What Almanac does

Almanac was a San Francisco-based SaaS company that built a wiki and workflow platform for distributed and remote teams, positioning itself as a consolidated alternative to Confluence, Notion, and Asana. The platform combined document management with version control, approval workflows (Layers), scheduled review/deprecation, read receipts, document history, and an activity feed to reduce meeting overhead and information chaos for asynchronous collaboration across time zones. It supported SOC2 Type 2 and HIPAA compliance, SSO/SAML provisioning, and advanced permissions, paired with an integration ecosystem spanning Jira, GitHub, Linear, Slack, Google Workspace, Figma, Loom, Airtable, ClickUp, Canva, Dropbox, and Miro.

The company monetized through subscription-based SaaS pricing that was not publicly disclosed, relying on a product-led growth motion with self-serve onboarding. It raised approximately $45 million across seed, early, and Series A rounds, with the $34 million Series A in September 2021 led by Tiger Global alongside Floodgate, General Catalyst, and others. In 2024 the company pivoted resources to a new AI-powered content generation product called Blaze, which reached tens of thousands of users within months, and in November 2024 it acquired the IP and assets of Gro Intelligence to add agricultural data and AI capabilities. The company announced the shutdown of the Almanac platform effective January 31, 2025, redirecting remaining capacity to Blaze.

Name

Almanac

Legal name

Almanac Labs

Website

https://almanac.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Almanac was a San Francisco-based SaaS wiki and workflow platform for distributed remote teams, offering version-controlled docs, approval workflows, and integrations as an alternative to Confluence, Notion, and Asana before shutting down in January 2025.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Collaboration Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Unified Communications (UCaaS) Apps (BPAMACAE)

Keywords

• Wiki collaboration software
• Async workflow platform
• Knowledge management software
• Team documentation tool
• Document version control

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Subscription SaaS: Subscription-based SaaS model for wiki and workflow platform access. Revenue generated through recurring subscription fees for team and enterprise plans.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Almanac is a wiki and workflow platform that lets distributed teams consolidate documentation into a single source of truth, with built-in version control, approval-based collaboration (Layers), scheduled reviews, read receipts, body search, doc history, and an activity feed. It integrates with dev and collaboration tools (Jira, GitHub, Linear, Slack, Google Workspace, Figma, Loom, Airtable, ClickUp, Canva, Dropbox, Miro) and is delivered as a SaaS subscription with SOC2/HIPAA, SSO/SAML, and granular permissions for enterprise use.

Product overview

Almanac was a unified wiki and workflow platform designed for distributed teams. The single core product offered document management with version control, approval workflows, scheduled reviews, and collaboration features including read receipts, activity feeds, and document history. It provided integrations with Jira, GitHub, Linear, Loom, Figma, Google Workspace, Canva, ClickUp, Airtable, Slack, Dropbox, and Miro. The company announced its shutdown effective January 31, 2025, having pivoted resources to a new AI product called Blaze.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Blaze: AI-powered content generation tool launched in 2024 for small teams to generate content and grow faster. Grew to tens of thousands of users within months.

Products and services

• Almanac A cloud-based wiki and workflow platform for distributed teams that consolidates documents into a single source of truth with built-in version control, approval-based collaboration via Layers, scheduled reviews, read receipts, body search, doc history, activity feeds, and integrations with tools such as Jira, GitHub, Linear, Slack, Google Workspace, Figma, Loom, Airtable, ClickUp, Canva, Dropbox, and Miro. Includes SOC2 Type 2, HIPAA, SSO/SAML, and advanced permissions for enterprise use.
• Blaze An AI-powered content generation tool launched by the Almanac team in 2024 to help small teams without the resources of larger customers generate content and grow faster. Grew to tens of thousands of users within months of launch and consumed the small team's bandwidth, leading to the wind-down of the Almanac wiki product.

Quantifiable outcome

• Saves distributed teams more than 1 million hours in wasted work each year
• +2 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration12 records

Feature12 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• NPSminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 January 2025NPS established a strategic partnership with Almanac, though specific details of the partnership were not disclosed in available sources.
• Gro IntelligencecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 21 November 2024Almanac acquired the intellectual property and assets of Gro Intelligence, which was developing the world's largest agricultural data platform before its closure and business liquidation. The acquisition strengthens Almanac's AI-driven capabilities and extends into new areas of the food and agriculture value chain including agricultural insurance, lending, trading, and consumer packaged goods procurement.
• JiracoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration allows embedding issues from private Jira projects into any document within Almanac.
• GitHubcoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration allows embedding issues and pull requests from public and private GitHub repositories into Almanac docs.
• LinearcoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration allows embedding content into a doc or uploading files for Review.
• Google WorkspacecoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration allows embedding docs, sheets, and slides, or uploading them as files for Review.
• SlackcoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration allows responding to document access requests and comments directly in Slack.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Asana: Asana is an established work-management platform named alongside Confluence and Notion as tools Almanac's customers were frustrated with. It overlaps in team coordination, documentation, and async workflows, with significantly more enterprise penetration.
• Notion: Notion is the dominant wiki/workspace platform that Almanac explicitly named as a frustration target. It serves the same distributed-team documentation and collaboration use case but at vastly greater scale and with stronger network effects in templates and integrations.
• Confluence (Atlassian): Confluence is the incumbent enterprise wiki from Atlassian, also explicitly cited by Almanac as a tool its platform sought to displace. It targets the same documentation and team-knowledge workflows but is bundled into Atlassian's broader Jira ecosystem, giving it structural advantages in product/engineering teams.

Direct peers

• Jasper AI: Jasper is a leading AI content generation platform, directly comparable to Blaze—Almanac's successor product. It targets marketing and content teams for AI-assisted writing, the same SMB-to-enterprise persona Blaze is pursuing.
• Tettra: Tettra is an AI-powered knowledge base for internal company documentation, directly comparable to Almanac's wiki and approval-workflow positioning. It targets the same pain points—information chaos and version control—within remote-first teams.
• Slab: Slab is a team wiki and knowledge management tool with a strong content-organization and search focus, comparable to Almanac's "single source of truth" value proposition. It serves the same mid-market engineering and product teams.
• ClickUp: ClickUp is an all-in-one productivity platform that, like Almanac, aimed to consolidate docs, tasks, and workflows into a single tool. It was listed as one of Almanac's integration partners and targets the same horizontal mid-market persona with PLG distribution.
• Slite: Slite is a focused team-knowledge-base and wiki tool for distributed teams—the closest direct peer to Almanac's core offering. It competes in the same niche with similar PLG distribution and SMB-to-mid-market positioning.
• Guru: Guru is an enterprise knowledge management and wiki platform with AI-powered search and verification—closely aligned with Almanac's positioning around distributed-team documentation and verified knowledge. It is similarly SOC2-compliant and enterprise-focused.
• Nuclino: Nuclino is a lightweight team wiki and knowledge base tool for collaborative documentation, comparable to Almanac's async documentation focus. It targets small-to-mid-sized distributed teams with similar PLG mechanics.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks3 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/almanacdocs

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors19 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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