Our story
The release notes never happen.
Here's a scene from every product team we've worked on. It's Thursday evening. The feature everyone's been grinding on finally merges, the channel fills with congratulations, and someone says we should announce this. Everyone quietly agrees that someone else will.
Three weeks later a customer asks whether the product is still being worked on. You shipped eleven times that month — but the changelog says otherwise. The work was real. The silence was the bug.
We kept running into the same failure: writing release notes is nobody's job, so it becomes nobody's job. Engineers dislike marketing copy, marketers can't read diffs, and the tools that promised to help asked you to wire up a dozen integrations first.
So we built the tool we wanted to use — one that watches the repository, understands what actually changed, and arrives with the release notes, the changelog entry, the announcement and the banner already written, waiting for your edits.
“We named it Relay because that's the job: take the signal from your codebase and carry it the last mile to the people who care.”
What we believe
Four principles we won't trade away
Automatic by default
If software can notice it, draft it, or format it, a person shouldn't have to. Relay does the work before you ask.
AI you don't manage
No model pickers, no agent builder, no prompt library. The most advanced control in Relay is a button that says Generate.
People hit publish
Relay writes the draft; you own the words. Every asset is editable, and nothing goes out without your review.
Releases are worth celebrating
A changelog isn't paperwork. It's the record of a team getting better every week — it should read like one.
Where we're headed
Start with the release. Grow into everything after it.
Today Relay does one thing well: it turns a merge into a polished release. Next comes documentation that updates itself, deeper customer communication, and support for more of the places your team already works. We're early, we build in the open, and the roadmap is shaped by the teams using it.
If this resonates, we'd love to hear from you
Try Relay, or tell us the one thing your team needs. We read every message.