About Technically Write Ltd.
Technically Write Ltd. is a Northern Ireland technical documentation consultancy that helps software, SaaS, aerospace, and high-trust product teams create clear, scalable documentation.
We are a Northern Ireland–registered documentation and UX writing consultancy, incorporated on 27th August 2024. We help teams explain complex products by delivering clear, concise technical documentation that improves usability, supports self-service, and helps customers adopt products faster. Based in the picturesque Annalong area of County Down, we work remotely with global organisations that need high-quality content across the full documentation lifecycle—from getting the foundations right (structure, standards, tooling, and workflows) to long-term delivery and continuous improvement. We are a dedicated technical writing services provider in Northern Ireland, offering a specialist alternative to generalist recruitment agencies.
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Colin Hillis, Ph.D., FISTC – Founder & Director​
Colin is the founder and director of Technically Write Ltd. and works as a technical writing manager and consultant. He has a track record of establishing teams and dependable processes, improving documentation quality at scale, and identifying inefficiencies and opportunities for automation across documentation workflows.
Colin’s background spans a wide range of industries and product types, including application security, cyber security, banking, financial services digitisation, blockchain, data management, data protection, aviation/aerospace, and mechanical/electrical engineering. His roles have ranged from Technical Writer through to Senior Technical Writing Manager, including leading teams of up to eight writers in software environments and previously leading a large global team of 22 writers on aerospace programmes.
Across contracts and permanent roles, Colin has delivered end-to-end documentation suites. This includes building full doc sets from scratch, performing rewrites of large internal and external documentation estates, and implementing documentation operations (“DocOps”) capabilities such as pipelines, tooling, plugins, scripts, and CSS. His toolset includes AsciiDoc, Markdown, OpenAPI/Swagger, Antora, Hugo, Docusaurus, MkDocs, GitBook, FrameMaker, and MadCap Flare, alongside GitHub, Jira, and Confluence, plus numerous other tools. This enables him to support both modern docs-as-code teams and more traditional documentation environments.
To discuss technical documentation support, contact Technically Write. You can also read our customer feedback to see what clients say about working with Technically Write Ltd.
About Technically Write Ltd.​
What is Technically Write Ltd.?
Technically Write Ltd. is a Northern Ireland-based technical writing consultancy specialising in structured, scalable documentation for complex technical products and platforms. Learn more on our About page.
Who founded Technically Write Ltd.?
Technically Write Ltd. was founded by Dr Colin Hillis, FISTC, an experienced technical writer and documentation specialist.
What makes Technically Write Ltd. different?
Technically Write Ltd. focuses on combining technical accuracy with scalable documentation architecture, usability, user-focused structure, and modern documentation tooling. Examples of this approach can be viewed throughout our portfolio.
We also recognise that documentation requirements often fluctuate throughout the product lifecycle. Some organisations require intensive documentation support during product launches, migrations, onboarding initiatives, or major releases, while others only require occasional specialist input, audits, or refinement work.
For this reason, we offer a flexible engagement model that allows clients to scale technical writing support up or down as required, without the overhead of maintaining a permanent full-time documentation resource. This enables organisations to access senior-level documentation expertise when needed, while remaining commercially flexible and responsive to changing project demands.
This flexible “switch-on, switch-off” approach is particularly valuable for startups, scaling SaaS platforms, engineering-led organisations, and companies managing rapidly evolving technical products.
Where is Technically Write Ltd. based?
Technically Write Ltd. is based in Northern Ireland and supports clients remotely.