Anchor, a leading African financial infrastructure company, has announced the launch of the Anchor MCP Server — an implementation of the open Model Context Protocol (MCP) standard that gives AI coding tools real-time, accurate access to Anchor’s full API documentation.
The launch makes Anchor the first Nigerian fintech and the first on the African continent, to make its API documentation natively readable by AI systems.
AI coding assistants like Claude, Cursor, Codex, and others, are already writing API integration code for developers. The problem is context. These tools are trained on data that ages. When a developer asks an AI to write code against Anchor’s API, the AI searches its training data for anything that resembles the spec, then generates something plausible. Often, it’s wrong: fabricated endpoints, deprecated authentication patterns, payload fields that don’t exist.
The output looks clean. It fails in production. And the debugging cycle that follows can cost a developer hours.
This is not an AI quality problem. It is an infrastructure problem. Nobody built the bridge between AI tools and live, accurate documentation, until now.
The Anchor MCP Server exposes Anchor’s API documentation as structured, queryable context that AI tools can access in real time. When a developer asks their AI assistant to build an integration, the tool can now query Anchor’s live documentation directly, reading current endpoint specifications, request and response schemas, authentication rules, and product workflow relationships across accounts, transfers, payments, bills, and webhooks.
The result: accurate code, generated on the first attempt.
Also the MCP Server operates entirely at the documentation layer, so it does not expose live transactional data or production systems.
Instead of relying on outdated training data or third-party interpretations, AI assistants can now pull directly from Anchor’s official documentation while generating code or assisting with integrations.
“API documentation has always been written for humans. We’re living through the moment where there also needs to be infrastructure for AI systems. We think being early on this curve matters, not just for developer experience, but for how we are positioning ourselves on the global stage. We’re not building for a local market. We’re building for the world.”
Olamide Sobowale, CTO, Anchor
What This Means For Developers
Developers integrating Anchor’s API can now connect the Anchor’s MCP server to their preferred AI coding tools and generate payment flows, virtual account pipelines, KYC integrations, and webhook handlers with AI that has accurate, real-time knowledge of Anchor’s API, eliminating the hallucination problem that has plagued AI-assisted API development.
Setup takes approximately two minutes, with full compatibility with Claude, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible AI tool.
The Bigger Shift
This launch is a strategic position for Anchor. Most API providers are still writing documentation for the developer sitting at a screen. Anchor is now writing it for the AI sitting beside them.
Anchor’s bet is that within a few years, the majority of API integration code will be written or at least drafted by AI tools. When that happens, the companies that win developer adoption won’t necessarily be the ones with the best docs. They will be the ones whose docs the AI can actually use.
As AI-assisted coding becomes the default workflow for most software engineers globally, the quality and accessibility of API context becomes a competitive moat.
Anchor is building that moat now. You can read more about it here.
About Anchor
Anchor is a platform for businesses operating in Africa to offer financial products to their customers. The company provides modern payment and banking infrastructure for pay-in/pay-out, accounts, wallets and cards issuing for startups and large enterprises across Africa.
The most innovative companies in Africa rely on Anchor to power their fintech offerings with a reliable infrastructure built for speed, compliance, and scale.
Anchor is backed by Y Combinator and other top global and African investors and partners.
Media Contact
Dotun Adegbite
Head of Operations, Anchor
dotun@getanchor.co
