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The backbone for enterprise release management.

One platform for planning, gating, and running releases across every system in your portfolio. Built with the governance discipline of a 15-year QA consultancy.

47s
To provision a release
100%
Exceptions logged
0
Silent gate bypasses
platform.teamsts.ca/releases/billstream-26.05
SIT Execution
Release
Billstream 26.05 (Major)
Gold tier · Prod target May 9, 2026 · 9 phases
Scope DevOps Notes IDE SIT UAT prep Business UAT Prod Close
Active Gates3 open
PASS Regression run
96.4% · 412/427
BLOCK P1 Defect Rule
1 open · AB#12847
PENDING QA Lead sign-off
Awaiting J. Park
gate.enforced: true Updated 2m ago
Connects with the tools your team already uses
Azure DevOps
Jira
Teams
Outlook
SharePoint
Confluence
Entra ID
Okta
The Problem

Every release team knows this story.

After 15 years designing release frameworks across law, finance, healthcare, and CPG, we see the same five failures everywhere.

Sign-offs that don't actually block.

Checklist gates, no structural enforcement. P1 still open? The release ships anyway.

Status lives in twelve places.

ADO, Teams, Excel, Outlook, Loop, SharePoint. Nobody has the whole picture at once.

Ninety minutes to set up one release.

Manual work-item provisioning, template wiring, stakeholder tagging. Every release.

The process lives in one head.

Senior release manager takes a week off, institutional knowledge goes with them.

No one owns release governance.

"Release Manager" is an unassigned role in the RACI. The CAB slide still asks "Volunteers?"

The Fix

We built a platform that solves all five.

One source of truth. Enforced gates. Framework-driven. Multi-system from day one.

See how it works
The Platform

Four modules. One unified backbone.

Release governance, QA automation, system-level visibility, and framework configuration. Designed to work as one system, not four disconnected tools.

Release Manager

Enforce gate approvals, track phase transitions, and close the audit loop across Major, Medium, and Minor lifecycle variants. P1 open at SIT exit? The release cannot advance. Period.

Framework Builder

Configure governance per system and tier. Gold-tier billing platforms and Bronze-tier support tools don't need the same process, and now they don't have to.

QA Automation Layer

Playwright runs, triage queue, artifact storage, automatic defect filing. The QA signal that feeds your release gates, in one place, tied to the governance model.

Integration Map

See every system connection in your portfolio. Catch cross-system dependency risk before a Bronze system takes down a Gold one. Impact analysis, blast radius, owner routing.

How it fits

From framework to first release in four steps.

01
Map

Map your systems

Import your catalogue or sync from SharePoint. Tag tier, owners, dependencies.

02
Configure

Configure the framework

Set lifecycle variants, gate rules, RACI. Version it. Reuse across systems.

03
Connect

Connect your tools

Point at ADO and Jira, Teams and Outlook, SharePoint. One config per tenant.

04
Run

Run your first release

Provisioning, gates, notifications, audit, all handled. You manage exceptions, not the scaffolding.

See it in action

Release management, live in production.

Real screens. Real data. Real releases. Not a prototype.

STS Platform Executive View — release operations dashboard showing active releases, average pass rate, blocking gates, next deadlines, and system health across the portfolio STS Platform Release Manager — gantt-style roadmap of active releases across Intapp Billstream, Intapp Time, and Elite 3E systems STS Platform Framework Builder — configuring Dentons Major Release Lifecycle with phases, sub-phases, RACI assignments, and gate coverage
Enforced Gates

Gates that actually gate.

Every release checklist promises governance. Most deliver theatre. The difference is whether the system structurally prevents advancement past a failed gate, or just records that the gate failed.

Our gates are non-advisory by design. An open P1 at SIT exit isn't a warning in a dashboard. It's a technical block on the state machine. The release can't advance until the gate clears, and every exception is logged against a named human with a reason.

<2m
Gate evaluation SLA
100%
Exceptions logged
billstream-26.05 MAJOR
LIVE
Gate
UAT Exit
BLOCKED
P1 Defect Rule
1 open P1. Non-discretionary block.
BLOCK
Business UAT sign-off
Awaiting Business Process Lead.
PENDING
Regression threshold
96.4% pass rate, above 95% threshold.
PASS
release.canAdvance() → false auto-evaluated 14s ago
By the numbers

Built for real governance, at enterprise scale.

47s
To provision a release
Down from 90 minutes of manual setup.
3
Lifecycle variants
Major, Medium, Minor. One universal model.
12
Governance roles modeled
RM Lead through Sponsor. Configurable RACI.
0
Silent gate bypasses
Every override is named, logged, and audit-ready.
The Team Behind It

Built by a QA consultancy, for people who actually run releases.

STS has been designing QA and release management frameworks since 2009 for global law firms, financial services platforms, healthcare and pharma systems, and regulated CPG teams.

The platform you see here is the operational embodiment of that methodology, from discovery through enterprise playbooks, codified as software. It isn't a generic SaaS tool we bolted governance onto. It's a framework that happened to become a product.

The STS Framework

Five milestones. One release engine.

M1
Discovery and Assessment
Pain point register, gap analysis, as-is QA posture.
M2
Release Management Framework
Governance model, readiness gates, release calendar.
M3
QA Governance Framework
Test strategy, coverage standards, traceability.
M4
Tooling Blueprint
Platform, adapters, integrations, automation targets.
M5
Enterprise Playbooks
Runbooks, training, lean-team sustainability.
Common questions

Questions we hear every engagement.

Does this replace Azure DevOps or Jira?

No. The platform sits above your tracker of record. It reads and writes to ADO, Jira, or an internal system. It does not replace them. If your team already lives in ADO, they keep living in ADO. What changes is the governance layer, visibility, and automation around it.

Can we configure it for our industry's compliance needs?

Yes. That's the entire point of the Framework Builder. Healthcare (HIPAA), financial services (SOC 2, PCI), law firm (Bar compliance), and regulated CPG teams configure gates, sign-offs, and evidence capture per their regulatory posture. Every gate evaluation is audit-ready.

Do we need to run this on-prem?

The platform is a multi-tenant cloud deployment today, with data isolation per tenant. For firms with strict data residency or on-prem requirements, we support dedicated single-tenant deployments on request. Talk to us.

How does it handle multi-system portfolios?

Built for it from day one. The Integration Map, per-system framework profiles, and tier-based variant selection are explicitly designed for IT departments managing 20 to 200 or more systems with different release cadences, risk profiles, and governance needs.

What does implementation look like?

Typical engagement: 2 to 6 weeks from discovery to first release running on the platform. We use our M1 to M5 framework to diagnose where your current process is breaking, configure the platform to match your governance posture, connect your existing tools, and run a POC release end-to-end. Then we hand it over, lean-team sustainable by design.

Demo · 30 minutes

Ship releases with discipline, not hope.

Book a 30-minute demo with our founding team. We'll walk through your current release process, show you where the gaps are, and map the platform to your governance posture.

Enterprise-ready · Single-tenant option · POC in 4 weeks