Ingests the ticket, linked specs, and the codebase context. Refuses to let anyone downstream work from a vague requirement.
> PILOTX-214: parsed
6 requirements extracted
2 ambiguities flagged
> PILOTX-214: assigned
No human tested this release.That's the point.
PilotX is the autonomous QA engineering organization. A Jira ticket goes in. Requirements get understood, tests get written, automation gets coded, results get reported. Seven AI engineers. Zero handoffs to you.
works with jira · github · gitlab · slack · playwright
Release week
You know how this goes.
Feature freeze. Everyone stops building.
Two engineers, four days, one spreadsheet of test cases from 2023.
The channel gets louder. The answers don't.
Sign-off happens at 11:47pm. Not because it's done. Because everyone's done.
Everyone approved the release.No one is confident in it.
The industry's best answers, so far
Different products. Same dependency.
Managed QA services
Someone else's engineers run your tests. Still humans — just not yours.
cost: scales like headcount
AI test generation tools
The AI drafts, a human reviews, a human maintains, a human runs. The tool helps. The job remains.
supervision_required: always
Record & playback
A human clicks through the app so a machine can click through it again. Until the UI changes.
maintenance_burden: transfers to you
Humans never leave the loop.
One Jira ticket.Seven engineers.None of them human.
PilotX doesn't help your QA team. PilotX is the QA team — an autonomous pipeline that behaves like an engineering organization: it reads, plans, writes, reviews its own work, executes, and reports.
You removed the loop. You kept the judgment. More on that in a moment.
The pipeline
Meet the team.
Every engineer has one job, a defined handoff, and a work product you can read. Like a real org — because it's structured like one.
Configurable trust
Autonomy is a dial, not a religion.
You decide where human judgment sits in the pipeline. PilotX never decides for you — and PilotX employees never review your code. The checkpoint is always yours.
Autonomous mode
Ticket to report, hands-off. For teams that have earned their own trust.
human_touchpoints: 0
Human approval mode
Every code change waits for your sign-off. Autonomy up to the moment it matters.
human_touchpoints: your_choice
Your code never leaves your control. Your checkpoint. Your call. Always.
PilotX Studio
It's your organization. Staff it your way.
Every PilotX engineer is editable. Rewrite its instructions. Replace it with your own. Insert a custom engineer between any two stages. Your workflow, not our opinion of it.
system_prompt · TestWriterv14 → v15
Write test cases for every requirement Scout extracts.
Always include negative paths and boundary values.
- prefer table-driven cases
+ prefer BDD-style cases (given / when / then)
Flag any requirement you cannot test as a blocker.
Change the instruction, watch every future run follow it. Cause and effect, in one screen.
No platform we've studied lets you do this. We think that's the whole point.
Audit & governance
Autonomous doesn't mean unaccountable.
Two layers of guardrails: risk settings you control, safety rules the platform enforces beneath them. Every decision an engineer makes is logged, versioned, and attributable. Your auditors can read the whole story.
14:02:11Scoutopened PILOTX-214, extracted 6 requirements
14:03:40Analystmatched 3 historical defects in checkout/
14:07:02TestWriterauthored 34 cases (v1)
14:09:15QA Reviewerrejected 4 cases — missing negative paths
14:11:48TestWriterrevised (v2) ✓
14:12:03[gate]human approval: j.park@ ✓ (2m 15s)
14:26:50Runner31 passed · 3 failed · artifacts attached
Yes, that's a rejection in the log. A system that shows you where it caught its own mistakes is worth more than ten green checkmarks.
One ticket's journey
A Monday, narrated.
Monday, 9:14am. A ticket lands in the sprint.
9:15am. PilotX picked it up. Nobody asked it to.
9:41am. Thirty-four test cases and a branch of automation, ready for review.
9:44am. You approved the code change from Slack. That's the only thing you did today.
10:03am. Green. With receipts.
Forty-nine minutes. Zero meetings.
Built for
Teams of 5–20 engineers who hate release week.
Engineering leaders
Regression stops being a line item on every sprint. Release confidence stops depending on who's available.
Developers
Ship the feature. The tests are someone else's job again — they're just not a person's.
QA leads
Stop executing. Start governing. You design the quality system; the AI engineers staff it.
Early voices
What early conversations sound like.
Illustrative quotes from design-partner discussions — not yet attributable customers. We'd rather be honest than impressive.
“We stopped assigning regression tickets. It took two weeks to stop feeling weird and one release to stop caring.”
“The approval gate is what sold me. I didn't have to trust it on day one. I got to decide when to trust it.”
“I rewrote the TestWriter prompt to match our conventions in an afternoon. No vendor has ever let me do that.”
Pricing
Priced by the run. Nothing else.
Repos and seats are always unlimited on paid plans — the only thing that costs anyone anything is a run. Start free, upgrade when the engineers earn it. No sales call, no credit card, no procurement theater.
Freefor trying the team out
Free
- 15 runs / month
- 2 repos — unlimited seats
- All gate modes — including human approval
- Community support
Teammost teams start here
$99/mo
- 100 runs / month
- Unlimited repos and seats
- Unlimited test re-executions
- Slack + scheduled regression
- Priority support
Organizationfor orgs that need SSO and control
$299/mo
- 400 runs / month
- PilotX Studio — build your own engineers
- SSO + audit log export
- Everything in Team
Enterprisefor orgs with rules of their own
Custom
- Committed run volume
- Negotiated price lock
- Dedicated support
- Everything in Organization
Founding beta: every new org gets 30 days of Organization free — subscribe during beta and your price is locked for 12 months.
Compilers removed manual assembly.
CI removed manual builds.
Deploys removed manual releases.
QA is the last manual stage left.
What happens when every engineering team gets an autonomous QA organization?
Quality stops being a job someone does at the end. It becomes a property of the system — continuous, accountable, and owned by you. That's not a testing tool. That's a new layer of the stack.
Hire the team.
Connect Jira and a repo, trigger your first pipeline in minutes. Five free runs a month until the engineers prove themselves.
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