AI Engineering

AI coding
costs 71×
more than
they should.

One knowledge graph changed that.
450K engineers adopted it in 26 days.

Swipe to understand why
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The Problem
98%

of every AI coding query
is pure waste.

Your tool loads the entire codebase — every file, every function — just to answer a question about 3 files. At 50M queries per month, that's $105,000. Mostly wasted.

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The Solution

Graphify
maps your
codebase.
Then routes
only what
matters.

Knowledge graph + Leiden community detection. Query gets ~1K tokens of relevant context. Not 70K of noise.

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How it works

4 steps. Seconds to run.

  1. 01
    Parse the codebase
    AST analysis builds nodes (files, functions) and edges (imports, calls, inheritance)
  2. 02
    Run Leiden detection
    Iterative modularity maximisation groups related code into stable clusters
  3. 03
    Route the query
    Semantic match finds the right cluster — auth, DB, UI, infra — whatever you asked about
  4. 04
    Load only that cluster
    ~1,000 tokens into the model. 71× fewer than naive loading.
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Mental Model

Your codebase
is a city.

Graphify builds the map,
labels every neighbourhood,
and drives you to the right street

instead of taking you on a tour
of every road, every time.

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The Economics

Cost per million
AI coding queries

Naive loading
~70,000 tokens / query
$2,100
Graphify
~1,000 tokens / query
$30

A team at 50M queries/month saves $103,500 every month. Same workflow. Same output quality.

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Adoption Signal

When a tool solves a real pain,
engineers show up fast.

450K Downloads — in the first 26 days. Most dev tools take 6–12 months to hit 100K.
40K GitHub stars. Production engineers contributing algorithm improvements.
26d Days to 450K. That's not hype — that's a solved problem.
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