diff --git a/app/controllers/info_controller.rb b/app/controllers/info_controller.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..01b4a6a82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/controllers/info_controller.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+class InfoController < ActionController::API
+  def release
+    render plain: ENV.fetch('HEROKU_SLUG_COMMIT', 'unknown')
+  end
+end
diff --git a/config/routes.rb b/config/routes.rb
index 264f7765f..56c04b11b 100644
--- a/config/routes.rb
+++ b/config/routes.rb
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
     root to: 'projects#index'
   end
 
+  get '/info/release', to: 'info#release'
+
   post '/test/reseed', to: 'test_utilities#reseed'
   post '/test/enable_feature', to: 'test_utilities#enable_feature'
   post '/test/disable_feature', to: 'test_utilities#disable_feature'
diff --git a/spec/requests/info_controller_spec.rb b/spec/requests/info_controller_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..816fc8a06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/requests/info_controller_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+require 'rails_helper'
+
+RSpec.describe InfoController do
+  describe 'GET /info/release' do
+    subject(:request) { get '/info/release' }
+
+    it 'returns the deployed commit sha as text' do
+      ClimateControl.modify(HEROKU_SLUG_COMMIT: 'abc123') do
+        request
+        expect(response.body).to eq('abc123')
+      end
+    end
+
+    it 'returns unknown when the sha is unavailable' do
+      ClimateControl.modify(HEROKU_SLUG_COMMIT: nil) do
+        request
+        expect(response.body).to eq('unknown')
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end