The Unblocked Blog

Context layers give AI agents information they can use. Context engines give them understanding they can leverage. The difference determines whether your AI investment plateaus or scales.

Developers are asking Unblocked harder questions. What started as focused lookups has expanded into questions that span systems, history, and organizational context. To support that shift, we've expanded the search backend that powers Unblocked.

Developers have always moved up abstraction layers: we stopped writing assembly so we could think in functions. Now agents are forcing us up another layer, towards intent but we’ve never had a probabilistic layer until now.

Developers ship faster when they understand how their system actually works, not just how to write code. That context is nearly impossible for agents to reconstruct, so AI-native software teams end up wasting time and tokens fixing their code.

New Unblocked analytics give admins a clear picture of how their teams are adopting the full value of Unblocked, providing context to coding agents, getting high-quality code review, and receiving answers to their technical questions.

Developer tools promise "context-aware" AI, but more data access isn't context. The AI development stack needs a new infrastructure layer -- a context engine -- to turn information into understanding.

Unblocked vs Greptile code review tool comparison for February 2026. See which tool fits your team's needs with organizational context vs repository analysis.

AI coding tools understand your code—but not the decisions behind it. The Unblocked MCP connects your agent to Slack, PRs, and tickets so it can answer "why," not just "what." Your agent finally understands your organization, not just your repo.

AI code review inherits human biases—and adds new ones. This post and podcast explore how we built a reviewer that finds real bugs without adding noise.

In this post and podcast, Unblocked's CEO shares why he started the company, why context is changing everything, and what happens left and right of code gen.

AI tools ask engineers to give up control—but without context, the tradeoff isn't worth it. This post and podcast explore what's missing and what makes adoption stick.

Context engines transform AI from a knowledgeable stranger into a 20-year veteran. This post and podcast cover how Unblocked resolves conflicts and surfaces tribal knowledge.

From the Apple II to Claude Code, developer tools keep cycling through the same tensions. This post and podcast explore what we tried, threw away, and where it's all heading.

In this fireside chat and podcast, we discuss what developers actually want from AI tools—and why privacy, context, and knowing what you don't know matter.

MCP hasn't delivered on its promise—but wiring it to a context engine changes the game. This post and podcast cover how Unblocked helps agents stay on the rails.

With Unblocked, RB Global took full ownership of a consultant-operated platform in record time, all while supporting a globally distributed engineering organization.

AI code review often increases noise instead of improving quality. This post explains how we built a context-aware reviewer by synthesizing PR history, docs, conversations, and architecture so reviews surface the issues that matter.

Compare the Market scaled engineering autonomy with Unblocked, turning scattered knowledge into a live context engine for support, debugging, and onboarding.

Unblocked reduces wasted search time, shortens onboarding, and lowers support overhead—helping teams reclaim measurable productivity.

When we made questions private by default, the results were surprising. The number of questions being asked skyocketed. We didn't change anything else. We just made it safe to ask "dumb" questions.

Every new Unblocked user starts by asking something they already know. Their first interaction with Unblocked is a test. They want to know right away if this system is worth their time, and asking a “known” question is the simplest way to do that.

Context engineering ensures large language models see the right information at the right time, grounding their reasoning in real code, docs, and conversations instead of guesswork.

Admins now have a clear, searchable record of the key actions happening across Unblocked so you can stay in control, spot issues early, and keep your workflows running smoothly.

You can now upload local documents and images for Unblocked to reference directly in a question.

Today we are launching our new Answers API, which lets you integrate Unblocked’s Q&A features directly into your internal tools.

Unblocked now integrates with Asana. Ask questions and find answers from your Asana tasks, comments, and project updates.

Unblocked is now available as an MCP server, supercharging tools like Cursor, Windsurf and VSCode.

We're releasing our PR Failure Agent (previously known as Autonomous CI Triage) to general availability.

We’re rolling out several new features to bring answers to more places your team works—and expand the sources that power them.

Fetch cut onboarding time and scaled internal support with Unblocked—helping 350+ engineers move faster, stay autonomous, and find answers instantly.

Fingerprint scaled internal support with Unblocked, turning scattered knowledge into instant answers and saving 60–70 hours a week across engineering.

At Unblocked, we’re building a contextual code intelligence platform to give developers the why behind their code, not just the what. We’ve raised $20M to help scale that vision.

Many customers want to use Unblocked to help automate their internal support in Slack. You can now have per-channel settings over how answers are generated.

You can now select specific data sources to answer questions, get automatic CI triage directly in your pull request, add custom documents via Unblocked API, and more.

When developers start a new project or get stuck on a task, they don’t just need pages of structured documentation; they need answers.

For TravelPerk, Unblocked has been a game changer for engineering onboarding. New hires ramp up faster without interrupting others, allowing the team to stay focused and productive.

We're excited to announce the upcoming beta release of Unblocked's Automated CI Triage feature, designed to save developers time by automatically detecting and suggesting fixes for CI failures.

Unblocked now supports Mermaid diagrams for visualizing code and system architectures, plus dark mode for a personalized dashboard experience.

Unblocked's Data Shield gives you granular access controls to protect your team’s sensitive data while getting answers from Unblocked.

Our new Analytics Dashboard helps you track adoption, spot patterns, and evaluate how Unblocked works for your team—all in one place.

We are giving you some context on how we estimate the time your team saved by Unblocked, based on research, customer feedback, and our observations.

We have more AI developer tools than ever, yet many of us still feel unproductive. Why? Maybe it's because we're not using AI to tackle the biggest challenge in software development yet.

With Answer Preferences, you now get more control over how Unblocked answers your questions - from setting the length, research depth, and more.

Incognito mode provides complete privacy for your code questions. Learn best practices to leverage this feature across all platforms.

Big Cartel’s lean, remote team works across functional boundaries to ship quickly. But before Unblocked, making sure everyone understood how the legacy codebase worked was a challenge.

Unblocked is embarking on a new partnership with DX - the developer intelligence platform designed by leading researchers to give true insight into the productivity of software development teams.

We’re expanding the ways teams can get fast, accurate, and relevant answers to their questions in Slack with auto responses, support for private channels, bot DMs, and channel summarizations.

For the team at AppDirect, Unblocked checks all the boxes and more, tying together knowledge dispersed across internal platforms and giving developers context right where they’re working.

Since our launch a year ago, we’ve added many new features, saved our customers hours every day, and reaffirmed our conviction that we’re solving an expensive problem for software development teams.

Cribl’s remote-first culture empowers its employees with flexibility, but keeping over 100 engineers on the same page across time zones poses a real challenge. That’s why the team turned to Unblocked.

Unblocked now supports connecting to multiple source code systems at the same time. You and your team can get answers from any repository no matter where it lives (GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab).

Drata’s distributed engineering team relies on Unblocked to get the answers about their codebase. With Unblocked, issues get resolved faster, tasks are completed sooner, and projects go more smoothly.

New engineers face a tough learning curve, navigating a new role and a complex codebase. It’s no wonder they feel like imposters. We need to reimagine onboarding to better support them.

The new Unblocked mac app provides a centralized place to ask questions, get answers, and view your past queries.

chiSSL is a new, lightweight version of chisel that allows you to expose any local server running on your development machine to the internet with a valid SSL certificate, all via a single command.

A number of new features are now available in Unblocked, helping you and your team get the answers you need about your codebase.

Download the Unblocked plugin for Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IDE’s such as IntelliJ, WebStorm, PyCharm and more.

Import Google Drive documents, improved Pull Request Questions and Answers, Team member overview, Support for Open Source Projects,Suggested Follow-ups Stick Around and more.

We’re improving how you ask questions, discover relevant documents / threads / bugs, and making this available to everyone.

We created a custom GitHub Action that automatically deploys self-hosted ephemeral runners to EC2 using Spot or On-Demand instances.

Today we're publicly launching Unblocked, a new developer tool that increases your productivity by providing helpful and accurate answers to questions about your codebase.