Distribution Strategy

Developer-Led Growth

CLI-first approach • GitHub integration • VS Code extension

Strategic Partnerships

Atlassian • Microsoft • GitLab • CircleCI

Founder

Neil Duggan

• 25 years experience in Quality Assurance, leading and building teams from scratch
• Deep expertise in enterprise QA automation and testing frameworks
• Built QA Brain to solve problems I've faced across multiple organizations
• Active in QA/testing community, understand the pain points intimately

Why I Can Execute

  • ✓ Domain expertise
  • ✓ Technical capability
  • ✓ Customer understanding
  • ✓ Full commitment

Next Hires

  • → Technical co-founder
  • → Senior QA engineer
  • → DevRel lead
  • → Enterprise sales

"I'm building the tool I wished existed throughout my career in QA"

Investment Opportunity

$15M Series A

Use of Funds

  • 40% - Core Engineering (10 hires)
  • 20% - Go-to-Market
  • 20% - Open Source Community
  • 15% - Enterprise Features
  • 5% - Operations

12-Month Milestones

  • Launch open source version
  • 10 enterprise customers
  • 1,000 GitHub stars
  • $2M ARR run rate
  • Series B ready

Exit Strategy

Strategic acquisition targets: Atlassian ($70B), Microsoft ($3T), GitLab ($8B), Datadog ($40B)

Comparable exits: Selenium (acquired), Cypress ($400M), Testim ($100M+)

Let's Build the Future of Testing

Join us in transforming how software is tested globally

Email: neil@qa-brain.com
Web: qa-brain.com

🧠 QA Brain

The Cursor for QA

Protected by 8 filed patents • Series A • Q1 2025

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QA Brain

The Cursor for QA

Self-improving test automation that learns from every run

Series A Investment Opportunity

Protected by 8 Filed Patents

The $60B Problem

Current Reality

  • QA costs 30-40% of development budget
  • Manual test creation takes weeks
  • Tests break with every deployment
  • No learning between test runs
  • Knowledge silos in teams

With QA Brain

  • 80% reduction in test creation time
  • Tests generated in seconds
  • Self-healing test maintenance
  • Continuous learning system
  • Team-wide intelligence sharing

$162B Market Opportunity

$60B

QA Automation

Direct Market

$42B

Testing Services

Adjacent Market

$60B

DevOps Tools

Expansion Market

Growing 23% CAGR • Enterprise shift to AI-powered testing

The First Self-Improving Test Platform

30s
Stack trace → Test
100%
Local Processing
0
Configuration Required
∞
Learning Capability

Every test run makes future tests smarter. Knowledge compounds across your entire organization.

Defensible IP: 8 Filed Patents

Patent #63/865,468
Zero-Configuration Test Discovery
Patent #63/865,472
Multi-Source Learning System
Patent #63/859,841
Progressive Intelligence Engine
Patent #63/860,827
Error-to-Test Generation
Patent #63/860,053
Objective-Based Exploration
Patent #63/860,688
Automatic Test Decomposition

Core learning mechanisms protected • 2+ years ahead of competition

Market Validation & Early Interest

8
Patents Filed
100%
Local Processing
Pre-Launch
Building in Public

Why Now?

• Cursor has validated the "AI pair programmer" model ($100M+ valuation)

• QA automation market growing 23% CAGR, reaching $60B by 2027

• Enterprises spending 30-40% of dev budget on testing

• Local LLMs now powerful enough for enterprise deployment

Early Signals

• Active development on GitHub with growing interest

• QA community engagement validating core problems

• Strategic conversations with potential enterprise customers

Competitive Advantage

Feature QA Brain Selenium Cypress Testim
Self-Learning ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Zero Config ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
100% Local ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗
AI-Powered ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓
Patent Protected ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗

First mover in self-improving test automation • 2-3 year technical lead

Revenue Model

Projected ARR Growth

$2M
$12M
$45M
$120M

Enterprise License

$100K-500K ARR

Unlimited seats, on-premise

Team License

$2K/engineer/year

Cloud or local deployment

Go-to-Market Strategy

Phase 1

Developer Adoption

Bottom-up sales

Phase 3

Enterprise

Direct sales

Phase 4

Platform

Marketplace & APIs

;">Open source core

Phase 2

Team Expansion