CodeThe three-month ramp
On a modern, documented codebase a good engineer is productive in weeks. On a legacy system with no map, the same engineer spends months spelunking — reading code, asking the busy expert, breaking things to learn what they do.
Why it takes so long
There's no single place that answers the beginner's real questions: Where does login happen? What writes to this table? What does this screen actually do? If I change this, what breaks? The answers are scattered across thousands of files.
Ask instead of spelunk
CodeIQ Pro turns the codebase into something you can interrogate. A new hire types a question in plain English and gets a grounded, cited answer — the real functions, tables and screens involved, not a hallucinated guess.
- "How does the login page work?" → the exact endpoint, class and session flow.
- "What reads
psf_emp?" → every function, ranked. - "Who knows this file?" → the people to ask, from git history and recorded decisions.
The compounding win
Faster onboarding isn't just a nice-to-have. It raises the bus factor, reduces the load on your senior people, and means a reorg or a hiring push doesn't stall the roadmap. The map pays for itself on the first hire.