OnboardIQ: AI-Powered Codebase Onboarding

Every developer knows the pain of joining a new project. You spend days reading code you don't understand, asking questions that slow the whole team down, and piecing together an architecture nobody documented properly. OnboardIQ solves this with IBM Bob. HOW IT WORKS: Paste any public GitHub repository URL into OnboardIQ. IBM Bob reads the entire codebase — every file, every module, every dependency — and generates a structured onboarding report with four sections: 1. DATA FLOW — A visual end-to-end pipeline showing how the system works from input to output 2. ARCHITECTURE MAP — Every component mapped with its technology stack, key files, port, and dependencies 3. ONBOARDING CHECKLIST — A prioritized, phase-by-phase guide telling a new developer exactly where to start and what to read first 4. GLOSSARY — Domain terms, technical concepts, and project-specific jargon extracted directly from the code HOW IBM BOB IS USED: Bob is the intelligence engine behind every report. Using Bob IDE's full repository context, we ran 5 agentic analysis sessions against a real production codebase (a real-time auction analytics pipeline). Bob analyzed the architecture, extracted domain terminology, generated onboarding steps, and explained key files — all exported as session reports now living in /bob_sessions in our GitHub repo. The Next.js application then normalizes Bob's structured JSON output into a clean, interactive UI that any developer can navigate in minutes. IMPACT: Onboarding a developer to a complex codebase typically takes 2-4 weeks. OnboardIQ compresses that to under 2 minutes for the initial orientation. IBM's own data shows 45-70% time savings with Bob — OnboardIQ makes that accessible to every developer on any team.