How GitBook’s connected documentation helped Maple Finance scale from $500m to $4bn
Maple Finance bridges institutional finance and blockchain technology, facilitating large-scale lending through digital tokens. With its flagship products — syrupUSDC and syrupUSDT — the company has grown its assets under management from $500 million to over $4 billion in the past year.
For a company scaling so quickly through partnerships, documentation isn’t just a reference tool — it’s critical infrastructure that directly impacts partner success. Partners account for 80% of deposits, so seamless integration is essential to Maple’s growth.
We spoke with Chuck Paiusi, Principal Product Manager at Maple Finance, about how GitBook transformed their approach to partner documentation and helped them scale integrations efficiently.
The challenge: supporting complex integrations at scale
As Maple’s ecosystem expanded, so did the complexity of partner integrations. Each new partner needed to interact with GraphQL endpoints and smart contracts — a process that could quickly become repetitive and error-prone without clear, accessible documentation.
“We were answering the same integration questions in Slack and Telegram over and over. It wasn’t scalable.”
The team needed a documentation solution that would not only provide clear technical guidance but also meet partners where they work — directly in their development environment.
Bringing documentation into the development workflow
Using GitBook’s automatic MCP server integration, Maple made it effortless for partners to access technical specs directly inside their IDEs. Instead of switching between windows or searching through separate documentation sites, developers can now refer to Maple’s documentation right alongside their code.
“Partners now access our docs directly in Cursor, VS Code or Claude Code. That single change has noticeably reduced integration time and support requests.”
Creating clear, reusable integration guides
Maple rebuilt its partner documentation from the ground up in GitBook, creating step-by-step integration guides with live code snippets that partners can copy directly into their projects.
“We believe our documentation is becoming a differentiator and partners appreciate how straightforward our integration process is.”
When Maple updates its smart contracts or adds new API endpoints, those changes are automatically reflected in the documentation. So every partner sees the latest version without the Maple team needing to manually update their docs.
Results: documentation as a growth enabler
For Maple Finance, GitBook isn’t just a documentation platform — it’s the foundation that enables their partnership-driven growth from $500 million to $4 billion in AUM and beyond.
And by transforming its documentation into a dynamic, AI-powered developer hub with GitBook, Maple has created a partner experience that scales alongside their protocol.
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