The company behind Outline
General Outline, Inc
Outline is made by General Outline, Inc., which grew out of an open-source project. It earns money from monthly plans for its hosted service and from paid licences for running Outline on a customer's own servers; a limited self-hosted edition is free.
getoutline.comRead on Oct 18, 2026 from the company’s own pages and from news reports.
Outline at a glance
- Founded
- 2020
- Based in
- New York City (its footer reads "Built in NYC")
- Ownership
- Privately held
Outline funding
Bootstrapped: its About page says the company is profitable and not reliant on outside capital to survive. It names no investors. getoutline.com
Company details
- Ownership
- Privately held: its About page says the company is bootstrapped, profitable and not reliant on outside capital, and its pages name no parent company. getoutline.com
- Founded
- 2020 getoutline.com
- Based in
- New York City (its footer reads "Built in NYC") getoutline.com
Outline on social media and the web
- Changelog · getoutline.com
- Community · github.com
- Status page · status.getoutline.com
Only accounts General Outline, Inc links to from its own site, so you know they are its own.
How to contact General Outline, Inc
The ways General Outline, Inc publishes for reaching it. We don’t list personal email addresses, guessed or otherwise.
Outline news and launches
- Sep 9, 2026WebMCP support
- Sep 4, 2026Open Knowledge Format export
- Aug 5, 2026Import web pages, emails, PDFs, and TextBundle archives
- Aug 4, 2026Multi-select
Media kit
The General Outline, Inc media kit
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Questions about Outline the company
When was Outline founded?
General Outline, Inc was founded in 2020, according to getoutline.com.
How much funding has Outline raised?
Bootstrapped: its About page says the company is profitable and not reliant on outside capital to survive. It names no investors.
What is Outline's valuation?
No valuation was found in General Outline, Inc's announcements or in news reports, as read on Oct 18, 2026. Private companies usually do not publish one.
Who owns Outline?
Privately held: its About page says the company is bootstrapped, profitable and not reliant on outside capital, and its pages name no parent company.
Where is Outline based?
General Outline, Inc gives its base as New York City (its footer reads "Built in NYC").
Is Outline on social media?
General Outline, Inc links to its own accounts on X (Twitter) and GitHub. The links are on this page, taken from General Outline, Inc's own site.
Where this comes from
Read on Oct 18, 2026. Facts come from General Outline, Inc’s own pages, news reports and investors’ own announcements; nothing from paid data sites. What no page states is left out. If something here is out of date, the company can send a correction through the vendor page.