US-based senior engineers build your Playwright coverage, triage every red build, and sign off before you ship. AI drafts the tests; a named person is accountable for them. Flat monthly pricing.
30-min call · free coverage analysis
Teams shipping with Guardian coverage
- Property Care
- Family Climb
From $3,500/mo
Published flat rates. Unlimited concurrent runs. No per-test or run overages.
Playwright you own
Pure Playwright in your own repo — you own every line. No proprietary runtime.
AI + senior engineers
Models draft Playwright. Humans verify before you trust a run.
30 day critical path
Staging access to CI-green journeys — built for speed.
The gap
Shipping got faster. QA didn't.
AI tools accelerated product. Regression safety did not keep up. That gap is where production bugs hide.
AI ships 3× more code
Cursor and copilots sped up product. Your regression net is still last decade.
Suites rot under you
Selectors break every redesign. Engineers burn sprints on flakes, not features.
A hire is slow & expensive
A loaded SDET is ~$140k+ and months to ramp — while you keep shipping untested.
How it works
AI writes fast.Engineers keep it real.
Pure AI is flaky. Pure manual is slow. We combine both — models draft Playwright in minutes; senior QA verifies before anything is trusted in CI.
- Apps shipping with Cursor, v0, Bolt, and similar tools
- Chatbots, AI reports, and other shifting UI
- Self-healing when the UI moves — engineers confirm what matters
AI drafts
Steps and boilerplate in minutes — not a blank-page sprint.
Engineers verify every failure
Humans separate real bugs from flake. You only get actionable reports.
CI keeps running
Every PR gets real browser coverage. Maintenance included.
Onboarding
Critical coverage in 30 days
Access and mapping in week one. AI drafts hardened by engineers in weeks two and three. Critical path live and expanding by day 30.
Map what matters
Staging access, critical journeys, shared Slack. No RFP theater.
AI drafts, engineers harden
Fast generation. Senior QA reviews selectors, waits, and edge cases.
Green in your CI
Journeys run on PRs in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or your pipeline.
Expand & own it
More coverage, flake SLA live, every flow already merged in your repo.
We test what users actually do
Unit checks can all pass while checkout is broken. We automate full journeys in a real browser.
100 green checks, broken product
Buttons render. Forms validate. None of that proves a customer can complete an order.
“I can't complete my order.” — email after a green CI run.
One journey, start to finish
Browse → cart → ship → pay → confirm. If the path works in a real browser, the product works.
Checkout journey: passed
What you get
One flat subscription — people, platform, runs, and maintenance.
Dedicated QA partner
A real person who learns your product.
Shared Slack
Direct line — not a ticket queue.
AI draft + human verify
Speed with judgment.
CI on every PR
Unlimited runs on plan.
Engineers review every failure
Flake-free for your team — real bugs only, with video + repro.
Maintenance SLA
UI shifts are our problem.
Portable Playwright
You own the TypeScript.
Staging only
No source-code access required.
Your staging URL.Our Playwright.
QA Guardian: your tests live in your repo, from day one. Pure Playwright TypeScript, delivered as pull requests you review and merge. No proprietary runtime. No lock-in, ever.
No source code required. We write clean Playwright against your staging URL.
- Staging access onlySecrets encrypted. Production off by default.
- You describe the journey“User logs in and buys a hat.” We automate it.
- AI drafts · engineers mergeFast generation, human review, then CI.
- Your repo, from day onePure Playwright TypeScript under e2e/guardian — runs without us.
import { test, expect } from '@playwright/test';
test('Guest checkout', async ({ page }) => {
await page.goto('/product/sneakers');
await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Add' }).click();
await page.goto('/checkout');
await page.getByTestId('shipping-name').fill('Jane');
await expect(page.getByText('Order Confirmed'))
.toBeVisible();
});In their words
What it looks like to run on Guardian
“The Guardian team is easy to work with and very responsive. We tell them which parts of the app matter most, they build the coverage, and when a release breaks something we know the same day, with a recording of exactly what went wrong. It has taken testing off our plate without taking it out of our hands.”
“We wanted to know the site still worked after every change without having to check it ourselves. Guardian had that running within a couple of days, and now it just runs in the background. If anything stops working we hear about it right away, and their team is easy to reach and quick to respond. It is one less thing to worry about.”
Pricing
Flat rate. No per-test games.
Know the number before sales. Published tiers. No run overages.
Critical-path coverage to ship safely.
Fuller regression confidence for growing apps.
Scale, environments, and support depth.
Why teams pick Guardian
Faster than hiring. Clearer than outsourcing. Less drama than tool-only AI.
In-House Team
- High Costs: ~$140k+ cost per engineer (salary + 1.25× multiplier).
- Slow Scaling: Months to hire and onboard; turnover disrupts coverage.
- Opportunity Cost: Engineering time lost to QA maintenance instead of shipping features.
- Infrastructure Debt: Your team must build and maintain the parallel runner grid.
Typical Outsourced QA
- Outdated Pricing: Vendors keep AI savings for themselves instead of passing them to you.
- Inflated test counts: Incentivized to split one journey into 10 billable tests.
- High Maintenance: Fragmented tests lead to "flaky test fatigue" and slow releases.
- Incentive Mismatch: Per-test billing rewards volume, not coverage value.
QA Guardian
QA Guardian- Flat monthly fee (predictable)
- Pure Playwright in your own repo — you own every line
- Unlimited parallel runs (built-in)
- 24hr self-healing SLA
- Engineers review every failure (flake stays with us)
- AI + engineer verification
Hands-on by design
You work with a dedicated QA partner who learns your product and stays in Slack. We grow capacity carefully so early customers still get attention — not a call center.
Common questions
What do I get?
A dedicated QA partner plus AI-drafted, engineer-verified Playwright coverage against your staging app. CI on your PRs, failure triage with video, maintenance included, and code you own. From $3,500/mo.
How fast can we get coverage?
Most teams have critical journeys running in CI within about 30 days: access and mapping in week one, AI drafts hardened by engineers in weeks two–three, critical path live and expanding by day 30.
How much does it cost?
Starter $3,500/mo. Pro $5,500/mo. Cancel anytime. No per-test or per-run fees. Every new engagement starts with a 90-day paid pilot.
What access do you need?
A staging URL and test credentials. We do not need your source code. Secrets are encrypted. We do not run against production by default.
Do we own the tests if we leave?
Yes. QA Guardian: your tests live in your repo, from day one. Pure Playwright TypeScript, delivered as pull requests you review and merge. No proprietary runtime. No lock-in, ever.
More on the full FAQ.
QA Guardian: your tests live in your repo, from day one. Pure Playwright TypeScript, delivered as pull requests — you own every line. No proprietary runtime. No lock-in, ever.
See if Guardian fits in 30 minutes
Book a 30-min call. After we have staging access, we send a free coverage analysis and quote — useful even if you don't sign.
From $3,500/mo · Cancel anytime