Even the best AI can't ship if the key knowledge lives in one person's head.
BusFactor captures critical context from the people who hold it and turns it into shared knowledge every engineer and AI agent can use.
Read-only access. Least privilege. Results in minutes.
- Clear answers (links to commits/tickets/docs)
- Stays current as your system changes
- Works with GitHub, Bitbucket, Slack, and MCP clients
If the critical answer lives in one head, you don't have a system - you have a dependency.
Knowledge bottlenecks hide in plain sight: urgent pull requests wait for one person, incident context lives in memory, and critical release constraints stay unwritten. As teams scale, these hidden dependencies slow delivery and increase risk exactly when reliability matters most.
- PRs blocked by 'ask Alex'
- Incidents solved by memory, not documentation
- Onboarding measured in months
- Silent risk when people change teams or leave
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BusFactor is the missing context layer for engineering teams and AI agents.
We extract tribal knowledge hiding in codebases and workflows-intent, assumptions, gotchas, constraints, and decision history-then fill the gaps with targeted AI interviews so the 'why' becomes a team asset.
How BusFactor works
Connect
Connect GitHub or Bitbucket with read-only access, then link workflow systems.
Detect risk (knowledge hotspots)
Identify modules where critical context is concentrated in too few people.
Capture missing 'why' (AI-guided interviews)
Run targeted interviews to preserve assumptions, tradeoffs, and edge cases.
Make it usable (search, Q&A, IDE/agent integrations)
Deliver clear answers where teams and agents already work: Slack and MCP clients like Cursor and Claude.
Works where work happens
What changes after BusFactor
Ship faster with fewer bottlenecks
Critical decisions and constraints are no longer locked behind one person.
What you'll notice: fewer blocked PRs, faster review loops, and more answers coming from Slack or Cursor instead of teammate pings.
Onboard in weeks, not months
New engineers get context-rich answers instead of piecing together oral history.
What you'll notice: earlier independent contributions.
Shorter incidents
Past failure context and operational gotchas are easy to find under pressure.
What you'll notice: less guesswork and faster answers in incident Slack channels.
Knowledge survives attrition & reorgs
Context stays with the system even when ownership changes.
What you'll notice: lower transition risk across team changes.
Built for the moments that cost you time and sleep
Onboarding
What should I know before touching service X?
PR reviews
Is this change safe? What constraints exist?
Incidents
What failed last time and why?
Daily engineering questions
Ask BusFactor in Slack or through MCP (Cursor, Claude) instead of pinging teammates for hidden context.
Ownership & risk
Where are we exposed to single-person knowledge?
Handovers
What's the unwritten context behind this module?
Not a wiki. Not another chat box.
- Evidence-first: answers trace back to commits/tickets/docs
- Captures what's missing: interviews turn tacit knowledge into explicit facts
- Stays alive: updates as the system evolves
- Built for engineering reality: constraints, tradeoffs, dependencies
See what your team knows - and where you're exposed
Designed for real engineering orgs
Read-only by default
Least privilege access
Clear data boundaries
Audit-friendly ingestion records
Pricing built for engineering teams
Pick the plan that fits your repositories, interview volume, and team cadence.
Starter
For focused teams getting started
Save $40 per year
- Projects: up to 1 repository
- Seats: workspace member tracking
- Credits: 35/month
- Interviews: up to 5 sessions/month
- 1 full analysis per repository/month included
- Incremental re-analysis costs 3 credits
- Need more credits? Buy top-up packs instantly
Team
For growing engineering teams
Save $48 per year
- Projects: up to 5 repositories
- Seats: workspace member tracking
- Credits: 110/month
- Interviews: up to 20 sessions/month
- 1 full analysis per repository/month included
- Incremental re-analysis costs 3 credits
- Need more credits? Buy top-up packs instantly
Enterprise
For organizations with large codebases
Save $588 per year
- Projects: up to 50 repositories
- Seats: workspace member tracking
- Credits: 500/month
- Interviews: up to 100 sessions/month
- 1 full analysis per repository/month included
- Incremental re-analysis costs 3 credits
- Need more credits? Buy top-up packs instantly
Need a custom plan? Contact us.
Stop running your engineering org on tribal knowledge.
Connect a repo and get your first knowledge hotspots and interview plan in minutes.
No agents required. Read-only by default.