Wayfinder

Every software team carries a knowledge problem. When a new engineer joins, they spend weeks deciphering how the codebase is structured, why certain decisions were made, and what unwritten rules exist that nobody ever documented. Senior engineers lose hours answering the same questions on repeat. Documentation is either absent or stale within months of being written. Wayfinder solves this with IBM Bob as its core engine. Paste a GitHub repository URL and your role (frontend, backend, platform, data), and Bob's agents go to work. They read the entire codebase, walk the full git history, and mine every pull request description for architectural decisions and tribal conventions buried in review threads. The result is four artifacts delivered in minutes. A Codebase Encyclopedia covering architecture, module relationships, and key design decisions. A 7-Day Personalized Curriculum tailored to your role, so a frontend engineer and a platform engineer each ramp up on what matters to them specifically. A Tribal Knowledge Atlas that surfaces undocumented conventions, implicit rules, and the reasoning behind non-obvious patterns, with citations to the exact commits and PRs where they originated. And a Cited Q&A where every answer includes a file path, commit SHA, or PR number the reader can verify immediately. This is only possible because IBM Bob holds full repository context simultaneously, something snippet-based tools and standard retrieval pipelines cannot do. Wayfinder is not a thin wrapper around a chat API. It is a multi-step agentic pipeline that reasons across thousands of files and hundreds of commits to produce answers no documentation sprint or senior engineer Q&A session could match in speed or coverage. A single new hire taking three months to reach full productivity, with a senior engineer spending six hours per week answering questions, represents $50,000 to $150,000 in onboardingcost. Wayfinder compresses that ramp from months to days.