SureShip by BetterFutureLabs is a managed QA engineering service. Our team builds your E2E test suite, integrates it into your CI/CD pipeline, and maintains it every month — so your engineers never touch a test file again. Built by engineers, for engineers. We run the same system on our own product, every day.
By engineers, for engineers.
Real metrics from Wave, our production SaaS platform. Not a demo.
Hey, sureship, log into Wave with my credentials and create an estimate for me.
What can I help you automate?
"Test that a user can complete checkout and see confirmation." — That's the entire test. Our engineers write tests in plain English. The AI handles the rest.
Become a Client →Your CI pipeline is red more often than it's green. Engineers re-run failed builds like a slot machine, hoping for green instead of investigating. The test suite someone built 18 months ago is now a haunted codebase nobody wants to open.
We know because we lived it. Before SureShip, our own product (Wave) had the exact same problems — zero reliable tests, developers burning time on manual QA, users finding bugs before we did. So we built the thing we couldn't find anywhere else.
If any of that hit home: hi. A dedicated engineering team for your product.
Series A with 15 engineers and zero QA. Enterprise customer asking for SOC 2. A production incident your tests should have caught. Here's who we built SureShip for:
| Cost Category | QA Hire (Year 1) | SureShip (Year 1) |
|---|---|---|
| Base salary / service fee | $90K–$145K | $10K–$20K (one-time) |
| Benefits & overhead (30%) | $27K–$43K | $0 |
| Tooling & infrastructure | $5K–$10K | Included |
| Recruiting & onboarding | $6K–$15K | $0 |
| Ramp-up (3–6 months) | $45K–$72K delayed value | 2–4 weeks to coverage |
| Ongoing maintenance | (salary is ongoing) | $36K–$96K ($3K–$8K/mo) |
| Year 1 Total | $168K–$285K+ | $46K–$116K |
Only counts direct costs. Excludes bugs in production, customer churn, compliance risk, or the 23 min of context-switching per bug triage.
Here's what the engagement looks like. You don't write any test code. Ever.
We map your critical user workflows and design a test coverage plan. You spend about 2 hours with us: one product walkthrough and one plan review. From here, your dedicated SureShip engineering team handles everything.
┌─ SURESHIP COVERAGE PLAN ────────────────────┐ │ Product: [Your App] │ │ Workflows: 24 │ Critical: 14 │ Tests: 52│ │ │ │ Priority 1 (Week 2): │ │ ✓ Auth (login, signup, password reset) │ │ ✓ Core workflow (create, edit, delete) │ │ ✓ Payment & subscription │ │ │ │ Priority 2 (Week 3): │ │ ✓ Onboarding & registration │ │ ✓ Settings & account management │ │ ✓ Data import/export │ │ │ │ Priority 3 (Week 4): │ │ ✓ Edge cases & error handling │ │ ✓ Mobile responsive flows │ │ ✓ Multi-user permissions │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Your SureShip engineering team authors your entire E2E suite and integrates it with your CI/CD. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket, CircleCI — we plug in.
test('checkout flow', async ({ page }) => {
await page.goto('/cart');
await page.locator(
'[data-testid="checkout-btn"]'
).click();
await page.waitForSelector('.payment-form');
await page.fill(
'[name="card-number"]', '4242424242424242'
);
await page.fill('[name="expiry"]', '12/28');
await page.fill('[name="cvc"]', '123');
await page.click(
'[data-testid="submit-payment"]'
);
await page.waitForNavigation();
expect(
await page.locator('.confirmation')
.isVisible()
).toBe(true);
// Breaks when someone renames
// a data-testid or CSS class.
});A user visits the cart, clicks checkout, enters valid payment details, submits the payment, and sees the order confirmation screen.
Tests are English because they are English. SureShip's AI agents find "the checkout button" by understanding your UI, not querying a selector that breaks on the next refactor.
name: SureShip E2E Tests
on:
push:
branches: [main, develop]
pull_request:
branches: [main]
jobs:
sureship-critical:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Run critical path tests
run: sureship run --suite=critical --parallel=3
# 2 min feedback on every push
sureship-full:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
steps:
- name: Run full regression
run: sureship run --suite=full --parallel=9
# 15 min full regression on PRsOur engineers deliver monthly test updates as your product evolves. UI changes self-heal automatically via semantic AI. Quarterly reviews. Direct Slack/email access. Want to take over? Tests are plain English — yours to keep.
.btn-submit WOULD HAVE BROKEN ✗Test failure on PR #847 (feat/new-pricing-page)
sureship run --test=checkout/apply-discount │ Full report →SureShip is a product of BetterFutureLabs — the same team that builds and operates Wave. We didn't build a testing product and go looking for customers. We built testing infrastructure because we needed it, refined it for over a year, and now we're opening it up.
You're not buying from a testing company. You're buying from a product company that solved its own QA problem.
Architected and operates SureShip on BetterFutureLabs' own production infrastructure daily. Answers his own Slack messages.
Runs on our own product daily. Not a demo.
Retainer = we own your test health. Not a doc and a goodbye.
You work with the person who built the system.
(We'll save you the Googling)
| Managed QA Services outsourced teams | Self-Serve Testing Tools AI-assisted platforms | DIY Frameworks Selenium/Cypress/Playwright | SureShip by engineers, for engineers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model | Outsourced QA teams writing scripts at scale | AI-assisted platform — you configure and maintain | You build and maintain everything yourself | Dedicated engineering team, bespoke to your product |
| Tech | Playwright/Selenium scripts (selector-based) | Varies — some AI, some script generation | Selector-based scripts | Semantic AI agents — understands your UI, not just selectors |
| Self-healing? | No. Scripts break. Humans fix reactively. | Partial — varies by tool | No. | Yes. AI interprets UI semantically and adapts. |
| Who maintains? | Their team (reactive, at scale) | You. | Your engineers. (It won't happen.) | Our engineers — proactive, monthly, dedicated to your product. |
| Lock-in? | Annual contracts, their platform | Platform-dependent, per-seat pricing | You own it (and its maintenance burden) | Month-to-month. Tests are plain English. Yours to keep. |
| Typical cost | $60K–$120K+/year | $3K–$96K/year (varies wildly) | "Free" + $75K–$150K in hidden eng time | Starting at $46K/year |
| Who you talk to | Account manager → assigned QA lead | Support docs → ticket queue | Stack Overflow | The engineers who built the system |
Most managed QA services operate at scale — dozens or hundreds of clients, assigned account managers, reactive maintenance. SureShip is deliberately different. Every engagement is bespoke. Your tests are built and maintained by the same engineering team that runs this system on our own production product. Not an account manager. Not a support queue. Engineers.
"Every testing tool we tried either broke constantly or required more engineering time to maintain than it saved. So we built SureShip for Wave — and after a year in production, we realized: every team shipping weekly has this exact problem."
— Justin Trugman, Head of Technology, BetterFutureLabs
SureShip is a fully managed QA engineering service — not a tool you learn, not a platform you log into. Our team builds your E2E test suite, integrates it into your pipeline, and maintains it every month. Every engagement is bespoke — scoped to your product, your workflows, your stack. You get direct access to the engineers who built and run this system on our own product daily.
Here's what working with us looks like:
No pitch deck. No pressure. Just an honest conversation about your stack.
Tell us about your team and stack. One of our engineers will reach out within 48 hours to schedule a call.
One of our engineers will reach out within 48 hours to schedule your introductory call.
SureShip by BetterFutureLabs. Built by engineers, for engineers. Run on our own product. Now our team builds it for yours.