Y Combinator Request for Startups

Your team knows everything.
Your company remembers nothing.

New engineers take weeks to get productive — because how your team really works lives in people's heads, the repo, and scattered docs. RampBrain turns all of it into a grounded, sourced onboarding plan, and flags exactly what's undocumented. Ramp new hires in days, not weeks.

60%
of company knowledge is undocumented and lives in people's heads
23 hrs
per week engineers spend searching for information they need
$50k
average cost of lost knowledge when a senior engineer leaves
Days
not weeks — to ramp a new engineer with a sourced onboarding plan

First three figures are widely-cited industry estimates (knowledge-management research).

A RampBrain onboarding plan: sourced steps for a new backend engineer, with an undocumented gap flagged
A real onboarding plan — every step sourced from the team's docs, with the undocumented gap flagged.
The Problem

Knowledge scattered.
Context lost.
Answers buried.

Every engineering team suffers from this. The knowledge exists — it's just in the worst possible places.

💬

"Ask Raj, he knows."

Critical processes live in one person's head. When they're on vacation — or leave — the knowledge goes with them. No documentation, no backup.

🔍

"I know we solved this before..."

The answer exists in a Slack thread from 8 months ago, or a Google Doc no one can find, or a commit message buried in git history.

📝

"The docs are outdated."

Documentation was written once and never updated. New engineers follow stale guides. Everyone knows the docs are wrong — nobody fixes them.

"I've been onboarding for 3 months."

New team members take months to become productive because there's no single source of truth for how things actually work here.

How RampBrain works

Not another doc search tool. A system that understands, structures, and preserves how your team actually operates.

01

Ingest everything

Connect your existing sources. We parse, chunk, and understand the content — not just store it.

PDFs & Docs GitHub Slack Interviews
02

Extract & structure

AI identifies processes, rules, ownership, decisions, and tools. Builds a living knowledge map automatically.

Processes Ownership Decisions Rules
03

Generate the onboarding plan

For any new hire, get a day-one plan built only from your knowledge — every step sourced, and the undocumented gaps flagged so you can fill them.

Sourced steps Gaps flagged Runs an agent
What you get

A real onboarding plan, in seconds.

Built only from your repo, docs, and a senior's 5-minute interview. Every step links to its source. Anything missing is flagged — so you know exactly what to write down.

Onboarding plan — Sam (Backend Engineer)
Local setup
☐ Run python -m venv .venv && pip install -e . — README.md
☐ Get secrets from the 1Password "Dev" vault — onboarding interview
⚠️ Gap: no documented way to get database credentials undocumented
First task & shipping
☐ Pick a good-first-issue, open a PR (needs 1 code-owner approval) — CONTRIBUTING.md
☐ Deploys ship on merge to main via CI — docs/deploy.md
What Makes Us Different

Two things no doc-search tool does.

Everyone can build RAG over documents. Our moat is deeper.

1
Knowledge Extraction

We don't just store documents. We understand them.

Every document is analyzed by AI to extract structured knowledge: processes, rules, who owns what, past decisions, tools used. This builds a living map of how your company works — not just a pile of embeddings.

2
Tribal Knowledge Capture

We pull knowledge out of people's heads before they leave.

5 structured interview questions, designed for engineers. The AI converts their spoken answers into clean, searchable process documents. The stuff that would be lost forever — captured and preserved.

Security & trust

Your knowledge stays yours.

A company brain only works if you trust it with what matters. We treat your knowledge like the sensitive asset it is.

🔒

Encrypted & isolated

Everything moves over encrypted (HTTPS) connections, and any connector tokens are encrypted at rest. Each workspace is fully isolated — your knowledge is never mixed with another company's.

🚫

Never sold or shared

We don't sell your data or share it with third parties for advertising. It's used for exactly one thing: powering your company's brain.

🗑️

Yours to delete

You choose what gets ingested, and you can remove any document, source, or your entire workspace at any time. Delete it, and it's gone.

Use Cases

Questions that waste
hours every week.

These are real questions your team asks every day. Right now they take hours. With RampBrain, they take seconds.

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How does deployment work? What's the full checklist?

"

Who owns the auth service? Who should I talk to?

"

We had this exact bug before. How did we fix it last time?

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Why was this architecture chosen? What were the tradeoffs?

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What's the onboarding process for new engineers?

"

What happens when the payment service goes down at 2am?

Pricing

Start free. Upgrade when your team grows.

Free to try on your first repo. Go Pro when you want unlimited plans, every connector, and agents that do the work.

Free
$0 / forever
For trying it on a single repo or team.
  • 1 connected repo
  • 3 onboarding plans / month
  • Knowledge map & Ask
  • Tribal-knowledge capture
  • Community support
Start Free
Enterprise
Custom
For larger orgs with security & scale needs.
  • Dedicated AI quota / your own keys
  • SSO & role-based access
  • Self-host option
  • Security review & SLA
  • Dedicated support
Contact us
No credit card required to start. Cancel anytime. Prices in USD.
FAQ

Questions, answered.

How is this different from ChatGPT or a doc search?

ChatGPT doesn't know how your company works, and search just finds documents. RampBrain ingests your repo, docs, and tribal knowledge, structures it, and grounds every answer in your sources — with citations and honestly-flagged gaps. It's not a chatbot over documents; it's a living map of how your team actually operates.

Is my data safe?

Yes. Encrypted in transit, connector tokens encrypted at rest, your workspace isolated from every other company, never sold, and deletable anytime. More in Security & trust.

What can I connect?

GitHub repositories, documents (PDF, Markdown, code files), Slack exports, Jira, Confluence, Notion, Linear — plus 5-minute knowledge interviews to capture what's only in people's heads.

Do I have to set anything up or organize my docs?

No. Connect a source and we parse, structure, and keep it current automatically — every day, and instantly on each code push. You don't tag or sort anything.

What does it cost?

Free to start — 1 connected source and 3 onboarding plans a month. Pro is $49/mo for unlimited. See pricing.

Who is it for?

Engineering teams who lose weeks onboarding new hires and keep answering the same questions — especially when senior people might leave and take the knowledge with them.

The biggest blocker to AI automation is no longer the models. Now the blocker is the domain knowledge. Every company in the world is going to need a company brain.
Tom Blomfield — Y Combinator, Request for Startups
Jay Gautam, founder of RampBrain

I'm Jay, a final-year CS student. I kept seeing the same thing — the knowledge that actually runs a team lives in a few people's heads, and every new hire has to rediscover it from scratch. RampBrain is my attempt to fix that: turn what your team already knows into something a new engineer (or an AI agent) can actually use. I'm building it in the open, and I read every piece of feedback personally.

Jay GautamFounder, RampBrain

Onboard your next
engineer in days.

It's live and free to try — connect a repo and generate your first onboarding plan in minutes.

Or get product updates:

Free for early adopters. No credit card needed.