Independent testing · Break Test

Your team built it.
Let us break it.

Give us the app. We'll find what your team is too close to see. Independent testing before you hand it to a client, open the doors, or point paid traffic at it.

Fixed price $997 for qualifying applications · complex builds quoted separately

Why an outside tester

The people who built it
cannot test it

Not because they're careless — because they know too much. A developer tests the path they wrote. They enter data in the format they expect. They never use the product like someone who's confused, in a hurry, on a bad connection, or actively poking at it.

That's fine until the app leaves the building. Then it meets people who click things in the wrong order, abandon checkout halfway, sign up twice, or wonder what happens if they change the number in the URL.

The failures that hurt most are the ones nobody thought to look for. A payment that succeeds but doesn't register. A permission check that guards the page but not the data. A discount rule that quietly applies to the wrong thing. Those aren't caught by the team that built the feature — they're caught by someone whose only job is to find them.

Built for

Teams shipping without a QA function

Agencies & studios

You're about to hand this to a client. Their reputation problem becomes your reputation problem. An independent pass before delivery is cheaper than the conversation afterwards.

SaaS & product teams

You ship faster than you can test. Use us as an external layer for releases that matter, without hiring a permanent tester.

Freelance developers

No QA colleague to hand it to. Get a second set of eyes that isn't yours before the client finds it.

Teams about to buy traffic

Paid acquisition multiplies whatever your funnel already does — including losing people at a broken step. Find that before you spend.

Not just for AI-built software. AI tools are where we see this problem most, but any team without independent testing has the same gap. Hand-written code fails the same way.

What we go after

Where real apps actually break

Exposure

What can someone reach without logging in? What happens when they change an ID in a URL to somebody else's?

Authentication & state

Expired sessions, two tabs, stale caches, back button mid-flow, role switching, logged-in users hitting logged-out pages.

Money

Totals, tips, discounts, refunds, currency, tax, payment states that succeed on one side and fail on the other.

Workflow integrity

Can a completed thing be cancelled? Can a cancelled thing be paid? Do the numbers still agree afterwards?

Roles & boundaries

Can one customer see another's data? Can a staff account act on a record that isn't theirs?

Trust & conversion

Dead ends, silent failures, confusing errors, mobile/desktop mismatches — the things that lose customers quietly.

Track record

Two years of documented defects

1,400+Defects documented across GIFTY testing engagements
33Security findings, OWASP classified
2 yrsIndependent testing, Aug 2024 → today
SeparateTesters independent of the developers who fix

Real findings from applications we tested — client details removed, specifics changed:

Unauthenticated data exposure

A public endpoint returned any customer's name, phone number, booking history, price paid and payment method — with no authentication at all. The identifier was sequential, so the whole customer base could be walked one request at a time. Documented with request, response and impact.

Authorisation bypass

The interface enforced one-time-code verification on signup. The underlying API did not — records could be created directly, skipping verification entirely. The gate existed in the UI only.

Business logic / revenue

A complimentary reward configured for one specific service applied to a different, more expensive one — making it free. Nothing errored. Nothing logged. It simply leaked margin on every redemption.

Workflow corruption

A completed appointment could still be cancelled by the customer afterwards, leaving revenue, staff and loyalty records disagreeing across five different parts of the product.

What this evidence is and isn't Those findings come from independent testing of live business software — booking, payments, healthcare and multi-role SaaS platforms. We are not claiming those clients built with AI tools, and we don't publish client names or logos without permission. We're showing you the class of defect we find and how we document it. See a full redacted sample finding →

Break Test

Find it before your customers do

$997fixed price

  • Independent testing across your core customer journeys
  • Adversarial use: wrong order, bad input, hostile and confused users
  • Exposure checks — what's reachable without logging in
  • Authentication, session and role-boundary testing
  • Money paths: totals, discounts, payment state
  • Mobile and desktop
  • Prioritised written findings with reproduction steps and evidence
  • A launch verdict, and a retest of what you fix

What the fixed price covers: one application, up to three user roles, the integrations a normal product has (payments, email, auth), and one round of retesting after you fix things. Subscriptions are fine. Several user roles are fine.

It becomes a custom engagement from $2,500 when the work is genuinely bigger — health or financial data, or a stack of complexity at once (many roles and APIs and webhooks we'd need to test directly). The form below tells you which one you're in before you pay.

Tell us what we're testing

Seven questions. If it fits the fixed price, you go straight to checkout. If it's bigger, we'll route you to a quote instead of selling you the wrong thing.

This looks bigger than the fixed scope Based on your answers, this needs a custom quote rather than the $997 package. Submit and we'll pick it up from there.

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Qualifying applications go straight to secure Stripe checkout. We confirm your test window by email before work starts.
We never ask for passwords or production credentials on this form.

Questions

Before you buy

Do you fix what you find?

Testing and remediation are deliberately separate. Findings are only worth something if the person producing them doesn't profit from the repair — so we never inflate a report to sell fixes. If you want help fixing what we find, ask after you've read it and we'll quote that separately.

How long does it take?

We confirm your test window by email before work begins, so you'll have a real date up front. We don't advertise a blanket turnaround because it depends on the application — and an invented number helps nobody.

Can we use you for every release?

Yes — that's the most common way agencies and product teams use us, as an external testing layer without a permanent hire. Do one Break Test first, see whether the findings are worth it, then we'll set up something recurring.

What access do you need?

A working URL and normal test accounts for each user type — created by you, exactly like a real user's. Never send production admin credentials. If parts of the app must not be touched, you tell us up front and we exclude them in writing.

Is this a penetration test?

No, and we won't call it one. We test the application the way an adversarial user would, which surfaces real exposure and authorisation problems — you can see the class of finding above. It is not a formal penetration test and it isn't a security certification. If you need a certified pen test, you need a licensed provider.

What if it's bigger than $997 of work?

The form tells you. If your answers show multiple roles, heavy integrations, subscriptions or regulated data, it routes you to a quote rather than taking your money for the wrong scope.