Nigeria’s Decide AI Just Ranked 4th Globally for Spreadsheet Accuracy

What if we told you that one of the most accurate AI tools for handling spreadsheets in the entire world… was built in Nigeria?

Not by a billion-dollar tech giant.
But by a three-person startup team working quietly behind the scenes.

Meet Decide, the Nigerian-built AI agent that is suddenly getting global attention after being ranked the 4th most accurate AI for spreadsheet tasks worldwide by SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark used by both Microsoft and OpenAI to test how well AI systems solve real-world spreadsheet problems.

Yes. You read that right.

From Flutterwave Engineer to Global AI Builder

Decide was founded by Abiodun Adetona, a former engineer at Flutterwave, who noticed something interesting while working with product and data teams:

Everyone had data.
But turning that data into actual insights?

That part was stressful.

Cleaning messy spreadsheets. Fixing inconsistent formats. Running analysis manually. Creating visualisations from scratch.

So instead of building another dashboard tool, he created something different, an AI agent that lives directly inside your spreadsheet and executes workflows based on simple prompts.

Think of it like having a junior data analyst sitting inside Excel or Google Sheets, ready to clean your data, structure inconsistent datasets, run multi-step analysis, generate charts, and produce ready-to-use reports.

All from one instruction.

Here’s the Wild Part…

Decide reached this global ranking:

Just months after launch. With zero funding. And a team of only three people.

In fact, the platform reportedly hit 1,000 users in just 24 days and has now grown to over 3,000 users organically without paid marketing.

That means companies are actively trusting the AI tool to handle real business data tasks from research analysis to operational reporting.

Why This Matters More Than You Think

Spreadsheets power everything from startup finances to hospital records to government data to multinational operations.

But most of the work done inside them is still manual.

By embedding AI directly into spreadsheets, Decide is tackling a problem that affects almost every industry, turning raw data into decisions faster.

And with integrations expected across tools like Google Sheets and analytics dashboards by February 2026, this could push the startup even further into enterprise workflows.

A Quiet Signal from Africa’s AI Scene

Decide’s rise isn’t just a startup story.

It’s a signal.

That globally competitive AI products aren’t only coming from big tech labs anymore; they’re being built by small, focused teams solving real problems from anywhere in the world.

And if this trajectory continues, the next AI tool reshaping how businesses make decisions might not come from where you expect…

It might already be sitting inside someone’s spreadsheet.