# Sphoton

> Sphoton turns a software team's codebase into a certified knowledge map of their software: built module by module, certified by the team's own engineers, and read by the team in the Sphoton app and by their AI coding agents over MCP (Model Context Protocol). Website: https://sphoton.io

Sphoton is a product of SPHOTON PRIVATE LIMITED (Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India), founded by Tanmaysinh Gharia. It is in beta: teams join by booking a call at https://sphoton.io/#join.

## What it is for

Every software team knows things its code does not say: which modules a change really reaches, the conditions that hold between them, and why they are there. That knowledge usually lives in a few people, in documents that drift out of date, and in agent sessions that forget it overnight. Sphoton gives it a place to live.

- Each module in the map records five things: its purpose, its data, its behaviour, its boundaries and its impact (what else it reaches).
- A senior engineer certifies a module at a revision of the code; the certificate carries their name and the date. QA confirms and verifies the module's test cases.
- When a merge touches a certified part, that part is marked "needs review" until it is certified again, so the map never silently drifts.
- Commander, Sphoton's agent, reads the same map over MCP and runs on the customer's own infrastructure, so coding agents start every session with what the system knows today instead of guesses.

## When Sphoton fits

- A team whose knowledge of the system lives in a few senior engineers who answer the same questions all day.
- New hires who find four of the five places a change touches; Sphoton shows every module a change reaches, including the ones the code does not point to.
- Teams using AI coding agents that start every session empty and need the system explained again.
- Teams that cannot upload their code: the desktop app reads the repository on the developer's machine, and everything stored is encrypted on the device first (zero-knowledge: Argon2id key derivation, AES-256-GCM, workspace keys wrapped with RSA-4096). Sphoton's servers hold ciphertext only.
- Teams that want to keep their own AI provider and bill: every model call goes out under the customer's own key (Claude via Anthropic directly or Amazon Bedrock). Sphoton never bills for tokens.

## Facts

- Platforms: desktop app for Windows and macOS. Works with any Git repository: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps or a self-hosted server.
- Seats: Admin, Senior engineer, Engineer, QA, Rule author, Business reader, and Commander (the agent seat).
- Pricing (USD per month): Team plan (two members or more) per person: Admin $35, Senior engineer $30, Engineer $25, QA $20, Rule author $15, Business reader $10; Commander $100 per agent seat. Example: a team of eight pays $295 per month. Lone wolf plan: one developer, every role and Commander included, $200 flat.
- Beta pricing: the first five firms get 50%, 40%, 30%, 20% and 10% off their first three months, by order of joining.
- Onboarding: about six weeks in seven steps, starting with a 45-minute call and a pilot on one repository.
- Contact: tanmaysinh.gharia@sphoton.io · LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/sphotonhq · X https://x.com/SphotonHQ

## Docs

- [Product overview](https://sphoton.io/product.md): What Sphoton does, how it works, seats, pricing, security and answers to common questions.
- [Onboarding guide](https://sphoton.io/onboarding.md): From the first call to live in about six weeks: the steps, the roles, the test scenarios, go / no-go and hypercare.
- [Privacy policy](https://sphoton.io/privacy.md): What Sphoton can see, what it cannot, and what happens to your data.
- [Terms of use](https://sphoton.io/terms.md): The terms for using Sphoton and its beta.

## Guides

- [What is a codebase knowledge map?](https://sphoton.io/codebase-knowledge-map.md): A codebase knowledge map records what each module does, what it reaches and why, certified by engineers and read by people and AI coding agents. How it compares to docs, code search and agent instruction files.
- [How to give AI coding agents context about your codebase](https://sphoton.io/ai-coding-agent-context.md): Why coding agents start every session empty, how CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, code retrieval and MCP servers compare, and how to give agents certified, current context about your system.

## Optional

- [Everything above in one file](https://sphoton.io/llms-full.txt): the docs, the onboarding guide, the privacy policy and the terms, in full.