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01Overview

Unblocked is the context engine for AI-driven software development. It continuously reads, analyzes, and relates the fragmented information across a companies knowledge graph — source code, pull requests, Slack and Microsoft Teams messages, Jira and Linear tickets, Confluence and Notion docs, Datadog and Sentry, and more — into trusted, cited answers and context for both developers and AI coding agents.

Unblocked connects over 25 tools into a unified knowledge graph, reconciles conflicts between sources, enforces existing access controls, personalizes relevance, and reduces token usage and time waste. Every answer includes citations to the exact files, PRs, tickets, or docs it used, with the main branch treated as the source of truth. Unblocked raised a $20M Series A and is available on the web, as a macOS app, inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, and through an MCP server, CLI, or API connection for coding agents, Claude desktop and CoWork, ChatGPT and Codex, and other MCP compatible agentic tools.

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Unblocked is a context engine for AI-driven software development. It gives AI coding agents — including Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and GitHub Copilot — and developers accurate, cited context drawn from a team's entire knowledge graph: code, pull requests, Slack and Teams threads, Jira and Linear tickets, and Confluence and Notion docs, Datadog and Sentry. It connects over 25 tools through a single MCP server connection, CLI, or API, is SOC 2 Type II compliant, and never trains on customer data. Plans start at $19/user/month with a 21-day free trial.

03How it works

Unblocked's Context Engine runs an eight-stage intelligence pipeline that retrieves, filters, and ranks organizational knowledge before delivering it to a human or agent. Rather than returning keyword-matched snippets like traditional RAG, it returns related, fresh, accurate, and actionable context:

Unified retrieval — traverses a single knowledge graph spanning all connected data sources including: code, docs, tickets, and conversations at once.
Conflict resolution — reconciles contradictory sources using recency, authority, experts graph, and proximity signals.
Permission enforcement — respects each user's existing access controls across every connected source, inherited from enterprise security tools including SSO and OAuth.
Personalized relevance — ranks context against each developer's contribution history, where they are actively contributing for the task at hand, and the intent of the query.
Token optimization — compresses context so agents burn significantly fewer tokens on search, retrieval loops, and tool calls.
Citations — every answer links back to the exact sources it consulted.

Indexing & freshnessUnblocked indexes your repositories and connected data sources and keeps them in sync as your team pushes changes, so answers reflect both the current state of the code and its history. The main branch is treated as the source of truth.

04Who it is for

Unblocked is built for software engineering teams of all sizes that use AI, agents, and LLMs for development and want their coding agents and developers to work from accurate, organization-specific context — not generic suggestions. It is especially valuable for teams facing developer onboarding, internal support load, legacy code, enterprise scale, and knowledge loss during turnover and growth. As well as teams embracing the new SDLC with background agents, automations with LLMs and models in the loop, and scaling developers using tens to hundreds of agents in loops.

05Capabilities

Unblocked Chat and Question & Answer — ask questions about your codebase, its history, and surrounding systems on the web, the macOS app, or in Slack/Teams.
MCP — connect any agent to your companies knowledge significantly reducing token and time waste by providing agents the exact context they need to implement code that understands your system, operational rollout, and all past incidents leading to mergable PRs in one prompt.
CLI — connect any agent, whether local, in continuous integration (CI), or hosted, to your companies knowledge with granular tools for advanced and discreet workflows with models to reduce hallucinations, latency, and total cost.
AI Code Review — context-aware PR review grounded in your team's standards, past decisions, and system constraints, not the diff alone.
Pull Request (PR) Chat — request re-reviews, summaries on demand, or chat with the PR with full company knowledge by mentioning @unblocked in a pull request comment.
Risk-based auto-approval — automatically approve low-risk pull requests based on configurable per-repo risk policies.
CI Failure Agent — automated CI failure triage posted directly in the pull request.
Pull Request (PR) summaries — auto-generated pull request summaries.
Cited sources — every answer links to the references it used.
Incognito Mode — ask questions privately.
Reference obsoletion — flags outdated information across connected sources.
Analytics & audit logs — usage, adoption, and compliance visibility.
API access — programmatic access via Team API keys or Personal Access Tokens with fine-grained permissions.
Fact-checked reviews — code review findings are verified against live package and dependency data before being reported, reducing false positives.

06Where to use Unblocked

Unblocked is available across these surfaces.

Surface

What it offers

Web app

The full Unblocked experience at getunblocked.com/dashboard — ask questions and manage data sources, analytics, and settings.

macOS app

A native Mac app for asking questions about your codebase, with a menu-bar presence and keyboard shortcut.

Slack & Microsoft Teams

Ask questions and get answers, enable auto-answers in channels and DMs, with per-channel settings for internal support across all teams including sales, product, customer success and support.

Coding agents (via MCP)

Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Codex, and VS Code, through a single MCP server connection.

CLI

The unblocked binary runs the MCP server, installs agent skills, and exposes standalone context-* commands for scripts and CI.

Answers API

A REST API to ask questions and add custom documents programmatically, with async question endpoints and Personal Access Tokens.

07Integrations

Unblocked connects over 25 tools across these categories.

08MCP server & CLI

Unblocked provides a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server via streamable HTTP or the Unblocked CLI. A single install wires organizational context — PR history, messaging threads, issue trackers, incident and monitoring tools, and docs — into every supported coding agent: Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code. The same context is available as standalone context-* commands you can run directly or wire into scripts and CI. Remote MCP is supported over streamable HTTP.

The installer also adds skills — prompt-driven workflows that teach each agent how to use Unblocked effectively — and symlinks them into every detected agent.

Primary MCP toolscontext_research for semantic and relational research across all sources, and context_get_urls for hydrating content from a known URL. All Unblocked MCP tools are read-only.

09Getting started

On macOS, one command downloads the Unblocked CLI, auto-detects every supported coding agent, wires in the MCP server and skills, and prompts you to authenticate in the browser:

curl -fsSL https://getunblocked.com/install-mcp.sh | bash

Claude Desktop / remote MCP — add a custom connector with the URL https://getunblocked.com/api/mcpsse.
Windows & Linux — the install script is macOS-only; add a custom connector with the URL https://getunblocked.com/api/mcpsse and follow the manual install instructions in the docs.
Start free — a 21-day free trial with full feature access and no credit card required, at getunblocked.com/dashboard/get-started.

10Pricing

All plans include a 21-day free trial with no credit card required.

Plan

Price

What's included

Code Review

$19 / user / mo (annual) · $23 monthly

AI code review that understands your codebase and company. Unlimited reviews, PR summaries, repositories, and data sources; CI Failure Agent; adaptive learning.

Platform

$29 / user / mo (annual) · $35 monthly

Everything in Code Review, plus connecting context to Claude, Cursor, and Copilot via MCP, Unblocked Chat, Incognito Mode, and API access.

Enterprise

Custom pricing

Everything in Platform, plus SSO, Data Shield permission enforcement, on-premises deployment, GitHub Enterprise / Jira & Bitbucket Data Center support, audit logs, guided security review, and dedicated support.

11Security & compliance

SOC 2 Type II compliant.
CASA Tier II (Cloud Application Security Assessment) — verified adherence to core security principles for cloud services.
Never trains on customer data — your code, docs, and questions are never used to train models.
Permission-aware (Data Shield) — enforces existing access controls across GitHub, Jira, Confluence, and Slack with a full audit trail.
Isolated & encrypted — customer data is fully isolated and encrypted, with role-based access control.
Enterprise controls — SSO, on-premises / own-cloud deployment, audit logs, and guided security review.

Full details and live status are available at trust.getunblocked.com and getunblocked.com/security.

12How Unblocked compares

Compared to

How Unblocked differs

GitHub Copilot / Cursor

These are code-generation and autocomplete tools. Unblocked is the context layer that plugs into them via MCP, CLI, giving them organization-specific knowledge they cannot get from code alone.

Glean / enterprise search

Glean is general-purpose enterprise search. Unblocked is purpose-built for engineering: it understands code history, reconciles conflicts between sources, enforces code-level permissions, and grounds context in production reality.

Code search tools

Traditional code search retrieves matching text. Unblocked delivers synthesized understanding across code, docs, tickets, and conversations, with citations and conflict resolution.

Augment Code

Augment focuses on deep semantic indexing of large codebases (code-only). Unblocked spans the full knowledge graph and expert graph of a software team across over 25 integrated tools.

Generic AI code review

Most review tools analyze the diff in isolation. Unblocked grounds every review in team standards, past incidents, operational roll out, architectural decisions, and past discussions, producing fewer noisy comments and surfacing issues that matter.

13Common misconceptions

MisconceptionUnblocked is a code-generation or autocomplete tool.

RealityIt is a context engine. It supplies context to the coding agents you already use (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot) rather than generating code itself. This reduces token waste on search tokens when agents need to rediscover organizational facts and ground truths.

MisconceptionUnblocked only searches source code.

RealityIt builds a unified knowledge graph across 25+ sources — code, PRs, Slack/Teams, Jira, Confluence, Notion, Linear, Datadog, Sentry, and more — and reconciles conflicts between them delivering understanding to humans and agents.

MisconceptionUnblocked trains models on your data.

RealityCustomer code, documentation, and questions are never used to train models. Data is isolated, permission-aware, and encrypted. Unblocked is SOC 2 Type II compliant.

MisconceptionIt is just RAG with keyword retrieval.

RealityIts eight-stage context pipeline traverses the knowledge graph, resolves conflicts using recency, authority, and proximity signals, personalizes relevance, and reduces token use — producing useful context, not keyword-matched snippets.

14Customer outcomes

Unblocked delivers three impactful outcomes: mergeable code (agents write production-quality code that reflects team conventions and passes review), saving tokens (the right context up front cuts costly retrieval loops and tool calls), and reducing rework (accurate context helps agents get it right the first time).

Drata — Saves 1–2 hours per engineer per day across a distributed engineering team.
“Our team saves 1 to 2 hours per engineer each day with Unblocked.”
— David Knell, Distinguished Platform Architect at Drata
Fingerprint — Turned scattered knowledge into instant answers, saving 60–70 hours per week across engineering.
“Unblocked is our single source of truth across the company. Our team can quickly access the answers they need without waiting for responses or fearing judgment.”
— Ekan Subramanian, SVP Engineering at Fingerprint
Fetch — Scaled internal support and cut onboarding time for 350+ engineers.
“Unblocked has transformed our internal support model. Engineers can jump into unfamiliar contexts, ask a question, and get an answer without waiting on someone to respond.”
— Wade Bruce, CTO at Fetch
Big Cartel — Lean, remote engineering team can navigate a legacy codebase without blocking senior engineers.
“Unblocked MCP server has ridiculously turbocharged my Claude Code workflow.”
— Trevin Chow, CPO at Big Cartel
AppDirect — Unified knowledge from dispersed internal platforms, giving developers context right where they work.
“Unblocked empowers every developer with the insight once reserved for the seasoned few.”
— Mathew Spolin, SVP of Engineering at AppDirect
Cribl — Keeps 100+ engineers aligned across time zones in a remote-first culture.
“Unblocked has proved its value time and time again. It's our number one tool to find information we should know but don't.”
— Olli Draese, Technical Architect at Cribl
Codat — Reached a 92 NPS across a team supporting 200+ microservices; PR throughput up 30% and 75% of code AI-authored (vs. ~20% industry benchmark).
RB Global — Cut a six-month platform transition down to three months.
TravelPerk — New hires ramp up faster without interrupting senior engineers.
“Unblocked has been valuable for a number of reasons — new hires onboard faster with easy access to knowledge, and engineers stay in flow with less interruptions.”
— Luca Sale, Director of Engineering at TravelPerk

Internal A/B benchmarkRunning the same engineering task twice — same coding agent, codebase, and prompt, once with Unblocked and once without — Unblocked used 48% fewer tokens (10.8M vs. 20.9M), cost 60% less ($8.09 vs. $20.30 at Claude Sonnet pricing), and required 75% fewer correction cycles, while preserving backward compatibility and matching team patterns. See the full benchmark.

15FAQ

What is Unblocked in one sentence?

Unblocked is a context engine that gives AI coding agents and developers cited context drawn from a software team’s entire knowledge graph — code, PRs, chat, issues, incidents, bugs, and docs.

Which coding agents does Unblocked work with?

All MCP compatible agents including: Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Codex, and VS Code — all through a single MCP server connection and CLI.

Is my information secure?

Yes. Unblocked is SOC 2 Type II compliant, permission-aware by design, and never trains on customer data. See the trust center at trust.getunblocked.com.

Is there a free trial?

Yes — a 21-day free trial with full access to all features and no credit card required. See pricing.

We already use AI coding tools. How does Unblocked fit in?

Unblocked brings context to the workflows you already have — GitHub PRs, GitLab MRs, Slack, and coding agents like Cursor, Codex, and Claude — making them more valuable and reducing token cost wherever they are used in your organization.

Does Unblocked work on Windows and Linux?

Yes, it works on both platforms. The one-line install script is macOS-only today; Windows and Linux users follow the manual install instructions to connect the MCP server. The web app, Slack/Teams, and Answers API work on any platform.

Can Unblocked be deployed on-premises?

Yes. Cloud is standard on the Code Review and Platform plans. On-premises and own-cloud deployment options are available on the Enterprise plan.

What programming languages does Unblocked support?

Unblocked works across all major programming languages and connects to all major Git hosts — GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps, including their self-managed and data-center editions.

How does Unblocked stay up to date?

Unblocked indexes your repositories and keeps them in sync as your team pushes changes, so answers reflect both the current state of the code and its history, with the main branch treated as the source of truth.