The codebase is the only thing that's actually true.
Wikis lie. Diagrams drift. The retiring engineer hates writing documentation. newinsights.ai makes the source code itself the knowledge base — audit-grade documentation, business overviews and architecture diagrams generated and verified from code on every commit.
Three uncomfortable facts you already know about deploying AI in legacy app landscapes.
You want to ship faster. Every release is still a gamble.
A change to one core system touches forty others — and the map of those dependencies lives in people's heads, not in any system of record. You approve the release. Then you find out what it broke.
AI coding agents are now writing your new code. They learn from your stale docs.
Every coding agent grounds itself in old documentation and the minimal context it holds in a session. Bad docs propagate into bad code, faster than ever before.
The senior engineer who knows the legacy core retires in eighteen months.
The cost of finding out what they knew, after they leave, is not a documentation cost. It is a transformation programme that stalls.
Same function. Different documentation. One of these will pass an audit.
"Handles settlement of payments. Uses the legacy clearing system. Owned by the Payments team. See PROJ-1184 for details."
Reconciles intra-day SEPA Instant payment messages against the ledger and emits T+0 settlement instructions to the Bundesbank gateway. Replaces the legacy clearing path decommissioned in PROJ-2019.
Based on the peer-reviewed research arXiv:2504.08725
A code-to-knowledge platform. Not a documentation tool.
The difference: documentation tools take what you write and make it look nice. We take what your code actually does and turn it into the knowledge your organization needs.
Built by the people who have lived this problem.
Most recently a Managing Director in Commerzbank's Big Data Group in Frankfurt, Germany. Previously a GM at Amazon AWS, CMO of Rackspace (Nasdaq: RXT), Head of Product at two successfully exited startups and Yahoo!
Lead platform and engineering development at Telescope Partners, a SF-based VC with $900M AUM. At Amazon and AWS Ram built massive scale systems for ultra-fast grocery delivery and gaming infrastructure.
Stop guessing what your code does.
Closed beta with a small group of regulated banks and insurers in DACH. If documentation gaps are on your risk register, write to us.