01
Manual QA + exploratory
Real humans testing real flows — including edge cases your test suite would never imagine.
References: Polygon Testing · QA32 · RainforestSee it →Three directions for shipping with confidence.
Quality is three different muscles — humans exploring, tests gating, and production watching. The right shape depends on where your product is in its life and what kind of breakage hurts most.
02
Automated test suites
Cypress / Playwright for E2E, Jest / Vitest for units. Tests run on every PR and gate merges.
References: Cypress · Playwright · VitestSee it →03
Continuous quality
Test-as-you-build plus production monitoring. Errors track themselves; regressions surface in minutes.
References: Sentry · Bugsnag · Datadog SyntheticsSee it →Direction
01
Manual QA + exploratory
01 · Manual QA, well done
Humans testing real flows.
Real humans, real devices, real flows — including edge cases your test suite would never imagine. Best when the product is changing fast and tests would be brittle.
Sample moments · what the user sees
Discover
Exploratory sessions
Charter, time-box, document. Adversarial mindset — we try to break it.
Real
Device matrix
iPhone SE to high-end Android, on real hardware. Not just emulators.
Adversarial
Bug bounty mindset
We approach the product the way a frustrated user would. Then we report what we find.
Typography
Inter + Cormorant
Palette
Amber, deep brown, ember
Voice
Curious, thorough, honest.
Best for
Early-stage, exploratory, UX-heavy flows, last-mile QA before launch.
Direction
02
Automated test suites
02 · Automated suites
Tests that gate the merge.
Cypress and Playwright for end-to-end, Jest and Vitest for units. Tests run on every PR and gate merges so regressions don't reach main. Visual regression catches pixel-level surprises.
Sample moments · what the user sees
Gate
E2E in CI
Every PR runs the suite. Red blocks merge. Green ships. No grey.
Visual
Visual regression
Pixel diffs flag layout shifts. The designer doesn't spot it first — the test does.
Trust
Flakiness budget
Less than 2% flake rate, or we fix it. Tests you can't trust are worse than no tests.
Typography
Inter + JetBrains Mono
Palette
Mint, forest, signal green
Voice
Disciplined, low-drama, repeatable.
Best for
Mature products, regression prevention, weekly+ ship cadence.
Direction
03
Continuous quality
03 · Continuous quality
Tests in dev. Eyes in prod.
Test-as-you-build plus production monitoring. Synthetic tests run in prod every 60 seconds. Errors track themselves. Regressions surface within minutes — not next sprint.
Sample moments · what the user sees
Watch
Synthetic monitoring
Real flows, every 60 seconds. Login, checkout, the critical path — watched.
Catch
Error tracking
Sentry/Bugsnag-style, errors routed to the owner team automatically.
Feel
User-perceived perf
Core Web Vitals, real users, real devices. What slow actually feels like.
Typography
Inter + JetBrains Mono
Palette
Jet, cream, ember
Voice
Always-on, evidence-based, user-led.
Best for
24/7 production systems, customer-facing apps, SLA-bound teams.
Pick a muscle. We'll train it.
Most teams need two of the three at any moment. Tell us which kind of breakage you want to stop seeing — and we'll start there.