ShipSleuthShipSleuthPublic GitHub diligence

Responsible use

ShipSleuth is a calculator, not a judge.

ShipSleuth helps people read public GitHub activity. Users can optionally supplement with self-reported private stats, but the tool does not verify those claims or measure total company quality or individual employee performance.

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Short version

Use ShipSleuth as a diligence aid, not a verdict. It is best at making visible public GitHub activity easier to inspect and compare.

ShipSleuth does

  • summarize public GitHub activity across time
  • surface trends, releases, contributor breadth, concentration, and caveats
  • help investors, analysts, and buyers ask better follow-up questions
  • let users optionally supplement with self-reported private activity for a more complete picture

ShipSleuth does not

  • verify private repo claims — self-reported supplements are unverified and trust-based
  • rank employees or support productivity surveillance
  • claim that public GitHub activity equals product quality or investment quality

Context matters

Public GitHub signal can be useful. It can also be incomplete or misleading without context. Private work, stealth products, enterprise customers, regulatory constraints, monorepos, automation, and repo structure all affect what is visible.

Users can optionally enter self-reported private activity (commits, PRs, repos, releases, active days, lines changed) to get a more complete analysis. These values are clearly labeled as self-reported and are not verified by ShipSleuth.