The bigger companies become, the more complex challenges they face. Throw in some accelerated growth for successful product market fit, and the complexity can become overwhelming. Engineering teams, in particular, face intimidating scaling challenges during times of rapid growth: expanding the team with good hires, transferring knowledge, and releasing features. When engineers can’t keep up, they resort to custom and adapted solutions. Soon they are dealing with tons of files, microservices, and legacy code. It’s a recipe for frustration, at best. These situations are very intricate, and the market lacks meaningful solutions. Wiki-style documentation apps and online project management workspaces get implemented as quick fixes but rarely meet expectations or day-to-day needs. High-growth companies need more order than these tools can provide and much less chaos. It’s tempting to believe software can close the gap, but it rarely does. The real issue holding back teams is shared knowledge Engineers are solely focused on building, not knowledge management. Therefore, not enough attention or care is paid to training and mentorship, and chaos rears its ugly head. Rapid growth hits engineers in other ways, too. It’s common for a team to quickly balloon from a single cross-functional team of five people to a department consisting of several skill-based teams. Again, this isn’t a scaling problem but a knowledge management issue. Swimm excels at solving knowledge management chaos for high-growth companies. Code snippets, variable names, and cross-repository dependencies are tracked within the Swimm ecosystem. For example, when back end authentication code is changed by one team, notifications can be sent immediately to the front-end devs who write session management code.