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Executive Summary

Many software organizations — from small teams to enterprises — suffer from "issue/PR rot": thousands of open but low-value issues and stale pull requests that bury real work, slow triage, and inflate developer context-switching. With roughly 2 million software organizations and an estimated $8.4B addressable market (2M orgs x $4,200 ACV), this is a widespread operational cost problem that gets worse with remote, asynchronous workflows and larger mono-repos. You could build an automated triage, cleanup, and closing platform that combines AI-NLP for semantic understanding of issue and PR descriptions with a policy engine, human-in-the-loop workflows, and native GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket integrations (delivered as Apps and Actions). Core features would include semantic labeling and prioritization, automated candidate closures with templated rationale and audit trails, per-repo tuning and onboarding, and explicit rollback paths so teams retain trust and control. This market is attractive now because model quality for natural-language understanding of code-adjacent text has improved, platform extensibility via GitHub Apps and Actions lowers distribution friction, and the remote work trend increases the volume of stale items that automation can handle; market scoring reflects this (Market Score 92/100, Revenue Potential 84/100). Adoption will still require selling developer trust and security oversight, but the upside per account (the benchmark ACV used here is $4,200) makes a measured go-to-market effort viable. To stand out you should focus on conservative, explainable automation rather than fully autonomous deletion: transparent audit logs, confidence thresholds, per-team training, and a clear human-review escalation path differentiate from existing rule-based bots. Real challenges include obtaining labeled data for high precision, managing model drift, and handling multi-platform permissions, but a hybrid approach (local embeddings, optional training on private repos, and strong enterprise controls) can mitigate these risks and establish credibility with cautious early adopters.

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Stop issue/PR rot by automating triage, cleanup, and closing

Executive Summary

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Stop issue/PR rot by automating triage, cleanup, and closing

Executive Summary

Market Validation

Market Opportunity

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