Live behavior
Check the paths customers actually touch: landing pages, signup, login, checkout, onboarding, account screens, and public APIs.
Agent-speed verification
QA at the speed agents write software.
Agents can change software faster than teams can manually verify it. BitterQA gives the live product a self-verification loop: browser and API checks, durable receipts, and failure evidence for the next fix.
Surface
Live browser and API flows
Receipts
Screenshots, traces, verdicts
Loop
Failure context for the next fix
The thesis
When creation gets cheap, verification becomes the constraint.
Agent work raises the rate of change. That is the point. But faster change also means faster decay unless the product can answer back. QA has to become part of the environment, not a slower ceremony at the end.
External evidence
Record what happened outside the codebase: screenshots, traces, response shapes, status codes, timings, and the final verdict.
Agent fuel
Give the next human or agent a bounded failure account instead of another open-ended rediscovery pass.
Evidence
The product surface becomes the judge.
A passing run is not a feeling. It is a receipt. A failing run is not a mystery. It is a narrow piece of evidence attached to the flow that broke.
marketing_path
200
login_flow
200
api_contract
valid
receipt_bundle
stored
verdict
pass
How it runs
A small loop for keeping fast software honest.
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01
Declare the flows that matter.
Start with the paths that would cost trust if they quietly broke.
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02
Run checks at the pace of change.
Use daily, hourly, or release-gate runs depending on the risk of the flow.
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03
Keep the receipt.
Screenshots, traces, status codes, timing, and summaries stay attached to each run.
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04
Feed the next correction.
When a check fails, the next human or agent starts from the failing step and its evidence.
What this is
Not more generation. Contact with reality.
The bitter lesson for software teams is not that agents write reliable code by default. It is that general methods get stronger when the environment supplies feedback they can use.
BitterQA is that feedback layer for the live product. It does not replace unit tests, code review, or uptime checks. It gives autonomous work an external surface to verify against.
Pricing
Start narrow. Verify the paths that carry the product.
Starter
$29/mo
For one product that needs a basic live verification loop.
- 1 property
- 3 browser or API checks
- Daily scheduled runs
- 14-day artifact history
Core
$99/mo
For products with several customer-visible paths worth guarding.
- 3 properties
- 25 browser or API checks
- Daily, hourly, and release-gate runs
- 30-day screenshots, traces, and verdicts
Loop
$299/mo
For teams using agents to ship and verify product changes continuously.
- 10 properties
- 100 browser or API checks
- 90-day artifact history
- Failure classification and agent-readable notes
Access
Build the first verification loop.
Tell us what your agents or team are changing, which live flow has to stay true, and what evidence would make the next fix obvious.