diff --git a/.github/workflows/docs.yml b/.github/workflows/docs.yml
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index 0000000..12b042e
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+++ b/.github/workflows/docs.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+name: Run doc build and create artifact
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - main
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - "runci/**"
+  schedule:
+    # 04:00 every Tuesday morning
+    - cron: "0 4 * * 2"
+
+jobs:
+  docs-checks:
+    name: Run doc build and create artifact
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: "0"
+          submodules: recursive
+      - name: Set up uv
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v6
+        with:
+          version: "0.4.20"
+          enable-cache: true
+      - name: Setup dependencies
+        run: |
+          uv venv --python 3.12
+      - name: copy docs files
+        run: |
+          cp -R docs/pytket-docs-theming/_static docs
+          cp docs/pytket-docs-theming/conf.py docs
+          cp docs/pytket-docs-theming/pyproject.toml docs
+          cp docs/pytket-docs-theming/uv.lock docs
+      - name: Install docs dependencies
+        run: |
+          source .venv/bin/activate
+          uv pip install hugr-qir
+          cd docs
+          uv pip install .
+          sphinx-build -b html . build -D html_title=hugr-qir
+          sphinx-build -b linkcheck . build
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: docs
+          path: docs/build/      
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diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
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+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "docs/pytket-docs-theming"]
+	path = docs/pytket-docs-theming
+	url = https://github.com/Quantinuum/pytket-docs-theming.git
diff --git a/docs/api.md b/docs/api.md
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index 0000000..d2cdeca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/api.md
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# API documentation
+
+The hugr-qir module allows the conversion of hugr to QIR.
+
+See the [hugr-qir section](https://github.com/Quantinuum/hugr-qir) of the documentation website for some example usage.
+
+```{eval-rst}
+.. automodule:: hugr_qir.output.OutputFormat
+.. automodule:: hugr_qir.hugr_to_qir.hugr_to_qir
+
+```
diff --git a/docs/changelog.md b/docs/changelog.md
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+++ b/docs/changelog.md
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+```{eval-rst}
+.. currentmodule:: hugr_qir
+```
+
+# Changelog
+
+## v0.0.19
+
+- add support for get_current_shot
+
+## v0.0.18
+
+- update github links
+- fix lowering of discard/QFree for quantinuum-hardware targets
+
+## v0.0.17
+
+- fix error messages
+- support more complicated guppy if/elif statements
+
+## v0.0.16
+
+- update hugr rust version requirement 0.24.2
+
+## v0.0.15
+
+- update hugr version requirement 0.14.0
+
+## v0.0.14
+
+- update guppylang version requirement 0.21.5
+- update dependency version requirements
+
+## v0.0.12
+
+- add conversion of RNG functions
+
+## v0.0.11
+
+- add options for compilation target and optimization level
+- configure output format using output_format option and remove 'emit_text' toggle
+
+## v0.0.10
+
+- fix issues with function names
+
+## v0.0.9
+
+- fix issues with windows wheels
+
+## v0.0.8
+
+- update guppylang version requirement 0.21.0
+- update hugr version requirement 0.13.0
+- update quantinuum-qircheck version requirement to 0.3.0
+
+## v0.0.7
+
+- expose option to validate input hugr
+- update guppylang version requirement 0.20.0
+- update hugr version requirement 0.12.2
+
+## v0.0.5
+
+- update hugr_to_qir to take ModulePointer and bytes for conversion
+
+## v0.0.4
+
+- update guppylang version requirement 0.19.1
+
+## v0.0.3
+
+- update quantinuum-qircheck version requirement to 0.2.0
+
+## v0.0.1
+
+- add hugr_to_qir conversion function
diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md
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index 0000000..1a7bbed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/index.md
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+---
+file_format: mystnb
+---
+
+# hugr-qir
+
+`hugr-qir` is a module that offers the conversion of hugr to QIR. The HUGR can for example be generated from guppy.
+
+`hugr-qir` is available for Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.12 and 3.13, on Linux, MacOS
+and Windows. To install, run:
+
+```
+pip install hugr-qir
+```
+
+
+
+```{eval-rst}
+.. toctree::
+    api.md
+    changelog.md
+```
+
+```{eval-rst}
+.. toctree::
+   :caption: Useful links
+
+   Issue tracker <https://github.com/Quantinuum/hugr-qir/issues>
+   PyPi <https://pypi.org/project/hugr-qir/>
+```
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diff --git a/docs/pytket-docs-theming b/docs/pytket-docs-theming
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+++ b/docs/pytket-docs-theming
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+Subproject commit 5613a5a261d878d4ebea6821e53dd4c134cd00c1
diff --git a/python/hugr_qir/output.py b/python/hugr_qir/output.py
index 9656f74..2d8d7bf 100644
--- a/python/hugr_qir/output.py
+++ b/python/hugr_qir/output.py
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@
 
 
 class OutputFormat(Enum):
+    """
+    LLVM_IR = "llvm-ir"
+    BITCODE = "bitcode"
+    BASE64 = "base64"
+    """
     LLVM_IR = "llvm-ir"
     BITCODE = "bitcode"
     BASE64 = "base64"