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Kumar Kislay
Kumar Kislay

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Developer onboarding is broken in most companies.

The average new engineer spends 2–3 weeks just figuring out where things are. Not building. Not shipping. Just… searching.

Here’s what actually happens:
→ Documentation is outdated (or nonexistent)
→ Code logic lives in someone’s head
→ Meeting decisions are buried in Slack

The real cost? Each new hire wastes 40–60 hours of senior developer time just asking questions.

How to fix it:

Centralize your knowledge in one place

  1. Centralize your knowledge in one place
  2. Make your codebase searchable with AI
  3. Auto-document meeting decisions
  4. Link tasks to code changes for context

We built Syncally to solve this exact problem. It connects your GitHub, meetings, and tasks so new devs can ask “why was this built this way?” and get instant answers.

No more 3-hour context-hunting sessions. No more bothering your senior devs.

If onboarding takes more than 3 days, your knowledge management is broken.

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