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Dev Teams (5-50 People)

Ship features, not dependency updates.

5-50 person teams

The Challenge

Dependencies don't update themselves

Your team faces 5-15 dependency updates per sprint. Dependabot opens PRs that bump versions, but half of them break CI because the API changed.

A senior developer spends an afternoon triaging: which PRs are safe to merge? Which need code changes? Which breaking changes get pushed to "next sprint" — and then never happen?

Meanwhile, 14 hours of developer time per sprint vanishes into dependency maintenance instead of feature work. Security patches queue up. Technical debt compounds.

github-notifications.log
PR #412  bump express 4.18→5.0.1        ❌ CI Failed
PR #413  bump @types/express 4→5          ❌ CI Failed
PR #414  bump react-router 5→7            ❌ CI Failed
PR #415  bump eslint 8→9                  ❌ CI Failed
PR #416  bump lodash 4.17.20→4.17.21      ✓ Passed
PR #417  bump axios 0.27→1.7              ✓ Passed

Developer hours this sprint on deps: 14

How Ovvoc Helps

Zero developer hours on dependency maintenance

Ovvoc watches the npm registry 24/7. When updates land, it clones your repo into an ephemeral container, applies transforms from 150+ AST rules, runs your build and tests, and opens a PR only when everything passes.

Breaking changes are handled automatically — Express wildcard routes, React Router API migrations, ESLint flat config rewrites. If tests fail, you get a detailed failure report instead of a broken PR.

Without Ovvoc (14 hrs/sprint)
Triage Dependabot PRs 4 hrs
Read migration guides 3 hrs
Apply code changes 4 hrs
Fix broken tests 2 hrs
Review & merge 1 hr
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Total developer time: 14 hrs
With Ovvoc (0 hrs/sprint)
Ovvoc monitors registry 0 hrs
Ovvoc transforms code 0 hrs
Ovvoc runs build + tests 0 hrs
Review & merge verified PRs 0 hrs
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+ Total developer time: 0 hrs

Key Benefits

What your team gets

14 Hours Back Per Sprint

No more dependency triage. Ovvoc handles all 25 update categories automatically — your team focuses on features.

Zero-Breakage PRs

Every update is built and tested in an isolated container before reaching your repo. Broken PRs never arrive.

All 25 Categories

From version bumps to paradigm shifts. Nothing left for manual intervention — the full spectrum is covered.

No Configuration

Install the GitHub App, done. No YAML files, no scheduling rules, no merge strategies to configure.

Workflow

How your team uses Ovvoc

1

Ovvoc monitors

24/7 npm registry watching. New versions and security advisories detected. Jobs queued within minutes of release.

2

PRs arrive verified

Clone, transform, build, test — all in an ephemeral container. Only passing updates become PRs.

3

Your team reviews & merges

Clean PRs with confidence scores and detailed descriptions. Review the diff, merge with one click.

Ready to automate your dependency updates?

Start with one repo. See verified PRs instead of broken builds.