Agents draft. Your team signs off

Specs, pull requests and release notes from your agents go to the people who sign them off, stage by stage.

SpecDesignBuildQARelease notes

Work is moving from making to reviewing

Agents made each person faster, but not the team: a spec still has to get past product, design and QA, in threads, pings and waiting on someone.

@lea is this final?re: re: spec v3who has it now?pingProductDesignQA

Comment, suggest and sign off on the same version

Product, design and QA read the spec in one place, and each comment sits on the line it is about.

See what everything is waiting on

A column for each stage, a named reviewer on each, and anything stuck says so.

Made anywhere, reviewed here

Every review improves the next revision

Ask for the same change twice, and it becomes a rule in every producer’s agent.

NH
Noor Haddad · ProrationIs there a test for this?
NH
Noor Haddad · Usage alertsWhere is the test?
NH
Noor Haddad · Tax IDA test, please.
Jo’s laptop · ~/billing · claude› add a setting for the invoice due date● Using skill bateson · Build · Every new setting ships with a default and a test● Wrote invoice-due.test.ts

Bring in reviewers from outside the team

Clients and legal open a link, comment and sign off.

  • No account, no app
  • Opens on any phone
  • Their sign-off moves it on
  • Your team’s notes stay internal

Not only software

Client reportPDF
CampaignImage, comments on points
ContractWord, tracked changes
BookManuscript

Set it up the way your team works

Every workflow is a short Markdown file your agents read, and the same settings in the app.

Works with the tools you already use

Free to host yourself. €12 a month on our cloud

Run it yourself

€0

Every feature, on your servers.

Bateson Cloud

€12per owner or producer, a month

Hosted in the EU. 14 days free.

Start a workspace

Reviewers and guests never pay. Business, with SSO and audit export, is €30.Talk to us

Questions we get asked

Can an agent approve its own work?

No. Only people approve. An agent can send versions in and read the comments over MCP, but it can never decide.

Which agents work with it?

Any agent that speaks MCP, such as Claude Code, Cursor and Codex. Pull requests come in from GitHub, and anything else by email or upload.

Where is our code kept?

On GitHub, where it is now. Bateson keeps the pull request’s summary, its checks and the decision. Bateson Cloud runs in the EU.

Do reviewers pay or need training?

No. Reviewers open a link and decide, on a phone too. Clients and other outside reviewers sign off without an account. Reviewers and guests never pay.

Do we have to use AI?

No. Bateson reviews work whoever made it: a person, an agent, a script or an outside party.

Does it replace GitHub or Google Docs?

No. Work is still made where it is made today. Bateson is the step where it is reviewed, and the decision goes back to where the work came from.

Can we host it ourselves?

Yes, for free, with every feature. The code is public under the AGPL. A Docker image and a guide arrive with the public launch.

Start with a template, or set it up with us

“A difference that makes a difference.”
Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind, 1972