Your codebase, searchable by AI, sent to no one
Sourcebot lets you run a private, searchable brain over all your code repositories — so your AI tools stop guessing and start knowing.
What it does
Imagine your software team has written code across dozens of projects over the years. It lives in GitHub, or maybe GitLab. Nobody has a clear map of it anymore — not even the developers. Now imagine being able to ask, in plain English, "where do we handle payments?" and getting a real answer with the exact line of code highlighted.
That's Sourcebot. You install it on your own server (no cloud company sees your code), and it indexes everything — every project, every branch. Then it gives you two things: a lightning-fast search that works like Google for code, and a chat mode where you can ask questions and it reasons through your entire codebase to answer.
Why it matters for your business
If you work with developers — or you are the developer — you've probably noticed that AI coding tools sometimes confidently give wrong answers. Often, that's because they don't actually know your codebase. They're guessing.
Sourcebot fixes that. It can act as a memory layer that your AI tools consult before answering. Less guessing, fewer expensive mistakes.
It's free, backed by Y Combinator, and used by engineers at places like NVIDIA and Wikimedia. That's a decent signal it's not vaporware.
Something worth sitting with
If your team's institutional knowledge lives mostly in people's heads — and partly in code nobody's read in two years — a tool like this is quietly valuable. Worth a conversation with your tech lead.
Words worth knowing
Repository (repo): A folder where code lives, usually with version history. Think of it as a project archive your developers can roll back in time.
Self-hosted: Software you run on your own computer or server, not on someone else's cloud. Your data stays yours.
MCP server: A way for AI tools to ask external sources for information mid-conversation — like a waiter who checks the kitchen before answering "what's in this dish?"
Hallucination: When an AI confidently states something wrong because it's filling gaps with guesses rather than real information.