Ship Faster with Better
Code Reviews
Slow reviews slow your entire team. Bellugo centralizes pull requests, highlights blockers, and keeps every review visible — so you reduce time-to-ship without burning people out.
The problem
Reviews take too long, get buried in chat tools, and lack visibility across repositories. These delays hurt focus, velocity, and team morale.
Slow reviews bottleneck delivery
Long review cycles block features, create frustration, and break momentum for both authors and reviewers.
Requests get lost in chat
Review links dropped in Slack or Teams drown in conversations — no tracking, no priority, no reliable follow-up.
No global visibility
With many repositories, it is impossible to know at a glance what is pending, blocked, mergeable, or urgent.
Slow reviews do not age well.
Large studies on GitHub and academic research show the same pattern: the longer a review stays open, the harder it becomes to merge safely and maintain over time.
50%
Of a pull request lifetime
In large analyses of hundreds of thousands of pull requests, about half of the total lifetime is spent waiting for review, not coding. Work is done, but value is blocked in review queues.
7 days
The tipping point
Studies on GitHub projects show that most reviews are completed in under a couple of days. Reviews that stay open for more than a week become statistical outliers, with a much higher risk of merge conflicts, rework, and abandoned contributions.
42%
Abandoned pull requests
Academic research on pull request abandonment shows that a large share of dropped PRs are abandoned because reviewers or maintainers never answer. Reviewers are not lazy — they are overloaded.
Sources
- Pull request latency and time in review: Zhang et al., “Pull Request Latency Explained: An Empirical Overview”, Empirical Software Engineering, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-022-10143-4
- Time to first response and review delays: Hasan et al., “Understanding the Time to First Response in GitHub Pull Requests”, MSR 2023. https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08426
- Pull request abandonment and lack of responsiveness: Li et al., “Are You Still Working on This? An Empirical Study on Pull Request Abandonment”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2021.3053403
- Overdue pull requests and nudging reviewers: Maddila et al., “Nudge: Accelerating Overdue Pull Requests Toward Completion”, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2023. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544791
Why Bellugo?
A dedicated space for your code reviews — structured, prioritized, and connected across all repositories, away from noisy chat.
Your personal review hub
See every pull request and merge request you created, are assigned to, or interacted with (comments, reviews) in one dedicated view that follows you across repositories.
A focused "To review" list
Bookmark important reviews to build your own "to review" queue, just like saving posts on LinkedIn — perfect for PRs you want to keep an eye on or come back to later.
Team-wide clarity
On top of your personal space, Bellugo gives the team a unified dashboard to filter by CI status, mergeability, age, or author and see immediately what needs attention.
Bellugo automatically discovers open reviews once your repositories are connected.
Never miss a review again.
Bellugo sends reminders where your team already works — without spamming every channel.
Slack
DMs & channel reminders.
Microsoft Teams
Review follow-up at the right time.
Discord (soon)
Perfect for dev communities.
Scheduled digests & nudges.
Integrates with your existing stack.
GitHub
Pull requests & checks
GitLab
Merge requests & pipelines
Bitbucket (soon)
Designed for open-source teams.
Everything your team needs
Dashboards, deep review context, reminders, and insights — all in one place.
Kanban & list views
See reviews the way you prefer: grouped, prioritized, and easy to scan.
Smart filtering
Filter by CI status, mergeability, author, date, and more.
Deep review context
Diffs, comments, CI, and metadata in one unified panel.
Review reminders
Automatically nudge reviewers when a PR has been idle for too long.
Metrics & insights
Track merge time, CI stability, and review throughput.
Multi-platform ready
GitHub, GitLab, Slack, Teams — more integrations coming soon.
Built for people who live in reviews
Drill into review content, move smoothly from one contribution to the next, and keep a global view of your workspace without juggling tabs.
Read and navigate reviews in one focused view
Bellugo pulls together title, description, diffs, comments and CI status into a single focused view. No more bouncing between tabs or hunting for context in GitHub or GitLab.
From this view you can also move to the previous or next review in your filtered list using the small arrows in the top-right corner of the header — like going through an inbox, without going back to the board or losing your filters.
Open a review, understand it quickly, take action, then jump to the next one in a single flow.
One inbox for everything that needs your attention
Bellugo groups all the reviews that matter to you in a single inbox: reviews assigned to you, your own open reviews, contributions you participated in, and the ones you decided to save for later.
Those “Saved for later” reviews work like bookmarks on LinkedIn: build your personal "to review" list for PRs you want to monitor or come back to when you have focused time.
Instead of chasing links in Slack or email, you open Bellugo and your review work queue is already prioritized by what actually needs you.
A dashboard for your whole workspace
Track active reviews, CI health, mergeability and contributors in one high-level dashboard. See where work is stuck and which projects are moving fast.
Managers and tech leads get an instant picture of review load and bottlenecks, while reviewers can drill down into the underlying pull requests in one click.
Coming soon
More insights. More automation. More speed.
Weekly reports
Summaries of new, merged, and closed reviews to keep everyone aligned.
Repository health
Understand lead time, review load, and bottlenecks across your repositories.