CODESHERPA — INVESTOR MEMO The Problem Every engineering hire costs $50K+ in lost productivity before they ship a single line of meaningful code. The bottleneck isn't talent — it's the undocumented tribal knowledge that lives in senior engineers' heads and nowhere else. The Insight The fastest way to onboard an engineer is to have a senior dev walk them through the codebase. But this takes 20+ hours per hire, pulls your best people off real work, and the knowledge evaporates afterward. The Solution CodeSherpa is a VS Code extension that captures expert walkthroughs as engineers naturally work and explain code. New hires get contextual, on-demand guidance — as if a senior dev were sitting right next to them. Traction • 3 design partners, 12 companies in pipeline • Lead partner cut onboarding time by 40% in first month • Zero churn across pilot cohort The Ask $3M seed to hire two engineers, launch self-serve, and scale to 30 paying customers by EOY. Why Now Remote-first work made tribal knowledge transfer harder than ever. Engineering teams are growing faster while institutional knowledge gets thinner. The companies that solve onboarding will win the war for engineering talent.

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Target buyer: VP/Director of Operations at companies with 50–500 employees
Entry point: Inventory pain → expand to full ops suite
Pricing: $499/mo (teams ≤20) → ~$6K ACV