At Sigil, we’re building a new kind of workspace for writing docs.
Writing for work is easier than it’s ever been. But when we don’t write for ourselves, we don’t think for ourselves. And that’s the work that matters most today, as the pace of companies accelerates—thinking about the hard problems, choosing the right course of action, coordinating with others. It only becomes more important that we know where we’re going and why.
We believe in technology that expands what we can do rather than diminishing it, a future that brings together human understanding and machine intelligence. This future is far from certain, but finding a path toward it is one of the hardest and most important problems of this era.
We’re a small team in New York in the early days of building something we think matters enormously, and the people who join now will shape our vision of what it looks like.
Ambition. The opportunity in front of us is huge, and the window of time to capture it is finite. We aim beyond what feels reasonable, then make contact with reality as quickly as possible. A fine idea executed now is more valuable than a perfect idea executed later because it gives us new information we can use to learn.
Integrity. We do what’s right, not what’s easy or popular, and we value substance over hype. We’re building tooling that informs decision-making and strategy at companies, which requires trust that’s hard to earn and fragile once gained. In a world with a lot of noise, we think for ourselves and maintain our own center of gravity.
Perspective. We care deeply about building an environment where everyone can do their very best work, which means cultivating deep empathy for our users as well as each other, assuming good intent, and making the right decisions for the company as a whole, not just ourselves. We stay grounded and clear-eyed about what’s working and what’s not.
Craft. Building a product that people love is nuanced work that lives in the details. We’re looking for people who viscerally feel the difference between good and great, who know when to use LLMs and when to do the hard work themselves, who own outcomes rather than just effort.
Imagination. The process of building software is becoming more experimental and exploratory—drawing inspiration from unexpected places, breaking out of established patterns, following intuition. We think the best work happens when we can play, both in our day-to-day work and with the experience we create for our users, and we want to be a sandbox for your strange and speculative ideas.
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