RepoOnboard

Every developer who joins a new team has felt it: you open the codebase on day one, you have no idea where anything lives, the README is outdated, your senior teammates are busy, and you spend the first two weeks just figuring out how things connect. That's two weeks of lost productivity per hire, and two weeks of zero confidence for the new developer. RepoOnboard fixes this. You paste a GitHub URL, and IBM Bob reads the actual code in the repo — not the README, not generic docs, the real source. From that scan, Bob detects what kinds of work exist in the codebase and presents you with the relevant role tracks (Backend, Frontend, DevOps, etc.) derived from your actual code, not a hardcoded dropdown. You pick your role and experience level (Junior, Mid, Senior), and Bob generates a structured 7-day onboarding plan tailored to that specific repo and that specific person. The plan covers: Day 1 architecture overview, Day 2 key files to read ranked by importance, Day 3 real starter tasks, Day 4 testing and deployment, Day 5 gotchas Bob found in the code, Day 6 a hands-on practice task, Day 7 an understanding quiz drawn from the actual code. You can view it as a beautiful vertical timeline on the site, or download it as a polished PDF with embedded illustrations to keep on your desk on day one. IBM Bob is used in two layers. First, Bob IDE was our dev partner — we built this entire app inside Bob in 48 hours, with all task session reports exported to /bob_sessions for verification. Second, Bob Shell runs inside the product itself — the backend invokes the bob CLI with custom Bob modes (one per onboarding day) to generate role-aware, repo-aware content directly from the codebase. Instead of two weeks of confusion, seven days of structure. Personalized, code-aware, Bob-powered.