DeployGate — approvals enforced in the pipeline

Move deployment approvals out of Jira and into CI/CD so nothing ships without a gate.

Problem

Deployment approvals often live in Jira tickets, Slack messages, and verbal confirmation, while the pipeline itself never checks approval state — leading to incidents where code ships before approval. One developer built Approvegate specifically to force approvals into the pipeline.

Solution

A lightweight approval-gate SaaS that provides GitHub/GitLab checks, approval policies by environment, person, and time window, and only lets deploys through when approved. Everything stays in the pipeline, with Slack notifications.

Users

Small and mid-size engineering teams, platform engineers, part-time DevOps owners.

MVP

GitHub App integration; approval policies per branch/environment; check run status; Slack notifications and one-click approval; audit log export; skip complex RBAC initially.

Revenue

Monthly per-repo or per-seat pricing; free tier limited to one repo; low-touch self-serve for small teams.

Why now

Compliance and SRE requirements keep rising while Jira-style approvals stay disconnected from pipelines; this is a workflow gap big CI vendors ignore and indies can own.