Capabilities
Every dark corner illuminated. Every risk quantified.
23-42% of dev time goes to debt. But you can't quantify WHERE or WHO owns it. Glue scores every file: complexity, churn, ownership. The invisible becomes a dashboard.
Senior engineer leaves → team efficiency drops 48% for six months. Glue maps knowledge continuously. Bus factor of 1? You see it today, not at the exit interview.
3-6 months to productivity. Weeks reading stale docs. 'Ask Sarah' as the onboarding plan. Glue: new hires ask the codebase from day one. 4× faster ramp.
Sprint planning without dependency visibility is a 'scientific, wild-ass guess.' Glue shows exact files, dependencies, and patterns — before anyone estimates.
Interactive dependency graphs, call chains, module boundaries — auto-generated from actual code. No manual Mermaid diagrams.
The numbers
on maintenance toil
Debugging, refactoring, understanding — not building.
Stripe
speed reduction from debt
Technical debt reduces development speed by a third.
Kong
of IT budgets on maintenance
Almost 40% consumed by debt maintenance alone.
Kong
feel undertrained at onboarding
Remote workers report feeling undertrained from day one.
Jellyfish
daily searching for solutions
Engineers spend 30+ minutes daily searching for answers.
Stack Overflow 2024
of hours on documentation
The rest is tribal knowledge. In people's heads.
Stack Overflow
Details
Cyclomatic complexity, file size, nesting depth — per file.
Files changed most often are usually the most fragile.
Communicate tech health to non-technical stakeholders with data.
Modules depending on one person — flagged before they give notice.
Team strengths across features, languages, system layers.
Spread knowledge proactively. Don't wait for the crisis.
New engineers ask the codebase, not senior staff.
Updates as code changes. Never stale.
From 6 months to 6 weeks. $240K saved per hire.
Know exactly which files a feature touches.
Upstream and downstream deps visible before committing.
Implementation plans with files, patterns, and risks.
Click through dependency trees and call chains visually.
From real code analysis. Not someone's Lucidchart from 2022.
Re-index and your diagrams update instantly.
