Journal.

Weekly opinionated long-form on QA discipline, AI-feature evaluation, release-gate practice, and the inner workings of a fractional QA team. Frameworks and postmortems, not marketing. First entry drops the week of May 5.

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Introducing the AI-QA Maturity Model.

Why we built a five-level rubric for testing AI features — and what each rung looks like in practice. The inaugural Institute Journal essay introduces the model, explains why it's descriptive (not aspirational), and walks through the most common failure mode: imbalanced maturity dimensions.

Brandon Jensen May 5, 2026 ~9 min read

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Editorial calendar

What's queued up.

The Institute publishes weekly. Categories rotate so the calendar mixes frameworks, postmortems, tool releases, and refuse-list pieces. Here's the next four weeks.

Week of May 5FrameworkIntroducing the AI-QA Maturity Model — what each level looks like in practice, and why most teams plateau at L3
Week of May 12FrameworkThe L2 → L3 jump — how reactive teams become measured ones (and the four artifacts that prove it)
Week of May 19Tool releasegloxxai/release-gate — open-source AI release-gate checklist generator with CI templates
Week of May 26Refuse-listWhy most "AI evals" don't gate releases — and what a real gate looks like

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