Basalt
· #349 most-usedManage, version, and monitor every AI prompt your team ships
Basalt is an AI product development platform that gives engineering and product teams a single hub for prompt management, dataset curation, experiment tracking, and production observability. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can fetch the latest deployed prompt for any feature, log traces and evaluation results automatically, add rows to training datasets from live interactions, and create experiments to compare prompt variants — all without manually touching the Basalt dashboard.
Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate the manual cycle of copying prompts between environments, logging evaluation results, and assembling experiment comparison reports by hand.
What your Basalt agent runs on autopilot
A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.
Basalt × every other app you use
End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.
Prompt quality gate before every production promotion
When the team approves a prompt candidate in Slack, the agent fetches the current production version and the evaluation dataset from Basalt, runs an experiment to compare the two, and writes the score delta to the promotion log in Google Sheets. If the candidate scores at least 5% higher, the agent promotes it to production automatically — every promotion is backed by an experiment result, not guesswork.
Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot
Savings
What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.
What you do manually today
What your agent runs for you
- Sales20 min / weekManual prompt version checks before outreach runs
Sales ops manually confirms which prompt version is live in Basalt before each outreach campaign, copying version IDs between tools and logging them in a spreadsheet.
Sales Agent0 minAgent confirms prompt version and logs every run automaticallyThe sales agent fetches the current production prompt at runtime, logs every LLM call to Basalt monitoring, and flags low-confidence outputs before they reach prospects — with no manual version checks.
- Marketing60 min / weekManual prompt iteration tracking and experiment setup
The marketing team tracks prompt variants in a shared doc, manually runs comparison tests by calling the LLM twice with each version, and eyeballs outputs to decide which is better.
Marketing Agent0 minAgent creates and runs experiments automatically, then promotes the winnerWhen a candidate prompt is ready, the agent creates a Basalt experiment against the evaluation dataset, waits for results, and promotes the winning version to production — no eyeballing, no manual comparison.
- Customer Support25 min / weekEscalations logged manually with no connection to the evaluation set
When a support escalation is caused by a bad AI response, the team logs it in a ticket but the input/output pair is never captured in a format usable for prompt improvement.
Customer Support Agent0 minAgent captures every escalation as an evaluation row the moment it happensWhen an escalation fires, the agent retrieves the original Basalt trace, adds the corrected pair to the evaluation dataset, and posts a summary to Slack — the failure immediately improves the next experiment.
- Human Resources15 min / weekNo audit trail for which prompt version screened which candidate
HR uses AI for screening but has no record of which prompt version was active when each candidate was evaluated — a compliance gap that only surfaces during audits.
Human Resources Agent0 minAgent logs prompt version and trace ID for every screening runThe HR agent fetches the production prompt, creates a trace for each screening workflow, and logs the version and trace ID to the compliance record — every candidate decision is attributable to a specific prompt version.
- Finance30 min / weekAI token costs discovered on the invoice, not during the billing period
Finance has no per-prompt cost visibility during the month — token usage spikes only become visible when the LLM provider invoice arrives, too late to optimise.
Finance Agent0 minAgent surfaces per-prompt token usage weekly before the billing cycle closesThe finance agent retrieves Basalt traces weekly, groups token counts by prompt, writes cost estimates to the spend tracker, and alerts engineering when a prompt exceeds its budget — spikes are caught with time to act.
- Operations45 min / weekPrompt governance is ad-hoc, rollbacks are slow
Operations tracks prompt versions in a spreadsheet, rolls back by manually calling the Basalt API, and discovers missing rollback versions during incidents rather than in advance.
Operations Agent0 minAgent audits tags, confirms rollback readiness, and executes promotions automaticallyThe operations agent audits all production tags weekly, confirms every prompt has a valid rollback version, and executes data-driven promotions from experiment results — governance is a scheduled task, not a scramble.
- Legal30 min / weekCompliance change logs assembled manually before each quarterly audit
Before each audit, legal manually retrieves Basalt prompt version histories, formats them into a compliance export, and cross-references with the approval log — a multi-hour effort each quarter.
Legal Agent0 minAgent generates a compliance-ready change log every week automaticallyThe legal agent exports full version histories for all compliance-register prompts to Google Sheets every Monday — the quarterly audit artefact is always current, and the audit itself takes hours instead of days.
Calculate what your team saves
Based on Basalt's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~2.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.
How to plug Basalt into Actionist
Pick the connection method that suits your environment.
Authenticate with a Basalt API key scoped to your workspace. The key grants read and write access to prompts, datasets, experiments, and monitoring endpoints.
Log in to your Basalt workspace, go to Settings, and open the API Keys section. Click Create key to generate a new API key.
Copy the key immediately — it is shown once. Store it in a secrets manager, not in plain text.
Paste the key into the Actionist connection dialog and click Test connection. Actionist will call List Prompts to verify access.
12 actions your agent can call
Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.
0 events your agent can react to
Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.
MCP servers that work with Basalt
Connect Actionist to MCP servers built for or around this app.
Exposes Basalt design tokens, components, icons, and accessibility data via MCP. For Cursor, Claude Code, and Windsurf — lets AI coding tools generate on-brand code automatically using your actual token files.