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Use Case

Engineering Onboarding

From confused to productive in days, not months.

New engineers can learn the codebase. But learning why it was built that way? That takes months of asking questions, reading stale docs, and making mistakes. Arbtr captures the architectural context so new hires understand the 'why' from day one.

The Challenge

Why this problem keeps coming back—and why it's so hard to solve.

Context Takes Months

New engineers can write code in days. Understanding why the system was built this way takes months of archaeology.

Tribal Knowledge

The 'why' lives in the heads of senior engineers. When they're busy or leave, new hires are left guessing.

Outdated Documentation

The wiki says one thing. The code does another. New engineers don't know which to trust.

How Arbtr Solves This

Decision Graph Navigation

New engineers explore the architecture visually. Click any decision to see context, arguments, and related choices.

Searchable Decision Archive

Search for any concept and find the decisions that shaped it. 'Why do we use Redis?' answered in seconds.

AI-Generated Briefings

Generate onboarding briefings for any domain. AI summarizes relevant decisions into digestible overviews.

Oracle Chat

New hires ask questions in natural language. The Oracle answers based on your actual decision history.

The Workflow

How teams use Arbtr to solve this problem, step by step.

1

Generate domain briefings

Create AI-generated briefings for key system areas: auth, payments, data pipeline, etc. Perfect for day-one reading.

2

Assign decision reading

Tag decisions as 'onboarding essential'. New hires get a curated list of the most important decisions to understand.

3

Enable Oracle access

New engineers use Oracle to ask questions as they explore the codebase. Answers include decision references.

4

Track understanding

See which decisions new hires have viewed and which domains they've explored. Identify knowledge gaps early.

Our last three hires got productive in half the usual time. They could search for any architectural question and get a real answer with context, not just 'ask Sarah when she's free'.
Adam Marsh
Founder, Arbtr

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