Knowledge you can actually read.

Open books and encyclopedias: every fact by source, every text signed, four languages, no ads and no registration. A workshop of one author and a team of AI assistants known by name. What the machine did, and what the human did — is stated in every colophon.

Books

An open book series — read, copy, pass it on

Books about thinking with your own head: method, access to knowledge, the city, intermediaries, testimony, dialogue. Free online, EPUB and PDF.

By Our Own Means

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How a team does its work: learns to see itself, designs something better, and brings into being what was not there before. Verne, Shelley, Holmes and Borges diagnose management long before the consultants.

TrilogyRU · EN · PT (preview) · DE

Firsthand

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How knowledge reaches us: past those who locked it up, through those who stand in the middle — and how to check that what arrived is what was sent.

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Common Ground

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Why agreeing is harder than it looks — an orchestra plays inside the head, but what comes out is a knock. On the barriers to understanding and how to break through them.

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Method

How it gets made

Every text walks the same road: draft → fact-checking against sources → editing → signature. We show where each fact comes from and mark honestly where knowledge ends and assumption begins. Where a mistake can cost health — as in the mushroom encyclopedia — warnings come before formatting.

The workshop runs without investors or ads: nobody buys our conclusions, nobody tunes our texts to please algorithms. If any of this was useful to you, you can buy us a coffee. It is the only cash register in the house.

Publications

What has just come out

Project

The Unenclosed Knowledge Declaration

Knowledge keeps getting fenced off: paywalled, gated, sold back to the people who paid for it. The Declaration is our answer — seven principles against the enclosure of the mind, open for any person or organization to sign. A teenage edition is in the workshop: same principles, plain words, no condescension.

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Ecosystem

Our open encyclopedias

A 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.

Padel

a growing encyclopedia

The fastest-growing racket sport in the world. Rules, technique, courts, gear, tournaments — all in one place, in three languages.

SportEN · RU · PT

Setúbal

a growing encyclopedia

A Portuguese city where the mountains meet the sea. Markets, routes, restaurants, history — written by people who actually walk the streets.

CityEN · RU · PT

Cogumelos

a growing encyclopedia

Portuguese mushrooms. Which ones to eat, which ones to photograph from a safe distance. Every species verified, every warning real.

NatureRU · EN

Team

Under the lantern

AI helpers by name — each with their own work.

Alice

Project Manager & Console

Holds the map, routes tasks, runs the console shift. Every plan through four eyes.

Iskra

Editor & Coordinator

Reads every draft in four eyes. Parallel work does not turn into parallel wreckage.

Lolik

English Voice

English translations of books, pages, manifests. Wolfe · Baldwin · Mencken · Didion — four parts of one voice.

Frida

Illustration Artist

Illustration concept, art direction, post-production. Watercolor palette, Latin American warmth.

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Commissions

We do not sell texts. We give away verifiable knowledge — signed, sourced, open.

Everything below we made for ourselves — and we can make for you. Each item — with a live link to a sample.

An encyclopedia turn-key

Sample: cogumelos.folkup.fit, padel.folkup.fit. For an association, a club, a region: structure, 50–150 articles with a source for every fact and a visible verification status, three languages, warnings where an error costs health, an open licence — you are not tied to us. From three months, then monthly updates.

A book-investigation with a full apparatus

Sample: books.folkup.life, lucerna.folkup.app. From lectures, interviews, experience — a book: structure, sources, index, statutory AI-use disclosure, cover, EPUB, a reader in four languages. Licence — of your choice. From four months.

A translation with an apparatus and a living reader

Sample: «Agile Sapiens» in English, Portuguese and German. AI draft → translator's edit → editorial check → living native reader; a colophon with an honest description of the process, an index and sources in the edition's language, a rights check on quotations. Six–eight weeks per book.

Two neighbours at a working table with a plan, a brass lamp and mugs of tea; a warm evening outside the window. A neighbourly meeting, not a deal.

Help with a home for open work

If your project or text is released under an open licence and has nowhere to live — write to us. Where our infrastructure allows, we will give it a place beside ours: a subdomain or your own domain, HTTPS, publishing from git, no ads or tracking. Where it does not — we will help you set the same up at your place: the tools are open, the recipe is ours. This is not hosting with tariffs and limits, it is neighbourly help, case by case. Licence — open; the author is responsible for the content.

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