Make critical knowledge independent of individuals.

If the answer to a critical question lives in one person's head, your team will eventually pay for it: delays, risky releases, blocked merges, slow onboarding, long incidents.

BusFactor extracts the undocumented tribal knowledge — intent, assumptions, constraints, gotchas — and makes it available to your team and your AI tools via MCP.

In minutes, BusFactor starts turning “only one person knows” into shared context.

Read git repository

GitHub • Bitbucket • Zip Upload

Identify knowledge gaps and risks

Undocumented decisions • missing rationale • ownership gaps • risk hotspots

AI-generated interviews

A guided, automatically generated AI conversation that asks follow-ups to capture the “why.”

Queryable tribal knowledge

Chat • MCP • IDE agents (Cursor, Copilot)

The limiting factor for AI in engineering is context.

The “why” behind decisions, risks, and edge cases isn't in docs or tickets and rarely in code.

BusFactor captures tacit knowledge through deeply thought-through interviews, so your team can preserve intent, constraints, and edge cases without relying on heroes.

Confluence / Doc tools

  • ✗Static pages, often outdated
  • ✗Disconnected from actual code
  • ✗Missing "why" and tribal knowledge
  • ✗AI tools can't query relationships

BusFactor

  • ✓Documented tribal knowledge
  • ✓Links decisions to implementations
  • ✓Captures intent via engineer interviews
  • ✓Queryable by AI through MCP protocol
Output preview
Question plan
Focus area

Auth, API, and data access flows

Interview targets

Owners of auth, deploy, and billing

Question seed

What breaks on deploy? Why this auth model?

What BusFactor captures:

  • 1Frameworks, libraries, and critical dependencies
  • 2Hidden coupling, circular dependencies, and bottlenecks
  • 3Gaps in shared understanding, high-risk single-owner modules
STRUCTURED OUTPUT→ What AI tools receive
{
  "phase": "analyze",
  "question_plan": [
    { "topic": "auth", "why": "trade-offs and failure modes" },
    { "topic": "deploy", "why": "rollback steps and edge cases" }
  ],
  "targets": ["alice", "bob"]
}
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See it in action

From analysis to actionable insights in minutes

Instant risk analysis

Connect your repository and get immediate insights into knowledge concentration, critical dependencies, and fragile areas.

  • Automatic detection of high-risk modules
  • Architecture and complexity analysis
  • Actionable risk prioritization

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Analysis Dashboard

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Guided Interviews

AI-guided interviews

Automatically generated, role-specific questions that capture the "why" behind your code decisions.

  • Contextual questions based on actual code
  • Captures tribal knowledge and edge cases
  • Voice or text responses with attachments

Instant answers via MCP

AI tools and team members query the knowledge graph in real-time. No more waiting for "ask Alice".

  • Cursor, Copilot, and ChatGPT integration
  • Complete context for every query
  • Always up-to-date with code changes

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MCP Integration

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Protect your business

Understand who knows what, and prevent knowledge from walking out the door.

Risk Analysis

Identify files and modules with high bus factor risk

Automatically detect code areas that depend on too few contributors.

Team Insights

Visualize knowledge distribution across your team

See who owns what, and discover opportunities for knowledge sharing.

Git Integration

Connect directly to your repositories

Seamlessly analyze GitHub and Bitbucket repositories, plus zip uploads.

Simple Pricing

Choose the plan that fits your team. All plans include a 14-day money-back guarantee.

Starter

For focused teams getting started

$200/year

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
  • No credits left: wait until renewal
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Most Popular

Team

For growing engineering teams

$420/year

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
  • No credits left: wait until renewal
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Enterprise

For organizations with large codebases

$3000/year

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
  • No credits left: wait until renewal
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