Built for codebase onboarding

Turn an unfamiliar repo
into an onboarding guide.

Onboardly helps someone ramp up on a codebase they did not write. Ask for the architecture, entry points, important files, and safe places to start, then verify every answer against cited source files.

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Free to try for onboarding, handoff, and repo walkthroughs

Example questions

What should a new engineer read first?How does a user request flow through this app?Which files explain authentication best?What parts are safe to edit and what parts are risky?How would you explain this repo to a PM or intern?What are the main systems in this codebase?

How teams use it

01

Connect a repo

Sign in with GitHub and choose the codebase someone needs to understand

02

Build repo context

Onboardly indexes the key files so answers stay grounded in the actual code

03

Guide the reader

Ask onboarding-style questions and get plain-English answers with source files attached

Why it feels different

Start with orientation

Get the quickest path to understanding what the repo does, where it starts, and which files matter first.

Answer with receipts

Every response points back to the files it used, so a new teammate can verify the summary instead of trusting vague AI output.

Hand off work cleanly

Useful for new hires, interns, managers, contractors, and future-you when a repo needs context before editing starts.

Ready to make a repo easier to inherit?

Connect a GitHub repo and start asking the questions a new teammate would ask first.

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