AI Change Impact & Regression Intelligence

Change Risk Radar is an AI-powered developer workflow tool that identifies the potential impact of code changes before they reach production. In modern software systems especially large financial applications a developer may make a seemingly small change to one service, function, or data model, while its actual impact can span multiple services, APIs, dependencies, tests, and previously encountered failure scenarios. Understanding these relationships often requires manually tracing code, inspecting dependencies, searching documentation, identifying relevant tests, and reviewing historical incidents. This process is time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to scale. Change Risk Radar integrates directly into the developer's existing Git workflow through a pre-commit hook. When a developer runs git commit, the system automatically triggers an analysis rather than requiring the developer to upload code or interact with a separate AI assistant. At the core is an IBM Bob 2.0-powered multi-agent architecture. A FastAPI orchestrator coordinates specialized agents that analyze different dimensions of the change in parallel: a Code Impact Agent traces affected callers and code paths, a Dependency Agent identifies impacted services and relationships, a Test Intelligence Agent identifies missing or insufficient test coverage, and a History Agent examines previous changes or incidents. Their findings are then synthesized by a Risk Card Composer, which produces a concise risk assessment. The primary users are software developers, engineering teams, code reviewers, QA engineers, and technical leads, particularly in complex or highly regulated environments such as banking and financial services. For example, in a synthetic banking application, changing a transaction-fee calculation may appear to affect only the fee service. Change Risk Radar can identify that the change potentially affects the payment, fee, and statement services, highlight missing tests, and surface dependency or contract inconsistencies. The developer immediately sees these findings through a dashboard before the change progresses further through the development pipeline. What makes the solution unique is that it is not simply an AI code-review chatbot. It proactively enters the developer's workflow at the moment a change is committed and combines multiple specialized investigations into a single, actionable view. Instead of generating large amounts of AI-generated text, it focuses on answering one practical engineering question: “What could this change break?” By automating impact discovery, parallelizing analysis through specialized agents, and presenting the results in a concise risk card, Change Risk Radar reduces manual investigation, helps developers focus testing efforts, and provides earlier visibility into potential regressions before they become production problems.