Pubbin wasn't born in a lab. It was born from years of watching time and money disappear into integration projects that should have been simple. We decided to fix that.
Before Pubbin, our team spent years at a consulting company integrating FontoXML for enterprise clients. Every project was the same story: months of setup, custom glue code, infrastructure decisions that shouldn't need to be made, and budgets that ballooned before a single editor had typed a word. We watched organisations spend six figures just to reach a starting line that should have been free.
We left to create CodeSociety with a clear mission: build the product we wished had existed. Pubbin is the result -- a turnkey XML CMS that eliminates the integration tax and lets teams focus on what actually matters: their content. No more stitching together databases, editors, and workflow engines. One product, ready to go.
CodeSociety, the company behind Pubbin, offers deep consulting expertise in FontoXML, XML schemas, and content management architecture. When you need hands-on help, we're there.
Deploy Pubbin within your own infrastructure. We handle installation, configuration, and ongoing support so your data never leaves your control.
Customise the FontoXML editing experience to match your authoring workflows. Custom sidebars, toolbars, operations, and schema-aware UI components built by experts.
Design, migrate, or optimise your XML schemas. Whether you're adopting DITA, NISO STS, or a custom vocabulary, we'll get your information architecture right.
Build publication pipelines that transform your XML into PDF, HTML, EPUB, or any format your downstream systems require. Automated, repeatable, and version-aware.
Pubbin is consortium-funded, transparently developed, and designed to give you freedom -- not lock you in. Here's what that means in practice.
Pubbin is funded by the organisations that use it, through the PUB Consortium. This means the roadmap is driven by real user needs, not venture capital milestones or short-term profit targets.
Consortium members get full visibility into the development process. Quarterly reports, open roadmap discussions, and direct access to the engineering team. No black boxes.
Feature priorities are set by consortium members through weighted voting. The people who depend on Pubbin every day are the ones deciding where it goes next.
Your content is stored in standard XML. Your schemas are yours. Your data is exportable at any time. Pubbin earns your business by being the best option, not by holding your data hostage.