Unblocked

Unblocked supplies developers with context-specific answers to their questions about their own code by combining knowledge from GitHub, Slack, Confluence and other sources directly into their source code. It can help developers quickly find the information they need without having to schedule a meeting or bother colleagues.

Unblocked improves development by providing developers with the subtleties and details of an application. It knows the codebase, architecture and internal knowledge, and it can provide answers quickly. For parts of the codebase it doesn't know, Unblocked shows relevant documents and past discussions so developers can be sure they have the same knowledge as their teammates who wrote the code.

Among Unblocked's features are:

• Augmented source code: Knowledge from systems like GitHub, Slack, Confluence and Jira.
• Accurate answers: Answers based on the codebase and internal knowledge.
• Contextual documentation: Relevant documents and discussions for any open file.
• Role-based access control: Ability to modify integration with GitHub/Bitbucket/Gitlab administrators.
• Archiving references: Ability to remove unhelpful references from answers.
• macOS app: A single place to ask questions and view answers.
• Support for Google Drive: Ability to import documents from specific Google Drive folders.
• Improved Pull Request questions and answers: Ability to ask a variety of Pull Request related questions.
• Team member usage overview: Ability to see team member usage and question history.
• Support for Open Source projects: Ability to integrate with Open Source projects for better answers.
• Persistent suggested follow-ups: Follow-up questions are saved for future reference.
• IDE plugins: Available for Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IDEs, so developers can ask questions and explore content from directly within their development environment.

Unblocked prioritizes security, maintaining enterprise-grade standards through regular penetration testing, data encryption and team-based data access and isolation. The project is SOC 2 Type 2 Compliant, and customer data is never used to train shared models.

Unblocked is in open beta now and is free for teams to use. That means that even when the company starts charging, teams that sign up during the beta period won't have to pay.

Published on June 9, 2024