Nigerian AI startup Decide has emerged as the fourth most accurate AI agent for spreadsheet tasks globally, according to results from SpreadsheetBench, a widely referenced benchmark for evaluating AI performance on real-world spreadsheet problems.
The ranking places Decide alongside well-funded global AI startups, marking a notable milestone for a company that only launched publicly a few months ago.
Founded by ex-Flutterwave developer Victor Adetona, Decide got 1,000 users just 24 days after launch. Adetona has revealed to Techpoint Africa that the product now has over 3,000 users, including some who are paid.
While it currently has just three employees and no external funding, only three agents rank higher than Decide. These include Nobie Agent, Shortcut.ai, and Qingqiu Agent. Shortcut.ai, for example, was created by Fundamental Research Labs, which has raised $30 million in funding, while Qingqiu Agent has over 5,000 employees and a ~$5B market cap.
Adetona said SpreadsheetBench measures how well AI agents can handle practical spreadsheet tasks such as writing formulas, cleaning messy data, working across multiple sheets, and reasoning through complex Excel workflows. Decide recorded an 82.5% accuracy score, solving 330 out of 400 verified tasks.
To understand why the ranking matters, it helps to look at how SpreadsheetBench works. The benchmark was developed by researchers from Tsinghua University and Renmin University of China and was introduced at NeurIPS 2024, one of the world’s most respected artificial intelligence conferences.
“Rather than testing AI on artificial or simplified problems, SpreadsheetBench is built from real Excel questions sourced from online forums where users seek help with complex spreadsheet issues,” Adetona said.
The “Verified” subset used for Decide’s evaluation contains 400 carefully curated tasks, ensuring that results are consistent and comparable across agents. This makes the benchmark a trusted indicator of how well an AI system performs in real workplace scenarios.
Decide was built out of frustration with how much time professionals spend manually cleaning data, debugging formulas, and moving between sheets.
Victoria Fakiya – Senior Writer
Techpoint Digest
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Decide works by understanding the structure of a spreadsheet, executing changes directly, and explaining its actions in plain language rather than just generating suggestions.
Beyond the product, Decide’s ranking feeds into a broader conversation about AI in Africa. According to Techpoint Africa’s list of notable African AI products of 2025, African AI in 2025 has been defined less by scale and more by intent — solving immediate, practical problems with limited resources. But Decide’s performance raises a bigger question: should African AI startups begin thinking at scale? However, the capital required to build on a global scale may hold many talented African founders back.