koalr

Changelog

Every improvement to the Koalr engineering intelligence platform.

v0.24BetaApril 17, 2026

Conversational Intelligence Beta — chat with Koalr from Slack, GitHub, or the web

  • New Conversations surface (Business plan, Beta): ask Koalr in Slack, in a GitHub PR comment, or in the web app — one assistant, three surfaces, same conversation history
  • Every reply is grounded in your live org data: open PRs with risk scores, 30-day DORA metrics, per-repo risk breakdowns, and recent deployment health — no generative guessing
  • Cross-process SSE delivery via Redis pub/sub — AI responses stream back to the browser instantly (no polling lag) and scale across multiple API replicas
  • Slack integration: mention @koalr in any connected channel to get a threaded reply with your real numbers
  • GitHub integration: mention @koalr-ai in a PR comment to ask about THIS PR — why it was scored, which reviewers fit, how similar PRs fared in production
  • Founder signup alerts: every new org creation now pings the founder inbox with org + signup method + referral + admin portal link
  • Email/password and OAuth signup flows both fire the alert; SAML (enterprise join) intentionally skipped
v0.23April 8, 2026

AI Risk Explanation + Remediation + Per-Repo Risk Gates

  • Plain-English risk explanations on every PR detail page — each fired signal now shows exactly why it elevates risk, with severity labels (HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW) and research citations
  • Business plan: AI-composed narrative paragraph explains the compounding nature of multiple signals — not just a list, but a coherent analysis of how the signals interact
  • Actionable remediation steps per signal — each step is tagged REQUIRED, RECOMMENDED, or OPTIONAL with specific, contextual instructions (references actual file counts, days open, coverage delta)
  • Suggested reviewers on PRs with no review cycles — shows queue depth and median review time so authors can pick the right person without guessing
  • Contextual insights: concurrent open PR warnings and org-specific deployment pattern notes surfaced inline in the PR detail
  • Custom per-repo risk gate thresholds — override the org-level 75 threshold per repository via Settings → Risk Gates with presets: Strict (40), Standard (60), Permissive (80), Critical only (90)
  • Author Risk Trend dashboard — per-contributor rolling risk analysis showing avg score, HIGH/CRITICAL streak, and IMPROVING/STABLE/WORSENING trend vs prior period with coaching insights
  • Predicted score badge — open PRs scored by the ML fast path (not yet verified by a GitHub Check Run) are now visually distinguished with a "Predicted" label
v0.22March 27, 2026

36 Deploy Risk Signals + CI Path Filtering

  • Signal 34: Collaboration graph centrality — flags PRs from authors bridging isolated teams (PMC 2023 graph study, 152% higher F1 score)
  • Signal 35: Concurrent PR merge detection — identifies simultaneous merges to the same service increasing blast radius (Kochhar 2015, 2.3x defect rate)
  • Signal 36: Infrastructure-as-Code hard gate — Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible, and Docker changes automatically floor risk score at 75
  • Post-deploy monitoring window: automated incident correlation within 15 minutes of deploy, linking Sentry, Rollbar, PagerDuty, and OpsGenie incidents to triggering PRs
  • Outcome labeling extended to Sentry and Rollbar incident providers to improve per-org risk signal calibration
  • CI path-filter gating: deploy workflow now skips unchanged apps using dorny/paths-filter, cutting deploy times in half for single-app changes
v0.21March 26, 2026

Launch Day

  • Live demo at app.koalr.com/demo with Acme Engineering sandbox — 246 real PRs and 18 developers, fully explorable without signup
  • Shareable PR risk links: generate time-expiring public URLs so stakeholders can review deploy risk without a Koalr account
  • 6 new integrations: Buildkite, CircleCI, Jenkins (CI/CD) and New Relic, Sentry, Rollbar (observability)
  • Unified period filter across 28 dashboard pages — consistent 7d/14d/30d/90d presets with URL persistence
  • Business plan gating applied consistently across all AI-powered features (risk explanations, AI chat, proactive briefings)
  • Past weekly digest history: access previous AI-generated risk briefings and standup narratives
v0.20March 15, 2026

AI Authorship Signal + Deploy Blocker + PDF Export

  • AI-authored code risk signal: detects commits co-authored by GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, Codeium, and CodeWhisperer — surfaced as an informational signal in the GitHub Check Run
  • DEPLOY_BLOCKED automation trigger: fires when Koalr posts an action_required Check Run — route a Slack alert to #engineering when a merge is blocked
  • PDF export for saved reports: one-click A4 PDF download from any saved report view, server-generated with Koalr branding
  • Demo flow improvements: /demo now lands directly on the Deploy Risk dashboard for a stronger first impression
v0.19March 14, 2026

Public Beta + Series A Preparation

  • Investor portal at koalr.com/investor with live traction metrics
  • 4 provisional patent claims filed (deploy risk, incident AI, CODEOWNERS sync, AI chat)
  • Deploy Risk Score now processes 30,000+ PRs/day with sub-500ms latency
  • Launch playbook: Show HN, ProductHunt, and design partner outreach prepared
v0.18March 8, 2026

Multi-Provider Incident Intelligence

  • Multi-provider incident ingestion: PagerDuty, OpsGenie, and incident.io all feed MTTR metrics
  • MTTR trend charts segmented by severity, team, and time period
  • Multi-provider alert deduplication: correlate the same incident across all three sources
  • Slack integration: view incident details and deploy correlation directly in Slack
v0.17March 1, 2026

Deploy-Incident Correlation Engine

  • Automated incident-to-deployment correlation within a configurable time window
  • Incident correlation dashboard: which deployments triggered incidents, CFR by team and repo
  • Release impact analysis: surfaces which PRs were live when an incident fired
  • DORA Change Failure Rate now computed from incident provider data, not manual tagging
v0.16February 22, 2026

Incident Intelligence Foundation

  • PagerDuty and OpsGenie integrations: full incident timeline and MTTR ingestion
  • incident.io integration: severity, timeline, and affected services synced in real-time
  • AI-powered incident intelligence: Claude analyzes correlated deployment signals and surfaces risk patterns
  • MTTR segmentation: per-team, per-severity, and per-repo breakdowns across all providers
v0.15February 15, 2026

Marketing Depth + Use-Case Pages

  • Mega-nav with Product, Use Cases, Compare, and Resources sections
  • Use-case pages: Engineering Managers, VP Engineering, CTO, Platform Engineers
  • Initiative pages: Deploy Risk, AI Insights, CODEOWNERS, Test Coverage
  • Why Koalr page with competitive differentiation and research citations
v0.14February 8, 2026

PostHog Analytics + SEO Infrastructure

  • 8 core PLG events instrumented: signup, onboarding steps, first risk score, AI chat, invites, upgrades
  • JSON-LD structured data on marketing site (SoftwareApplication schema)
  • Sitemap expanded to 80+ URLs including blog, integrations, metrics, compare pages
  • 28 blog posts published covering DORA, deploy risk, AI tools, and incident management
v0.13February 1, 2026

Docs + Marketing Site Launch

  • docs.koalr.com launched on Vercel with fumadocs (dark navy theme)
  • 8 documentation pages: quickstart, deploy risk scoring (13-factor model), AI chat guide, DORA definitions
  • OpsGenie, SonarCloud, and Cursor integration documentation added
  • koalr.com marketing site with 30+ pages, blog, compare pages, and use-case pages
v0.12January 25, 2026

Navigation Restructure + Global Search

  • Cmd+K / Ctrl+K global search: find developers, PRs, issues, repos, reports, and pages instantly
  • Sidebar restructured into 10 focused sections (was 11 overlapping sections)
  • Settings extracted to dedicated gear icon — cleaner main navigation
  • Badge expiry system: notification badges auto-clear after 7 days
v0.11January 18, 2026

PLG Onboarding + Free Tier Gates

  • 4-step onboarding checklist: connect GitHub, configure risk, invite team, view first scores
  • Deploy risk fast-path: risky PRs scored in under 60 seconds after GitHub connect
  • Free tier gates: 5-seat limit, 30-day history, upgrade prompts at limits
  • Role question at signup → personalized onboarding flow for EM, CTO, Platform Eng
v0.10January 11, 2026

Opsgenie Migration Tool + EU Compliance

  • Opsgenie migration wizard: extract schedules and incidents, import to incident.io or PagerDuty
  • Real-time migration progress via Server-Sent Events (SSE)
  • EU DPA + subprocessor list pages at koalr.com/legal
  • AI provider abstraction layer: supports Anthropic and AWS Bedrock (GovCloud ready)
v0.9January 4, 2026

Demo Environment + Admin Portal

  • Demo mode: /demo route with Acme Engineering org, read-only, shareable investor link
  • 6 investor demo scenarios with realistic GitHub + incident data
  • admin.koalr.com: full staff portal with org management, billing, impersonation, and kill switches
  • Feature flag system: per-org and global flag management
v0.8December 28, 2025

Permissions + RBAC + Custom Reports

  • Role-based visibility: Owner, Admin, Member, Viewer — per-feature matrix editor
  • GDPR toggle: individualVisibilityEnabled hides developer-level data from non-managers
  • Custom Reports: drag-and-drop builder, 7 templates, PDF/Word/CSV export, Slack scheduling
  • Global Cmd+K search with visibility-gating
v0.7December 21, 2025

AI Chat Panel + Metric Info System

  • AI Chat Panel: floating claude-sonnet-4-6 chat on all dashboard pages with live metrics context
  • Suggested questions per page — deploy risk, DORA, coverage, incidents, forecasting
  • Metric Info Modals: every KPI tile has an ℹ️ icon with description, formula, benchmarks
  • 20+ metrics in the central METRIC_INFO registry
v0.6December 14, 2025

AI Tool Adoption + Business Impact

  • AI Analytics page: GitHub Copilot + Cursor adoption, acceptance rate, estimated hours saved
  • Business Impact + ROI Dashboard: feature value tagging, work-by-tag chart, tech debt cost estimation
  • Cross-Team Dependencies: force-directed graph, N×N heatmap, critical path blocking score
  • Custom Metrics Builder: low-code metric composition, daily recompute, 7-step builder form
v0.5December 7, 2025

Work Log + Focus Summary + Coverage

  • Work Log: GitHub contribution graph-style heatmap per developer with category breakdown
  • Focus Summary: work category donut, trend chart, industry benchmarks
  • E2E Test Coverage: Codecov + SonarCloud integration, trend chart, sortable repo table
  • Delivery Forecasting: P50/P85 scenarios, at-risk detection, multi-project tracking
v0.4November 30, 2025

Well-Being + Standup + Assessment

  • Team Well-Being Tracker: 5-pillar anonymous micro-surveys via Slack (2-week minimum)
  • Daily Standup Digest: auto-pulls activity from GitHub/Jira/Linear, surfaces at-risk items
  • Developer Productivity Assessment: 4-pillar maturity model, SVG arc gauge
  • Code Review Enhanced UI: workload heatmap, queue health histogram, time-to-first-comment trend
v0.3November 23, 2025

13-Factor Deploy Risk Model

  • Deploy Risk Score upgraded from 7 to 13 research-validated signals
  • New signals: Change Entropy (Hassan 2009), Author File Expertise (Bird 2011), Minor Contributors, SLO Burn Rate
  • Patch coverage vs overall coverage — coverage on changed lines specifically
  • Weight auto-tuning: weekly logistic regression on your org's outcomes (requires 30+ data points)
v0.2November 16, 2025

Integrations + CODEOWNERS Sync

  • 14 integrations: GitHub, Jira, Linear, Slack, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, incident.io, Cursor, Codecov, SonarCloud, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab, Datadog
  • CODEOWNERS sync: auto-detects ownership files, flags drift, sends weekly compliance report
  • Incident.io integration with severity mapping and AI investigation
  • Cursor Enterprise integration: DAU, model usage, per-member spend
v0.1November 9, 2025

Foundation + DORA Metrics

  • Koalr v0.1 — engineering intelligence platform for engineering managers and platform teams
  • DORA metrics: deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, MTTR
  • PR metrics: cycle time, review time, time to first review, rework rate
  • Multi-tenant architecture: custom JWT auth, per-org data isolation, Stripe billing

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