The context layer for engineering teams
Paylo connects your architecture, docs, API reference and code to the work itself. Engineers start on a task knowing what, why and where, without booking time with the one person who remembers.
The real bottleneck
A ticket says “Implement payment webhook.” Then come the questions: which service, which doc is current, why that provider, what counts as done, who’s blocked. Answers live in someone’s head, an old thread, and three wikis. So the person who knows gets interrupted again.
Trackers record that work exists. Wikis store pages nobody links to. Neither knows what a task actually needs.
Not a tracker. Not a wiki.
Knowledge, code and execution are first-class, connected objects, not separate tools stitched together with links.
The product
Project guides, architecture and decisions in folders you already know. Mermaid renders inline, and every heading lands in a sticky table of contents.
architecture
overview.md
backend.md
modules
payments.md
decisions
adr-001.md
Backend architecture
FastAPI services behind a single gateway. Payments are processed asynchronously.
Import a Postman collection. See what’s live, what’s being built, and how well it’s documented.
Markdown with Mermaid diagrams, code highlighting and a live table of contents. Drag in a whole docs folder and the structure comes with it.
Import Postman collections, document every endpoint, and switch environments so {{baseUrl}} and tokens fill themselves in.
Every task has the why, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and links to the exact docs, files and endpoints it touches.
Docs, endpoints, code and tasks link to each other both ways. Open an endpoint and see which tasks are building it.
Share a document or endpoint with your workspace or publicly. Every link can expire and be revoked.
Status moves, edits, links, access changes. Activity is captured at workspace, project and task level.
How it works
Drop your docs folder and Postman collections in. Structure, titles and environments come with them in minutes, not a migration project.
Leads write tasks with a why and acceptance criteria, then link the docs, files and endpoints that matter. Links go both ways.
Developers open a task and find everything in one place. Reviewers see the criteria. Leads get their afternoons back.
“I assigned a developer a task, but they still needed to ask me twenty questions before they could start.”
Security & control
Paylo holds how your systems really work. Access control is enforced on the server, not hidden in the interface.
Every query is scoped to the workspace. Guessing another workspace’s IDs returns nothing.
Six built-in roles, fully editable, plus custom ones. Nobody can grant a permission they don’t hold.
Give contractors or new hires one project, not the whole company’s knowledge.
Secret environment values are never sent to people who can’t edit them. Personal tokens never leave your browser.
Deactivate members instantly, reset passwords with one-time links, and sign people out everywhere.
Shares, role changes, deactivations and edits are all recorded in the activity feed.
Link repositories, browse code from a task, and let pull requests move work forward. Automation stays opt-in.
“How does authentication work?” Answers grounded only in your project’s docs, tasks and decisions, and never another workspace’s.
Set up a workspace, import your docs, and hand off your next task without a meeting.