Dosu
San Francisco, US · Founded 2023 · Delaware corporation · 22 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
Dosu provides knowledge infrastructure that automatically captures and maintains documentation for engineering teams and their AI coding agents. It integrates with GitHub, GitLab, Slack, MS Teams, and coding agents via an MCP server to build a shared knowledge base that keeps docs current and improves agent performance.
Also known as Dosu · dosu.dev
Founders & leadership
Dosu was founded in 2023 by Devin Stein.
Board
Investors · 1
Reported raises · per SEC filings
Form D private placements$8.5M disclosed across 1 round · 2024
▶$8.5MraisedMay 2024 · 5 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Davis TreybigDirector
- Devin SteinExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $9.5M
- Amount sold
- $8.5M
- First sale
- Apr 2024
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2023
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Dosu offers knowledge infrastructure aimed at software engineering teams and the AI coding agents they use. Its stated approach is to capture knowledge automatically in the background of everyday development work, producing documentation without requiring teams to change their existing workflow. The product monitors code changes and conversations, builds a shared knowledge base, and makes that context available both to human engineers and to coding agents.
The offering combines several components: a GitHub or GitLab integration that watches repository changes and performs automatic knowledge review to identify and fill documentation gaps; maintenance of in-repository documentation artifacts such as AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md and skill definitions; synchronization with existing documentation systems including Notion, Confluence and Coda so that docs are maintained where they already live; and chat integrations for Slack and Microsoft Teams where users can mention Dosu to ask questions or request a document be generated. A Dosu MCP Server, installed via a single shell command, connects coding agents such as Claude, Cursor, Codex, Gemini and Windsurf to this shared context and records knowledge from each agent session.
Business model
Dosu is delivered as a hosted developer tool that plugs into existing source control, chat and documentation systems, with a free tier for public repositories and paid usage aimed at engineering teams.
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Market position
Dosu positions itself on capturing documentation passively during normal coding and agent sessions rather than requiring separate documentation effort or migration, maintaining docs in the systems teams already use, and providing agents with shared context intended to reduce token usage, shorten run times and make repeated solutions more consistent between sessions.
Technology
Dosu combines source-control monitoring on GitHub and GitLab, document synchronization with Notion, Confluence and Coda, chat interfaces in Slack, Microsoft Teams and the IDE, and an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server installed through a CLI shell command. The MCP server supplies coding agents with consolidated, token-efficient context and captures knowledge from each agent session into a team-wide memory, while automatic knowledge review updates repository documentation such as AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, API references and skill definitions when code changes.
Go-to-market
Dosu markets through its website with a demo booking flow and self-serve installation: a one-line CLI install for the MCP server and app installs on GitHub, GitLab, Slack and Microsoft Teams. A free tier for public repositories and publicly accessible Dosu Public Spaces covering open-source tools serve as an entry point for individual developers.
Individual developers using coding agents, including users of public open-source repositories served by a free tier and Dosu Public Spaces, as well as engineering teams that want documentation maintained across their existing tooling.
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Key figures
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Competitors · 1
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primary sources listed
- Dosudosu.dev · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Dosu do?
- Dosu builds knowledge infrastructure that automatically captures and maintains engineering documentation for AI coding agents and teams.
- Who founded Dosu?
- Dosu was founded by Devin Stein in 2023.
- Who are Dosu's investors?
- Dosu's investors include Innovation Endeavors.
- How much funding has Dosu raised?
- Dosu has disclosed $8.5M raised across 1 round.
- Where is Dosu headquartered?
- Dosu is headquartered in San Francisco, US.