Your test suite says green.Your users say otherwise.
Most teams aren't short of code. They're short of time to check it. AI tools write features and tests faster than anyone can review them, and those tests only check what the code does, not what your users need.
So the same pattern repeats: a release goes out, something unrelated breaks, a customer reports it, and the team scrambles.
The things automated tests miss
Automation is good at confirming what you expected. Manual testing finds what you didn't. Our engineers use your product the way your customers do, following the happy path and then deliberately going off it.
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Manual testing, shaped around how you ship
Start with a single release or bring us in for every one. Either way, you get the same engineers learning your product over time.
Ongoing release QA
A dedicated QA resource on a monthly retainer, testing every production release and maintaining a regression checklist that grows with your product.
Best for: teams shipping regularly who keep breaking things.
Release testing
A manual end-to-end pass before a production release. We test what's changed, re-check the critical journeys around it, and give you a go or no-go.
Best for: major releases, migrations, or anything you're nervous about.
Regression sweep
A one-off manual pass across your whole product to find what's already broken, and to build the regression checklist we'll use from then on.
Best for: teams who've shipped fast for months and suspect things have slipped.
Embedded QA engineer
A manual tester working inside your sprints, your tools and your stand-ups, through our TTaaS model.
Best for: teams who want QA as part of the team, not a service on the side.
From release candidate to sign-off
Scope
You tell us what’s going out, which journeys matter most and where things usually break.
Plan
We turn that into a test plan and regression checklist, focused on what changed and what it could affect.
Test
Our engineers manually test on your staging or preview builds, across real devices and browsers.
Report
Severity-rated bugs with steps to reproduce, filed into Jira, Linear or GitHub, plus a go or no-go recommendation.
Retest
Once fixes land, we re-check them and the journeys around them before you release.
We test what your AI tools ship
We file bugs in your tracker, work in your Slack and test on your staging or preview environments.
Bug reports your team can act on straight away
No vague pass or fail. Every issue comes with a severity, a clear explanation and the exact steps to reproduce it.
Any logged-in user can read other users’ bookings
Suggested fix: enforce ownership checks server-side and enable row-level security on the bookings table.
Built for teams moving faster than their QA
Shipping with Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot and similar tools, and producing more code than anyone can review.
“I had critical technical issues with my taxi app, and Gunpowder Innovations was extremely helpful in resolving them. Their team quickly identified the root cause, provided clear guidance, and supported me through the entire fix.”
Frequently asked questions
Anything else, ask us on a call.