Stage-gate governance for CPG innovation

Better decisions, by design.

GateHQ runs your stage-gate process in one place — so reviews happen on time, every call is made the same way, and each Go, Hold, Recycle or Kill is locked with who decided, when, and why.

Early access · runs on the process you already have
DiscoveryGATE 1ScopingGATE 2 · DECIDINGDevelopmentGATE 3TestingGATE 4Launch
GateHQ pipeline board
The problem

Your process runs in four places. None of them is the record.

The stages exist, the reviews happen, the calls get made — then the trail goes cold in a tracker, a deck, a thread and a drive.

One process Four disconnected places
The tracker
Q3_Pipeline_v14_FINAL.xlsx
Rebuilt every Monday. Out of date by Tuesday.
The review
Gate 2 Review — Cold-Brew.pptx
Two days of assembly for a thirty-minute meeting.
The decision
RE: RE: Gate 2 — can we push a week?
Where the call was actually made, and where it stays.
The archive
/Innovation/2026/Gates/
Findable, in theory, by whoever filed it.
If you run the projects
Half the week goes to chasing feedback and rebuilding the same tracker.
If you own the portfolio
You can't see where the pipeline stands, or prove how a project cleared a gate.
Portfolio visibility

See the whole pipeline at a glance.

Every project, every stage, and the gates coming due — in one view that is current the moment you open it. No roll-up to assemble, no tracker to reconcile before the leadership meeting.

GateHQ dashboard — pipeline health at a glance
Dashboard · 12 projects, one gate awaiting a decision
One project, one place

Everything about a project, on one page.

Open a project and you already know where it stands — no files to gather, nobody to ask.

GateHQ project hub for Sourdough Seed Crackers: stage stepper, gate readiness with deliverables, current status update and the project brief
In the hub Brief Gate readiness Deliverables Status updates Decisions Activity
01
See the pipeline
Every project and every stage in one always-current view. Nobody assembles a status spreadsheet again.
02
Run the gate review
A real go/kill decision, not a status meeting. Deliverables, scoring and approvers in one room, with no deck to assemble.
03 · the record
Keep the record
Every outcome kept on the record with its owner, date and rationale — the part a spreadsheet has never done.
GO HOLD RECYCLE KILL
The record

Every decision, permanently on the record.

Every gate call is captured with its outcome, who recorded it, when, and why. Two years from now, the answer to "how did this clear Gate 2?" is still there, in the words of the people who decided it.

Flexibility in the decisions. Integrity in the record.

GateHQ decisions log: Hold, Go and Kill outcomes with gate, rationale and the person who recorded each decision
Decisions · every call already made, and the gates still open

Plans change, records don't

Recycle, hold, or reverse a call next week.

Recorded by, and why

A name, a date, an outcome, and the thinking.

A trail you can hand over

For leadership, audit, or diligence.

Who it's for

Two jobs, one process.

"Half my week goes to chasing feedback and rebuilding the same tracker."

If you run the process day to day
The chase ends.

Projects and gate reviews live in one place, and status stays current because the work updates it. No tracker to rebuild on Monday, no deck to assemble the night before.

"I need the whole portfolio, and a decision trail that holds up."

If you own the portfolio
You can see it, and you can prove it.

Throughput, launch dates and every gate coming due, without asking anyone for a roll-up. When leadership or diligence asks how a call was made, the record answers.

Security

Built to pass your security review.

Security is built in, not configured. Here is what your IT team will want to know.

Isolated by default

Every organization's data is isolated at the database level, not by application logic.

Encrypted always

In transit and at rest, on by default.

Tamper-resistant records

Decisions stay exactly as they were recorded, with the full history intact.

Enterprise-grade infrastructure

Supabase and Vercel — both SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certified.

Early access

Run your pipeline like you mean it.

GateHQ opens to a first group of innovation teams this year. Join the waitlist and we'll be in touch.

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