Use case · Team knowledge
Onboard engineers into the design, not the document folder.
Give a new contributor a grounded path through architecture, interfaces, constraints, past decisions, and unresolved work—without making senior engineers repeat the same tour from memory.
The problem
New engineers often receive a repository, a few outdated documents, and a sequence of meetings. They learn the design through interruptions and accidental discovery, while experienced engineers become the routing layer for every question.
Connected workflow
Circuitly creates a design-specific orientation from the schematic and surrounding record. The engineer can ask technical questions, follow cited objects and sources, and see where the design record is incomplete.
Orient
Product architecture, subsystem purpose, interfaces, and ownership.
Explore
Guided paths through rails, clocks, controls, protections, and dependencies.
Question
Grounded answers plus visible uncertainty and missing context.
Contribute
Mentors validate understanding and define the first safe work boundary.
Onboarding path
- System and subsystem architecture orientation
- Design-specific glossary and interface map
- Relevant decisions, constraints, and historical context
- Open questions to take to the responsible engineer
Mentor decision
A senior engineer validates what the new contributor needs to know and where independent work can begin. Circuitly reduces repetition; it does not replace team mentorship or ownership.
Turn a real design into an onboarding path.
We’ll structure the context around the questions new hardware engineers actually ask.