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What teams ask KnowWhy.

KnowWhy is an AI knowledge base and chatbot for GitHub, Slack and Notion. Here is how teams use it, and what it reads in each tool.

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AI chatbot for GitHub, Slack & NotionKnowWhy is an AI chatbot for your team's GitHub, Slack and Notion. Ask one question in plain language and get an answer drawn from commits, pull requests, Slack threads and Notion pages, with a citation for every claim.

Project status from GitHub & SlackAsk “what shipped last week?” or “where are we on the migration?” and KnowWhy answers from merged pull requests, issues, Slack threads and Notion pages, with citations and the searched date range shown.

Engineering onboardingNew engineers can ask KnowWhy why the code and processes are the way they are, and get answers drawn from past pull requests, Slack discussions and Notion docs, each linked to its source.

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AI search for SlackKnowWhy indexes the Slack channels you choose, thread replies included, and answers questions like “what did we decide about retries?” with citations to the original messages. Direct messages are never read.

Ask your GitHub history whyKnowWhy indexes commits, pull requests, reviews and issues from the repositories you choose, then answers why a change was made, who reviewed it and what shipped, with citations to the exact commit or pull request. Source code is not indexed.

AI knowledge base for NotionKnowWhy indexes the Notion pages you share with it, including specs, meeting notes and decision records, and answers questions with citations to each page, alongside what was said in Slack and done in GitHub.

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