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One offer. The Gloxx Retainer.

$15,000/month, month-to-month, no tiers, no surprise scoping calls. A fractional QA team for software companies — senior engineers, real ownership of your release gate, and AI-feature QA included when you need it.

"One number. One team. One accountable lead. Cancel any month with 30 days' notice. No paid audits, no scoped projects, no monitoring add-ons hiding behind another invoice."
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$15,000/mo · month-to-month

What's included.

A senior QA team, embedded with your engineering org, owning the release gate. The deliverables a real in-house QA function would ship — without the in-house headcount, the year-long ramp, or the salary line.

In every retainer
  • Test strategy and a coverage map for your product
  • Regression suite design and maintenance (Playwright primary, Cypress where it fits)
  • Release-gate checklist wired into your CI
  • On-call QA review for shipping features — async on PRs, sync when something's risky
  • Bug triage with severity grading and reproducible reports your engineers can act on
  • Weekly QA sync + monthly written QA scorecard for your leadership
  • Exploratory testing on critical flows before every major release
  • Accessibility and contract-test coverage where the product warrants it
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Two-week ramp · ongoing rhythm

How it works.

Two-week ramp to coverage map, then we shift into ongoing retainer rhythm. No long-tail proposal cycles. No "phase 1 / phase 2 / phase 3" deck. You agree to month one, we agree to deliver, and either side can walk with 30 days' notice.

Engagement rhythm
  • Week 1–2: discovery, coverage map, top-three quality risks, and a written 90-day plan
  • Week 3+: weekly sync, async PR review, monthly QA scorecard
  • Slack/Teams presence in your engineering channels — not a black box
  • Quarterly retro: what shipped, what slipped, what to change
  • Cancel any month with 30 days' notice — no annual contract, no penalty clauses
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$180k/year vs. $400–600k in-house

The math.

A real in-house QA function — a director plus two engineers, fully loaded with benefits, equity, and the recruiting cost to staff them — runs $400–600k/year. The Gloxx Retainer runs $180k/year. You get equivalent output, ramped in two weeks instead of six months, with no headcount on your books. The leverage that makes that math work is AI: Claude Code drafts test cases from your traces, eval harnesses run unattended via Claude Code Routines, bug-triage and release-gate reports template-generate. AI handles the volume; senior judgment handles the calls. That's how a small founder-led team produces department-level output.

In-house comparison
  • QA Director: ~$220k base, plus benefits and equity
  • Two QA engineers: ~$150k each, plus benefits and equity
  • Recruiting cost to staff a senior QA lead: 6–12 months at current market
  • Fully loaded in-house cost: $400,000–$600,000/year
  • Gloxx Retainer: $180,000/year, ramped in two weeks, no headcount, no recruiting
  • And we don't quit and take institutional knowledge with us six months in
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Founder-led · specialist contractors as needed

Who staffs it.

Brandon Jensen leads every engagement. 15 years of QA leadership across enterprise security, regulated crypto, and federal systems. Specialist contractors — automation, AI eval, performance, security testing — are staffed in as the work demands. One accountable lead, no junior pool, no offshore handoff.

Team structure
  • Brandon Jensen (founder) on every engagement — strategy, release-gate ownership, weekly sync
  • Automation specialist when the regression suite needs serious lifting
  • AI eval specialist when you ship AI features (the in-house specialty, no surcharge)
  • Performance / load testing specialist when scale is on the roadmap
  • Security testing specialist when the threat model warrants it
  • One point of contact, one invoice, one accountable lead
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The refuse list

What we don't do.

Honest scoping is part of the offer. There are categories of work we'll turn down even at the standard retainer price — because saying yes to them would make us bad at the work we actually sell.

We will not
  • Replace your engineers' responsibility to write tests for the code they ship
  • Vendor-lock you into our tooling stack — every test, every gate, every script is yours to keep
  • Sell you "AI testing" you don't need just because it's the specialty on the menu
  • Ship a passing release-gate result we don't actually believe in
  • Run secret offshore handoff — every deliverable is signed by a named human on the engagement
  • Write a 60-page test plan nobody on your team will ever read

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