Pilot ships
tickets
Label a ticket. Get a reviewed PR. Your code runs on a box only you use.
Backlog
TODO
Planning
Jira
Linear
GitHub
Asana
Pilot built Pilot.
1,741 of 2,318 merged PRs on qf-studio/pilot came from Pilot — as of 2026-11-01.
Check it on GitHubPilot always works in a clean worktree
90%+ successful delivery rate
How it works
No prompts or configs needed. You plan the tickets and assign them to Pilot. That is it.
Workflow check (12%)- Analyzing codebase (15%)
Testing 75%
- Linting
- Creating PR
Completed
- Testing
- Creating PR
CI failed
What was merged?
PR #5642 merged.
You can now pick the project from the chat. Each conversation keeps its own turn.
What's in the roadmap?
There are 5 issues in the roadmap:
- Alert when a release stage stalls
- Warn before the release token expires
- Document the chat settings
- Acceptance checks for every test runner
- Quality gates run without make
Ask your pilot...
Tickets / Epics
Small tickets go straight to a PR. Large tickets split into an epic of sub-issues that land in order.
Gates
Build, tests and lint run before the PR opens. Mutation checks confirm that the tests fail when the code breaks. CI must be green before the merge.
Review
Every PR body has an Evidence section and a Not verified section. You see what passed before you read the diff.
What's inside
You plan and assign the tickets. Pilot ships them from all your backlogs at once.
Navigator
Plans the path for each ticket
Memory
Remembers your choices
Self-evolving
Each try produces data for the next one
Analytics
Full analytics in Grafana and Prometheus
Approvals
Risky PRs wait for your approval
Spend cap
A hard cap, no surprise invoice
Suited for
Small and mid-size teams that already plan their work in tickets.
Staff engineers
Hand Pilot the tickets you would delegate anyway. Each PR arrives after build, tests and lint pass, with the evidence in its body.
Engineering managers
See cost and time per ticket on one board. You have the numbers for the ROI question before finance asks.
Founder-CTOs
Ship at the pace of a bigger team without new hires. Start free in your terminal, then move to Pilot Cloud at USD 499 per organisation, not per seat.
Platform teams
Run one agent across all your repos and backlogs, with the same gates everywhere.
Product managers
Write the ticket in plain words. Pilot builds it, and you follow it on the board.
Pricing
Start free in your terminal. Move the whole team to Pilot Cloud for one flat price.
Open source under BSL 1.1. Runs on your machine with your own Claude key.
brew tap qf-studio/pilotbrew install pilotView on GitHub- 100 shipped tickets a month
- No seats — invite your whole team
- Your own box — a dedicated instance only you use
- Fair use of included AI; your own key takes over beyond it, at no extra fee
Need more? 25 tickets for $99 or 100 tickets for $349, prepaid, valid 90 days.
A ticket counts when its pull request opens. No free tier: the first repo bootstrap is free and the card is entered before the first ticket.
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