Check Which Allowance Your AI Agent Bills Before Work
Run local sessions on different model families, then compare the allowance that moved before you trust the app's billing claim.
Startup Tools
Tools from startups, tried on real work
Run a 30-Second A/B Before Swapping to HeyGen Voice
A TTS leaderboard rank is a starting point, not a green light; test your own 30-second script, pronunciation, and cost before swapping.
Check AI self-improvement claims with fixed-seed reruns
A fixed-seed rerun on a public benchmark separates reproducible gains from vendor-reported wins.
Poker Is Solved. A Startup Just Shipped the Proof.
Chess was cracked in 1997, and it took the world two years to download the engine. Poker's lab proof came in 2019 — and sat in a university for seven years. Now a startup has shipped the engine. Here's what it does on real work, and where it stops.
Run This Escalation Test Before a Cheap AI Decider Routes Triage
Test whether a cheap typed-decision model's confidence score separates correct calls from escalations before you route real triage.
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Use this 4-step loop to verify an AI agent's auto-fix before it ships
An agent's auto-fix is a proposed patch until a vulnerability-specific rescan, regression suite, diff review, and CI record all approve it.
Test a Self-Playtesting Game AI on Your Scene Before Paying
Run seeded failures, false-clear probes, and parallel checks on your own scene before you commit to a paid game AI tier.
Test an MCP data backend on real agent work
Run the same model with an MCP data backend and with web search, then score answers, tool calls, cost, and latency on your own questions.
Run a Launch Test Before Buying AI Social Media Tools
A launch test for voice, scheduling, replies, attribution, and platform limits before you pay.
Real-Ticket Checklist for AI Support Agents
Run a 200-ticket shadow test before buying support AI: score usable-draft rate, resolution depth, stale-KB failures, setup time, and all-in cost per agent.
Test an AI Project Management Tool on a 2-Week Sprint
Run a 2-week sprint test to see if an AI project management tool cuts triage and status work more than it adds setup and admin.
Test an AI website builder before your startup ships a landing page
A four-part test for conversion, performance, CMS, and developer handoff, with failure checks for generic copy and broken forms.
AI support agent test: 300 tickets, cost per closed ticket
Build a support-agent harness with capped refunds, escalation, close-rate checks, and a final cost per closed ticket.
Test a Voice AI Platform on Real Support Calls Before Paying
Run four real support workflows, score interruption recovery, transfer accuracy, and knowledge-base recall, then calculate cost per resolved conversation before signing.
Turn a 67% AI support claim into a defensible planning range
Before piloting, convert vendor resolution claims into a low/base/high range using ticket mix, knowledge-base quality, and failure checks.
Estimate a Voice Agent's Per-Minute Cost Before You Commit
A per-minute worksheet turns a voice-agent quote into a testable estimate: characters, committed TTS rates, latency, identity, and steering.
Test AI Accounting Tools on Invoices and Cash Flow
Run a small batch of real invoices and cash movements through the tool, then check whether the output matches the rules your startup actually needs.
AI SEO Workflow for Early Startup Traffic
Run a revenue page through research, briefs, links, and publishing, then judge the output before buying more AI SEO tools.
Test AI Pitch Deck Tools for Seed Decks
Run a seed-deck stress test on any AI pitch deck generator: input depth, slide-count discipline, story clarity, visuals, and investor feedback.
Test an AI Recruiting Tool on a Real Startup Hire
Run a hiring-sprint test for AI recruiting tools: sourcing yield, screening false positives, scheduling friction, and offer-stage evidence.
Use AI to Draft Clear Monthly Investor Updates
Compress the writing, not the judgment: a four-part checklist and a send-or-fix pass for founders who need a monthly update without losing hours.
Pick a Product Analytics Tool by Activation and Churn
A five-point checklist for judging startup analytics tools by activation, churn, account reporting, limits, and assistant output.
Before Signing Your Next SaaS Contract, Run This AI Contract Review Checklist
A pre-signing checklist for founders using AI to sort SaaS, vendor, and NDA risk before a lawyer makes the final call.