For Tech Leads
Your release criteria, tracked automatically.
Waterline maps every merged commit to your acceptance criteria. It shows you what is done and what is not, so you can manage your sprint based on the code, not the standup.
You are the one everyone asks for status
PM asks you. EM asks you. Waterline relieves you of being the human middleware layer.
Sprint reviews show opinions, not evidence
"We made good progress" is not a release criteria. Waterline tells you which ACs are done in code and which are not, before the review.
You find out about release risks too late
A ticket at 22% with one day left was visible in the code three days ago. You just did not have Waterline.
A code-verified signal on every ticket, before the sprint ends.
Your release criteria, tracked automatically
Waterline is your quality gate. It maps every merged commit to the acceptance criteria in the ticket and tells you what is done and what is not.
Catch blockers while there is still sprint time left
When a ticket is at 30% with two days to go, Waterline surfaces it.
Agent commits read the same as human commits
Cursor and Claude Code produce high commit volume with minimal annotation. Waterline reads those commits and maps them to your acceptance criteria the same way it reads everything else.
Sprint 24 · Week 2 of 2
4 tickets · acme/platform
Add webhook rate limiting
Refactor auth middleware
Dashboard export to CSV
Notification preference centre
Waterline PLT-84 is at 22% with 1 day left. No acceptance criteria satisfied in any merged commit.
Four tickets. One risk caught with a day to act.
Common questions
How does Waterline help me manage a team using AI coding tools?
AI tools like Cursor and Claude Code produce code fast but produce almost no narrative about what the code satisfies. Waterline reads the commits those tools generate and maps them to your Jira acceptance criteria. You get a ticket-level answer regardless of who wrote the code.
How do I introduce this to my team without it feeling like surveillance?
Waterline reads merged code, which is already public within the team on GitHub. It does not track individuals, log hours, or report on who is slow. It answers questions about tickets.
How early in a sprint can I get useful data?
As soon as the first pull requests start merging against a ticket, Waterline has something to report. "Two of eight criteria met in code" on day 3 tells you the ticket is moving and which criteria are already covered.
Does Waterline store our source code?
No. Waterline reads diff metadata and commit information to compute a progress answer, then discards the raw content. Your source code is never stored.