New AI Tool From Macroscope Aims to Help Teams Understand Complex Code

26/09/2025

Macroscope, a new AI startup from the founders of Periscope Technologies, Inc., has launched a new tool, designed to help developers and product leaders quickly understand what’s happening in a large codebase. It connects to tools like GitHub and JIRA to automatically summarize recent changes, find bugs, and answer questions about the code in plain English. Here’s what Macroscope brings:

🔹 Analyzes code to provide simple summaries of updates and progress.

🔹 Helps catch bugs before they become bigger problems.

🔹 Allows anyone on the team to ask questions about the code without interrupting engineers.

Priced at $30 per developer/month, the platform is already in use by companies like XMTP and United Masters.

GlenFlow views that this is an interesting contrast to AI tools that write code. Instead of creating new code, Macroscope focuses on understanding existing code. This solves a real problem for teams trying to keep up with complex projects. It shows the industry is branching into two paths: AI that builds, and AI that explains.

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