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Power from the outside.

Your website has bugs. We find them before your customers do.

Outboard QA is independent testing and UX review for websites, web apps, and software, by one senior engineer. Pick a plan, we put your product through an expert audit, and you get a severity-ranked fix-it roadmap with a recording or screenshot of every issue.

  • Independent
  • Human-tested
  • No agency overhead
  • We test:
  • Functional bugs
  • Broken flows
  • Cross-browser
  • Mobile devices
  • Accessibility
  • Performance
  • UX & design
  • User journeys

The problem

Broken experiences don't complain. They just leave.

Every unresponsive button, confusing flow, and silent error costs you customers who never tell you why. Whoever you are, the pattern is the same. Nobody independent is testing your site.

AI & no-code builders

You shipped a site with Lovable, Cursor, or Wix, and it looks done. But you do not know what is broken underneath. We do, and we write every finding so you can paste the fix straight back into your tool.

Small businesses & founders

Your website is your storefront. A broken form or a confusing checkout does not file a complaint. It just quietly costs you customers, every single day, while your analytics say everything is fine.

Product teams

When the PO writes the tickets and signs them off too, bugs ship. Get an independent technical tester who finds what internal teams are too close to see, before your users do.

How it works

Three steps. No meetings required.

  1. Pick a plan

    A one-time audit or a monthly QA subscription. No procurement cycle, no scoping workshops, no agency overhead. Choose a plan and we start.

  2. We test what matters

    Choose a plan, then fill out an intake form directing us what to test. Give us specifics, or we'll take a holistic, expert pass, from functional bugs and broken flows to UX and design flaws, going deepest on what matters most to your business.

  3. You get a fix-it roadmap

    A severity-ranked report (Critical / High / Medium / Low), supporting evidence for every issue, usually a screen recording or screenshot, and backlog-ready user stories your developer or your AI tool can act on immediately.

What you get

A fix-it roadmap, not a wall of text.

Every audit is delivered in a private Notion portal your whole team can open: a severity-ranked report, a live issue tracker, and a recording or screenshot of every finding. Act on it the same day.

  • Severity-ranked report

    Every issue triaged Critical / High / Medium / Low, so you always know what to fix first.

  • Evidence with every issue

    Each finding ships with proof, usually a screen recording or a screenshot, so you can watch it happen. No more “cannot reproduce.”

  • Backlog-ready user stories

    Findings written as user stories with acceptance criteria. Paste them into Jira, Linear, or your AI coding tool.

  • An optional live results call

    Walk through the findings with the engineer who found them. Available on request with the Pro Audit and QA Partner plans.

Explore the full sample report

Pricing

One expert. Pick your horsepower.

Flat pricing, no procurement cycle, no agency margin. Start with an audit or keep an independent tester on tap.

Basic Audit

A focused, expert pass over the pages that matter most.

$499one-time

Includes:

  • Up to 5 pages or 1 core user flow
  • Functional bug hunt + UX review
  • Severity-ranked written report
  • Screen recordings of critical issues
  • Delivered in 5 business days
Start with Basic
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Pro Audit

A deep pass over the pages, flows, and devices that matter.

$1,499one-time

Everything in Basic, plus:

  • Full site, up to 15 pages or flows
  • Cross-browser & mobile spot checks
  • Persona-based user journey testing
  • Accessibility & performance pass
  • Backlog-ready user stories
  • Optional live call to review findings
  • Delivered in 7 business days
Get the Pro Audit

QA Partner

An embedded QA expert on tap, without making a hire.

$1,995/month

Everything in Pro, plus:

  • Full monthly site audit
  • Unlimited requests, one at a timeEach test request covers one feature, flow, or fix, tested in 3 business days or less. Larger asks may be split into multiple requests.
  • Shared request board
  • Requests tested in 3 business days
  • Regression checks after your releases
  • Calls & chats as needed
  • Pause or cancel anytime
Become a partner

Bigger site or custom needs? Book a call.

Full refund if you cancel before testing starts. QA Partner cancels anytime. Refund & cancellation policy.

FAQ

Fair questions, straight answers.

Because independence is the point. The person who builds a feature, or writes the ticket for it, is the worst-positioned person to sign it off. They test the path they designed, not the paths your real customers take. Internal sign-off is exactly how bugs reach production. Outboard QA is a second set of expert eyes with no stake in the code being declared done.

Founder's note

Why Outboard QA exists

An outboard engine adds power without taking up space inside the hull. Outboard QA does the same for your team: outside review and added testing capacity, with no internal overhead.

I have spent more than ten years building software, from enterprise consulting at a Big 4 firm to product and engineering teams at major insurers and fintech companies, with a formal background in human-computer interaction and computer science.

On almost every team, I watched the same pattern: the person who built the feature was also the person who approved it, nobody owned testing end to end, and bugs walked straight into production. Big companies can absorb that cost without noticing. If your website is your business, you cannot.

Outboard QA is the fix I always wished those teams and businesses had: one experienced, independent set of eyes on your website or software before your customers find the problems for you. Everything I test, I test by hand. No AI shortcuts, no employees, and no subcontractors. Just honest work helping businesses put their best foot forward.

Founder, Outboard QA

  • 10+ years in software
  • Big 4 Consulting · Fintech
  • HCI & computer science background

Stop shipping bugs to your customers.

Your next release deserves an independent pass. Pick a plan today and have a fix-it roadmap in your inbox within a week.

Independent. Human-tested. No agency overhead.