Docs in the Age of AI: How Ishan Mehta is Empowering Developers with AI-Powered Documentation Management
“The people around you are more helpful than they are harmful. It’s very easy to have a competitive view of other founders, especially if in the same industry. But these people are more likely to help you, evolve your understanding. Building with people is easier than building alone.” - Ishan Mehta, co-founder of Nimbic AI
When starting their YC batch, Ishan Mehta and his founding team followed the sage advice of their primary partner and sought to build a solution for a problem that they were facing themselves.
Being experienced developers, the team were seeing first hand how generative AI tools and AI code editors were accelerating the rate of software development. But other aspects of the development workflow weren’t always able to keep up—specifically, documentation. With devs shipping faster, docs were becoming outdated more quickly.
Ishan knew that the same AI advancements enabling faster development could also be used to streamline documentation management, so they set out to build a solution.
Nimbic AI: AI-Powered Documentation for Modern Development
Today, Ishan and his co-founders are building Nimbic AI, a developer tool for internal documentation. Nimbic AI automatically generates and maintains internal documentation as your codebase evolves, enabling your team to stay in sync while reducing manual work.
Nimbic’s AI agent analyzes your codebase as you ship and generates comprehensive documentation that stays aligned to your code with every change. This creates a real-time marriage between codebase and documentation–every time you push, merge, commit into your codebase, your documentation gets updated on the fly.
Now finishing their YC batch, Ishan and his co-founders have closed several customers and are generating revenue. As they look forward, the team is working to accelerate their growth and expand their product offering.
Ishan’s journey to Nimbic AI
Ishan and his co-founders began their startup journey focused on building a solution for GPU optimization. They were accepted to YC based on this concept, but soon found that there wasn’t enough of a market to continue pursuing the idea.
YC General Partner Aaron Epstein advised the team to find a problem that they were facing themselves, and go solve that. Having completed an MS in CS at Stanford and internships at Amazon and Vianai Systems, Ishan had seen that LLMs were significantly increasing the rate of engineering output. Recent Microsoft research, for example, found that software engineers completing tasks with an AI pair programmer complete tasks 55.8% faster than engineers that aren’t using AI.
Ishan began to explore what documentation would look like in an AI-led world–how would documentation be generated, updated, and consumed when code is written by agents? And furthermore, would it be possible to create a documentation middle layer that allows agents to interact with and understand code bases without necessarily accessing the code itself?
The team set out to build an initial solution, and soon found traction in the market. Now, moving on from YC, they’re bullish that they have a differentiated product that people need, and aim to expand Nimbic into an all-encompassing documentation tool.
Ishan’s Advice for Fellow Founders
Ishan and his co-founders have all the accolades to prepare them as startup founders–Stanford degrees, internships at major tech firms, and acceptance to YC. But nonetheless, Ishan admits, founding a company “is not very easy to do.”
For that reason, “Don’t give up,” Ishan says. “You’re not going to have a smooth road immediately, so when challenges arise just work through them.”
And in addition to that, Ishan emphasizes how important it is to build alongside others. “The people around you are more helpful than they are harmful. It’s very easy to have a competitive view of other founders, especially if in the same industry. But these people are more likely to help you, evolve your understanding. Building with people is easier than building alone.”
To learn more about Nimbic and Ishan’s journey, you can visit Nimbic AI’s website here.
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