diff --git a/justfile b/justfile
index 994da5f9b..6fa1927cd 100644
--- a/justfile
+++ b/justfile
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # This is the default recipe when no arguments are provided
 [private]
+current_version := `grep 'version' pyproject.toml | cut -d '"' -f 2`
+tag_name        := "v" + current_version
+
 default:
   @just --list --unsorted
 
@@ -17,3 +20,23 @@ coverage *FLAGS:
   uv run coverage run -m pytest tests -m "not integration" {{FLAGS}}
   uv run coverage report
   uv run coverage lcov -o lcov.info
+
+ai-exchange-version:
+  curl -s https://pypi.org/pypi/ai-exchange/json | jq -r .info.version
+
+# bump project version, push, create pr
+release version:
+  uvx --from=toml-cli toml set --toml-path=pyproject.toml project.version {{version}}
+  ai_exchange_version=$(just ai-exchange-version) && sed -i '' 's/ai-exchange>=.*/ai-exchange>='"${ai_exchange_version}"'\",/' pyproject.toml
+  git checkout -b release-version-{{version}}
+  git add pyproject.toml
+  git commit -m "chore(release): release version {{version}}"
+
+tag:
+  git tag {{tag_name}}
+
+# this will kick of ci for release
+# use this when release branch is merged to main
+tag-push:
+  just tag
+  git push origin tag {{tag_name}}