Technical Founders

Stop being the bottleneck. Let your team find answers without waiting.

Onboard your first hire

Give me a summary of how authentication works in our codebase, including which services handle login, session management, and token refresh.

Find who owns what

Who has the most context on the billing service? Show me who's made changes and discussed it recently.

Prepare for investor questions

What technical decisions have we made in the last quarter? Give me a summary I can share with investors.

Hand off context before vacation

Generate a summary of everything I've been working on this sprint so my co-founder can cover while I'm out.

Debug with historical context

This bug looks familiar. Have we seen this pattern before? Show me similar issues and how they were resolved.

Find undocumented APIs

What internal APIs do we have that aren't in the docs? List them with who created them and what they do.

Brief a new advisor

Our new technical advisor needs to understand our stack. Generate an overview of our architecture, key decisions, and current challenges.

Prepare for a board meeting

What engineering progress have we made this quarter? Summarize shipped features, resolved incidents, and infrastructure improvements.

Track compliance requirements

What GDPR-related changes have we made? Show me all PRs and discussions about data privacy compliance.

Recall hiring context

What were we looking for when we hired the first backend engineer? Find the job description discussions and interview criteria.

Find the rollback plan

We discussed a rollback strategy for the new checkout flow. Where is that plan and who owns it?

Track open source contributions

What open source libraries have we contributed to or forked? Show me the decisions and any patches we maintain.

Answer the 'why' questions

Why did we choose Postgres over MongoDB for the main database? Show me the discussions and decisions that led to this choice.

Recall a Slack decision

Find the Slack thread where we decided to use rate limiting on the API. What were the key arguments?

Unblock a stuck contractor

The contractor is asking how our webhook system works. Give them everything they need to understand it without a call.

Resolve conflicting approaches

We have two different patterns for error handling in the codebase. Which one did we agree to use and why?

Justify technical debt

Why do we have this workaround in the payment flow? Find the original discussion about why it was added.

Understand dependency choices

Why are we using this specific version of the auth library? Was there a security issue or compatibility reason?

Recall customer commitments

What did we promise Enterprise Customer X about the API timeline? Find all discussions and commitments we made.

Find the security review

Did we ever do a security review of the payment integration? Find any audits, discussions, or concerns raised.

Understand cost decisions

Why did we move from AWS to GCP for this service? Find the cost analysis and migration decision.

Understand scaling decisions

Why did we add that second database replica? Find the performance discussions that led to this decision.

Recall API versioning decisions

How did we decide on our API versioning strategy? Find the discussions about v1 vs v2 approaches.

Find the launch checklist

What was our go-live checklist for the last major release? Find the preparation discussions and any issues we hit.

Explain a past incident

What happened during the payment outage last month? Who was involved, what was the root cause, and what did we change?

Trace a feature's history

Show me the full history of our notification system—when it was built, major changes, and any incidents related to it.

Remember your own decisions

What was my reasoning when I chose this API structure six months ago? Find my comments and PRs from that time.

Stop repeating yourself

How many times have I explained how our deployment pipeline works? Find all the times this was discussed.

Track architecture evolution

How has our database schema evolved over the past year? Show me the major migrations and why they happened.

Recover lost context

I remember discussing a caching strategy but can't find it. Search all our channels for conversations about Redis caching.

Understand a legacy system

Nobody remembers why the legacy auth system works this way. Find the original implementation discussions and decisions.

Recall partnership decisions

Why did we choose Stripe over Adyen? Find the evaluation criteria and final decision discussion.

Find the original spec

Was there ever a spec for the search feature? Find any design docs, mockups, or requirements discussions.

Track vendor evaluations

What monitoring tools did we evaluate before choosing Datadog? Show me the comparison and decision rationale.

Understand testing strategy

What's our agreed approach to integration testing? Find discussions about test coverage and CI/CD requirements.