diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 505a3b1..4ebf098 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,3 +8,6 @@ wheels/
 
 # Virtual environments
 .venv
+venv/
+docs/.venv/
+docs/venv/
diff --git a/mkdocs.yml b/mkdocs.yml
index a354f09..adff09e 100644
--- a/mkdocs.yml
+++ b/mkdocs.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ site_name: email-classifier
 site_description: FastAPI service that classifies email using a configurable LLM backend
 site_url: https://git.danhenry.dev/daniel/email-classifier
 
+docs_dir: docs
+exclude_docs: |
+  venv/
+  .venv/
+  __pycache__/
+
 repo_name: daniel/email-classifier
 repo_url: https://git.danhenry.dev/daniel/email-classifier