No more single-tool bottleneck
Use Markdown or reStructuredText authoring and pull requests when your contributors need to work outside the Flare editor. We assess the reuse and review capabilities they still need.
Documentation migration - MadCap Flare to Docs-as-Code migration
Move from Flare authoring to a documentation toolchain built around text sources and your engineering workflow. We convert your topics, snippets, variables, and conditions into a modern static site your whole team can contribute to.
Why teams move from MadCap Flare to Docs-as-Code
Version control that fits
Flare already supports Git. The change is to source formats, build tooling, and contribution workflows your engineers can operate alongside the product.
Publishing for readers and consuming tools
Configure builds, CI previews, search, and machine-readable access around the target platform. Moving platforms alone does not improve AI answer accuracy.
How we run the migration
01
Unpack the Flare project
We map your Flare project, topics, the TOC(s), snippets, variables, condition tags, target outputs, and skins, to understand what your published docs actually depend on.
02
Convert topics & TOC
HTM topics convert to Markdown/MDX and your Flare TOC becomes the site navigation, preserving structure rather than dumping a flat list.
03
Re-implement snippets, variables & conditions
Flare snippets become includes, variables become config-driven values, and condition tags map to build-time variants or tabs, where the target supports the required reuse. Custom implementations and changes to the authoring model are identified during the pilot.
04
Match outputs & redirect
We reproduce your published outputs (HTML5 target) on the new platform and map the inventoried output URLs to their destinations. Redirect deployment depends on control of the old domain or hosting.
What breaks in a MadCap Flare → Docs-as-Code migration
The bulk conversion is the easy part. These are the failure modes we’re actually paid to handle.
Flare snippets and variables collapsing into duplicated, hard-to-maintain content
Condition tags (single-sourced outputs) with no target equivalent
Relationship tables and cross-references breaking
Master pages / skins and branding needing a full theme rebuild
HTML5 target output URLs changing and breaking inbound links
Micro Content and search behavior that don’t carry over automatically
Start with a $990 Migration Pilot
We migrate a representative slice of your MadCap Flare docs to Docs-as-Code, with the sample size and conversion scope confirmed before work starts. You receive a live preview and a proposal for the full move; the pilot fee is credited if you proceed.
Commonly asked questions
The target may use includes, configuration, components, or build variants. We assess your reuse and conditional outputs, identify any custom work, and agree which behavior to preserve or simplify before conversion.
It depends on your content and team: Sphinx for reference-heavy, reuse-heavy docs; Docusaurus or MkDocs for lighter, faster-moving product docs. We recommend a target during the pilot based on your actual project, not a default.
Flare skins don’t transfer, but we rebuild the look as a proper theme on the target platform, with an agreed design, supported components, and an operating handoff.
We inventory the output URLs and produce and test a redirect map. Applying it requires control of the source domain or hosting. Search engines decide rankings, so ranking preservation cannot be guaranteed.
From our blog
How we scope large docs migrations
Why migrations fail in scope-setting, not execution, and how a representative pilot slice turns assumptions into an accurate estimate.
Nobody plans for redirects
The one question to answer before any migration launches: what happens to every existing URL? Skip it and you lose traffic, links, and trust.
A practical introduction to Documentation as Code
A hands-on docs-as-code workflow with Git, Sphinx, Read the Docs, and Vale, version-controlled, built, and tested in CI.
Moving from MadCap Flare to Docs-as-Code?
Share your source platform and migration requirements. We review the content, URLs, and integrations before proposing the move.