Brendi, a WhatsApp-driven sales platform handling over 4 million chats, 40 million messages and 2 million orders, discovered that its rapid team expansion became its own bottleneck. With 25 developers on board, code reviews were consuming 125 hours per week, pull requests sat idle for 12–24 hours, and mornings began with a backlog of 3–4 PRs. “I’d lose two hours every day just clearing PRs,” recalls André Diogo, Product Engineering.

Determined to regain velocity without sacrificing quality, Brendi piloted Kodus across its busiest repositories. The engineering team customized Kody Rules to match Brendi’s style guide, filtered out low-value alerts and plugged in automated pre-PR checks that catch issues upstream.

The impact was immediate. Developers now open a PR to find many of the simple fixes already applied. Review time plunged 70 percent—from 125 to 40 hours per week—and feedback arrives in minutes instead of days. Senior engineers are free to tackle high-impact work, production bugs have declined, and Brendi reclaims 85 engineering hours every week.

By slashing review cycles from days to under 10 minutes, Brendi unlocked capacity equivalent to two full-time developers—bandwidth now devoted to shipping new features and improving stability.