Your devs' experience is your greatest asset.
Don't leave it behind.
Sential transforms your codebase into a context-aware onboarding guide tailored to each new hire’s existing experience. Whether they're switching languages or paradigms, Sential leverages what they already know to make them confident contributors in days—not months.
For codebases where just ship it isn’t good enough.
Reduce onboarding risk, not just time
Make architectural conventions explicit
Personalized for each developer's background
Local-First ✓
Your code never leaves your machine. Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) or use local models (e.g. Ollama).
High-Signal Context ✓
We don't rely on vector search luck. Sential deterministically maps your code symbols to eliminate hallucinations.
Language Agnostic ✓
Generates bridges for any language combination. Currently optimized for:
Three inputs. One personalized bridge. We don't just prompt an LLM; we build a curated syllabus of your architecture tailored to the user's mental model.
Who is making the journey? Pass a resume or skills list. Sential identifies the exact delta between their knowledge and your stack.
--profile
Where are we going? We build a deterministic Symbol Map (via Ctags)—filtering out tests and noise—so the AI focuses only on the structural core.
--path
Specific rules? Chain additional context files (--context ./docs/arch.md) to refine the bridge.
--context
Interested in the direction?
Output is pure Markdown. Commit the generated bridges to your repo as living documentation.
Sential reads your code sequentially like a senior engineer, planning a syllabus before writing a single word.
No code is sent to our servers. You control the keys and the context.