· SUPERFLOW VS FILESTAGE · THE AI QA REVIEWER FOR AGENCIES

Filestage is a proofing tool. Superflow is a QA tool + a team.

The team is AI agents, built from your QA checklist. They check every site change and pin what they find. Your team decides. Your client approves from a link.

If your agency reviews client sites in Filestage, this page is for you.

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01

Who checks the site

Filestage's AI checks the files you upload. The live site still waits for a person.

Verdict

Filestage's agents catch mistakes in a file before a person opens it. Ours catch mistakes on the live site itself, the part a file can't show.

  • Agents run your checklist. Every change, desktop and mobile.
  • Findings land as pinned comments, rationale attached.

  • AI Review Agents scan uploaded files for typos, spelling, logos, and forbidden terms, Business plan and up, capped at 50 agent credits a month.
  • For live websites, a person reviews what loads at the URL.

(verified July 2026)

02

How the client says yes

Feedback is easy to collect. A yes is harder.

Verdict

Filestage's approval workflow is as formal as ours. Call this one even: the difference shows up elsewhere, in what gets checked before the gate opens.

  • Multi-step review flows: agents check, your team gates, then the client.
  • Your client opens a link and taps Approve. No account, no login, no app, from their phone.

  • Reviewer groups per stage, due dates, automated reminders, one-click Approve or Request changes.
  • No account needed to review. On higher tiers, a Verified approval adds a signed, audit-ready sign-off.

(verified July 2026)

03

Where you review

Half of client work lives behind a password.

Verdict

Filestage embeds a URL. Superflow reviews the site logged in, with SSO, no extension. Behind a password is where the gap shows.

  • Superflow lives on the site itself: passwords, Okta, SSO, no extension needed, guests included.
  • Findings tagged by device.

  • Live websites load by URL in real time. No saved history of past versions.
  • Private or authenticated sites need Filestage's IP addresses whitelisted, not a reviewer login.

(verified July 2026)

04

What stays private

Your team needs somewhere to disagree.

Verdict

Both keep the argument away from the client. Even.

  • Internal-only notes your team sees and the client never does.
  • The debate stays private; the client sees one settled answer.

  • Team-only comments keep discussion private between teammates and creatives, Starter plan and up.

(verified July 2026)

05

What gets captured

Both tools pin. The difference is what gets attached without asking.

Verdict

Filestage's annotations are detailed. Automatic screenshots on every comment type, and screen, video, and voice recordings: not yet verified on their side.

  • Element and text pins, area comments.
  • A screenshot attaches to every comment automatically.
  • Recordings: screen, video, voice, from the toolbar.

  • Timestamped annotations on video and audio, plus comments on images, documents, and live sites.
  • A screenshot saves automatically for each website comment. Other file types: not yet verified.
  • Session recordings: not yet verified.

(verified July 2026 except where noted)

06

What it remembers

Boards hold tasks. They don't accumulate a client.

Verdict

The tenth project should not start like the first.

  • Brand rules and past decisions, learned once, fed to the agents next project.

  • No project-wide memory concept verified. Agents use only the context you configure per project: brand guidelines, forbidden terms, uploaded compliance docs.

(checked July 2026)

07

How it fits your stack

The fix still has to ship.

Verdict

Filestage pushes updates out to Monday and Jira. If a two-way board is your spine, weigh that honestly.

  • Custom statuses, client gates, kanban.
  • Two-way Asana, Monday, ClickUp. Slack built in.

  • Jira, Monday, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, Adobe apps, and Google Drive folder sync, plus API and webhooks.
  • Jira and Monday push versions, due dates, and statuses out. Full two-way ticket sync: not yet verified.

(verified July 2026 except where noted)

The scorecard

Superflow vs Filestage.

Filestage reviews files. Superflow reviews the site.

The job
Who checks the siteAI agents scan files, Business plan and up; a person reviews live sitesagents, from your checklist
How the client says yesno account needed; reviewer groups, due dates, reminders, Approve or Request changes; Verified sign-off on higher tiersa recorded approval: team gate, then client gate
Where you reviewlive URL embed, real time, no saved history; private sites need IP whitelisting, not a reviewer loginlive site, behind logins and SSO, no extension
What stays privateteam-only comments, Starter plan and upinternal-only comments
What gets capturedtimestamped video and audio annotations; automatic screenshots on website comments; session recordings -automatic screenshots; screen, video, voice
What it remembersnoMemory, per client
How it fits your stackJira, Monday, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, Adobe apps, Google Drive; two-way ticket sync -statuses, client gates, kanban; two-way Asana, Monday, ClickUp; Slack
What it costsEUR 0 / EUR 199 / EUR 329 per month, 10 seats included, +5 seat bundles (July 2026)Free plan; Growth $29 per seat/mo ($24 annual); Scale $34; Enterprise custom

What it costs

Pricing, plainly.

Verified July 2026: Free EUR 0, Starter EUR 199, Business EUR 329 per month, Enterprise custom. 10 seats included, add-on bundles of 5. Reviewers are unlimited and free. AI Review Agents start on the Business plan.

StarterFree

1 Project, 1 Team Seat, Unlimited Guest Seats, 1GB Storage

Growth$29 per seat/mo ($24 annual)

Unlimited Projects, Pay Per Team Seat, 10GB Storage

Scale$34 per seat/mo ($28 annual)

30GB Storage, Automated Screenshots, Private Comments

EnterpriseCustom

SAML based SSO, REST API, Data Self-Hosting

Full feature breakdown

Switching

Switching is an afternoon, not a migration.

The honest close

What Filestage gets right.

Filestage's approval workflow is genuinely thorough. Reviewer groups, due dates, and reminders keep a review on schedule. Reviewers never need an account. It reviews video, images, documents, and live websites in one place, and its AI Review Agents catch typos and brand slips before a person opens the file.

If your team's real need is gathering feedback and formal sign-off on creative files and assets, Filestage is a strong proofing tool. Stay.

The wider field, ranked honestly

Frequently Asked Questions

Have Questions? Reach out anytime.

  • No. Filestage's agents scan uploaded files for typos and brand slips. Superflow's agents check the live site itself, every change, and a person makes every call.

  • No. Agents run the first pass. Your team, then your client, signs off.

  • Finish them in Filestage. Start new work in Superflow. Nothing migrates on day one.

  • No. They get a link and an Approve button. No account, no login, no app, from their phone.

  • Keep Filestage for that. Superflow reviews the live site: pages, forms, and flows a document can't show.

  • From the Growth plan. See /pricing.

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Filestage is a proofing tool. Superflow is a QA tool + a team.

Free to start. No credit card. Your client reviews without an account.