Code review platform for AI generated code
Hey everyone! We’re Charles and Dean - cofounders of Stage.
👉 tldr: Drowning in AI generated PRs? Tired of using GitHub? Us too. Stage is a code review platform designed to help you understand and review changes 5x faster.
💻 How to get started
Try it out today at https://stagereview.app/ - all you need is your GitHub account.
It’s free for your first 14 days, and then you can use LAUNCH to get 25% off for 3 months :)
Other ways to try it out:
- Try our demo on any public GitHub PR here
- Download our open source CLI tool - runs locally and works with any coding agent
❌ The Problem
Engineering teams are shipping faster than ever, but now they’re drowning in an endless backlog of PRs to review. The bottleneck isn't writing code anymore, it's reviewing it.
This leads to:
- PRs being rubber stamped without getting closely looked at
- Unexpected behaviors slipping through to production
- Your engineers merging changes they don’t really understand
Code review bots are great at catching surface level bugs but don’t solve the root problem.
Engineers need a faster way of understanding changes and giving meaningful feedback, and GitHub’s UI hasn’t changed in over a decade.
🧠 How it works
We’re redesigning the code review experience around the way that engineers naturally read PRs.
- When you open a PR or push a new commit, Stage groups your changes into small logical “chapters”
- These chapters get ordered in the way that makes most sense to read
- For each chapter, Stage tells you what changed and specific things to double check
- Once you review all the chapters, you’re done reviewing the PR!
Everything is synced seamlessly with GitHub (commenting, approving, etc) so it fits right into the workflows you’re already used to.
❤️ Why did we start Stage?
We're two engineers who got frustrated with using GitHub for code review.
As coding agents started taking off, we saw our PR backlog pile up faster than we could handle. Not only that, the PRs themselves were getting larger and harder to understand, and we spent most of our time trying to build a mental model of what a PR was actually doing.
We built Stage to make reviewing a PR feel more like reading chapters of a book, not an unorganized set of paragraphs. We use it every day now (not just to review each other's code, but also our own!) and at this point we can't really imagine going back to using GitHub.
👋 About Us
Charles and Dean met in their very first class at Stanford freshman year, and have been best friends ever since.
They ended up taking every class together, worked at the same quant trading firm after graduating, and were roommates in New York before joining YC. They saw firsthand how AI caused code review to break down and started Stage to rebuild the experience for how teams operate today.
