Live webinar

Code review is the new bottleneck

But it doesn't need to be.

The four things Macroscope does to a pull request — review, gate, approve and explain — walked through in order, live on a real PR.

Wednesday, October 21, 202611:00 AM to 12:00 PM PDTZoom

Free · 60 minutes · Recording sent to everyone who registers

Ivan GomezGrowth
Kayvon BeykpourCEO & Co-founder

Who this is for

It's a product walkthrough, not a pitch. You do not need a Macroscope account to get something out of it.

Four things, in order

Each stage only pays off once the one before it is in place. You cannot gate what nothing reviewed, and you cannot safely auto-approve what nothing gated. Ivan and Kayvon will walk through them on a live PR, not a slide deck.

01

Review

Not every change should be reviewed the same way.

Detection Mode gives you four profiles, Budget through Ultra, switchable per repo or per pull request with a label. A typo fix and a migration do not need the same scrutiny, or the same bill.

How Detection Mode works
02

Gate

Your conventions, as checks that can block a merge.

Check Run Agents turn the rules your team already holds into checks you write in plain markdown. They run against your codebase, git history and integrations — and they can fail the check, not just leave a comment someone scrolls past.

How Check Run Agents work
03

Approve

About 40% of pull requests never needed you.

Low-risk pull requests from trusted authors that clear review with zero issues get approved automatically. Human review still matters on the ones that need it. The point is getting to those faster.

How auto-approval works
04

Explain

Plain language on what actually landed.

Status reads the week's merged work and tells you what shipped, in sentences. Not a commit wall, not a burndown chart nobody opens.

How Status works

What we'll cover

60 minutes, including live Q&A at the end.

  1. 00
    Why review became the bottleneckWriting code got dramatically cheaper. Reviewing it and landing it did not. Where the time actually goes between 'PR opened' and 'merged' — and why more reviewers is not the fix.
  2. 01
    ReviewNot every change should be reviewed the same way.
  3. 02
    GateYour conventions, as checks that can block a merge.
  4. 03
    ApproveAbout 40% of pull requests never needed you.
  5. 04
    ExplainPlain language on what actually landed.
  6. Q&A
    Live questionsBring your merge pipeline. Ivan and Kayvon will answer live.

Human review still matters

On the pull requests that need it. The whole point of the first three stages is getting a human to those faster, with less in front of them.

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Frequently asked questions

Everything else about the session, in one place.

When is the webinar?

Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM PDT. It runs 60 minutes, including live Q&A.

How much does it cost?

Nothing. The webinar is free and registration takes about ten seconds.

Will there be a recording?

Yes. Everyone who registers gets the recording by email afterwards, so it is worth registering even if you cannot make the time.

What will actually be shown?

A live walkthrough of the four things Macroscope does to a pull request, in order: Detection Mode profiles picking how hard to look, a Check Run Agent failing a merge on your own conventions, an automatic approval on a low-risk PR, and the Status report that comes out the other end. Product, not slides.

Who is it for?

Engineering leaders, platform and developer-experience teams, and anyone who owns the pull request pipeline and has watched review become the slowest step in it.

I missed the September session. Do I need it?

No. This one covers the same four stages, framed around the problem underneath them: review capacity. If you caught September, expect the same walkthrough with the bottleneck argument made explicit. If you did not, nothing here assumes it.

Do I need a Macroscope account to attend?

No. The session is a product walkthrough and is useful whether or not you have ever installed Macroscope.

Curious what we covered last time? Read about the September session →

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Wednesday, October 21, 2026. 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM PDT. Zoom. Free, 60 minutes, and everyone who registers gets the recording.

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