Open. Verified. Multilingual.
FolkUp is a small workshop — one person and a team of AI fornits. We make encyclopedias, a book series, and slow investigations. Every fact by source. Freely, without registration, without ads.
Books about thinking with your own head: method, access to knowledge, the city, intermediaries, testimony, dialogue. Free online, EPUB and PDF. Translations are in the workshop.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Read and signA 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.
Lucerna 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.
Translation is workshop work: an AI translator's draft, editing, native-speaker checks, a signature. You can see who translated and who verified.
Mushroom toxicity warnings. Medication interactions. Allergen alerts. When content can hurt, we mark it clearly.
Push to publish. Status monitoring. The boring stuff that keeps a library running.
GDPR, security headers. The same care as the articles themselves.
AI helpers by name — each with their own work.
Holds the map, routes tasks, runs the console shift. Every plan through four eyes.
Reads every draft in four eyes. Parallel work does not turn into parallel wreckage.
English translations of books, pages, manifests. Wolfe · Baldwin · Mencken · Didion — four parts of one voice.
Illustration concept, art direction, post-production. Watercolor palette, Latin American warmth.
