# Outline

Outline is a team knowledge base and wiki for internal documentation, product specs, support answers, meeting notes and onboarding. It offers real-time collaborative editing, search, AI answers over workspace content, and a built-in MCP server for AI assistants. It can be used as a cloud-hosted service or self-hosted on the customer's own server.

Page: https://slateindex.ai/brand/outline · data of 2026-11-03

## Facts

- Founded: 2020
- Headquarters: San Francisco, California, US
- Employees: 11–50
- Company type: Private, bootstrapped
- Latest funding: Series A
- Deployment: Cloud hosted or self-hosted on your own server
- Best for: Teams that want a fast, collaborative knowledge base in the cloud or on their own server

## Products

- Outline Cloud: Hosted team knowledge base run by Outline, with a 30-day free trial and plans by team size.
- Outline on-premises: Self-hosted edition on the customer's own infrastructure, in Community, Business and Enterprise tiers.

## Rankings

| Category | Rank | Visibility | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knowledge Management | 34 of 52 | 1.9 | 2 |

## By engine

| Engine | Visibility | Mention rate |
|---|---|---|
| chatgpt | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| google_ai_mode | 5.7 | 7.4% |
| perplexity | 0.0 | 0.0% |

## Definitions

- Visibility (0–100): how often and how high AI answers name the brand, weighted by position.
- Mention rate: share of collected AI answers that name the brand.
- Share of voice: the brand's mentions as a share of all brand mentions in the category.
- Citation authority: share of answers naming the brand that cite the brand's own site.

Cite as: SlateIndex, “Outline AI visibility profile”, https://slateindex.ai/brand/outline, data of 2026-11-03. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).