Shipnote

Streamline Release Notes for B2B SaaS Engineering

Your B2B SaaS clients demand transparent updates and timely communication about new features and improvements. Effortlessly transform your engineering team's work into polished, client-facing release notes.

The problem

For B2B SaaS engineering teams, communicating product updates to enterprise clients, sales, and customer success can be a significant time sink. Developers are often pulled away from coding to manually summarize features, bug fixes, and performance enhancements for multiple audiences, each requiring a different level of technical detail. This manual process is prone to delays, inconsistencies, and can lead to internal teams being uninformed about critical product changes, impacting client relations.

The complexity grows with frequent deployments and compliance requirements specific to B2B environments. Ensuring every relevant change, from security patches to new data export options, is accurately reflected in public release notes while also providing internal teams with actionable insights, becomes a bottleneck. The time spent on this administrative task detracts from innovation and core development work, slowing down your product roadmap.

How Shipnote solves it

1
Automatically generate client-facing release notes directly from your GitHub or GitLab commits.
2
Tailor content for different internal and external audiences without manual rewriting for each group.
3
Integrate seamlessly into your existing CI/CD workflow, publishing notes with every successful deployment.

Concrete example


# .github/workflows/shipnote.yml
name: Generate Changelog
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
jobs:
  generate:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Shipnote Action
        uses: shipnotehq/action@v1
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          shipnote_api_key: ${{ secrets.SHIPNOTE_API_KEY }}

Ready to try Shipnote?

Your commits become a published changelog in 60 seconds — no writing required.

Frequently asked questions

Can Shipnote differentiate between internal and external release notes?
Yes, Shipnote allows you to configure rules to categorize commits or use tags to generate distinct changelogs for internal teams versus public-facing client updates.
How does Shipnote integrate with our existing CI/CD pipelines?
Shipnote offers dedicated GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD integrations, making it easy to automate changelog generation as part of your existing deployment workflows.
Is it possible to review and edit the generated release notes before publishing?
Absolutely. Shipnote provides a review interface where you can preview, edit, and approve the AI-generated content before it is published to your hosted changelog.

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