agreement is available on request.",{"title":462,"body":463},"Write together","Real-time editing, comments and mentions, and guests for external partners who should only see what concerns them.",{"title":465,"body":466},"Run it yourself later","With the public release, Contour can run on your own servers with Docker, with every feature.",[468,472,476],{"who":469,"title":470,"body":471},"administration","Handbook and processes","Rules, processes and contacts in one place, with templates for recurring procedures.",{"who":473,"title":474,"body":475},"partners","External partners as guests","Partners, volunteers or service providers get access to exactly the spaces that concern them.",{"who":477,"title":478,"body":479},"public","Pages for parents, citizens and members","Publish selected pages with navigation and a table of contents, without a separate website tool.","How organisations use it","bzLX9QvUWGaYO_AI6iYIX68Hh7Vc-Xi-dWEwK8LvhGU",{"id":483,"title":484,"body":485,"description":489,"extension":48,"faq":492,"features":502,"icon":503,"meta":504,"mockup":338,"name":505,"navigation":72,"order":506,"path":507,"problem":508,"seo":509,"stem":512,"steps":513,"summary":523,"workflows":524,"workflowsTitle":425,"__hash__":536},"useCases_en\u002Fhelp-centre.md","Your help centre, written where you already write.",{"type":7,"value":486,"toc":490},[487],[10,488,489],{},"Draft customer docs next to your internal ones, review them with comments, and publish a page with all its sub-pages with one switch. 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Otherwise it is only reachable through its link.",{"q":500,"a":501},"Can we control what goes public?","Admins can switch public sharing off for the whole workspace and see every public link in one list.",[224,106,108],"life-buoy",{},"Help centre & public docs",8,"\u002Fhelp-centre","Customer docs live in a separate tool, so they drift away from what the team actually knows.",{"title":510,"description":511},"Help centre and public documentation – Contour","Write customer docs in the same editor as your internal wiki and publish them with one switch, with navigation, table of contents and your branding.","help-centre",[514,517,520],{"title":515,"body":516},"Write internally","Same editor, same spaces, same review with comments and mentions before anything goes out.",{"title":518,"body":519},"Publish with one switch","Share a page and its sub-pages publicly, with navigation, a table of contents, your own path and the date it was last updated.",{"title":521,"body":522},"Answer from the same pages","Support and AI assistants read the pages customers see, so answers match the docs. Every heading has its own link, so a reply can point to the exact section.","Publish customer docs from the same place you write internal ones.",[525,529,533],{"who":526,"title":527,"body":528},"docs team","Draft, review, publish","Write the article internally, get it reviewed in comments, then switch it to public. Revoke the link any time.",{"who":530,"title":531,"body":532},"brand","Your look","Public pages carry your workspace's logo. On Team and Business you can hide the Contour badge.",{"who":144,"title":534,"body":535},"One source for answers","Support drafts replies with an assistant that reads the same knowledge base, and links customers to the public page.","2cV2h0D05dFqNlcgZpJQhpcjh5lYz_J6MUx0MVCH15U",[538,642],{"id":539,"title":540,"body":541,"checked":548,"chooseContour":549,"chooseThem":553,"competitor":557,"description":545,"extension":48,"faq":558,"meta":568,"migrate":569,"navigation":72,"order":112,"path":570,"pricingUrl":571,"rows":572,"seo":636,"stem":639,"summary":640,"__hash__":641},"compare_en\u002Fnotion.md","Contour vs Notion",{"type":7,"value":542,"toc":546},[543],[10,544,545],{},"Notion is an all-in-one workspace for docs, databases and projects. Contour does one thing: your team's knowledge base, written together and easy to find, hosted in Germany. Here is a fair look at both.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":547},[],"2026-10-06",[550,551,552],"Your knowledge stored in Germany on every plan, not just Enterprise","A calm, focused wiki instead of a workspace for everything","A predictable price per member, with free guests and AI included",[554,555,556],"Databases, boards and project tracking in the same tool as your docs","A large template gallery and third-party ecosystem","One app for personal notes and team work","Notion",[559,562,565],{"q":560,"a":561},"Is Contour a Notion alternative?","For team wikis and knowledge bases, yes. If you mainly use Notion for documentation, onboarding and handbooks, Contour covers that with real-time editing, search, AI and public pages. If you rely on Notion databases, keep them there.",{"q":563,"a":564},"Where does Contour store data compared to Notion?","Contour Cloud runs on servers in Germany for every plan. Notion stores workspaces in the United States unless you are on Enterprise with EU data residency.",{"q":566,"a":567},"Can I bring my Notion pages to Contour?","Yes, through Notion's Markdown export and Contour's Markdown import. A dedicated importer is planned.",{},"Export your Notion workspace as Markdown, then import the ZIP into a Contour space; pages, nesting and images come along. A dedicated Notion importer that also brings databases over as pages is on the roadmap.","\u002Fnotion","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.notion.com\u002Fpricing",[573,581,587,594,600,606,612,618,624,630],{"label":574,"contour":575,"them":578},"Focus",{"score":576,"text":577},"yes","Team wiki and knowledge base",{"score":579,"text":580},"partial","All-in-one workspace: docs, databases, projects",{"label":582,"contour":583,"them":585},"Where data lives",{"score":576,"text":584},"Germany, on every plan including Free",{"score":579,"text":586},"United States by default; EU data residency on Enterprise only",{"label":588,"contour":589,"them":591},"Self-hosting",{"score":579,"text":590},"With the public release (Docker)",{"score":592,"text":593},"no","Not available",{"label":595,"contour":596,"them":598},"Source code",{"score":579,"text":597},"Source available with the public release (BSL 1.1, becomes Apache 2.0)",{"score":592,"text":599},"Proprietary",{"label":601,"contour":602,"them":604},"Real-time editing",{"score":576,"text":603},"Yes, with comments and mentions",{"score":576,"text":605},"Yes",{"label":607,"contour":608,"them":610},"Editor",{"score":576,"text":609},"Columns, sortable tables, status labels, dates, draw.io diagrams, whiteboard drawings, PDF preview",{"score":576,"text":611},"Rich blocks, columns and databases",{"label":613,"contour":614,"them":616},"AI",{"score":576,"text":615},"Ask AI with sources and editor actions; EU-hosted models or your own endpoint",{"score":576,"text":617},"Notion AI on Business and Enterprise",{"label":619,"contour":620,"them":622},"MCP for AI assistants",{"score":576,"text":621},"Built-in MCP server with OAuth approval",{"score":576,"text":623},"Official MCP server",{"label":625,"contour":626,"them":628},"Databases and boards",{"score":592,"text":627},"No, pages only",{"score":576,"text":629},"Yes, a core feature",{"label":631,"contour":632,"them":634},"Guests",{"score":576,"text":633},"Free and unlimited on paid plans",{"score":579,"text":635},"Available, with limits per plan",{"title":637,"description":638},"Contour vs Notion: a focused wiki, hosted in Germany","Comparing Contour and Notion for team knowledge bases: data location, self-hosting, AI, MCP, databases and pricing. A fair look at which fits your team.","notion","A focused team wiki, hosted in Germany.","KcKN1XKXZ-U80372VL7GEnz9r7_wLdYuOBnbP1ymXKk",{"id":643,"title":644,"body":645,"checked":548,"chooseContour":652,"chooseThem":656,"competitor":660,"description":649,"extension":48,"faq":661,"meta":671,"migrate":672,"navigation":72,"order":15,"path":673,"pricingUrl":674,"rows":675,"seo":714,"stem":717,"summary":718,"__hash__":719},"compare_en\u002Fconfluence.md","Contour vs Confluence",{"type":7,"value":646,"toc":650},[647],[10,648,649],{},"Confluence is the wiki of the Atlassian suite and shines next to Jira. Contour is a lighter knowledge base that is fast to write in and easy to search, hosted in Germany, and self-hostable with the public release. Here is a fair look at both.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":651},[],[653,654,655],"A wiki people enjoy writing in, without a Marketplace of add-ons","Data in Germany on every plan, and a self-hosted option as Data Center goes away","A simple price per member, with free guests and AI included",[657,658,659],"Tight integration with Jira and the rest of the Atlassian suite","Specific Marketplace apps your processes depend on","Enterprise features such as advanced permissions across many products","Confluence",[662,665,668],{"q":663,"a":664},"What happens to Confluence Data Center?","Atlassian stopped selling new Data Center subscriptions on 30 March 2026, and Data Center products reach end of life on 28 March 2029, when they become read-only. Teams that need to keep their wiki on their own servers have to move to another product.",{"q":666,"a":667},"Is Contour a Confluence alternative?","For documentation, handbooks and team knowledge, yes. If your team lives in Jira and depends on its integration with Confluence, Confluence may still fit better.",{"q":669,"a":670},"Can I self-host Contour instead of Confluence Data Center?","Self-hosting comes with Contour's public release: one Docker image with Postgres and Redis, every feature, free for your own organisation. Until then, Contour Cloud runs in Germany.",{},"Confluence exports spaces as HTML, XML, PDF or Word. Convert the HTML export to Markdown and import the ZIP into a Contour space. A dedicated Confluence importer is on the roadmap; until then we're happy to help with larger migrations.","\u002Fconfluence","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.atlassian.com\u002Fsoftware\u002Fconfluence\u002Fpricing",[676,680,684,688,691,694,700,704,708],{"label":574,"contour":677,"them":678},{"score":576,"text":577},{"score":576,"text":679},"Team wiki, part of the Atlassian suite",{"label":582,"contour":681,"them":682},{"score":576,"text":584},{"score":579,"text":683},"Choice of region (e.g. EU) on Standard and above",{"label":588,"contour":685,"them":686},{"score":579,"text":590},{"score":592,"text":687},"Data Center: no new subscriptions since 30 March 2026, end of life on 28 March 2029",{"label":595,"contour":689,"them":690},{"score":579,"text":597},{"score":592,"text":599},{"label":601,"contour":692,"them":693},{"score":576,"text":603},{"score":576,"text":605},{"label":695,"contour":696,"them":698},"Features built in",{"score":576,"text":697},"draw.io diagrams, whiteboard drawings, PDF preview, math, templates, public pages, AI in the product",{"score":579,"text":699},"Many extras come from paid Marketplace apps",{"label":613,"contour":701,"them":702},{"score":576,"text":615},{"score":576,"text":703},"Atlassian's AI (Rovo)",{"label":619,"contour":705,"them":706},{"score":576,"text":621},{"score":576,"text":707},"Atlassian's remote MCP server",{"label":709,"contour":710,"them":712},"Jira integration",{"score":592,"text":711},"No",{"score":576,"text":713},"Yes, deeply integrated",{"title":715,"description":716},"Contour vs Confluence: a lighter wiki, hosted in Germany","Comparing Contour and Confluence: data location, self-hosting after Data Center's end of life, built-in features, AI, MCP and Jira. A fair look at both.","confluence","A lighter wiki, hosted in Germany.","4KwtRyHNN5u71rM4R5F5ByehI3JBsXuyrAZNvvOl9rU",[721,778,847,906,953],{"id":722,"title":723,"body":724,"description":728,"details":731,"extension":48,"faq":759,"icon":769,"meta":770,"mockup":106,"name":771,"navigation":72,"order":112,"path":772,"seo":773,"stem":106,"summary":776,"__hash__":777},"features_en\u002Fai.md","AI that knows your docs, and works where you do.",{"type":7,"value":725,"toc":729},[726],[10,727,728],{},"Ask a question and get an answer from your own pages, with links to every page it read. Rewrite and translate right in the editor. And connect Claude or any other MCP client to your knowledge base, with your permission.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":730},[],[732,735,738,741,744,747,750,753,756],{"title":733,"body":734},"Ask AI, with sources","Answers come from the pages you can access and link to every page the AI read. Ask follow-up questions in the same thread.",{"title":736,"body":737},"Writing help in the editor","Improve writing, fix spelling and grammar, change the tone, translate or summarise a selection, or give your own instruction. Replace the text or insert below.",{"title":739,"body":740},"Your house style","Workspace instructions tell the AI how you write: British or American English, your terminology, your tone. They go with every request.",{"title":742,"body":743},"EU-hosted models, or your own","Contour AI uses EU-hosted models and is included in Team and Business. Or connect any OpenAI-compatible endpoint with your own key, on every plan including Free.",{"title":745,"body":746},"Built-in MCP server","Add your workspace as a remote MCP server in Claude and other clients. They discover OAuth, you approve read or read and write access, and you can disconnect them any time.",{"title":748,"body":749},"Who knows about this","who_knows ranks the people who wrote and edited the pages on a topic, with those pages. Ask \"who knows our VPN setup?\" and the assistant names the colleague to ask, not just a page.",{"title":751,"body":752},"Your terms, defined once","define_term returns what an abbreviation means in your workspace, from the pages that define it. Assistants stop guessing what SLA, UStVA or your internal acronyms stand for.",{"title":754,"body":755},"Related pages, not just matches","related_pages follows what links to a page, what it links to and what shares links with it, so an assistant reads the context around a hit. Always with your permissions.",{"title":757,"body":758},"Under your control","AI is off until an admin turns it on. Usage per member and per day shows who uses it, and members only ever reach pages they can open themselves.",[760,763,766],{"q":761,"a":762},"Is AI switched on by default?","No. An admin enables AI for the workspace. Until then no content is sent to any model.",{"q":764,"a":765},"Which assistants can connect through MCP?","Any client that supports remote MCP servers over Streamable HTTP, such as Claude. Add https:\u002F\u002Fyour-workspace.contourdocs.com\u002Fmcp; the client registers itself and asks you to approve access. Clients that only support static headers can use a personal API key instead.",{"q":767,"a":768},"Can the AI see pages I can't?","No. Ask AI and MCP clients act with your permissions, so they only read pages you could open yourself.","bot",{},"AI & MCP","\u002Fai",{"title":774,"description":775},"AI knowledge base with MCP server – Contour","Answers from your own pages with sources, writing help in the editor, EU-hosted models or your own, and a built-in MCP server for Claude and other assistants.","Ask AI with sources, writing help and a built-in MCP server.","07qoZAvfxUr5SwAGhyqCyjgplSBLsjL-vPabpZ53fjc",{"id":779,"title":780,"body":781,"description":785,"details":788,"extension":48,"faq":825,"icon":838,"meta":839,"mockup":227,"name":840,"navigation":72,"order":15,"path":841,"seo":842,"stem":108,"summary":845,"__hash__":846},"features_en\u002Fcollaboration.md","Write together, in real time.",{"type":7,"value":782,"toc":786},[783],[10,784,785],{},"Everyone edits the same page at once and sees each other's cursors. Discuss right next to the text, mention people and pages, and stay on top of changes without chasing them. The editor brings columns, tables, diagrams, drawings and PDF previews, so a page holds more than text.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":787},[],[789,792,795,798,801,804,807,810,813,816,819,822],{"title":790,"body":791},"Live cursors and presence","See who is on a page and where they are typing. Changes merge as you type, so there are no conflicts and no lost edits.",{"title":793,"body":794},"Inline comments","Comment on any passage, reply in threads, react, and resolve when you're done. Resolved threads can be reopened.",{"title":796,"body":797},"Mentions","Type @ to mention a colleague or link another page, in the text and in comments.",{"title":799,"body":800},"Notifications that fit","An inbox in Contour plus email for the events you choose. Follow a page or a whole space to hear about changes.",{"title":802,"body":803},"An editor that gets out of the way","Slash menu, Markdown shortcuts, callouts, toggles, code with highlighting, math, emoji (type : and two letters) and highlights in five colours. Align paragraphs and headings left, centre or right.",{"title":805,"body":806},"Blocks you can move, headings you can link","Grab a block's handle to drag it, turn it into a heading, list, quote or callout, or move it with Alt+Shift+↑\u002F↓. Every heading copies a link to its section, on shared pages too, and folds away for each reader.",{"title":808,"body":809},"Columns, status labels and dates","Lay out content in two or three columns, or wide and narrow; they stack on phones. Add status labels like IN REVIEW in six colours, and dates with \u002Fdate or @today. Open tasks with a past date show as overdue.",{"title":811,"body":812},"Tables that do more","Drag column borders to resize, align each column, colour cells and sort by any column, with numbers and dates sorted as numbers and dates.",{"title":814,"body":815},"Diagrams and drawings","Diagrams from draw.io and hand-drawn whiteboard sketches with shapes, arrows and sticky notes, re-editable any time, next to Mermaid diagrams written as text. One person edits a drawing at a time; everyone else sees who.",{"title":817,"body":818},"PDFs and files","Attach PDFs and preview their pages right on the page. Images up to 20 MB, PDFs up to 50 MB, other files up to 100 MB. Videos are embedded from YouTube or Vimeo.",{"title":820,"body":821},"Templates that fill themselves in","Put {{date}}, {{time}}, {{weekday}} or {{author}} in a template, and they are filled in for whoever creates the page, in their language and time zone.",{"title":823,"body":824},"Drafts, then publish","Write in a private draft and publish to a space when it's ready. Unpublish, move or archive any time.",[826,829,832,835],{"q":827,"a":828},"Can I write in Markdown?","Yes. Markdown shortcuts work as you type, pasted Markdown is converted, and you can copy or download any page as Markdown. Columns and table alignment are kept in the Markdown.",{"q":830,"a":831},"Can we upload videos?","Not as files. Embed them from YouTube or Vimeo instead, so they play smoothly for everyone and don't count against storage.",{"q":833,"a":834},"Can we switch off comments?","Yes. Admins can disable commenting for the whole workspace.",{"q":836,"a":837},"Can guests collaborate too?","On Team and Business, guests are free and work in the spaces you share with them, with the access you give them.","users",{},"Collaboration","\u002Fcollaboration",{"title":843,"description":844},"Real-time collaborative docs for teams – Contour","Edit the same page together with live cursors, discuss in inline comments and mention people and pages. Columns, sortable tables, draw.io diagrams, whiteboard drawings and PDF previews built in. Hosted in Germany.","Live co-editing, comments, mentions and an editor with columns, tables, diagrams and drawings.","On-61we7O_2wyQ6BypMxJYf1LMaxSJBV1nN2NYaGgzY",{"id":848,"title":849,"body":850,"description":854,"details":857,"extension":48,"faq":885,"icon":107,"meta":898,"mockup":107,"name":899,"navigation":72,"order":229,"path":900,"seo":901,"stem":107,"summary":904,"__hash__":905},"features_en\u002Fsearch.md","Find anything in seconds.",{"type":7,"value":851,"toc":855},[852],[10,853,854],{},"Press ⌘K and jump to any page or action. Search the full text of everything you can access. Backlinks connect related pages, and spaces keep each team's knowledge in its place.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":856},[],[858,861,864,867,870,873,876,879,882],{"title":859,"body":860},"⌘K for everything","Jump to pages, run actions and start new pages from templates without leaving the keyboard.",{"title":862,"body":863},"Full-text search","Every word on every page you can open, with highlighted snippets and filters for status, space and date. It matches English and German word forms, so \"policies\" finds \"policy\" and \"Rechnungen\" finds \"Rechnung\".",{"title":865,"body":866},"Forgives typos","⌘K tolerates typos in titles. Type \"onbaording\" and the onboarding guide is still first.",{"title":868,"body":869},"Backlinks","Each page shows where it is referenced, so knowledge connects instead of piling up. On the map, dashed lines join pages that share links, even if nobody linked them to each other.",{"title":871,"body":872},"Link previews","Hover a page link or an @mention to see a preview with the title, space, owner, review state and the first lines, without clicking.",{"title":874,"body":875},"Abbreviations explained","Define an abbreviation once, as \"Service Level Agreement (SLA)\" or in a glossary line, and it gets a dotted underline on every page. Hover it to see the meaning, the page that defines it, who owns that page and whether it is verified, due or stale.",{"title":877,"body":878},"Spaces with permissions","Group pages by team or topic, with members, groups and private spaces. Each space gets an overview page.",{"title":880,"body":881},"A tree you can rearrange","Nest pages, drag and drop in the sidebar, save pages, pin what matters and pick up where you left off.",{"title":883,"body":884},"Templates","Workspace and space templates for meeting notes, RFCs, onboarding and more, one keystroke away.",[886,889,892,895],{"q":887,"a":888},"Does search respect permissions?","Yes. You only find pages you are allowed to open, and abbreviations only show definitions from published pages you can open.",{"q":890,"a":891},"Does smart search need AI?","No. Word forms, typo tolerance, shared-link connections and abbreviations work without AI and without sending your pages anywhere, on every plan and when self-hosted.",{"q":893,"a":894},"Can AI answer questions in search?","Yes, with AI enabled: Ask AI answers from your pages and links its sources. It works with your own API key on every plan, or with Contour AI on Team and Business.",{"q":896,"a":897},"Can we bring existing docs?","Yes. Import a Markdown ZIP or a JSON export into a space; structure and images come along.",{},"Search & structure","\u002Fsearch",{"title":902,"description":903},"Knowledge base search and structure – Contour","Press ⌘K to jump anywhere, search every page's full text, follow backlinks, and keep knowledge tidy with spaces, nesting and templates.","⌘K, full-text search, backlinks and a tidy structure.","vx5f2AFTdWzFHBcBY4z9BRCaNJRk3NqQoJ616KFsdNo",{"id":907,"title":908,"body":909,"description":913,"details":916,"extension":48,"faq":935,"icon":944,"meta":945,"mockup":338,"name":946,"navigation":72,"order":285,"path":947,"seo":948,"stem":224,"summary":951,"__hash__":952},"features_en\u002Fsharing.md","Share what's ready. Keep every version.",{"type":7,"value":910,"toc":914},[911],[10,912,913],{},"Turn any page, with its sub-pages, into a public page for customers or the world. Invite guests to exactly what they need. And never worry about an edit again: every change is saved and can be restored.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":915},[],[917,920,923,926,929,932],{"title":918,"body":919},"Public pages","Share a page and its sub-pages by link, with navigation, a table of contents and your own path. Revoke access any time.",{"title":921,"body":922},"Docs sites and help centres","Let search engines index a public page and show when it was last updated. Your workspace branding comes along.",{"title":924,"body":925},"Revision history","Every change is saved. Compare versions with highlighted changes and restore any of them with one click.",{"title":927,"body":928},"A record of what happened","See who published, moved or archived a page, right next to its revisions.",{"title":930,"body":931},"Share with people","Give individual people read or edit access to a page. They find it under Shared with me.",{"title":933,"body":934},"Admins stay in control","See every public link in one list, switch sharing off for the workspace, and on Team and Business hide the Contour badge.",[936,939,941],{"q":937,"a":938},"Can public pages be found on Google?","Yes, if you allow indexing for that page. Otherwise they are only reachable by link.",{"q":940,"a":495},"Can I use my own domain for public pages?",{"q":942,"a":943},"How long is history kept?","As long as the page exists. Deleted pages stay in the trash for 30 days before they are removed for good.","globe",{},"Sharing & history","\u002Fsharing",{"title":949,"description":950},"Public docs pages and version history – Contour","Publish pages publicly with navigation and a table of contents, share with guests, and restore any earlier version with highlighted changes.","Public pages, guests and a full history of every change.","x4L7fSvHrgxnxyBi7udcU_W0_3CPSpL6jVLBqG9XVpk",{"id":4,"title":5,"body":954,"description":12,"details":960,"extension":48,"faq":971,"icon":68,"meta":978,"mockup":70,"name":71,"navigation":72,"order":73,"path":74,"seo":979,"stem":78,"summary":79,"__hash__":80},{"type":7,"value":955,"toc":958},[956],[10,957,12],{},{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":959},[],[961,962,963,964,965,966,967,968,969,970],{"title":19,"body":20},{"title":22,"body":23},{"title":25,"body":26},{"title":28,"body":29},{"title":31,"body":32},{"title":34,"body":35},{"title":37,"body":38},{"title":40,"body":41},{"title":43,"body":44},{"title":46,"body":47},[972,973,974,975,976,977],{"q":51,"a":52},{"q":54,"a":55},{"q":57,"a":58},{"q":60,"a":61},{"q":63,"a":64},{"q":66,"a":67},{},{"title":76,"description":77}]