SolutionBeta

Cross-device visual QA that does not depend on someone checking

Manual QA cannot cover the number of devices your users actually have. This runs your site across a large device and browser matrix, compares what renders against what should render, and surfaces the failures that matter first.

The product is in beta. Availability and the scope of each engagement are confirmed directly.

The problem

Manual cross-device QA does not scale, and the gap is where revenue leaks

The design is reviewed on a desktop, approved, and shipped. Somewhere in the long tail of devices and browsers it breaks — a button that overlaps text at one viewport, a layout shift on an older phone, an image that never loads on a slow connection. A manual QA team can check five to ten devices. The audience is on hundreds. The uncovered surface is where the checkout button ends up hidden, and it is invisible until a customer finds it.

  • Regressions reaching production that were not caught in review
  • A QA process that checks a handful of devices against an audience on many more
  • Visual defects reported by customers before they are reported internally
  • No consistent record of what the interface looked like before a release
  • Full cross-device audits that take weeks and are therefore run rarely
  • Front-end work that cannot be verified beyond the developer's own browser
Who it is for

Who gets value from this

VP Engineering / QA Lead

You need coverage that scales with the device matrix rather than with headcount, and defect reports prioritised so the team fixes the right thing first.

Head of Product

You need confidence that what was designed is what shipped, on every device the audience uses — not just the ones in the office.

Agencies and platform teams

Managing many sites or many releases where visual regressions are the most common class of escaped defect.

How it works

The mechanism

What it actually does, in the order it does it.

Renders across a large device and browser matrix

The site is loaded across a wide spread of environments — current and older smartphones, tablets at varying aspect ratios, and desktop monitors from standard to ultrawide. Coverage is a property of the matrix rather than of how many devices someone had available.

Compares what rendered against what should have rendered

Each environment produces a capture that is compared for visual divergence. This is a rendering comparison, not a code check — it detects a broken layout, an overlapping element or a missing asset even when the code is entirely valid.

Prioritises by severity rather than by volume

A cross-device run produces many differences, most of which do not matter. Findings are classified so a genuinely broken checkout surface is separated from cosmetic variation, because an unprioritised list of differences is functionally the same as no list.

Attaches visual evidence to every finding

Each reported defect carries the capture that demonstrates it, so the developer can see the failure rather than reconstruct it — which removes the most expensive part of the fix cycle.

Outputs

What you get

Per-run

  • Visual defects across the device and browser matrix
  • Severity classification and prioritised ordering
  • Screenshot evidence per finding

Coverage record

  • Device and browser environment for each finding
  • A reviewable record of detected differences
  • Coverage evidence for the audited paths
Limits

What this does not do

Stated plainly, because the alternative is discovering it after you have bought it.

It compares rendering, not intent

A page can render consistently everywhere and still be wrong, because the design itself was wrong. This finds inconsistency across environments; it does not have an opinion about whether a layout is good.

Some differences are expected and must be filtered

Dynamic content, carousels, clocks, advertisements and personalised elements differ between captures by design. Distinguishing genuine defects from expected variation is the part of the problem that requires judgement, and it is why this is not a fully unattended tool.

The performance envelope is a target, not a guarantee

Time-to-first-finding and full-matrix duration vary with the site, network and test matrix. We set the test conditions and expected turnaround during project scoping.

Beta means beta

The product is not generally available. Engagements are run with our engineers involved, which is slower than self-serve and is the honest description of where the product is.

Context

Related engagements

Work where the same class of problem was present.

Online communities

Arrse.co.uk

An established community platform had accumulated three separate problems that compounded each other: page loads that had degraded with growth, search visibility that had not kept pace with the community's authority, and a security posture that had not been revisited as the platform's profile grew. The engagement addressed all three concurrently.

4%increase in organic clicks
Education technology

Educativ.net

A platform that had previously ranked well had declined through a combination of technical and on-page problems: nearly ninety percent of the site failed Google's Core Web Vitals assessment, server response times were high, and metadata and content signals needed work. The engagement addressed those constraints together.

21%increase in search traffic
Questions

Frequently asked

How is this different from the visual regression tooling in our CI?

Scope and volume of environments, primarily. The value is breadth across a device and browser matrix rather than reliance on a small fixed set of viewports.

Will it produce false positives?

It will produce differences that are not defects. Dynamic content, carousels and personalised elements vary between captures by design, so findings must be reviewed and prioritised rather than treated as defects automatically.

What does it need access to?

A reachable URL and, for regression comparison against each release, a stable environment to test against. Where a site is behind authentication we work through that in a scoped engagement rather than storing credentials.

Why is it labelled beta?

Because it is. The product is pre-general-availability, and engagements are run with our engineers involved rather than by self-serve. Labelling it honestly is both accurate and, we think, more persuasive to the kind of buyer who tests claims before believing them.

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The product is in beta. Availability and the scope of each engagement are confirmed directly.