Docus is a markdown-based document workspace that runs inside Microsoft® 365. The pages you write are ordinary Markdown files, the documents you bring keep their own format, and all of it sits in your own SharePoint library — so nothing your team works on ever leaves your tenant.
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Teams don’t want another island — they want writing that sits next to the files, people, tasks and AI they already use. Bought from outside Microsoft® 365, that reach is paid for twice: once to build the integrations, then forever to govern a second copy of everything. So it never gets approved, and the knowledge scatters across chats and drives instead.
Not just a fast editor — one that reaches the rest of their work: the Office files, the colleagues, the calendars, the tasks and the Copilot they already use every day. A writing tool that can see none of that becomes the wiki nobody opens.
Connectors to build, and to keep working after every API change. A second permission model to hold in sync. Retention, DLP and eDiscovery re-implemented from scratch. Then another vendor contract, security review and seat count to reconcile at every renewal.
The integration is the platform. Docus is a SharePoint web part, so the storage, identity, permissions, retention and Copilot are the ones you already run — nothing to wire up, nothing to govern twice, and it bills through your existing Microsoft® agreement.
There is no external backend. What you write in Docus is a Markdown file, what you bring with you keeps its own format, and all of it sits in your own SharePoint document library — governed by the Teams and SharePoint permissions you already trust.
Write in standard, portable Markdown and watch it render live. Switch between Edit, Split, Preview and Raw to see exactly how a construct is written versus how it appears.
Embed Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and PDF and read them inline through the Microsoft Office web viewers — no download, no new tab. Files are uploaded to the same SharePoint library, so permissions and versioning apply automatically.
.eml and .msg parsed into readable headers and body
Native SharePoint content approval is binary and resets the moment anyone touches the file. Docus is the system of record instead: request sign-off from people or groups, and the document status is derived automatically — Draft, In review, Approved or Changes requested.
Comments anchor to the quoted text, so they survive edits made above them.
Not every idea starts as a sentence. Docus includes a full Excalidraw canvas as its own document type — sketch an architecture, map a process, run a workshop — saved as a real file in the same SharePoint library, with the same permissions and version history as everything else.
A canvas is a document — stored, permissioned and versioned like the rest.
Mermaid diagrams written as text — flowcharts, sequence, Gantt, class and state — so they version, diff and review like any other content, instead of arriving as a binary image nobody can edit.
Reuses your organisation’s Microsoft 365 Copilot licence to answer over your library with real
citations, draft with /ai, and rewrite a selection with a diff before anything changes.
Full-text search over crawled file content via Microsoft Graph, plus #tag lookup and filters
for file type, date and who edited it — permission-trimmed by SharePoint itself.
Every save is checked in as a native SharePoint version. View or restore any earlier revision, and lock a document while you work so nobody overwrites you.
Promote a checklist into real Microsoft Planner tasks, and drop in meeting cards read from — or created in — your Outlook calendar, including Teams online meetings.
The interface ships in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Simplified Chinese and Arabic — following the browser or a per-user choice, in either theme.
Three honest ways to run company documentation — including where the alternatives are genuinely fine.
| Docus | Confluence, Notion & similar doc SaaS | Plain SharePoint | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where content lives | Your SharePoint library | The vendor’s cloud | Your SharePoint library |
| Block editor with live Markdown | Yes | Yes | Not a Markdown editor |
| Permissions model | Entra ID & SharePoint — the one you have | A second directory to keep in sync | Entra ID & SharePoint |
| Approval that survives an edit | Version-stamped, you choose to reset or keep | Varies by product | Native approval resets on every change |
| Office files rendered inline | Word, Excel, PPT, Visio, PDF, email | Usually attachments or links | Separate viewer, separate page |
| Extra licence & vendor review | One app in your tenant | New contract, DPA and security review | Already licensed |
| If you stop using it | Markdown files stay readable in place | Export and migrate everything | Content stays in place |
Docus is uploaded to your App Catalog and consented by an administrator. It runs as a SharePoint web part — placed on a page, expanded to full screen, or added as a tab in Teams.
A built-in Getting Started set can be generated into any site on first run, so nobody stares at an empty library — and you can upload or drag in the files you already have.
Folders and tags mirror how your organisation actually thinks. It’s a real SharePoint folder tree underneath, so it stays visible and governable outside Docus too.
Add Docus as a tab in any channel and your colleagues get the workspace in a place they already open fifty times a day. Each team gets one workspace, backed by its own SharePoint site.
Docus is not another SaaS silo. It runs inside your tenant, under your governance, with the retention, backup and audit policies you already have in place.
Docus is completing its final round of tenant testing before listing on the Microsoft® Commercial Marketplace. Tell us about your environment and we’ll get in touch the moment it’s available.
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