# Glue

> Glue is the pre-code intelligence platform for product leaders. It connects to your GitHub repos, indexes your entire codebase using parallel AI agents, and surfaces a deep context layer — every feature, every dependency, every call path, and every piece of tribal knowledge buried in git history. Product managers, VPs, and CTOs use it to answer codebase questions in seconds, detect competitive gaps, write accurate specs, and understand team risk — without reading a single line of code.

## What Glue Does

- **Code Indexing** — parses TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, Go; extracts symbols, call graphs, and dependency maps
- **Auto-Documentation** — uses Louvain clustering on dependency graphs to auto-document your codebase from code
- **Competitive Gap Analysis** — auto-detects competitors, crawls their features, and scores coverage gaps 0–100% against your codebase
- **Dev Plans** — generates implementation specs with exact files, dependencies, patterns, and blast radius for any ticket
- **Ticket Triage** — connects to Linear, ClickUp, and Jira for duplicate detection, clarity scoring, and complexity estimation
- **Auto Documentation** — builds living feature catalogs and user journey docs directly from code structure
- **Team Insights** — maps code ownership, knowledge concentration, bus-factor risks, and collaboration patterns
- **Roadmaps & Sprints** — AI-assisted sprint planning with story point estimation grounded in actual code complexity
- **Chat** — Claude-powered Q&A that synthesises all intelligence into plain-English answers with file references

## Product

- [Homepage](https://getglueapp.com/): Product overview, features, and signup
- [How It Works](https://getglueapp.com/how-it-works): Step-by-step walkthrough of the indexing and intelligence pipeline
- [About](https://getglueapp.com/about): Mission, approach, and who Glue is built for
- [Benefits](https://getglueapp.com/benefits): Measurable impact — faster scoping, fewer surprises, better decisions

## For Your Role

- [For Product Managers](https://getglueapp.com/for/product-managers): How PMs use Glue to answer codebase questions without interrupting engineers
- [For Engineering Leaders](https://getglueapp.com/for/engineering-leaders): Technical debt visibility, knowledge risk mapping, and sprint planning
- [For CTOs & Founders](https://getglueapp.com/for/ctos): Board-level product visibility, competitive position, and due-diligence readiness

## Blog

- [All Posts](https://getglueapp.com/blog)
- [Cursor and Copilot Don't Reduce Technical Debt — Here's What Does](https://getglueapp.com/blog/cursor-copilot-dont-reduce-debt): AI coding tools scale your existing patterns. They don't reduce debt. Here's what actually works: explicit refactoring, ADRs, and strategic modernization.
- [The AI Productivity Paradox: Teams Ship 20% Faster but Incidents Are Up 23%](https://getglueapp.com/blog/ai-velocity-code-quality-tradeoff): Why teams using GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude ship 20% faster but see rising incidents. How to fix the architectural coherence problem.
- [AI Coding Tools Are Creating Technical Debt 4x Faster Than Humans](https://getglueapp.com/blog/ai-generated-technical-debt): AI coding tools boost output 30% but increase defect density 40%. The math doesn't work. Here's what the data shows and what engineering leaders should do about it.
- [How to Actually Measure Whether GitHub Copilot Is Worth It](https://getglueapp.com/blog/measure-github-copilot-roi): Most teams don't measure Copilot ROI. Data shows mixed results: faster generation, slower review, lower quality. Real value is in developer experience.
- [GitHub Copilot Doesn't Know What Your Codebase Does — That's the Problem](https://getglueapp.com/blog/github-copilot-codebase-blindspot): GitHub Copilot generates syntactically correct code that violates system constraints. Here's how to fix it: explicit context, architectural guidelines, rigorous review.
- [Duplicate Tickets Are a Symptom: Your Intelligence and Work Systems Aren't Talking](https://getglueapp.com/blog/duplicate-tickets-engineering-cause): Duplicate tickets aren't a search problem—they're a context problem. Why connecting codebase intelligence to issue tracking eliminates duplicate work and improves triage.
- [The Roadmap as a Command Center: Connecting Goals to Gaps, Debt, and Team Risks](https://getglueapp.com/blog/roadmap-as-command-center): Link features to code, identify technical debt, and manage team risks. The roadmap becomes a command center with full visibility.
- [Jira Can Track Work. It Can't Verify the Problem Is Solved.](https://getglueapp.com/blog/jira-cant-verify-problem-resolution): Jira tracks work, not outcomes. Verification requires monitoring the metric that broke, confirming it improves after the fix.
- [The Engineering Feedback Loop That Most Teams Are Missing](https://getglueapp.com/blog/engineering-feedback-loop): Engineering feedback loops connect code to business outcomes. Without them, teams ship fast but miss the market.
- [Closed-Loop Engineering Intelligence: From Detection to Verified Resolution](https://getglueapp.com/blog/closed-loop-engineering-intelligence): How high-performing engineering teams move from detecting problems to verified resolution. The closed-loop framework: detection, diagnosis with codebase context, resolution, and automated verification.
- [Why Your Ticket System Is Missing the Most Important Context](https://getglueapp.com/blog/ticket-system-missing-context): Learn what contextual information makes tickets clear and saves engineering time.
- [Technical Debt Tracking: The Full Lifecycle from Discovery to Verification](https://getglueapp.com/blog/technical-debt-tracking-lifecycle): Follow a systematic lifecycle to identify, prioritize, and eliminate technical debt before it compounds.
- [Beyond the Spreadsheet: How to Actually Assess Feature Gaps](https://getglueapp.com/blog/feature-gap-analysis): How to assess feature gaps and prioritize the right gaps
- [ChatGPT for Product Managers: What Works, What Doesn't](https://getglueapp.com/blog/chatgpt-for-product-managers): ChatGPT is great for drafting PRDs but hallucinating on product-specific questions. Know what it's actually good for as a PM.
- [Technical Debt Statistics 2026: The Real Cost of Maintenance](https://getglueapp.com/blog/technical-debt-statistics): Stripe data: 17% of engineering capacity goes to debt. McKinsey: 25% slower velocity. Here's what it means for your team.
- [Software Estimation Accuracy: Why Estimates Fail and What Works](https://getglueapp.com/blog/software-estimation-accuracy): Estimates fail because of optimism bias and missing context. Reference class forecasting and explicit uncertainty work better.
- [How to Do Competitive Analysis When You Don't Know Your Own Product](https://getglueapp.com/blog/competitive-analysis-cant-see-code): Competitive analysis strategy for product managers
- [The Real Dollar Cost of Technical Debt: A Framework for Leadership](https://getglueapp.com/blog/technical-debt-dollar-cost): Calculate debt cost in dollars: velocity tax, incident cost, attrition risk. A framework and examples for engineering leaders and CTOs.
- [The PM AI Assistant in 2026](https://getglueapp.com/blog/pm-ai-assistant-2026): Most PM AI tools help you write more. Good ones help you understand more. Here's what genuinely useful PM AI actually does.
- [Codebase Health: What Engineers Can Tell PMs About Code Quality Without Custom Reports](https://getglueapp.com/blog/codebase-health-cli): PMs: learn what engineers see in git history, complexity analysis, and test coverage. Ask better questions about code quality without custom reports.
- [Can AI Replace Product Managers?](https://getglueapp.com/blog/can-ai-replace-product-managers): AI won't replace PMs. It replaces mechanical PM work. The irreducible core - judgment under uncertainty - stays human. Here's what's actually changing.
- [Tribal Knowledge: The Complete Guide to Eliminating Knowledge Silos](https://getglueapp.com/blog/tribal-knowledge-guide): Eliminate knowledge silos through documentation, rotation, and systematic onboarding.
- [Code Dependency Analysis: The Invisible Graph in Your System](https://getglueapp.com/blog/code-dependency-analysis): Service, library, and data dependencies drive estimates and incidents. Make them visible before they break.
- [Why Your Roadmap Keeps Slipping](https://getglueapp.com/blog/roadmap-keeps-slipping): Roadmaps slip because of invisible dependencies and missing codebase context. See how to make the information visible before planning.
- [Codebase Analysis Tools: A 2026 Buyer's Guide](https://getglueapp.com/blog/codebase-analysis-tools): Compare static analysis, architecture tools, and AI codebase intelligence. Choose the right tool for your problem.
- [What AI Codebase Analysis Actually Is](https://getglueapp.com/blog/ai-codebase-analysis): AI codebase analysis isn't code generation. It's making large codebases understandable without reading every line. Here's what actually matters.
- [The Non-Technical PM Advantage](https://getglueapp.com/blog/non-technical-pm-advantage): Non-technical PMs aren't disadvantaged. They ask better questions, write clearer specs, and think harder about value. Learn how to leverage your perspective.
- [Why Software Estimation Is Structurally Hard - And It's Not Because Engineers Are Bad at Math](https://getglueapp.com/blog/effort-estimation-software): Why software estimation fails and how to fix it
- [Shift Left Testing: Why It Actually Matters (And When It Doesn't)](https://getglueapp.com/blog/shift-left-testing): Learn how to implement shift left testing to catch bugs early when they're cheap to fix, not after deployment.
- [What Actually Determines If a New Developer Gets Productive](https://getglueapp.com/blog/developer-onboarding-best-practices): Master developer onboarding with codebase visibility strategies for faster productivity
- [Monolith to Microservices: A Product Manager's Survival Guide](https://getglueapp.com/blog/monolith-to-microservices): How PMs survive monolith-to-microservices migrations: setting expectations, monitoring progress, communicating value, managing parallel shipping.
- [How to Convince Your CTO to Invest in Developer Experience](https://getglueapp.com/blog/convince-cto-devex): The real ROI of DX improvements: incident cost, onboarding waste, and architectural drift. A framework for CTOs and engineering leaders.
- [Technical Debt Tracking: From "We Know It When We See It" to Measurable Signals](https://getglueapp.com/blog/technical-debt-tracking): Track technical debt with structural, operational, and velocity signals. Measure debt continuously instead of one-time audits to manage engineering capacity.
- [The Hidden Cost of a Codebase Nobody Understands](https://getglueapp.com/blog/hidden-cost-codebase): How lack of codebase clarity compounds: opacity creates more opacity, slowing incidents, onboarding, and feature development. A quantified view.
- [Technical Debt Reduction Playbook: How to Actually Pay It Down](https://getglueapp.com/blog/technical-debt-reduction): A practical guide to reducing technical debt continuously. Avoid failed "debt quarters" with the strangler fig pattern and continuous improvement.
- [Reduce Developer Onboarding Time from 6 Months to 6 Weeks](https://getglueapp.com/blog/reduce-onboarding-time): Pre-start material, guided tours, and ramping features cut onboarding from 6 months to 6 weeks.
- [Scope Creep: The Silent Project Killer (And How to Actually Stop It)](https://getglueapp.com/blog/scope-creep-prevention): Learn how to prevent scope creep and deliver projects on time. Practical strategies to protect your roadmap and team velocity.
- [What PMs Need to Know About Code Review - And Why It Matters to Your Product](https://getglueapp.com/blog/code-review-product-managers): Why product managers need to understand code review
- [Competitive Battlecards: Making Them Actually Useful](https://getglueapp.com/blog/competitive-battlecards): Build effective competitive battlecards based on actual objections. One-page templates that sales teams will actually use in customer conversations.
- [Bus Factor in Software Engineering: Why It's an Architectural Problem, Not a People Problem](https://getglueapp.com/blog/bus-factor-software-engineering): Bus factor measures architecture risk. Discover how to identify and eliminate single points of failure in your codebase through testing and clear code.
- [Open Source Developer Tools 2026: What's Worth Using](https://getglueapp.com/blog/open-source-tools-2026): Curated guide to open-source developer tools worth using in 2026. Honest takes on static analysis, code quality, dependency scanning, and documentation tools for engineering teams.
- [Should PMs Learn to Code? The Honest Answer](https://getglueapp.com/blog/should-pms-learn-to-code): What technical skills actually matter for PMs and what's a better investment than coding.
- [DORA Metrics Are Not Enough: What They Miss About Your Product](https://getglueapp.com/blog/dora-metrics-not-enough): DORA tells you how fast you ship. It doesn't tell you what you're shipping. Here's what product metrics you need alongside deployment metrics.
- [The PM-Engineer Trust Gap](https://getglueapp.com/blog/pm-engineer-trust-gap): Product can't see the codebase. Engineers can't see strategy. Misalignment comes from architecture, not people. Here's how to fix it.
- [Building an Awesome List: What Top Engineering Teams Actually Do Differently](https://getglueapp.com/blog/building-awesome-list): The practices that compound over time: how elite teams treat their codebase as a product, not a byproduct. Module ownership, decision journals, codebase reviews.
- [Code Intelligence Platforms: What PMs Need to Know](https://getglueapp.com/blog/code-intelligence-platforms): How code intelligence platforms bridge the gap between engineering insights and product decisions.
- [You Can't Read Code. Here's What to Do About It.](https://getglueapp.com/blog/pm-cant-read-code): The 5 questions PMs should answer about their codebase. Proxy questions and strategies for understanding technical reality without learning to code.
- [Code Health Metrics: Measuring What Actually Matters](https://getglueapp.com/blog/code-health-metrics): Measure code health through understandability, modifiability, and resilience. Learn metrics that correlate with engineering velocity and incident rates.
- [Technical Debt Is Invisible by Default - Here's How to Make It Visible](https://getglueapp.com/blog/technical-debt-visibility): How to make technical debt measurable and tradeable in prioritization conversations with stakeholders.
- [Sprint Velocity Is Lying to You (And What to Track Instead)](https://getglueapp.com/blog/sprint-velocity-lies): Why sprint velocity misleads teams. Track deployment frequency, change lead time, and cycle time instead. Metrics that actually predict outcomes.
- [Bus Factor Risk: How to Protect Your Team Before Someone Leaves](https://getglueapp.com/blog/bus-factor-risk): Bus factor is a systems problem. Learn how to measure code ownership concentration and fix it before someone leaves your team.
- [Knowledge Silos Are a Product Problem, Not Just an Engineering Problem](https://getglueapp.com/blog/knowledge-silos-engineering): Why knowledge silos harm product decisions and how better visibility unlocks better strategy.
- [Technical Debt Patterns: The 7 Types Costing You the Most](https://getglueapp.com/blog/tech-debt-patterns): Recognize the 7 concrete technical debt patterns that slow down engineering teams: dependency tangling, god objects, implicit contracts, test debt, configuration sprawl, parallel implementations, and documentation lag.
- [The PM-Codebase Gap: Why Product Decisions Keep Missing the Mark](https://getglueapp.com/blog/pm-codebase-gap): Why PMs struggle with visibility into technical constraints and how codebase access changes product decisions and estimation accuracy.
- [Story Points Are Useless](https://getglueapp.com/blog/story-points-useless): Story points collapse complexity into numbers PMs fight over. Here's why they fail and what actually matters for estimation.
- [Sprint Planning Is Broken (Here's What Actually Works)](https://getglueapp.com/blog/sprint-planning-broken): Sprint planning is estimation theater. Story points measure confidence, not complexity. Here is what actually improves planning accuracy.
- [AI for Product Management: What Actually Helps You Think (Not Just Produce)](https://getglueapp.com/blog/ai-product-management-guide): 98% of PMs use AI, but mostly for writing docs. Here is how AI should actually help product leaders think, not just produce.
- [The Complete Guide to Competitive Intelligence for SaaS Product Teams](https://getglueapp.com/blog/competitive-intelligence-saas-guide): 65% of B2B deals are competitive. Most CI tracks what competitors say, not what they've built. Here's how to build intelligence that drives wins.
- [The Real Cost of Nobody Knowing How the System Works](https://getglueapp.com/blog/cost-nobody-knowing-system): $109M wasted per $1B invested. 66% of projects fail. After 30 years, the root cause is clear: decision-makers can't see the system they're building.
- [Software Architecture for Product Managers: Understanding Your Product Without Reading Code](https://getglueapp.com/blog/software-architecture-for-pms): A product manager's guide to understanding software architecture at the decision level. Know your constraints without learning to code.
- [Tribal Knowledge in Software Teams: The Silent Productivity Killer](https://getglueapp.com/blog/tribal-knowledge-software-teams): Tribal knowledge costs engineering teams 17+ hours/week in maintenance overhead. Here's how to measure, surface, and eliminate knowledge concentration risk.

## Guides

- [All Guides](https://getglueapp.com/guides)
- [Shift Left: How Moving Testing Earlier Cuts Defect Costs by 100x](https://getglueapp.com/guides/shift-left): Shift left explained: why fixing bugs earlier in development is 100x cheaper and how to build a shift-left engineering culture.
- [Incident Management: From Alert to Resolution to Prevention](https://getglueapp.com/guides/incident-management): Incident management process that works: from detection to response to blameless post-mortems and actual prevention.
- [Feature Flags: The Complete Guide to Safe, Fast Feature Releases](https://getglueapp.com/guides/feature-flags): Feature flags explained: how to use them for safe releases, A/B testing, and gradual rollouts without creating technical debt.
- [Clean Code: Principles, Practices, and the Real Cost of Messy Code](https://getglueapp.com/guides/clean-code): Clean code principles that actually matter in 2026: readability, testability, and how messy code creates real business costs.
- [Platform Engineering: Building the Internal Developer Platform Your Team Needs](https://getglueapp.com/guides/platform-engineering): Platform engineering explained: what an internal developer platform is, when to build one, and how to measure if it's actually working.
- [API Documentation: How to Write Docs Developers Actually Want to Read](https://getglueapp.com/guides/api-documentation): How to write API documentation that developers actually use: structure, examples, error handling, and keeping docs in sync with code.
- [Observability: Beyond Monitoring — How to Actually Understand Your Systems](https://getglueapp.com/guides/observability): Observability vs monitoring explained: logs, metrics, traces, and how to build systems you can actually understand when they break.
- [Design Patterns in Software Engineering: A Practical Guide with Real Examples](https://getglueapp.com/guides/design-patterns): Design patterns explained for engineering teams: when to use them, which ones matter most, and how they affect codebase health.
- [Tech Stack: How to Choose, Document, and Communicate Your Technology Stack](https://getglueapp.com/guides/tech-stack): How to choose, document, and communicate your tech stack to stakeholders, PMs, and new engineers without getting lost in jargon.
- [What Is DevOps? A Plain-English Guide for Non-Engineers](https://getglueapp.com/guides/what-is-devops): DevOps explained without jargon: what it means, why it matters for product velocity, and how it connects to codebase health.
- [Technical Debt: What It Really Is, How to Measure It, and When to Pay It Down](https://getglueapp.com/guides/technical-debt): Technical debt explained for engineering leaders: what it is, how to measure it, and when to actually fix it vs. ship faster.
- [The CTO's Guide to Product Visibility](https://getglueapp.com/guides/cto-visibility-guide): Translate technical debt into business metrics. Build dashboards that show velocity trends, debt accumulation, reliability, and roadmap impact for executive stakeholders.
- [AI for Product Teams: The 2026 Playbook](https://getglueapp.com/guides/ai-product-teams-playbook): How product teams are using AI in 2026 to close the gap between what they decide and what gets built.
- [The Complete Guide to Software Estimation](https://getglueapp.com/guides/estimation-guide): Master software estimation: understand sources of error, compare methods from story points to Monte Carlo, fix planning fallacy, and build accurate prediction processes.
- [The Engineering Manager's Guide to Code Health](https://getglueapp.com/guides/em-code-health-guide): Build sustainable velocity by measuring and improving code health through complexity analysis, coupling metrics, test coverage, and change failure rates.
- [The Product Manager's Guide to Understanding Your Codebase](https://getglueapp.com/guides/pm-codebase-guide): Learn how PMs can develop deep codebase intuition to make better feature decisions, improve estimations, and reduce technical debt - without learning to code.
- [DORA Metrics: The Complete Guide for Engineering Leaders](https://getglueapp.com/guides/dora-metrics): Complete guide to understanding, measuring, and improving DORA metrics for engineering excellence.
- [CI/CD Pipeline: The Definitive Guide to Continuous Integration & Delivery](https://getglueapp.com/guides/ci-cd-pipeline): Complete guide to designing, building, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines for modern engineering teams.
- [Burndown Charts Explained: How to Read, Build, and Actually Use Them](https://getglueapp.com/guides/burndown-chart): Learn how to read, build, and use burndown charts to manage sprints and improve team velocity.
- [Trunk-Based Development: Why Top Teams Ship Faster Without Long-Lived Branches](https://getglueapp.com/guides/trunk-based-development): Guide to trunk-based development, feature flags, and continuous integration for high-performing teams.
- [Technical Documentation: The Complete Guide for Engineering Teams [2026]](https://getglueapp.com/guides/technical-documentation): Complete guide to technical documentation systems, types, and best practices for engineering teams.

## Glossary

- [All Terms](https://getglueapp.com/glossary)
- [What Is Technical Documentation?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/technical-documentation): Technical documentation explains how software systems work. Learn how to keep docs current with docs-as-code and AI-generated documentation strategies.
- [What Is Scope Creep?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/scope-creep): Scope creep is uncontrolled expansion of project scope mid-development. Learn how to prevent it with codebase visibility and architectural clarity.
- [What Is an AI Product Manager?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/ai-product-manager): AI product managers assist human PMs by analyzing market data, customer feedback, and competitive intelligence to inform strategy and prioritization decisions.
- [What Is a Developer Experience Platform?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/developer-experience-platform): A developer experience platform removes friction from the engineering workflow by providing tools, insights, and automation that multiply team effectiveness.
- [What Is AI for Product Strategy?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/ai-product-strategy): AI product strategy uses market analysis, competitive intelligence, and demand forecasting to inform strategic positioning, growth opportunities, and market fit.
- [What Is Technical Debt Reporting?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/technical-debt-reporting): Technical debt reporting surfaces codebase health to engineering leaders and CTOs—showing what debt exists, its impact, and recommended actions.
- [What Is Code Dependencies?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/code-dependencies): Code dependencies describe how services and modules rely on each other—managing dependency chains keeps systems flexible and changes safe.
- [What Is Code Coverage?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/code-coverage): Code coverage measures the percentage of code executed by tests—a floor metric ensuring critical paths are at least validated once.
- [What Is Code Complexity?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/code-complexity): Code complexity measures how difficult code is to understand and maintain—high complexity creates ongoing maintenance burden and hides risks.
- [What Is Technical Debt Prioritization?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/technical-debt-prioritization): Learn how product teams prioritize technical debt using business impact, engineering effort, and strategic urgency - not intuition or politics.
- [Agentic Engineering Intelligence](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/agentic-engineering-intelligence): Agentic engineering intelligence autonomously monitors your codebase to surface architectural risks, bus factors, and technical debt before they become crises.
- [AI Technical Debt](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/ai-technical-debt): AI technical debt is the compounding cost of poor ML practices, stale models, undocumented pipelines, and deferred infrastructure—and it grows exponentially.
- [What Is a Competitive Battlecard?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/competitive-battlecard): A competitive battlecard is a 1-2 page sales reference addressing competitor objections, built from actual deal intelligence, not marketing hype. Accuracy depends on knowing your own product's capabilities deeply - codebase visibility ensures claims are verified.
- [Engineering Feedback Loop](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/engineering-feedback-loop): An engineering feedback loop connects engineering decisions to measurable outcomes—enabling teams to learn from their choices and improve over time.
- [Closed-Loop Engineering Intelligence](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/closed-loop-engineering-intelligence): Closed-loop engineering intelligence continuously observes outcomes of engineering decisions to refine recommendations and improve guidance over time.
- [What Is Velocity Estimation?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/velocity-estimation): Velocity estimates future sprint capacity based on historical story points completed. While useful for measurement, it fails as a commitment mechanism because it ignores work type variance and incentivizes gaming the metric. Reference class forecasting and cycle time tracking are more reliable.
- [What Is Effort Estimation?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/effort-estimation): Effort estimation predicts time and resources required for development tasks. Accuracy improves through reference class forecasting, breaking down scope, and providing estimators with codebase context before estimating - not through better guessing technique.
- [What Is Technical Debt Tracking?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/technical-debt-tracking): Technical debt tracking quantifies code messiness - test coverage, complexity, change failure rates, and coupling - making invisible velocity drains visible so product teams can prioritize debt paydown as a business problem, not just a code quality issue.
- [What Is Codebase Intelligence?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/codebase-intelligence): Codebase intelligence uses automated analysis and AI to extract business-relevant insights from source code - helping product managers, engineering leaders, and executives understand system architecture, dependencies, quality, and risk without needing to read the code themselves.
- [What Is Tribal Knowledge?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/tribal-knowledge): Tribal knowledge is information that exists only in people's heads, not systems. Learn why it's a product risk and how to identify it.
- [What Is Codebase Documentation?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/codebase-documentation): Codebase documentation explains system architecture, design decisions, and how components interact. Static documentation goes stale; the solution is generative documentation derived from code itself, staying current automatically as the codebase evolves.
- [What Is a Feature Inventory?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/feature-inventory): A feature inventory is an authoritative catalog of all implemented product capabilities, derived from source code and kept current automatically. Without it, product teams can't confidently answer whether features exist, leading to sales errors, engineering duplication, and incomplete competitive analysis.
- [What Is Sprint Estimation?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/sprint-estimation): Sprint estimation predicts effort required for development tasks using techniques like story points and planning poker. Product teams must distinguish estimation (predicting) from commitment (promising), and improve accuracy by providing estimators with codebase context before planning sessions.
- [What Is Competitive Gap Analysis?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/competitive-gap-analysis): Competitive gap analysis identifies where products fall short and where they differentiate. Learn the internal side PMs often miss.
- [What Is Developer Onboarding?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/developer-onboarding): Developer onboarding is integrating new engineers and building codebase familiarity. Learn what actually determines productivity ramp.
- [What Is Project Duration Estimation?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/project-duration): Project duration accounts for calendar time, parallelization, dependencies, and rework. Learn to forecast realistic timelines for software projects.
- [What Is Agile Estimation?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/agile-estimation): Agile estimation uses relative units and velocity trends to forecast iteratively. Learn story points, throughput forecasting, and Monte Carlo probability.
- [What Is Technical Debt?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/technical-debt): Technical debt is deferred work that slows down future development. Learn how to manage it as a business decision.
- [What Is AI Competitive Analysis?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/ai-competitive-analysis): Monitor competitors automatically with AI tools. Learn how to pair competitive intelligence with internal codebase visibility for faster strategic decisions.
- [What Is Software Project Estimation?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/software-project-estimation): Project estimation accounts for coordination costs, unknown unknowns, and codebase complexity. Learn methods to forecast project duration and manage uncertainty.
- [What Is Measuring Technical Debt?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/measure-technical-debt): Convert technical debt into measurable signals: incident correlation, change latency, and business impact. Learn how to prioritize debt remediation.
- [What Is Story Point Estimation?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/story-points): Story points measure relative effort in agile development. Learn when to use them, how to calibrate, and common estimation pitfalls.
- [What Is AI Product Roadmap?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/ai-product-roadmap): AI roadmaps require unique planning: model training, data preparation, evaluation cycles. Learn how to estimate and risk-manage AI-powered features.
- [What Is Technical Debt Assessment?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/technical-debt-assessment): Technical debt assessments quantify accumulated code and architectural shortcuts. Learn how to prioritize debt by roadmap impact and remediation cost.
- [What Is Code Intelligence?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/code-intelligence): Code intelligence uses automated analysis to extract actionable information from codebases. Learn why it matters for PM-engineering alignment.
- [What Is Code Health?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/code-health): Code health measures how well a codebase supports ongoing development. Learn why it matters for product velocity.
- [What Is a Knowledge Silo?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/knowledge-silo): Knowledge silos prevent information sharing across teams and reduce product velocity. Learn how to break them down.
- [What Is Bus Factor?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/bus-factor): Bus factor measures how many team members could leave before a project fails. Understand this critical risk metric for product teams.
- [What Is Estimation Best Practices?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/estimation-best-practices): Estimation best practices use reference class forecasting, ranges, and component breakdown to improve accuracy. Learn what makes estimates more reliable.
- [What Is AI Feature Prioritization?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/ai-feature-prioritization): AI feature prioritization analyzes customer data, usage patterns, and competitive signals to surface patterns. Learn how to use AI to inform product decisions.
- [What Is Codebase Search?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/codebase-search): Codebase search lets you find functions, patterns, and logic in source code. Learn semantic vs. text search and how non-technical teams benefit.
- [What Is Automated Code Insights?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/automated-code-insights): Automated code insights analyze source code to measure complexity, dependencies, coverage, and ownership. Learn how to use insights for better estimates.
- [What Is Machine Learning for Product Managers?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/ml-for-product-managers): PMs need to understand training data quality, model accuracy in context, and drift over time to build ML products effectively without needing the math.
- [What Is Code Quality Metrics?](https://getglueapp.com/glossary/code-quality-metrics): Code quality metrics quantify software maintainability and reliability through complexity, test coverage, and defect density. Learn how to measure what matters for product delivery.

## Use Cases

- [All Use Cases](https://getglueapp.com/use-cases)
- [Glue for Competitive Gap Analysis](https://getglueapp.com/use-cases/competitive-gaps): Ground your competitive gap analysis in technical reality. Understand which features you can realistically build, how long they'll take, and what's already partially implemented.
- [Glue for Technical Debt Management](https://getglueapp.com/use-cases/technical-debt): Transform technical debt from a vague concern into a managed resource. Glue surfaces which debt is actually slowing your team down and what it would cost to fix.
- [Glue for Spec Writing](https://getglueapp.com/use-cases/spec-writing): Write specs that don't require revision. Query your codebase before writing to surface constraints, dependencies, and existing infrastructure you can leverage.
- [Glue for Engineering Planning](https://getglueapp.com/use-cases/engineering-planning): Surface complexity before planning sessions. Estimate stories with full visibility into what the code actually looks like. Improve sprint commitment accuracy and delivery velocity.
- [Glue for Feature Discovery](https://getglueapp.com/use-cases/feature-discovery): Product managers can ask natural language questions about what's actually built. Discover hidden features, prevent duplicate work, and ground competitive analysis in technical reality.
- [Glue for Developer Onboarding](https://getglueapp.com/use-cases/developer-onboarding): Let new developers ask questions about your codebase instead of interrupting senior engineers. Accelerate productivity and reduce onboarding time from months to weeks.
- [Glue for Technical Debt Lifecycle Management](https://getglueapp.com/use-cases/technical-debt-lifecycle): How to use Glue for discovering, prioritizing, and tracking technical debt paydown.
- [Glue for Sprint Intelligence](https://getglueapp.com/use-cases/sprint-intelligence-loop): How Glue provides visibility into what was actually built each sprint.

## Comparisons

- [All Comparisons](https://getglueapp.com/vs)
- [Glue vs Waydev: Git Analytics vs Codebase Intelligence](https://getglueapp.com/vs/waydev): Waydev measures developer activity from git. Glue reads code to reveal product intelligence. Different data, different problems.
- [Glue vs OpsLevel: Developer Portal vs Codebase Intelligence](https://getglueapp.com/vs/opslevel): Compare OpsLevel (operations) vs Glue (code intelligence).
- [Glue vs Swarmia: Developer Productivity vs Codebase Intelligence](https://getglueapp.com/vs/swarmia): Compare Swarmia (productivity) vs Glue (code health).
- [Glue vs CodeClimate: Legacy Code Quality vs Live Codebase Intelligence](https://getglueapp.com/vs/codeclimate): Compare CodeClimate (code quality) vs Glue (business impact).
- [Glue vs GetDX: Developer Sentiment vs Codebase Reality](https://getglueapp.com/vs/getdx): Compare GetDX (developer experience) vs Glue (codebase reality).
- [Glue vs SonarQube: Static Code Analysis vs AI Codebase Intelligence](https://getglueapp.com/vs/sonarqube): Compare SonarQube (bug detection) vs Glue (system intelligence).
- [Glue vs Jellyfish: Engineering Investment vs Engineering Reality](https://getglueapp.com/vs/jellyfish): Jellyfish tracks engineering effort allocation. Glue reveals codebase structure and root causes. Understand how they complement each other.
- [Glue vs Sourcegraph: The Difference Between Search and Understanding](https://getglueapp.com/vs/sourcegraph): Sourcegraph excels at code search for engineers. Glue provides codebase intelligence for product teams. Understand the differences and when to use each.
- [Glue vs Jira: When You Need More Than Ticket Tracking](https://getglueapp.com/vs/glue-vs-jira-intelligence): Comparison of Jira (work tracking) vs Glue (codebase intelligence) and when you need both.
- [Glue vs Notion: Living Documentation vs. Historical Documentation](https://getglueapp.com/vs/notion): Notion documentation goes stale. Glue stays current because it's generated from your codebase. Learn the difference.
- [Glue vs Cortex: Code Understanding vs Service Management](https://getglueapp.com/vs/cortex): Cortex manages service catalogs and standards. Glue analyzes code for product decisions. Compare service visibility vs codebase intelligence.
- [Glue vs LinearB: Codebase Intelligence vs Engineering Analytics](https://getglueapp.com/vs/linearb): LinearB measures team velocity and DORA metrics. Glue analyzes codebase complexity and dependencies. Complementary tools for understanding engineering performance.
- [Glue vs Linear: Work Tracking vs. Work Understanding](https://getglueapp.com/vs/linear): Linear tracks engineering work. Glue understands technical architecture. Learn how they work together.
- [Glue vs Swimm: Code Understanding vs Code Documentation](https://getglueapp.com/vs/swimm): Swimm is manual code documentation. Glue generates docs automatically from code. Compare approaches to keeping documentation current for engineers and PMs.
- [Glue vs GitHub Copilot for Product Understanding](https://getglueapp.com/vs/copilot): Copilot writes code faster. Glue helps non-engineers understand code. Compare AI tools for different use cases: developer productivity vs product visibility.
- [Glue vs Backstage: Developer Portal vs Product Intelligence](https://getglueapp.com/vs/backstage): Compare Glue codebase intelligence to Backstage developer portal. Backstage for infrastructure at scale, Glue for product-engineering alignment. Detailed comparison.
- [Glue vs Jira: Codebase Intelligence vs Project Tracking](https://getglueapp.com/vs/jira): Jira is project tracking. Glue is codebase intelligence. Understand how they complement each other for better sprint planning and technical visibility.
- [Glue vs Productboard: Technical Intelligence for Your Roadmap](https://getglueapp.com/vs/productboard): Learn how Glue and Productboard complement each other. Productboard handles customer feedback and roadmaps, while Glue provides the technical feasibility intelligence you need.
- [Glue vs ChatGPT: Codebase Context Beats General Intelligence](https://getglueapp.com/vs/chatgpt): ChatGPT is great for writing and brainstorming. Glue knows your actual codebase. Learn when to use each tool.

## Authors

- [All Authors](https://getglueapp.com/authors)
- [Arjun Mehta](https://getglueapp.com/authors/arjun-mehta): Arjun Mehta is a Principal Engineer at Glue. He has 12 years of experience building and maintaining large-scale codebase…
- [Glue Team](https://getglueapp.com/authors/glue-team): The Glue editorial team researches and writes about codebase intelligence, product-engineering alignment, and the tools …
- [Priya Shankar](https://getglueapp.com/authors/priya-shankar): Priya Shankar is Head of Product at Glue. She has spent eight years as a product manager at B2B SaaS companies, living t…
- [Vaibhav Verma](https://getglueapp.com/authors/vaibhav-verma): Vaibhav Verma is the Founder and CEO of Glue. Before Glue, he spent a decade building and scaling product teams at enter…

## Contact

- Website: https://getglueapp.com
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