Private beta

The always-on standup for your codebase.

What's moving, what's blocked and why it matters.
Decoded into plain English, without the noise.

How it works ↓
syncup.sh — northstar/payments
The Sync Up feed: an inbox of plain-English signals, an AI-written briefing of the repo, live counts, and hot spots showing where in-flight work overlaps

Example workspace with illustrative data.

PRs tell you what changed.
Not what it means.

GitHub is full of useful signal, but it is scattered across titles, diffs, comments, reviews, labels and merge events. Unless you live in the repo, it is hard to see the bigger picture.

Sync Up turns that noise into a readable feed.

Connect your repo. Read the story.

One person sets up, in minutes. The whole team just reads.

  1. 01

    Sign in and create your workspace

    With GitHub, or just your email — no GitHub account required. The workspace is where your team's feed lives.

  2. 02

    Add your API key

    Summaries run on your own LLM key — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or any compatible endpoint. We recommend Claude Sonnet 4.6 or newer. Stored encrypted; only your workspace ever uses it.

  3. 03

    Connect GitHub, pick your repo

    Install the read-only GitHub App — or send your install link to whoever administers your org. Sync Up reads one repo at a time: the one that matters.

  4. 04

    Invite your team

    Teammates join by invite and see the same feed. No API key of their own, nothing to configure — they just read.

A feed built from real engineering activity.

Not another dashboard. A translator for the work already happening in your repos.

Today's read

A short, AI-written briefing of where the repo stands right now — what's moving, what shipped, what to watch. Rewritten as the work changes, never stale.

Signals, not pull requests

Related PRs are grouped into product signals with outcome-led headlines — "Payment retry logic is being tightened", not a changelog line.

Plain-English translation

Every PR is summarised into what changed, the product impact, a PM takeaway, and watch-outs — technical detail only where it explains risk or rollout.

A watchlist with reasons

Stuck work wears its actual trigger — "waiting on a reviewer 3d", "sent back for changes" — so you know what to raise, not just that something's amber.

One workspace per team

Invite teammates by email; everyone reads the same feed. Members need no API key and no GitHub account — the workspace owner sets up once.

Private by design

Read-only GitHub App, workspace-isolated data, encrypted bring-your-own LLM key, invite-only membership.

The feed, not the firehose.

Grouped by what matters. Updated as your team works.

acme/webapp — feed
  • Checkout is being untangled from pricingMOVING

    4 PRs active. Plan logic is being separated from checkout, clearing the way for pricing changes without touching the payment path.

    4 PRs · 2 open · likely user-facing

  • Shared projects get proper previewsSHIPPED

    Published projects now show a useful preview image when shared, instead of the default logo card.

    merged yesterday · user-facing

  • Organization import is stuck in reviewWATCHLIST

    The permissions change everything else depends on has unresolved review threads — worth raising before it blocks the rest.

    waiting on a reviewer 3d · high-risk files

Private beta for teams who live near GitHub, but not inside it.

Sync Up is currently in private beta. One workspace per team: the owner connects GitHub and brings their own LLM API key (we recommend Claude Sonnet 4.6 or newer) — summaries run on your key, for your workspace only. Teammates join by invite and don't need a key at all.

Good fit

  • Your team works through GitHub pull requests
  • Non-engineers want better visibility into what is moving
  • You want a lightweight narrative layer, not another dashboard
  • You want to follow the work without a GitHub account of your own

Not a fit

  • You need billing, metering or enterprise admin controls today
  • You want code review automation
  • You want a replacement for Linear, Jira or GitHub

We review requests as they come in. You'll only hear from us about access.

Built for a real private beta, not a demo.

Production infrastructure from day one.

Stop reading every PR.
Start reading the work.

Sync Up is opening to a small number of teams using GitHub pull requests as their source of truth.