create.guides.co
Guides Studio
Write, edit, publish, and place guides across channels. A focused authoring workspace — no CMS, no developer required.
Open Studio →Studio · Reader · Portals
Trusted knowledge for people, organizations, and AI.
Guides helps organizations publish the information people depend on — training, procedures, policies, and field knowledge — in a format that's easy to create, easy to read, and structured for the AI era.
Trusted by leading Canadian organizations and institutions
One platform. Three focused apps.
No more crowded dashboard. Create, read, and administer your organization's library in purpose-built workspaces that share the same guides behind the scenes.
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Guides Reader
Read, resume, and subscribe. A calm reading experience designed for humans — with structured content that AI agents can access with permission.
Open Reader →
{your-org}.guides.co
Organization Portals
Your branded guide library. Channels, members, and admin — each organization gets its own subdomain and a library people can trust.
Find or create a portal →Simple doesn't mean small.
For more than fifteen years we've helped organizations publish information people depend on.
Trusted at scale.
Utilities, governments, associations, emergency preparedness programs, colleges, publishers, and nonprofits use Guides to publish knowledge people depend on — and millions read it every year.
100,000+
people trained
10,000+
organizations
250k+
guides published
Millions
of guide viewers
Built for AI from the ground up.
Guides aren't PDFs or blog posts. They're structured knowledge — readable by people today, and accessible to the AI tools your team uses tomorrow.
- Structured by design Guides Document Format (GDF) gives every page semantic structure — not just rendered HTML. AI can understand, summarize, and navigate your content intentionally.
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Canonical URLs that agents can find
Every guide lives at a stable address (
guides.co/g/{name}). Bookmarks, emails, and QR codes keep working — and so do crawlers and connectors. - Permission-aware access Public guides are discoverable. Private org libraries stay private. You control what's open to the world and what's for your members only.
- No engagement tricks No ads, no algorithms, no lock-in. Just useful information, organized so people — and the systems they trust — can find it.
What you write is what people see.
Studio is WYSIWYG publishing — write once, publish everywhere. Updates propagate instantly across your channels and portals.
Editing
Published
The internet was supposed to be a library.
Not a casino.
While much of the web became focused on capturing attention, collecting data, and maximizing engagement, Guides remained focused on publishing and sharing knowledge — built in Canada, trusted by institutions, and designed to last.
Just useful information, organized so people can find it.
Ready to publish trusted knowledge?
Create a guide in minutes. Run your organization's library for years.
Start in Studio, launch a portal, or talk to us about your program.