Jira, a spreadsheet, the finance system, three pages of PowerPoint. Every month, on every project. Tollgate builds the same picture from the work you already track — and keeps it current, so you present instead of assemble.
Built by Softwired · 20 years of governance over seven- and eight-figure programmes
The steering committee meets, the slides get shown, the RAG stays amber. Nobody in the room could tell you whether the investment is still on track for what it was funded to deliver.
The picture takes a week to assemble and doesn't survive the first hard question. That's not governance. That's reporting.
Above the line sit the people answerable for the money — sponsors, transformation leads, portfolio managers, and the steering committees they answer to. Below it sits delivery.
Jira is built for below. Tollgate is built for above — it takes delivery state from Jira as input and speaks in the sponsor's language: business case, work packages, gates, and a defensible record of every decision.
Delivery teams answer are we building it well? Sponsors answer a different question — are we on track for the payoff we funded this for? — and story points don't answer it.
It lives next to the work, behind the same login, inside the same security boundary. Nobody learns a new tool.
Tollgate follows the shape of a real investment — from the decision to fund it, through delivery, to the verdict on whether it landed.
Commit
Write the investment thesis. Build the business case — with a financial case that sets NPV, IRR and payback as fixed targets at commit. Take it through a gate approval before the money moves.
Run
Track the work packages, risks and decisions that govern the investment. Approve changes at the gate. Read cost, schedule, scope and risk pulled apart into four RAGs you can trust — computed straight from the registers, every time they change.
Realise
Record the return you expected next to the return you got, judged by the sponsor. Roll every investment up into one portfolio-health view.
Stop building the pack. Present live from the surface where the case file already lives. The PM keeps the picture current through the week — five minutes here, ten there. When the steering committee meets, that surface goes on the projector. When someone asks the follow-up nobody made a slide for — the cumulative budget impact of that Q2 change, the work packages it put at risk — you jump to the register or ask in plain language, and answer from current data in the room. The meeting doesn't stall on a promise to follow up later, because the whole case file is right there.
Tollgate is opinionated on purpose. It shows the governance-relevant slice of each thing — and points at the finance system or Jira for the rest.
Business case
Why the investment exists, with a Draft → Submitted → Approved lifecycle and a financial case that holds NPV, IRR and payback as targets.
Work packages
Coherent slices of scope with an owner, a budget and a schedule — the unit a sponsor thinks in, linked to the Jira epics underneath.
Risks register
Risks, opportunities and materialised items, ranked by impact and likelihood, in a single canonical list.
Decisions & changes
Append-only decision log and change control, with separation of duties. Corporate memory you can defend.
Investment Health
The presentation-grade dashboard: five RAG cards, pending changes, top risks, recent decisions, and a flag when the picture goes stale.
Portfolio Health + Ask Tollgate
Every investment in one view, by theme. Ask a plain-language question and get an answer from live data — powered by a Rovo agent that never leaves your cloud.
If your question is “are we on track for the payoff?”, this is the tool. If it’s “how’s the sprint going?”, it isn’t — and we’ll tell you so.
Runs on Atlassian
Built as a Forge app. No external servers, no data egress — the governance data sits in the same boundary as the work it governs.
Practitioner-built
Tollgate is made by Softwired, from twenty years of running governance over seven- and eight-figure programmes. The methodology is the product.
No lock-in
Priced per Jira user through the Marketplace, month to month.
Thirty minutes, your governance questions, a live dashboard on the screen throughout.
Zero pressure. We'll tell you plainly whether this sits above your line.
