For teams

Every company has a set of systems its new starters are quietly expected to already understand — and a support inbox full of customers who do not. Explaining those well is a writing problem, and it is the one we are set up for.

What we licence

• Existing explainers, for use in internal wikis, onboarding courses and help centres. Licensed per article, with attribution and a link back.
• Commissioned explainers on your subject, written to the same format: a system card up front — inputs, outputs, components, failure modes — then the full explanation. You own the result.
• System cards alone, as structured data, for teams who want the skeleton and will write their own prose around it.

Why the format works for onboarding

Most internal documentation explains what to do without explaining how the thing works, so it stops being useful the moment reality differs from the runbook. Our format leads with failure modes for exactly that reason: someone who understands how a system breaks can reason about a situation nobody wrote down.

Read what goes wrong across the current corpus to see the shape of it, or any of the 10 published explainers.

What we will not do

• Sponsored articles on the public site. Nothing published under the WiredSimple byline is paid for by the subject of the article. That is set out in the editorial policy and it is not negotiable — it is the only reason the explainers are worth licensing.
• Marketing copy dressed as an explainer. If the honest version of how your product works is unflattering, we will write the honest version or nothing.

Get in touch

Email hello@wiredsimple.com with what you need explained and who needs to understand it. Tell us the level your readers are starting from — that is the thing that determines everything else.