diff --git a/docs/Makefile b/docs/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d4bb2cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Minimal makefile for Sphinx documentation
+#
+
+# You can set these variables from the command line, and also
+# from the environment for the first two.
+SPHINXOPTS    ?=
+SPHINXBUILD   ?= sphinx-build
+SOURCEDIR     = .
+BUILDDIR      = _build
+
+# Put it first so that "make" without argument is like "make help".
+help:
+	@$(SPHINXBUILD) -M help "$(SOURCEDIR)" "$(BUILDDIR)" $(SPHINXOPTS) $(O)
+
+.PHONY: help Makefile
+
+# Catch-all target: route all unknown targets to Sphinx using the new
+# "make mode" option.  $(O) is meant as a shortcut for $(SPHINXOPTS).
+%: Makefile
+	@$(SPHINXBUILD) -M $@ "$(SOURCEDIR)" "$(BUILDDIR)" $(SPHINXOPTS) $(O)
diff --git a/docs/check_sphinx.py b/docs/check_sphinx.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cc1003a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/check_sphinx.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+import subprocess
+
+
+def test_linkcheck(tmpdir):
+    doctrees = tmpdir.join("doctrees")
+    htmldir = tmpdir.join("html")
+    subprocess.check_call(
+        ["sphinx-build", "-W", "-blinkcheck", "-d", str(doctrees), ".", str(htmldir)],
+    )
+
+
+def test_build_docs(tmpdir):
+    doctrees = tmpdir.join("doctrees")
+    htmldir = tmpdir.join("html")
+    subprocess.check_call(
+        ["sphinx-build", "-W", "-bhtml", "-d", str(doctrees), ".", str(htmldir)],
+    )
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fc2a50e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+# Configuration file for the Sphinx documentation builder.
+#
+# This file only contains a selection of the most common options. For a full
+# list see the documentation:
+# https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/configuration.html
+
+# -- Path setup --------------------------------------------------------------
+import os
+import sys
+
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath("../src"))
+
+import objects  # noqa isort:skip
+
+# from objects.setup import setup_env  # noqa isort:skip
+
+# TODO: This needs to be enabled when we want to use autodoc to grab
+# documentation from classes and functions. However, enabling django.setup()
+# causes RTD to fail because GDAL is not present in the RTD environment.
+# See: https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs-docker-images/issues/114#issuecomment-570566599
+#
+# setup_env()
+# django.setup()
+
+# -- Project information -----------------------------------------------------
+
+project = "Objects and Objecttypes API"
+copyright = "2020, Maykin Media"
+author = objects.__author__
+
+# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
+release = objects.__version__
+
+
+# -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
+
+# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
+# extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
+# ones.
+extensions = [
+    "sphinx.ext.todo",
+    "sphinx_tabs.tabs",
+    "recommonmark",
+    #    "sphinx_markdown_tables",
+]
+
+# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
+templates_path = ["_templates"]
+
+# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
+# for a list of supported languages.
+#
+# This is also used if you do content translation via gettext catalogs.
+# Usually you set "language" from the command line for these cases.
+language = "en"
+
+# List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
+# directories to ignore when looking for source files.
+# This pattern also affects html_static_path and html_extra_path.
+exclude_patterns = ["_build", "Thumbs.db", ".DS_Store"]
+
+source_suffix = [".rst", ".md"]
+
+# -- Options for HTML output -------------------------------------------------
+
+# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
+# a list of builtin themes.
+#
+html_logo = "logo.png"
+html_theme = "sphinx_rtd_theme"
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
+# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
+# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
+html_static_path = ["_static"]
+html_css_files = [
+    "theme_overrides.css",  # override wide tables with word wrap
+]
+
+todo_include_todos = True
+
+linkcheck_timeout = 10
+linkcheck_ignore = [
+    r"https?://.*\.gemeente.nl",
+    r"http://localhost:\d+/",
+    r"https://.*sentry.*",
+    "https://github.com/maykinmedia/objects-api-performance",
+    "https://objects.municipality.nl/admin/",
+    "https://sparxsystems.com/products/ea/trial/request.html",  # this raises 403 for crawlers probably?
+]
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9d89971
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Documentation
+=============
diff --git a/docs/make.bat b/docs/make.bat
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2119f51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/make.bat
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+@ECHO OFF
+
+pushd %~dp0
+
+REM Command file for Sphinx documentation
+
+if "%SPHINXBUILD%" == "" (
+	set SPHINXBUILD=sphinx-build
+)
+set SOURCEDIR=.
+set BUILDDIR=_build
+
+if "%1" == "" goto help
+
+%SPHINXBUILD% >NUL 2>NUL
+if errorlevel 9009 (
+	echo.
+	echo.The 'sphinx-build' command was not found. Make sure you have Sphinx
+	echo.installed, then set the SPHINXBUILD environment variable to point
+	echo.to the full path of the 'sphinx-build' executable. Alternatively you
+	echo.may add the Sphinx directory to PATH.
+	echo.
+	echo.If you don't have Sphinx installed, grab it from
+	echo.http://sphinx-doc.org/
+	exit /b 1
+)
+
+%SPHINXBUILD% -M %1 %SOURCEDIR% %BUILDDIR% %SPHINXOPTS% %O%
+goto end
+
+:help
+%SPHINXBUILD% -M help %SOURCEDIR% %BUILDDIR% %SPHINXOPTS% %O%
+
+:end
+popd
diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index 90ac5d5..2fd5cc1 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.11
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.12
 # by the following command:
 #
 #    pip-compile --no-emit-index-url requirements/base.in
@@ -195,9 +195,7 @@ drf-nested-routers==0.94.1
     #   -r requirements/base.in
     #   commonground-api-common
 drf-spectacular[sidecar]==0.27.2
-    # via
-    #   drf-spectacular
-    #   open-api-framework
+    # via open-api-framework
 drf-spectacular-sidecar==2024.7.1
     # via drf-spectacular
 drf-yasg==1.21.7
@@ -277,9 +275,7 @@ pydantic==2.9.2
 pydantic-core==2.23.4
     # via pydantic
 pydantic-settings[yaml]==2.6.1
-    # via
-    #   django-setup-configuration
-    #   pydantic-settings
+    # via django-setup-configuration
 pyjwt==2.7.0
     # via
     #   commonground-api-common
diff --git a/requirements/ci.in b/requirements/ci.in
index ec8ac8a..9ae16b9 100644
--- a/requirements/ci.in
+++ b/requirements/ci.in
@@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
 codecov
 coverage
+
+# Documentation
+sphinx
+sphinx_rtd_theme
diff --git a/requirements/ci.txt b/requirements/ci.txt
index 3ca4980..46f3d40 100644
--- a/requirements/ci.txt
+++ b/requirements/ci.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 #
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.11
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.12
 # by the following command:
 #
 #    pip-compile --no-emit-index-url --output-file=requirements/ci.txt requirements/base.txt requirements/ci.in requirements/test-tools.in
 #
+alabaster==1.0.0
+    # via sphinx
 amqp==5.1.1
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
@@ -33,6 +35,8 @@ attrs==23.1.0
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   glom
     #   jsonschema
+babel==2.16.0
+    # via sphinx
 beautifulsoup4==4.12.2
     # via webtest
 billiard==4.2.0
@@ -262,7 +266,6 @@ django-solo==2.0.0
 django-two-factor-auth[phonenumberslite,webauthn]==1.16.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
-    #   django-two-factor-auth
     #   maykin-2fa
 django-webtest==1.9.10
     # via -r requirements/test-tools.in
@@ -290,6 +293,10 @@ djangorestframework-inclusions==1.2.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   open-api-framework
+docutils==0.21.2
+    # via
+    #   sphinx
+    #   sphinx-rtd-theme
 drf-nested-routers==0.94.1
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
@@ -297,7 +304,6 @@ drf-nested-routers==0.94.1
 drf-spectacular[sidecar]==0.27.2
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
-    #   drf-spectacular
     #   open-api-framework
 drf-spectacular-sidecar==2024.7.1
     # via
@@ -348,6 +354,8 @@ idna==3.7
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   requests
     #   yarl
+imagesize==1.4.1
+    # via sphinx
 inflection==0.5.1
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
@@ -371,6 +379,7 @@ jinja2==3.1.4
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   coreschema
+    #   sphinx
 josepy==1.13.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
@@ -402,7 +411,6 @@ mozilla-django-oidc==4.0.0
 mozilla-django-oidc-db[django-setup-configuration]==0.21.1
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
-    #   mozilla-django-oidc-db
     #   open-api-framework
 multidict==6.0.5
     # via yarl
@@ -427,6 +435,7 @@ packaging==23.1
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   black
     #   drf-yasg
+    #   sphinx
 pathspec==0.12.1
     # via black
 phonenumberslite==8.13.30
@@ -466,9 +475,10 @@ pydantic-settings[yaml]==2.6.1
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   django-setup-configuration
-    #   pydantic-settings
 pyflakes==3.2.0
     # via flake8
+pygments==2.18.0
+    # via sphinx
 pyjwt==2.7.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
@@ -534,6 +544,7 @@ requests==2.32.3
     #   open-api-framework
     #   requests-mock
     #   sharing-configs
+    #   sphinx
     #   zgw-consumers
 requests-mock==1.12.1
     # via
@@ -556,8 +567,31 @@ six==1.16.0
     #   orderedmultidict
     #   python-dateutil
     #   qrcode
+snowballstemmer==2.2.0
+    # via sphinx
 soupsieve==2.4.1
     # via beautifulsoup4
+sphinx==8.1.3
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/ci.in
+    #   sphinx-rtd-theme
+    #   sphinxcontrib-jquery
+sphinx-rtd-theme==3.0.2
+    # via -r requirements/ci.in
+sphinxcontrib-applehelp==2.0.0
+    # via sphinx
+sphinxcontrib-devhelp==2.0.0
+    # via sphinx
+sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp==2.1.0
+    # via sphinx
+sphinxcontrib-jquery==4.1
+    # via sphinx-rtd-theme
+sphinxcontrib-jsmath==1.0.1
+    # via sphinx
+sphinxcontrib-qthelp==2.0.0
+    # via sphinx
+sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml==2.0.0
+    # via sphinx
 sqlparse==0.5.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
diff --git a/requirements/dev.txt b/requirements/dev.txt
index 7a4b1c3..869eb98 100644
--- a/requirements/dev.txt
+++ b/requirements/dev.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.11
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.12
 # by the following command:
 #
 #    pip-compile --no-emit-index-url --output-file=requirements/dev.txt requirements/base.txt requirements/dev.in requirements/test-tools.in
@@ -273,7 +273,6 @@ django-solo==2.0.0
 django-two-factor-auth[phonenumberslite,webauthn]==1.16.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
-    #   django-two-factor-auth
     #   maykin-2fa
 django-webtest==1.9.10
     # via -r requirements/test-tools.in
@@ -312,7 +311,6 @@ drf-nested-routers==0.94.1
 drf-spectacular[sidecar]==0.27.2
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
-    #   drf-spectacular
     #   open-api-framework
 drf-spectacular-sidecar==2024.7.1
     # via
@@ -420,7 +418,6 @@ mozilla-django-oidc==4.0.0
 mozilla-django-oidc-db[django-setup-configuration]==0.21.1
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
-    #   mozilla-django-oidc-db
     #   open-api-framework
 multidict==6.0.5
     # via yarl
@@ -488,7 +485,6 @@ pydantic-settings[yaml]==2.6.1
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.txt
     #   django-setup-configuration
-    #   pydantic-settings
 pyflakes==3.0.1
     # via flake8
 pygments==2.15.1