diff --git a/graftm/version.py b/graftm/version.py
index 6d50034..db3889a 100644
--- a/graftm/version.py
+++ b/graftm/version.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-__version__ = "0.14.0"
+__version__ = "0.15.0"
 
diff --git a/release.py b/release.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..c4376a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release.py
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import io
+from os.path import dirname, join
+import extern
+
+
+def get_version(relpath):
+    """Read version info from a file without importing it"""
+    for line in io.open(join(dirname(__file__), relpath), encoding="cp437"):
+        if "__version__" in line:
+            if '"' in line:
+                return line.split('"')[1]
+            elif "'" in line:
+                return line.split("'")[1]
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    version = get_version('graftm/version.py')
+    print("version is {}".format(version))
+
+    # print("building docs")
+    # extern.run("python3 build_docs.py")
+
+    print(
+        "Checking if repo is clean. If this fails it might be because the docs have changed from the previous command here?"
+    )
+    extern.run('if [[ $(git diff --shortstat 2> /dev/null | tail -n1) != "" ]]; then exit 1; fi')
+
+    extern.run('git tag v{}'.format(version))
+    print("Now run 'git push && git push --tags' and GitHub actions will build and upload to PyPI".format(version))
+    print('You have to run ./build.sh from the docker directory to build the docker image, once the tag is on GitHub')