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Codebase and API documentation that ends the doc drift.

Generate and maintain version-aware API and code documentation from source, tests, schemas, and approved examples, with review before publication.

◆ human-gateda person approves every consequential action
$16,000
fixed-scope pilot
Validate next
launch posture
Strong durable demand
market signal
codebase-and-api-documentation-agent
// extract public behavior
input: Code and comments
step: compare docs to code
citations: [ source ✓ ]   confidence: 0.93
HUMAN GATEawaiting review →

Nothing is finalized until a human approves it.

Built for
The buyer
CTO, VP Engineering, VP Developer Experience
The champion
Developer Experience Director, Documentation lead, API Product manager
Day-to-day users
Engineers, technical writers, external developers, support

Designed, built, and evaluated by Alpesh Nakrani, VP of Growth at ViitorCloud, 14 years shipping software, writing on AI-Native engineering and evaluation.

Evals-first
built in from day one
Human-gated
judgment stays with you
The problem

Where the time and money actually go.

Docs drift from code, examples break, internal knowledge stays in pull requests, and writers cannot review every interface change.

Who feels it

Engineers, technical writers, external developers, support

Trigger to act: API adoption or support load is growing, a major version launches, documentation debt blocks onboarding, or acquisitions create multiple codebases.

Outcome & ROI

The result you can model before you sign.

Illustrative, replace with your data
$13,200
per month, illustrative

Illustrative only: 60 engineers × 2 documentation hours/month × $110 loaded hourly cost = $13,200 monthly capacity. Adoption impact depends on documentation quality and traffic.

The outcome, plainly: Generate and maintain version-aware API and code documentation from source, tests, schemas, and approved examples, with review before publication.

Documentation coverage
Stale-page detection
Example test pass
How it works

Inputs in. A cited, review-ready result out. Your expert decides.

A Code-aware agent + deterministic validators. Every material fact is grounded in an allowed source and returned with its identifier, with no invented data.

01
Extract public behavior
02
Compare docs to code
03
Generate reference and example
04
Run snippets / tests
05
Flag undocumented breaking change
06
Open docs PR
07
Update approved changelog / index
Reference architecturegrounded · human-in-the-loop · fully auditable
Source systems · scoped access
Source repository
API schemas
CI
Test suite
Docs-as-code / CMS
Grounded reasoning core
Retrieve & extract
grounded on your sources, returns citations
Reason & draft
Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.6 Terra
Human gateEngineers and technical writers approve every public claim and example; security-sensitive or internal interfaces remain excluded by policy.
Action · only after approval
Update approved changelog / index
Audit trace
sources, rules, confidence, reviewer
Tenant isolation
minimum data, never cross-tenant
Evaluation suite
baselined pre-launch, watched after
Observability
cost, latency & drift telemetry
Model strategy

Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.6 Terra, selected on the client’s code/security golden set; deterministic scanners, policy rules and tests remain authoritative; use a smaller model for labeling only. Read-only tool adapters; sandboxed execution; static analysis / test framework.

Inputs
  • Code and comments
  • OpenAPI/GraphQL schema
  • Tests
  • Examples
  • Release/feature flags
  • Style guide
The human gate

AI-Native, not autonomous. Judgment stays with your people.

The machine does the work; the human’s role narrows to the one thing that matters, judgment. That constraint is what makes it safe to deploy.

Non-negotiable human gate

Engineers and technical writers approve every public claim and example; security-sensitive or internal interfaces remain excluded by policy.

What it will never do
No publication of secret or internal API
No assumption that code alone captures business behavior
No untested snippet
No replacement for owner review
The scorecard

A scorecard, not a demo. We baseline what breaks in production.

Every deployment ships with an evaluation suite. These are the numbers we baseline before launch and monitor after.

Primary
Documentation coverage
Stale-page detection
Example test pass
Support ticket reduction
Time to publish
Reviewer edit distance
API activation
Secret leakage
Why this, not that

The category is crowded. Most of it isn’t built for your workflow.

The alternatives
MintlifyReadMeStoplightRedoclySwimmGitBook AISourcegraphGitHub Copilot
This implementation

Fixed-scope, tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in from day one. A price you own, not a subscription you rent.

✓ Fixed price, not a seat subscription ✓ Grounded in your data & rules ✓ Human approval on consequential actions ✓ Auditable decision trace
Systems & integrations

It plugs into the stack you already run.

No rip-and-replace. Access is scoped to the minimum data necessary, isolated per tenant, and fully logged.

Source repositoryAPI schemasCITest suiteDocs-as-code / CMSIssue trackerChangelogPackage registry
Pricing

Transparent by design. The build price buys the workflow and the proof.

A fixed implementation fee plus a monthly bill that scales with volume and governance. No hidden seats.

Pilot
$16,000
one-time · bounded proof of value
  • One process / scope
  • Live workflow on your data
  • Baseline evaluation suite
  • Measured vs. current process
Most chosen
Production
$37,000
one-time · full deployment
  • Full scope & integration
  • Human-review UI & audit trail
  • Write-back to your systems
  • Production evals & monitoring
Enterprise
$60,000
one-time · multi-entity / regulated
  • Multi-facility rollout
  • Advanced security & compliance
  • Custom control & escalation
  • Dedicated evaluation program
Monthly operating cost

50 to 500 repositories or 5,000 to 50,000 code/test tasks per month plus CI compute.

$550–4,800
usage (models, OCR, vector, storage)
$2,200/mo
managed evaluation & monitoring

Planning assumptions, not vendor quotations. Your source repository and other platform licenses are separate and owned by you. Figures confirmed during scoping.

On working with Alpesh
“His vast knowledge of technologies and a natural problem-solving mindset consistently lead us through complex challenges with clarity and confidence.”
AM
Adil Multani
Senior Backend Developer
Why this is safe to try
01Baseline first. We measure your current numbers before we build anything.
02Fixed scope, fixed price. One process in the pilot. No open-ended engagement.
03Expand only if the scorecard earns it. You see the measured result before committing to production.
04Your people stay in control. The human gate means nothing consequential happens without a person’s approval.
FAQ

Questions serious buyers ask.

Does the AI act on its own?

No. Engineers and technical writers approve every public claim and example; security-sensitive or internal interfaces remain excluded by policy. The system drafts and recommends; a human approves every consequential action. Explicitly excluded: no publication of secret or internal API, no assumption that code alone captures business behavior, no untested snippet, no replacement for owner review.

How do you stop it inventing facts?

Every material claim is grounded in an allowed source record and returned with its source identifier. The system separates observed facts, model inference, and missing information, and routes to a human whenever confidence is low, evidence conflicts, or an adverse outcome is possible.

What does it cost to run each month?

A usage bill of roughly $550 to $4,800 per month (50 to 500 repositories or 5,000 to 50,000 code/test tasks per month plus CI compute), plus a $2,200 per month managed retainer for evaluation, monitoring and maintenance. Your existing platform licenses are separate and already yours. Exact figures are confirmed during scoping.

Do we need a ChatGPT or Claude subscription?

No consumer ChatGPT or Claude subscription is required for the production workflow. You need an approved API/cloud billing account. Workspace seats are optional for internal prototyping and administrator access.

How is this different from Mintlify?

Tools like Mintlify, ReadMe, and Stoplight are broad platforms you adapt to. This is a fixed-scope implementation tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in, and a transparent price instead of a seat subscription.

How long until it is live, and how do we prove it works?

We baseline documentation coverage first, then measure against that baseline. You see the scorecard before expanding scope: the evaluation suite ships with the system, not as an afterthought.

Book a scoping call

Bring your real numbers. Leave with a fixed-scope plan.

A 30-minute engineering-led working session, no slideware. You leave with a sized opportunity estimate, a fixed-scope pilot plan, and the integration & human-review path mapped.

VP of Growth at ViitorCloud · senior delivery owner confirmed before paid work

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