diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 22fda0c22..d2164e913 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -26,9 +26,12 @@ jobs:
       - run:
           name: Install API documentation dependencies
           command: cd api-docs && yarn install
+      - run:
+          name: Build API documentation scripts
+          command: npx tsc --project api-docs/scripts/tsconfig.json
       - run:
           name: Generate API documentation
-          command: cd api-docs && bash generate-api-docs.sh      
+          command: cd api-docs && bash generate-api-docs.sh
       - run:
           name: Inject Flux stdlib frontmatter
           command: node ./flux-build-scripts/inject-flux-stdlib-frontmatter.cjs
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pr-preview.yml b/.github/workflows/pr-preview.yml
index 7b4c1c090..9fd528cf0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pr-preview.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pr-preview.yml
@@ -115,6 +115,10 @@ jobs:
           echo "No pages to deploy - skipping preview"
           echo "Reason: ${{ steps.detect.outputs.skip-reason || steps.detect.outputs.change-summary }}"
 
+      - name: Build API documentation scripts
+        if: steps.detect.outputs.has-api-doc-changes == 'true' && steps.detect.outputs.pages-to-deploy != '[]'
+        run: npx tsc --project api-docs/scripts/tsconfig.json
+
       - name: Build API docs
         if: steps.detect.outputs.has-api-doc-changes == 'true' && steps.detect.outputs.pages-to-deploy != '[]'
         run: yarn run build:api-docs