QA for founders and PMs — without a QA hire
Fire yourself from Sunday-night QA. You built the product. You should not also be the person who clicks through it before every release. Describe what to check — or just say it out loud — and an agent does the clicking in a real browser. No AI key, no code, nothing files without your confirm.
The click-through always dies
You know the ritual. Release on Monday, so Sunday night you open staging with a checklist that lives only in your head. Signup. Checkout. The settings page that broke last time. It works — until the week you are slammed, which is every week. Then a customer finds the bug first.
- Sprint sweeps. Point the agent at your Jira board. Every done or dev-verified ticket gets its own bounded test run in a durable queue that survives interruptions and resumes where it left off.
- No API key required. Start on managed prepaid credits — provider price plus a stated fee, with a live spend meter and a hard budget ceiling you set.
- Say it, don't script it. Dictate a test by voice: "Log in as a trial user and make sure the upgrade banner shows." That is a complete test.
- Confirm-gated safety. The agent never files a bug on its own. Failures queue up with screenshot evidence; you review and confirm before anything touches Jira.
Done this sprint
Verdicts
A day-in-the-life of your first week
Tuesday: first test, first verdict
Connect the agent to your own Chrome — your real logged-in session, behind your VPN and SSO. Type or dictate one test in plain English. Minutes later: a pass/fail/blocked verdict with screenshots.
Wednesday: teach it your product
Point it at your help center and docs. It ingests them into retrievable playbooks, so the agent knows what "the approvals queue" means in your app. Login recipes and navigation quirks are remembered org-wide.
Thursday: sweep the sprint board
Connect Jira and pick a board. Every done ticket gets tested by its own bounded agent run. The queue is durable — close the laptop, it resumes.
Friday: read the report, confirm the bugs
The sprint report tells you what verified fixed and what still reproduces. You confirm the real failures; they land in Jira as deduped bugs with evidence attached. When the fix ships, the re-verify closes the ticket.
The questions founders ask first
Do I need my own AI key?
No. Start on managed prepaid credits — you pay the provider's price plus a stated fee, with a live meter and a hard ceiling so a sweep can never surprise you. If you later bring your own key (Anthropic, Bedrock, Gemini, or Groq today), model spend passes through at cost. Details on economics.
Can it break production?
The agent is built for staging, and every write is confirm-gated — no bug files to Jira, and no issue closes, without a human clicking confirm. It runs in your own Chrome, so it only sees what you can see. And if your staging environment is down, the verdict is blocked, not failed: a broken environment never counts as a product bug.
I have never written a test in my life.
Good — you do not have to start. A test is a sentence about your product: what to do and what should be true afterward. You already say these sentences to your team every day. Now say them to an agent. See plain-English authoring.
How do I know a red result is real?
Before any failure reaches you, it is re-driven by a stronger model. Tests that pass on a second attempt are labeled as flaky rather than failed, and cosmetic UI changes surface as advisory flags. A red result means a real bug — see how verdicts work.
Your last Sunday-night click-through
One sentence, one sweep, one report. Free to start — no card, no AI key.