Green Light
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QA, on demand For AI-forward engineering teams Human-verified

Your AI ships code faster than you can verify it.
We're the green light.

Green Light is a dedicated manual QA partner for teams moving at AI speed. Real testers run your tickets through thoughtful, exploratory black-box testing — the kind of scrutiny that catches what automation misses. We clear your queue. You ship with confidence.

Ticket queue · today Live
#4821 Checkout flow — Apple Pay edge case Verified
#4819 Onboarding — email validation regex Verified
#4817 Dashboard — date picker timezone drift Bug filed
#4816 API — rate limit retry behavior In review
#4814 Mobile — offline state persistence Verified
Exploratory Testing Regression Sweeps Release Gating Bug Repro & Triage Cross-browser QA Mobile Testing Accessibility Audits Test Plan Authoring Exploratory Testing Regression Sweeps Release Gating Bug Repro & Triage Cross-browser QA Mobile Testing Accessibility Audits Test Plan Authoring
James helped us tease out numerous issues, both large and small. This process significantly improved our UI/UX, which would have taken much longer without your help. Definitely worth it! Thanks for being extremely thorough and professional.

— Gabe Blair, creator of FreshChores

The bottleneck

Shipping velocity collapsed into a testing queue.

AI-assisted development flipped the constraint. Engineers produce ten times the tickets. Founders become full-time QAs. Releases slow to the pace of whoever has time to click through the app tonight.

Without Green Light
12 days

Average time a finished ticket waits for human verification.

Founders triage at 11pm. Engineers context-switch out of flow. Shippable work sits in review columns, quietly losing momentum and compounding into release risk.

With Green Light
< 24h

Turnaround from ticket-ready to green-lit.

A dedicated QA lead runs your tickets daily. Clean passes are merged. Repro'd bugs come back with video, steps, and environment — ready to fix, not re-investigate.

What we do

Manual QA, done with intent.

We're not a tooling company. We're not selling you another dashboard. We're skilled human testers who treat your product like our own and tell you plainly whether it's ready to ship.

01

Exploratory testing

Real users poking your product with curiosity and intent — the kind of testing that finds the bugs no automated suite was ever asked to look for.

02

Ticket verification

Each completed PR or ticket gets run against its acceptance criteria by a human, documented, and either green-lit or sent back with a clean bug report.

03

Regression sweeps

Before every release, we run a tailored sweep across your critical paths. Core flows stay green while you're busy shipping new surface area.

04

Cross-device coverage

Safari, Chrome, Firefox. iOS and Android. Slow networks and weird screen sizes. We own the matrix so you don't have to.

05

Release gating

A human signs off on every release candidate. Clear pass/fail, reasons when it's fail, and receipts for everything we tested.

06

Bug reports worth reading

Steps to reproduce, environment, expected vs. actual, console logs, a video. Every bug filed is a bug an engineer can fix without DM'ing anyone.

The process

Plug in once. Offload the queue forever.

We embed with your team in days — not quarters. Here's the full arc, from kickoff to green-lit releases.

01
Week 1
Intake

A kickoff call, access to your issue tracker and staging, a walkthrough of your product. We write the first pass of your test plan.

02
Week 1–2
Calibrate

We run a pilot on live tickets. You tell us what matters, what's noise, and what "good enough" looks like for your team.

03
Ongoing
Operate

Daily ticket review in your tracker. Regression sweeps before releases. A standing QA presence in your Slack without the headcount.

04
Monthly
Report

Coverage map, bug metrics, flaky areas, and a straight recommendation on where your quality budget is best spent next month.

Pricing

Plans that scale with your ticket volume.

Flat monthly pricing. No per-bug billing, no surprise overages. Cancel or change tiers month to month.

Signal
Solo founders and small teams.
$2,400 / mo
Up to 30 tickets verified per month
  • Dedicated QA lead
  • Daily ticket verification
  • Pre-release regression sweep
  • Shared Slack channel
  • Monthly report
Start pilot
Lighthouse
Multi-product teams & scaleups.
Custom
Unlimited tickets, dedicated pod
  • Everything in Beacon
  • Dedicated testing pod (2–4 people)
  • Custom test plan authoring
  • Continuous regression + release gating
  • Quarterly strategy review
  • SLAs on turnaround
Talk to us
Common questions

Before you ask.

Why manual QA when we have automated tests and AI code review?

Automated tests verify what you thought to test. AI reviews the code it wrote. Neither of them sits down with your product the way a real user will, notices the weird 0.5-second flash on slow networks, or finds the two-step path that causes your Stripe webhook to double-fire. Manual black-box testing complements your automated suite — it doesn't replace it.

How do you fit into our stack?

We work inside your existing tools — Linear, Jira, GitHub, Shortcut, whatever you use. You don't adopt a new process; we show up in yours. Your engineers tag a ticket as ready for QA, we pick it up, run it, and either verify it or file a repro'd bug right there.

Are your testers in-house or outsourced?

Every tester on Green Light is a vetted full-time employee. No sub-contractors, no marketplace labor, no 3am handoffs. You get the same faces on your product every day.

What's the pilot?

Two weeks, flat fee, full access to a Green Light tester working your real backlog. You see exactly what the service feels like before committing to a plan. If it doesn't click, you walk — no lock-in.

Do you handle sensitive or regulated products?

Yes. We sign NDAs up front and can work under custom access controls, dedicated staging environments, and on-prem where required. Talk to us about your specific compliance needs on the intake call.

What does a bug report actually look like?

Title, clear repro steps, environment (browser, OS, device, network), expected vs. actual behavior, a screen recording, console logs where relevant, and a severity assessment. Formatted for your tracker, ready for an engineer to pick up without a back-and-forth.

Ready to ship
James Strawn, founder of Green Light

James Strawn

Founder, Green Light

Green-light your next release.

Tell us about your product. We'll spin up a two-week pilot inside your tracker and show you — not tell you — what human QA looks like when it's done right.

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