Stage Demo

Hey, I'm Dean, and here's a quick look at Stage.

To start, let's look at the current workflow on GitHub.

So, I'm going to click into one of Charles PRs here.

And this PR touches almost 2,000 lines of code across 44 different files.

The changes are just presented in alphabetical file order, so it's up to me to read through this, piece together what happened, and try to give some meaningful feedback.

Now let's look at the same workflow but on Stage.

With the pace of development these days, teams always have a bunch of changes in flight, and this dashboard helps me see what's important at a glance.

When I click into the same PR, the first thing I see is a helpful summary of what changed and where to focus my review.

And then instead of diving into all the files changed, I can look at the chapters instead, which are essentially mini PRs that Stage has broken down for me.

Here I can see all the chapters at a high level before I read them one by one.

Each chapter gives me a summary and tells me what are the most important things to review.

This makes the process much more guided and manageable, helping me build a clear mental model of the changes.

I'm essentially reading through the story of the PR in the order that makes the most sense.

If I have any questions, I can ask this built in Stagent without having to leave the platform.

When I'm done, I should have a very good grasp of what Charles is trying to do in this PR.

Stage isn't just great for reviewing other people's changes, but it's also great for self review.

So I can have my coding agents put up a bunch of PRs, and then I'll look through the chapters rather than the raw code so that I have a solid understanding before I request my teammates for review.

At the end of the day, software development isn't just about reading diffs, but it's about understanding your systems, and that's what Stage is built for.

Give us a try.

It's super easy to set up, you just need to sign in with GitHub.

We also have a couple example PRs that you can check out on our website.

We'd love to hear what you think, and thanks for listening.