Zero to CI

Playwright is free. The 2 months of infrastructure aren't.

Stop choosing between shipping blind and pausing for a Playwright rollout. Start with your app, review the critical-flow tests, and put the approved ones in the PR path.

Who this is for

Role
Founder, CTO, or senior engineer
Company
Growth-stage startup (5–50 engineers) with zero E2E coverage
Trigger
Production incident before investor demo, new engineering lead asks “where are the tests?”, or customer reports an obvious bug

The pain is real

“I inherited 10,000 lines of code with zero tests. No documentation. No comments. Just spaghetti code from a developer who quit 3 years ago… By day 4, I thought about quitting.”

Medium / Let’s Code Futuresource

“I deployed a new checkout flow on Friday afternoon at 4:47 PM. After 6 minutes Slack exploded - payment processing broke and customers couldn’t complete purchases.”

DEV Communitysource

“In the rush to get stuff out, time-consuming things get skipped like user testing, automation, analytics, monitoring, and manual testing… These bugs will keep annoying people using and relying on the software.”

The Pragmatic Engineersource

42% of testers don’t feel comfortable writing automation scripts

41% of committed code is now AI-generated - more code shipped, less confidence

Zero-to-coverage onboarding takes 2–6 months with traditional tools

Why nobody else solves this

The testing market has a barbell problem. Enterprise tools cost $100K+/year. Open-source frameworks are free but demand weeks of infrastructure setup and ongoing maintenance. Growth-stage companies - where testing habits form - fall through the gap.

The maintenance death spiral is well-documented: team picks Playwright, writes 10 tests, a UI refactor breaks half, nobody has time to fix them, and within 3 months they’re back to manual smoke testing.

The workflow today vs. with Zerocheck

Without Zerocheck

New engineering lead joins a 20-person startup. The app has 40K lines of code and zero E2E tests. They evaluate Playwright: Day 1 is npm install + config. Day 2 is writing a login test - but OAuth redirects don’t work. Day 3: first test runs, selectors are brittle. Week 2: CSS refactor breaks everything. Week 4: 5 tests exist, 3 engineers are frustrated, momentum is dead.

With Zerocheck

Connect repo + staging URL. Discovery scans the app, identifies key flows, and saves suggested tests in the dashboard. Engineer reviews and approves the tests that should run. The approved suite then runs on GitHub PRs.

How it works

1

Point Zerocheck at staging and the repo engineers already use

2

Find the flows most likely to embarrass you if they break

3

Review readable tests instead of writing selector-heavy scripts

4

Run approved generated and human-authored coverage on PRs

FAQ

How is this different from just setting up Playwright?

Playwright is a browser automation library. You still need to build CI integration, write selectors, handle auth, and keep the suite alive. Zerocheck gets you from an uncovered app to reviewed critical-flow checks on GitHub PRs without owning a selector maintenance project.

How many tests can Zerocheck generate?

Zerocheck directly explores your app to discover critical flows and saves suggested tests for review. Coverage expands when you approve generated tests from discovery and PR diffs.

What if we already have some Playwright tests?

Keep them. Zerocheck adds intelligence on top: change-aware test generation, visual interaction that survives UI changes, and PR comments with evidence. Your existing tests still run.

Is $250/month really comparable to QA Wolf at $8K/month?

QA Wolf deploys a managed team to write and maintain tests for you. Zerocheck is for lean teams that want critical-flow coverage, PR evidence, and production monitoring while keeping engineers in control of what becomes approved coverage.

Playwright is free. The 2 months of infrastructure aren't.

Get coverage on the flows customers will notice when they break, without turning testing into a quarter-long infrastructure project.

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