BLOG / USE-CASES
Use Cases
How teams use codebase intelligence for onboarding, audits, and visibility
Audit Code in Flask: A Technical Due Diligence Checklist
A code audit checklist for technical due diligence: a 20-minute automated first pass, then the manual checks, worked step by step on pallets/flask.
Compare Code Health Across Multiple Repos: A Dashboard Guide
How to compare code health across many repositories fairly: which code-level signals to track, how to normalise them, and which tools build the view.
Context-Aware Code Review for Tightly Coupled Code and Microservices
A diff can't show the file that should have changed with it. Co-change from git history and blast radius help code review catch coupled changes.
Monorepo Tools with Dependency Mapping: Migrating 50+ Projects (Checklist)
How Nx, Turborepo, Bazel, Pants, moon and Rush map dependencies, plus a checklist for moving 50+ projects into one monorepo.
Case Study: We Build repowise With repowise
repowise is developed against an index of itself: every pull request is gated by the same risk and health checks we ship. The setup, measurements, and limits.
Onboard Engineers Faster on Any Codebase
Onboard engineers faster on any codebase with an auto-generated wiki and 10 MCP tools that recover the why behind legacy code. See the 30-day approach inside.
How to Read a Codebase You Didn't Write
Read an unfamiliar codebase fast by treating the first pass like an incident review, not a refactor: four lenses, an hourly workflow, and a repeatable audit memo.
Incident Response: Finding the Change That Broke Production
A production incident creates one question fast: who changed this code? The answer is rarely “the last commit.” It is usually a chain of changes, ownership…
How the repowise PR Bot Comments Only When It Matters
pr bot silent default is the only sane default for review automation. A GitHub PR bot should stay out of the way on green changes, then speak only when it…
Audit a Flask monolith before acquisition with graph, history, wiki, ADRs
Run a pre-acquisition code audit on a Flask monolith with graph, git history, wiki freshness, and ADRs. Find surprises before week two.
Audit a legacy monolith before acquisition with graph, history, wiki, ADRs
Audit legacy code with graph, history, wiki, and ADRs to answer ownership, risk, and rewrite questions before a deal. See 4 layers in one review.
Security review on a Python monolith with 19 hotspots
A security review codebase case study on a Python monolith: find 19 hotspots, map ownership gaps, and cut duplicate reads with one review path.