Nigerian developer Ekene Eze has publicly launched Thally, a tool that keeps a software company’s documentation, help articles and code examples in step with its product as it changes, Disrupt Africa reported.
How it works
Teams host their documentation site on Thally and connect their product code repositories plus any other content they want it to maintain. When the product changes, Thally works out what the change means for users, finds every place that mentions it, and opens pull requests with the updated text and the evidence behind each change. People on the team review, edit and approve before anything is published.
Eze gives the example of a change to a login flow, which could affect an API reference, a quickstart guide, a support article and a code sample in a blog post. Fixing only one leaves customers following outdated steps elsewhere.
The platform also offers search, custom domains, versioned deployments and rollbacks, plus built-in AI assistants. Its documentation can be read by people in a browser or by AI tools through Markdown, JSON and MCP (Model Context Protocol).
Born from experience
Eze previously worked in developer experience at Flutterwave, Netlify and LI.FI, where keeping documentation accurate meant chasing product managers, tickets and changelogs before any writing could begin. He started building Thally in March 2026, released a beta in August and launched publicly in September.
“An AI assistant can read a forgotten guide and generate a new integration using a method that has already been deprecated.”
Ekene Eze, founder of Thally
Early traction
Thally is bootstrapped. It says it has more than 100 active workspaces and at least 100 more on a 14-day free trial, with users in the US, Europe, India, the Middle East and Africa. It combines an open-source documentation engine with paid cloud subscriptions. Hackmamba, Procta and LI.FI were design partners during the beta.
Why it matters
AI coding assistants help teams ship faster, but they also make outdated documentation more harmful, because AI tools read it too. Thally is part of a small but growing group of Nigerian startups building developer tools for a global market rather than for local consumers.
Source: Disrupt Africa.
