Dosu

Dosu is an intelligent AI-powered assistant designed to function as a core member of your development team. Its primary mission is to alleviate the burden of documentation and internal support, allowing your most skilled engineers to focus on innovation and complex problem-solving. Dosu achieves this by transforming your entire codebase, along with associated conversations, tickets, and reviews, into a dynamic and accessible knowledge base. This living repository of information is understandable by everyone on the team, from senior engineers to non-technical staff in product, sales, and support roles.

Trusted by leading open-source projects and companies like LangChain, LlamaIndex, and Apache Airflow, Dosu acts as a central intelligence hub. It proactively generates and maintains documentation, ensuring it never becomes stale as your code evolves. By integrating seamlessly into your existing workflows, Dosu provides context-aware knowledge exactly when and where it's needed.

How to use Dosu

Getting started with Dosu is designed to be a frictionless process that integrates directly into your team's daily operations:

1. Connect Your Tools: Begin by installing the Dosu app and connecting it to your primary data sources. This includes code repositories like GitHub, communication platforms like Slack and Discord, and project management tools such as Jira, Linear, and Confluence.
2. Automatic Ingestion: Once connected, Dosu begins to ingest and analyze information from these sources. It processes code, pull requests, issue discussions, Slack threads, and existing documentation to build a comprehensive understanding of your projects.
3. Ask Questions: Team members can ask Dosu questions directly within their familiar environments, like Slack or GitHub. Dosu's fact-based reasoning agent provides accurate, context-rich answers, saving and sharing them to prevent repeat questions.
4. Automated Documentation: Dosu works in the background to automatically generate documentation for key topics and concepts it discovers. You can use templates to guide Dosu on what to document, and it will fill in the details.
5. Maintain and Update: Dosu monitors for changes. When code is updated or an issue is closed, it automatically updates the relevant documentation, identifies knowledge gaps, and can even prompt experts to provide missing information, ensuring the knowledge base remains current.

Core Features of Dosu

• Automated Documentation Generation: Creates documentation from code, conversations, tickets, and pull requests by default.
• Intelligent Q&A: A powerful AI agent that answers technical questions, understands context, and adapts its responses for different audiences (technical vs. non-technical).
• Knowledge Gap Detection: Proactively identifies areas where documentation is missing or outdated and prompts the right team members to fill in the blanks.
• Seamless Integrations: Works with the tools your team already uses, including GitHub, Slack, Discord, Jira, Linear, Confluence, and Notion.
• Open Source Maintainer Support: Automates issue triage, auto-labels issues, responds to user questions in their native language, and helps enforce repository best practices.
• Built-In Versioning: Automatically versions all changes to knowledge, providing a clear audit trail of when and why information was updated.
• Custom Reports and Templates: Generate reports to track feature evolution and use templates to standardize documentation efforts.
• Security-First Approach: SOC 2 Type II certified, never trains on private data, and is built on a zero-trust security model.

Use Cases for Dosu

Dosu provides value across various roles and scenarios:

• For Engineers: Accelerates onboarding for new hires, simplifies cross-team collaboration by making unfamiliar codebases understandable, and eliminates the need to constantly answer the same questions, freeing up time to code.
• For Open Source Maintainers: Drastically reduces the burden of managing popular repositories by automating issue triage, providing instant support to the community, and keeping documentation aligned with the latest code.
• For Product, Sales, and Support Teams: Empowers non-technical teams with accurate, up-to-date knowledge about how the product works and how it has evolved, enabling them to unblock themselves and better serve customers.
• For AI Agents: Acts as a reliable, always-current knowledge source for other AI tools and agents, allowing you to automate more complex workflows with confidence.

Advantages of Dosu

Dosu offers a significant competitive edge by transforming how teams manage knowledge. Its key advantages include dramatically reducing the time engineers spend on non-coding tasks, leading to faster development cycles and shipping speeds. It ensures that documentation is a living, breathing asset rather than a stale artifact. This improves cross-team collaboration, makes onboarding more efficient, and provides a single source of truth that benefits the entire organization. For open-source projects, it's a game-changer for sustainability and community management.

Pricing and Plans

Dosu offers a flexible pricing structure to suit teams of all sizes:

• Free Plan: Ideal for individuals and small teams. Includes unlimited auto-labeling, unlimited users, unlimited interactions on open-source repositories, and up to 100 interactions on private repos. Integrates with GitHub, Slack, and Discord.
• Pro Plan: Priced at $19 per seat/month (billed annually). Includes everything in the Free plan, plus unlimited interactions on all repositories, integrations with tools like Linear, Notion, Jira, and Confluence, trending topics and knowledge gap detection, and usage analytics dashboards.
• Enterprise Plan: Custom pricing for large organizations. Includes all Pro features, plus custom integrations, unlimited historic data ingestion, SSO login (Okta/SAML), custom contracts, and dedicated support with uptime SLAs.