KeelLite release safety net

An automated pre-release and backup health pipeline for 3-15 person SaaS teams

Problem

Small teams ship fast, but nobody truly owns production: releases are rolled back by hand, backups have never been restore-tested, and upgrades and certificates fall on whoever knows the most. Problems surface only in an incident, with risk far out of proportion to team size.

Solution

A lightweight release safety net: turn pre-release checks (backup restorability, certificate validity, dependency upgrades, rollback script presence) into a pipeline that runs on every release and produces pass/block verdicts with actionable fixes and an audit trail.

Users

3-15 person SaaS teams deploying on AWS/GitHub with no dedicated ops person

MVP

One-click GitHub repo connection reading deploy config; automated checks for certificates, backups and rollback paths before release; release report that blocks unsafe deploys; auditable record per release; a fix checklist for common failures

Revenue

Monthly subscription by repos/team size; free single-repo tier, paid multi-env, audit archive and Slack alerts

Why now

AI raises release frequency while small-team safety nets lag; all checks are achievable via existing cloud APIs by one engineer, with no licensing or big operations