diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index a0b007ee..a3d5998a 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -22,3 +22,4 @@
 ^cran-comments\.md$
 ^CRAN-SUBMISSION$
 ^codecov\.yml$
+^R/revdep\.R$
diff --git a/.sync/.gitignore b/.sync/.gitignore
index 47f49fd4..eb3f2e8e 100644
--- a/.sync/.gitignore
+++ b/.sync/.gitignore
@@ -2,4 +2,5 @@
 /dplyr-revdep/
 /dplyr-cloud/
 /problems*/
+/cran/
 *.tar.gz
diff --git a/R/revdep.R b/R/revdep.R
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b249992e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/R/revdep.R
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+pkg_review <- function(pkg, pak = TRUE) {
+  base_path <- ".sync/cran"
+  fs::dir_create(base_path)
+
+  pkg_path <- fs::path(base_path, pkg)
+
+  if (fs::dir_exists(pkg_path)) {
+    system(paste0("git -C ", pkg_path, " fetch"))
+    system(paste0("git -C ", pkg_path, " rebase"))
+  } else {
+    system(paste0("git -C ", base_path, " clone git@github.com:cran/", pkg))
+  }
+
+  withr::local_dir(pkg_path)
+  system("rh")
+
+  if (pak) {
+    pak::pak(pkg, dependencies = TRUE, upgrade = TRUE, ask = FALSE)
+  }
+}
diff --git a/tools/90-patch-dplyr.R b/tools/90-patch-dplyr.R
index 6f2bbc6b..055decf0 100644
--- a/tools/90-patch-dplyr.R
+++ b/tools/90-patch-dplyr.R
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ forbidden <- fs::path("R", c(
   "overwrite.R",
   "qs.R",
   "relational-altrep-wrap.R",
+  "revdep.R",
   "restore.R",
   "telemetry.R",
   "tpch.R",