ReleaseGate
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What it does
- Access and support
- Early-access teams are offered direct roadmap input and white-glove setup, and the company says it will contact interested teams personally.checked 11 Oct 2026
- AI assessment
- An LLM writes a plain-English release assessment with citations within the team's configured guardrails.checked 4 Oct 2026
- AI provenance
- The product identifies agent-authored or co-authored changes from commit metadata and records whether a human reviewed them.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Audit log
- Decision records are append-only and hash-chained, queryable, and exportable to CSV or JSON.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Audit records
- Decision records are described as append-only and hash-chained, and can be queried and exported to CSV or JSON.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Availability
- ReleaseGate describes itself as pre-launch and onboarding a small group of teams through an early-access interest form.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Data handling
- The site says it works from metadata and signals, including PR details and check results, and may use diffs where allowed; data handling will be defined with early customers.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Decision flow
- It scores releases into green auto-approval, yellow human approval, or red blocked and escalated zones.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Integrations at launch
- The site lists source control and CI, QA and tests, chat approvals, and incidents as launch integration categories.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The product is aimed at software teams that deploy frequently, use AI coding tools, and want to govern autonomous releases or replace manual chat-thread approvals.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Policy as code
- Versioned configuration supports deterministic gates such as required checks, deploy windows, blackout dates, separation of duties, and critical-reject rules.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Policy configuration
- Release policies are versioned configuration in the customer’s repository and can define required checks, deploy windows, blackout dates, and critical rejection rules.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Privacy and data handling
- ReleaseGate says it works from metadata and signals, including PR details and check results, with diffs only where allowed; data handling will be defined with early customers.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- ReleaseGate evaluates release metrics against team-defined conditions and records what shipped, who or what authored it, and why.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Product status
- ReleaseGate describes itself as pre-launch and is onboarding a small group of early-access teams.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Provenance
- ReleaseGate detects agent-authored and co-authored changes from commit metadata, including whether a human reviewed them.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- ReleaseGate reviews release metrics, scores changes against team-defined rules, and records its decision and reasoning.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Readiness scoring
- Teams define weighted signals and thresholds per team and service, and the score is explainable by signal.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Relationship to CI/CD
- ReleaseGate says it runs alongside a CI/CD pipeline and makes pre-release decisions rather than replacing the pipeline or post-deploy monitoring.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Release decisions
- Green releases can be auto-approved, yellow releases require human approval, and red releases are blocked or escalated.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Roadmap integrations
- Errors and APM, security scans, and issue tracking are listed as roadmap items; webhooks and a REST API are offered for custom connections.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Scoring
- Teams set weighted signals, thresholds, and rules per team and service, and the score is explainable by signal.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Self-hosting
- A self-hosted option for sensitive environments is on the roadmap.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- Early-access teams are offered direct roadmap input and white-glove setup.checked 4 Oct 2026
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