A documentation platform built in Kigali, Rwanda

Who builds it

DocuGate is built and operated by ITK ALLIANCE GROUP, a company in Kigali, Rwanda. The terms of service are governed by the laws of Rwanda, and the product is designed, written and run by the team here: the reader, the access gate and the server behind it.

The problem it solves is a common one. Software teams keep documentation as markdown in GitHub, next to the code, and then have no simple way to share it with the people who are not developers: a client's operations lead, a partner's accountant, a new dispatcher. The hosted tools that solve this well put private docs on plans of around $250 a month, as of October 2026. DocuGate is a narrower, cheaper answer to that one job.

What DocuGate does

DocuGate turns a folder of markdown in a GitHub repository into a hosted documentation site, and puts an access gate in front of it. There is no editor to move into, no import and no build step. The repository stays the source of truth: you write markdown, push, and the published page follows.

• Folders become navigation. The first # heading is the page title, index.md is the landing page, and a README.md stands in where there is no index, so most repositories need nothing renamed.
• Access is set per space. Each space is Public, Repo access (anyone who can open the repository on GitHub) or Allowlist (named GitHub logins or email addresses). The check runs on the server, before any markdown is read.
• One repository, several audiences. Spaces can read different folders of the same repository, each with its own access, and a space can merge several repositories into one set of pages on Pro.
• API references from OpenAPI. Commit an openapi.json or YAML file and the space gains a page per endpoint, with examples in curl, JavaScript and Python. On every plan.
• Edit in place. Anyone who can push to the repository can fix a page from the reader, and it commits under their own GitHub account.

Why it fits teams in Rwanda and across Africa

Your readers do not need GitHub. Many of the people who need your documentation will never open a GitHub account: clients, regulators, field staff, partners at other companies. In DocuGate you add their email address to a space's allowlist and they Continue with Google. They can read the spaces they are named on, and nothing else. They cannot see the repository, and they cannot publish or edit.

It publishes what you already have. If your team writes READMEs and keeps notes in the repository, that is enough to start. There is no second system to keep up to date and no content to migrate. Deleting a space never touches the repository.

The pricing suits month-to-month budgets. Starter is free, for one space from a public repository. Pro, which adds unlimited spaces and private repositories, is $5 a month or $50 a year, or $2 a week, pay as you go. Weekly costs more over a year, about $8.67 a month, and the reason to choose it is that you can stop any week. When cash flow is uneven, that matters more than the saving. Cancelling stops the renewal; Pro runs to the end of the period already paid, and the account returns to Starter on its own. Refunds are in full within 14 days of a charge.

Industry setups, starting with logistics. A setup fills in the spaces a kind of business usually needs. The logistics setup, for freight forwarders, couriers, warehouses, customs brokers and fleet operators, suggests three spaces from one repository: public docs for developers integrating with you, an allowlisted space for carriers and customs brokers, and one for your own dispatchers and warehouse staff that follows repository access. It names the pages to write first in each. Everything it fills in stays editable, and nothing is saved until you press save. See industry setups.

What it is not, yet

We would rather you find this here than after you sign up.

• No payment in Rwandan francs, and no mobile money. Prices are in US dollars and paid by card through Polar. Both have been discussed and neither has been decided.
• No custom domain yet. Serving a space at docs.yourcompany.rw or similar is part of Enterprise, from $29 a month, and is still being built. Enterprise cannot be bought until it exists; the card writes to us instead.
• API keys need that domain. Letting developers generate keys for your API from the docs is an Enterprise feature that depends on the custom domain.
• No reader counts or read audit yet. Both are being built.
• No SSO, SLA or invoicing on a standard plan. These are quoted on request as Custom, not promised.
• Publishing needs GitHub. A space reads a GitHub repository. GitLab and Bitbucket are not supported.
• Only one industry setup so far. Logistics is the first. If you run another kind of business and can say what its docs need, tell us on Discord.

How to start

1. Sign up with GitHub at /sign-up.
2. Install the DocuGate GitHub App on the repository that holds your docs.
3. Open Dashboard → New space, choose the repository, the branch and the docs folder, or start from the logistics setup.
4. Choose who can read it, and create the space.
5. Share the link. Allowlisted readers find it under Shared with you once they sign in.

Prices and plans are on /pricing, and how each access mode decides is on access control.