ReleaseGate

Spec sheet

Purpose

ReleaseGate reviews release metrics, scores changes against team-defined rules, and records its decision and reasoning.Read 11 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

Product

ReleaseGate evaluates release metrics against team-defined conditions and records what shipped, who or what authored it, and why.Read 4 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

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.Read 11 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

Support

Early-access teams are offered direct roadmap input and white-glove setup.Read 4 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

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.Read 11 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

AI assessment

An LLM writes a plain-English release assessment with citations within the team's configured guardrails.Read 4 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

AI provenance

The product identifies agent-authored or co-authored changes from commit metadata and records whether a human reviewed them.Read 11 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

Audit log

Decision records are append-only and hash-chained, queryable, and exportable to CSV or JSON.Read 4 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

Audit records

Decision records are described as append-only and hash-chained, and can be queried and exported to CSV or JSON.Read 11 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

Availability

ReleaseGate describes itself as pre-launch and onboarding a small group of teams through an early-access interest form.Read 4 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

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.Read 4 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

Decision flow

It scores releases into green auto-approval, yellow human approval, or red blocked and escalated zones.Read 4 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

Integrations at launch

The site lists source control and CI, QA and tests, chat approvals, and incidents as launch integration categories.Read 11 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

Policy as code

Versioned configuration supports deterministic gates such as required checks, deploy windows, blackout dates, separation of duties, and critical-reject rules.Read 4 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

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.Read 11 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

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.Read 11 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

Product status

ReleaseGate describes itself as pre-launch and is onboarding a small group of early-access teams.Read 11 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

Provenance

ReleaseGate detects agent-authored and co-authored changes from commit metadata, including whether a human reviewed them.Read 4 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

Readiness scoring

Teams define weighted signals and thresholds per team and service, and the score is explainable by signal.Read 11 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

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.Read 11 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

Release decisions

Green releases can be auto-approved, yellow releases require human approval, and red releases are blocked or escalated.Read 11 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

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.Read 11 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

Scoring

Teams set weighted signals, thresholds, and rules per team and service, and the score is explainable by signal.Read 4 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

Self-hosting

A self-hosted option for sensitive environments is on the roadmap.Read 11 Oct 2026 · releasegate.ai

Where Specifiction places it

• IT Release Management Software#27 of 426.9