# AI for Software Development: Ask Your Codebase Directly URL: https://codebasechat.com/lp/ai-for-software-development Type: landing Locale: en Published: 2026-07-22 Updated: 2026-07-22 --- > AI for software development teams who are tired of grep, blame, and pinging a teammate. Ask your codebase questions in plain English and get cited answers. *For engineering teams* ## AI for Software Development That Knows Your Codebase Ask questions in plain English and get answers sourced from your own code, not generic tutorials or outdated docs. ## Six things grep and Ctrl+F can't do ### Ask in plain English Type the question you would normally ask a teammate on Slack. Get an answer sourced from your actual code. ### Multi-repo search Search across every service in the org at once, not one repo at a time with grep. ### Architecture explainers See how a request actually flows through your services, generated from the code, not a stale wiki page. ### Cited answers Every answer links back to the file and line it came from, so you can verify it in seconds. ### Faster onboarding New engineers ask the tool the questions they would otherwise interrupt a teammate to ask. ### Private by default Your code stays in your environment. Nothing is used to train a shared model. ## From connected repo to cited answer 1. **Connect your repos** — Point codebasechat at your GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket org. Indexing runs in the background and does not block anyone's work. 2. **Ask a real question** — Type what you would ask a teammate on Slack: where is auth handled, or what calls this function, in plain sentences. 3. **Get a cited answer** — Read a direct answer with file and line references attached, not a wall of matching search results you still have to read. 4. **Ship or onboard faster** — Spend the time you saved writing code or ramping up a new hire, instead of losing an afternoon to code archaeology. *Use case* ## Onboarding a new engineer without interrupting the team New hires ask the same handful of questions in their first two weeks: where is auth, how do these two services talk to each other, why does this config exist. Each interruption pulls a teammate out of focus. codebasechat answers those questions directly from the code, so the new engineer gets unblocked without waiting for someone to context-switch. - Answers sourced from the actual repo, not a stale onboarding doc - New hires self-serve instead of pinging the team channel - Senior engineers reclaim the hours they used to spend explaining *Use case* ## Understanding a service nobody remembers writing Every team has that one service: no docs, original author long gone, and the only way in is git blame and grep. codebasechat reads the code itself and answers questions about it directly, so you can trace how it works before you touch it, not after you have broken something in production. - Trace a request path across files without opening a dozen tabs - Ask why a function exists before you refactor it - Works on legacy code with zero documentation ## codebasechat vs. general-purpose AI coding tools | Capability | codebasechat | GitHub Copilot | Cursor | |---|---|---|---| | Answers questions about your whole codebase | Yes | Limited to open files | Limited to open files | | Multi-repo, cross-service search | Yes | No | No | | Cites file and line for every answer | Yes | No | Partial, inside editor only | | Primary job | Explain existing code | Write new code | Write new code | | Usable without opening an IDE | Yes | No | No | ## Common questions ### Does codebasechat train a model on our code? No. Your code is indexed only to answer your questions and is never used to train a shared model. Disconnect a repo at any time and its index is removed with it. ### Does it work across multiple repos? Yes. Connect every repo in your org and ask questions that span services, not just the one repo you happen to have open right now. ### How is this different from GitHub Copilot? Copilot is built to write code inside your editor, one file at a time. codebasechat is built to answer questions about code that already exists, across your whole org, cited by file and line. ### Does it replace code review? No. It gives reviewers context on what a change actually touches across the codebase, but the review decision itself stays with a human. ### What if the codebase has no documentation? That is the common case, not the exception. codebasechat reads the code directly, so undocumented and legacy services are still fully searchable. ### How long does setup take? Connecting a repo takes a few minutes. Indexing time depends on repo size, but most codebases are fully searchable within the hour. ### Can a junior engineer use it without supervision? Yes. Every answer includes the exact file and line it came from, so a junior engineer can verify it instead of taking it on faith like a chatbot answer. ### Does it work with a monorepo? Yes. Monorepos are indexed the same way as multi-repo setups, with results scoped to the service or package you are actually asking about. ## Stop losing hours to code archaeology Connect your repos and ask the first question free. No credit card required. *Call to action: Try it free* ## FAQ ### Does codebasechat train a model on our code? No. Your code is indexed only to answer your questions and is never used to train a shared model. Disconnect a repo at any time and its index is removed with it. ### Does it work across multiple repos? Yes. Connect every repo in your org and ask questions that span services, not just the one repo you happen to have open right now. ### How is this different from GitHub Copilot? Copilot is built to write code inside your editor, one file at a time. codebasechat is built to answer questions about code that already exists, across your whole org, cited by file and line. ### Does it replace code review? No. It gives reviewers context on what a change actually touches across the codebase, but the review decision itself stays with a human. ### What if the codebase has no documentation? That is the common case, not the exception. codebasechat reads the code directly, so undocumented and legacy services are still fully searchable. ### How long does setup take? Connecting a repo takes a few minutes. Indexing time depends on repo size, but most codebases are fully searchable within the hour. ### Can a junior engineer use it without supervision? Yes. Every answer includes the exact file and line it came from, so a junior engineer can verify it instead of taking it on faith like a chatbot answer. ### Does it work with a monorepo? Yes. Monorepos are indexed the same way as multi-repo setups, with results scoped to the service or package you are actually asking about.