# Glue

> Glue is the pre-code intelligence platform. It connects to your GitHub repos, indexes your entire codebase using 6 parallel AI agents, and builds a deep context layer — every function, every dependency, every call path, every feature boundary, every piece of tribal knowledge buried in git history. Then it makes that intelligence accessible through natural language.

Glue solves the Understanding Tax — the 20-35% of engineering time developers lose to context acquisition before writing a single line of code. Paste a ticket, get a battle plan: affected files with line numbers, feature boundaries, tribal knowledge from git history, blast radius analysis, and suggested approach.

## What Glue Does

- Code Indexing & Symbol Extraction — parses Java, TypeScript, Python, JavaScript, Go
- Feature Discovery — uses Louvain clustering on dependency graphs to identify feature boundaries
- Feature Evolution & Tribal Knowledge — tracks who changed what, when, and why from git history
- Ticket Triage & Analysis — connects to Linear, ClickUp, Jira for duplicate detection and complexity estimation
- Competitive Gap Analysis — auto-detects competitors, crawls features, scores coverage gaps
- Conversational Workspace — Claude-powered Q&A synthesizing across all intelligence
- Auto-generated Documentation — feature catalogs and user journey docs from actual code
- Team Insights — code ownership mapping, knowledge risk detection, collaboration patterns

## Key Pages

- [Homepage](https://glue.tools/): Product overview and signup
- [About](https://glue.tools/about): Mission, team, and approach
- [Benefits](https://glue.tools/benefits): Why engineering teams use Glue
- [Blog](https://glue.tools/blog): 56 articles on code intelligence, developer productivity, and AI tools
- [Authors](https://glue.tools/authors): Blog contributors
- [AI Work Breakdown Structure Generator](https://glue.tools/ai-work-breakdown-structure-generator): Turn tickets into build plans

## Top Articles

- [The Understanding Tax: Why Your Developers Spend 90 Minutes Per Ticket Before Writing Code](https://glue.tools/blog/the-understanding-tax-why-developers-spend-90-minutes-per-ticket): Engineering teams lose 20-35% of developer time to context acquisition. This invisible tax is baked 
- [Measuring Technical Debt: Beyond SonarQube](https://glue.tools/blog/measuring-technical-debt-beyond-sonarqube): Code quality scanners measure syntax. Real technical debt lives in architectural complexity, depende
- [Building Roadmaps from Code Reality, Not Opinions](https://glue.tools/blog/building-roadmaps-from-code-reality-not-opinions): How to use discovered features, competitive gaps, and team capabilities to build data-driven roadmap
- [Understanding Your Codebase in 2026: The Complete Guide](https://glue.tools/blog/understanding-your-codebase-complete-guide-2026): Everything you need to know about codebase understanding tools, techniques, and workflows. From grep
- [Database Schema as Code Intelligence](https://glue.tools/blog/database-schema-as-code-intelligence): Automatic ERD generation, schema analysis, and relationship mapping from live databases. How your sc
- [Call Graphs That Prevent Production Incidents](https://glue.tools/blog/call-graphs-that-prevent-production-incidents): How understanding code dependencies and blast radius before deployment prevents the bugs that code r
- [How to Give Claude Code Full Project Context](https://glue.tools/blog/how-to-give-claude-code-full-project-context): Claude Code is powerful but limited by what it can see. Here's how to feed it codebase-level context
- [How We Cluster 4,000 Files Into Features Using Louvain Community Detection](https://glue.tools/blog/how-we-cluster-files-into-features-louvain-community-detection): Technical deep dive into graph-based feature discovery. How Louvain modularity optimization groups f
- [Why Copilot Doesn't Work on Your Hardest Tickets](https://glue.tools/blog/why-copilot-doesnt-work-on-your-hardest-tickets): AI code completion breaks down on cross-file refactors, legacy code, and tickets requiring business 
- [Why 80% of Dev Teams Will Use AI Code Tools by 2025 (And Why Most Will Be Disappointed)](https://glue.tools/blog/why-80-of-dev-teams-will-use-ai-code-tools-by-2025): The prediction came true - adoption is massive. But ROI? That is a different story. Here is why most
- [The 10-Minute Codebase Audit: What to Check Before Joining a New Team](https://glue.tools/blog/the-10-minute-codebase-audit-before-joining-new-team): A quick checklist for evaluating codebase health, team practices, and knowledge risks before accepti
- [Code Ownership at Scale: Who Knows What in Your Codebase](https://glue.tools/blog/code-ownership-at-scale-who-knows-what): CODEOWNERS files are always stale. Git history tells the truth about who actually maintains, reviews
- [AI Agents for Code: Build vs Buy in 2026](https://glue.tools/blog/ai-agents-for-code-build-vs-buy-2026): Every team considers building their own AI coding agent. Here's when it makes sense and when you sho
- [Why Your Codebase Is a Graph, Not Files](https://glue.tools/blog/why-your-codebase-is-a-graph-not-files): Deep dive into graph-based code analysis and why traditional file-based thinking fails at scale.
- [Sprint Planning Without 3-Hour Meetings](https://glue.tools/blog/sprint-planning-without-3-hour-meetings): AI-generated dev plans with file-level tasks based on actual codebase architecture. How to cut sprin
- [Neuromorphic Computing FAQ: 8 Critical Questions About Brain-Inspired AI](https://glue.tools/blog/neuromorphic-computing-faq-8-critical-questions-about-braininspired-ai-revolution): Neuromorphic chips process data like the brain. What this means for AI applications, when it matters
- [Your Codebase Knows Everything Your Team Has Forgotten](https://glue.tools/blog/your-codebase-knows-everything-your-team-has-forgotten): Git history, call graphs, and change patterns contain more reliable tribal knowledge than any wiki. 
- [MCP: The USB-C for AI Apps That Killed Our Glue Code Hell](https://glue.tools/blog/mcp-the-usbc-for-ai-apps-that-killed-our-glue-code-hell): Model Context Protocol lets AI tools talk to your code, databases, and docs without building custom 
- [M&A Tech Due Diligence in 3 Days, Not 3 Months](https://glue.tools/blog/ma-tech-due-diligence-in-3-days-not-3-months): How automated feature discovery and competitive gap analysis accelerate M&A technical evaluation fro
- [Cloud-Native Development: Why Understanding Your Infrastructure Matters More Than Your Framework](https://glue.tools/blog/cloudnative-development-why-serverless-kubernetes-rule): Serverless and Kubernetes changed deployment. But they also changed how developers need to understan

## Contact

- Website: https://glue.tools
- Email: hello@glue.tools