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Key Features

• •Deterministic Agents: Precision-guided AI agents that execute critical user paths described in simple English, such as 'add to cart and checkout,' ensuring core functionalities work continuously without manual test maintenance.
• •Exploratory Agents: Autonomous AI agents that roam your production application by clicking and scrolling like a curious user, uncovering hidden edge cases and layout issues that structured tests might miss.
• •No SDK or Code Changes: The platform injects headless browsers into your environment exactly as a user would, requiring no installation or modifications to your codebase for seamless integration.
• •Semantic UI Perception: Agents see and understand the UI semantically, adapting to layout shifts and visual changes without breaking tests, making them resilient to frontend updates.
• •Comprehensive Error Reports: When a break occurs, you receive an immediate email with a detailed report including step-by-step execution flow, high-resolution screenshots, network logs, and agent reasoning logs.
• •Authentication Handling: Supports testing protected routes by allowing you to provide credentials; agents log in and test secure areas just like a real user would for end-to-end coverage.
• •Production-Only Testing: Focuses exclusively on the production environment where real users live, identifying bugs that only manifest in live, complex full-stack rendering scenarios.
• •Flexible Pricing Plans: Offers a Free plan with limited actions and a Pro plan at $5/month for unlimited test flows and both agent types, with scalable pricing for additional actions.

Use Cases

• •E-commerce Checkout Monitoring: Use deterministic agents to automate and continuously validate critical paths like adding items to a cart and completing purchases, receiving alerts with detailed logs if errors occur to ensure revenue flows remain uninterrupted.
• •SaaS Dashboard Exploration: Deploy exploratory agents to roam interactive dashboards, uncovering hidden bugs in new components or under specific user interactions before they affect customers, improving overall product stability.
• •Authentication Flow Testing: Test secure login and protected routes by providing credentials to agents, ensuring that authenticated user experiences function correctly in production without manual regression testing.
• •Post-Deployment Validation: After deploying new features or updates, run deterministic agents on production to verify that existing functionalities still work as expected, catching regressions immediately in the live environment.
• •Edge Case Discovery: Let exploratory agents simulate random user behavior across your application, identifying unusual edge cases and layout issues that only appear during real usage, enhancing robustness and user satisfaction.
• •Continuous Production Monitoring: Set up ongoing agent flows to constantly test your application, providing proactive bug detection and reducing reliance on user reports, leading to higher uptime and faster issue resolution.

Who is this for?

Developers, QA engineers, and engineering teams responsible for web application reliability, particularly those working with modern JavaScript frameworks and full-stack architectures who need to ensure their production applications function correctly for real users without adding code complexity. Ideal for teams seeking autonomous testing solutions that simulate real user interactions to catch live environment bugs.