The Thally blog

Practical guides and honest comparisons for teams building documentation that works for people and AI agents from one source.

Product

Updated Sep 5, 2026 · 5 min read

Introducing Thally

Thally turns product changes into evidence-backed updates across connected docs, websites, support platforms, and other places users learn about your product.

Guide

Updated Sep 24, 2026 · 9 min read

Best documentation automation software

Compare documentation automation software for software teams: which tools regenerate references, which sync code snippets, and which update guides after a pull request merges.

Comparison

Updated Sep 24, 2026 · 7 min read

Swimm alternatives

Looking for a Swimm alternative that keeps docs updated as code changes? Compare Thally, Mintlify, DeepWiki, and a docs-as-code CI setup for internal and customer-facing documentation.

Guide

Updated Sep 24, 2026 · 8 min read

CI-triggered documentation updates

Use GitHub Actions to regenerate references, remind authors, dispatch merged changes to a docs repository, draft docs pull requests, and gate docs quality.

Guide

Updated Sep 24, 2026 · 6 min read

Update docs when a PR merges

How tools that update documentation after a pull request merges work, what to expect from them, and how to set it up with Thally Track and human review.

Guide

Updated Sep 24, 2026 · 7 min read

Keep docs in sync with code

A practical guide to stopping documentation drift: generate references, keep docs in Git, review docs in pull requests, and automate impact detection for every merge.

Guide

Updated Aug 31, 2026 · 8 min read

Best AI documentation tools in 2026

An honest comparison of the best AI documentation tools and platforms in 2026: Thally, Mintlify, GitBook, ReadMe, Docusaurus, Fern, and Document360, evaluated on agent readability, drift, and ownership.

Comparison

Updated Aug 31, 2026 · 8 min read

Thally vs Mintlify

Compare Thally and Mintlify across ownership, machine-readable output, code-to-docs automation, deployment, migration, and pricing.

Comparison

Updated Aug 31, 2026 · 6 min read

Thally vs GitBook

Compare Thally's product-linked docs workflow with GitBook's hosted knowledge base across authoring, Git, AI-readable output, migration, and collaboration.

Comparison

Updated Aug 31, 2026 · 6 min read

Thally vs Docusaurus

Compare Docusaurus's framework approach with Thally's documentation engine and product-change synchronization pipeline across setup, ownership, automation, and maintenance.

Product

Updated Jul 19, 2026 · 5 min read

What is AI-native documentation?

Learn what AI-native documentation means, how it differs from AI-assisted writing, and how to test discovery, structure, freshness, and agent access.

Guide

Updated Jul 19, 2026 · 8 min read

Making docs agent-readable

Build agent-readable documentation with crawlable HTML, llms.txt, structured page formats, content negotiation, MCP, provenance, and repeatable tests.

The Thally blogThe Thally blog

Introducing Thally

Best documentation automation software

Swimm alternatives

CI-triggered documentation updates

Update docs when a PR merges

Keep docs in sync with code

Best AI documentation tools in 2026

Thally vs Mintlify

Thally vs GitBook

Thally vs Docusaurus

What is AI-native documentation?

Making docs agent-readable

The Thally blog