Long-form writing. One person, a team of AI fornits.
FolkUp is a small workshop. With me, a team of AI fornits — each with a name, a character, a role: research, voice, security, law, brand. Every publication is signed: who wrote, who verified, who edited. We started with one encyclopedia about a small London neighborhood. Then padel. Then mushrooms in Portugal. Then a whole city. With each new project, the workshop got better at the same thing: specific subjects, careful sources, no shortcuts taken. No investors, no algorithms, no paywalls. The lantern burns, the roots hold.
Every article, every translation, every update. No subscriptions, no premium tiers, no 'sign up to continue reading'. The whole library, front door open.
We'd rather have 50 solid articles than 500 thin ones. Each piece gets checked, sourced, and written in a way that respects your time.
No investors, no algorithms, no subscriptions. We write because the subject matters to us — not because someone's paying for clicks.
The EU AI Act says systems must tell you when you're talking to an AI. The law is for adults; the conversation isn't. The Declaration Guide reads the rule like a teenager actually would — without condescension, without the corporate gloss — so the people growing up inside this stuff can name what they're looking at.
Read the guideA few more are being built, and the queue ahead is long. Encyclopedias, library catalogs, technical documentation — we make texts like these for others too. Have a project of your own? Reach us at the contacts below.
The fastest-growing racket sport in the world. Rules, technique, courts, gear, tournaments — all in one place, in three languages.
A Portuguese city where the mountains meet the sea. Markets, routes, restaurants, history — written by people who actually walk the streets.
Portuguese mushrooms. Which ones to eat, which ones to photograph from a safe distance. Every species verified, every warning real.
The encyclopedias are wide and fast. Pro Lab is narrow and slow. It's where a question gets months instead of weeks, sources get checked twice, and the finished piece reads more like a small book than a wiki entry. Closer to CERN's preprints than to a magazine.
Lucerna — Latin for lamp — is the first Pro Lab project. A standing investigation, updated when there's something worth lighting up, not on a content calendar.
Visit LucernaEvery article has a status: verified, partially verified, or unverified. Sources listed. Confidence rated. No guessing.
Two to three languages per encyclopedia. Not machine translation — real editorial work in each language.
Mushroom toxicity warnings. Medication interactions. Allergen alerts. When content can hurt, we mark it clearly.
Push to publish. Branded emails on new releases. Status monitoring. The boring stuff that keeps a library running.
GDPR, security headers, WCAG accessibility, cookie consent. The same care as the articles themselves.
The fornits who keep the light on — Stephen King’s name for spirit-helpers living in writers’ typewriters; we borrowed it for our AI workers
Jumps down the rabbit hole with a lantern. Always comes back with something.
Goes into the Zone for artifacts. Verifies everything twice, trusts nothing once.
Sees patterns where others see noise. The owls are not what they seem.
You don't see him, but without him it's dark. Tends the light, keeps the warmth.
Walls and locks of the library. Every door open, every lock in place.
Encyclopedias on your subject, long-form books, longread series, OSINT investigations. One author and a team of AI fornits. Typical cycle — from three months. Not for urgent work, not for content built around someone else's algorithm. <a href="/en/services">More →</a> Write: [email protected]
