Jekyll Incorporated

Jekyll Incorporated is a modern Jekyll-based blog theme created for company and product blogs, offering a minimal corporate layout that can be published to GitHub Pages with a single rake task.

What is Jekyll Incorporated?

Jekyll Incorporated is an open-source Jekyll theme originally built for sendtoinc.com, a workspace for sharing and organizing knowledge. It takes standard Markdown or HTML blog posts as input and generates a static company blog with a clean, responsive design. The theme is authored by Karri Saarinen and Jori Lallo and released under the MIT License by Kippt Inc. It has earned over 1,000 stars on GitHub, indicating active community interest.

Key Features

• Jekyll-based static site generation — Uses Jekyll's standard build process, so posts are written in Markdown and rendered to static HTML, requiring only bundle install and jekyll serve --watch to run locally.
• GitHub Pages deployment — Includes a Rakefile with a site:publish task that builds the site and deploys it to the gh-pages branch, overwriting it with the newly generated content.
• Customizable configuration — General site settings are edited in _config.yml, while theme colors and fonts live in main.scss under the _assets directory.
• CNAME support — Add your custom domain to a _CNAME file to serve the blog from your own domain on GitHub Pages.
• Proven production use — The theme is used by Adroll Engineering, Brace.io, Spark.io, and the Department of Better Technology, as shown in the README.

Note: The technology stack is Jekyll with SCSS styling; no JavaScript framework is required. The layout is designed specifically for company engineering and product blogs.

Who is it for?

Jekyll Incorporated is aimed at companies and product teams that want a professional blog without the overhead of a CMS. Engineering teams can publish technical posts and release notes, while marketing teams can share company news and product updates. It also suits open-source projects that need a simple blog hosted on GitHub Pages for free.

What can you do with it?

• Engineering teams — Publish technical blog posts and tutorials with a clean, readable layout that matches corporate branding.
• Product teams — Announce feature releases and product updates using the same theme, with minimal configuration.
• Startups — Launch a company blog quickly by forking the repository and deploying to GitHub Pages under a custom domain.

How does it work?

The theme relies on Jekyll's standard workflow: clone the repository, run bundle install to set up dependencies, then use jekyll serve --watch for local development. To publish, edit _config.yml and the Rakefile to point at your repository, then run rake site:publish, which deploys the generated site to the gh-pages branch. Note that editing _config.yml requires restarting Jekyll to take effect.