Velocity & Cost | Pillar 1 of the platform

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Automate what you couldn’t.
Win back the 80%.

In most teams, 80% of testing effort is execution, not design — and that’s exactly the 80% we cut. Karate lets even non-technical domain experts automate the complex, customized apps — Guidewire, SAP, Salesforce, legacy desktop — that brittle tools never could.

AI test automation
that survives the UI change.

DOM-first, not screenshot-based. A hybrid model where scripted flows run at native speed with zero LLM calls and the model only fires on recovery — fast, deterministic, BYO-LLM, and no maintainer required every sprint.

What changes when you adopt it

  • Regression replays at ~$0

    Learn a flow once; the LLM leaves the loop

  • Two weeks → two nights

    Releases stop waiting on QA

  • Domain experts automate

    Plain English — no coding required

  • The hard apps become testable

    Guidewire, SAP, Salesforce, legacy desktop

Cut the 80% · on your model · inside your network

The business case

Your 80% is execution.
That’s exactly what we cut.

Test design is roughly 20% of the effort; execution is the other 80% — where the cost, the delay, and the manual grind live. Even a modest dent is a number the CFO notices.

Cost down

Once a flow is learned it replays deterministically at ~$0 — no per-run token bill, and no growing roster of contractors maintaining brittle scripts.

Speed up

Collapse the execution effort that gates every release. Regression that took two weeks compresses toward two nights — so shipping stops waiting on QA.

People up the stack

Your domain experts automate in plain English — no coding. Engineers stop babysitting selectors and move to reviewing evidence.

80% of our effort is execution — and the apps that matter most, like our customized Guidewire rating screens, are the ones we can’t automate.

— What enterprise QA leaders tell us

You feel this when…

  • A large manual test backlog — hundreds of cases, mostly manual
  • Automation has stalled, or it’s too brittle and code-heavy to own
  • Domain-rich testers who aren’t coders
  • Complex, customized apps that defeat conventional tools
  • Regression too slow for your release cadence

80%

of QA effort is execution — the part we automate

~$0

token cost to replay a learned flow in CI

10–50×

fewer tokens than screenshot-based AI agents

Under the hood

DOM-first. Hybrid. BYO-LLM.

Two architectures dominate AI testing, and the choice decides cost, speed, and which models you can run.

Vision-based (screenshot)

  • 10,000+ tokens/step at enterprise resolution
  • Needs frontier vision models; cloud-only in practice
  • Coordinates can hallucinate

DOM-first · Karate Agent

  • 10–50× fewer tokens per step
  • Runs small, open-source models; air-gap deployable
  • Deterministic element discovery; scripted flows = 0 tokens
Selenium / Playwright Brittle, selector-bound
await page.fill('#email-input-v2', 'admin@test.io');
await page.click('button[data-testid="submit-v2"]');
await page.waitForSelector('.dashboard-welcome');
// Ship a UI redesign — this test fails.
Karate Agent Intent-based, resilient
Scenario: Admin sees the welcome message
  * agent { url: 'https://app.example.com/login' }
  * agent.do('sign in as admin@test.io / pw')
  * agent.verify('dashboard shows "Welcome, admin"')
// Ship the same redesign — this still passes.

How we win back the 80%

Three shifts, one outcome

Use cases

Where it pays for itself first

Start narrow and high-value — one painful flow — then expand.

Put a number on your 80%.

Bring your most painful manual suite or your hardest screen. We’ll automate it on your model, inside your environment, and show you the execution effort you get back.