AI-Powered QA That Never Sleeps

A conversation with

Sneha Sivakumar

CEO of Spur

Company
August is a legal tech platform that helps lawyers and legal professionals work more efficiently.
Industry
Legal Tech
Company Size
11-50
Founded
2024

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Challenge

For a legal tech platform, bugs don't just frustrate users. They undermine trust with an audience that demands precision. August's small founding team faced mounting QA challenges including manual testing bottlenecks, inconsistent coverage, inability to scale with development speed, and high stakes for quality with legal professionals who expect flawless software.

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Solution

Spur replaced August's entire manual testing workflow with AI-powered agents that run automatically throughout the day. Tests run 4× daily automatically, deployment velocity increased 2×, and the team has complete confidence in Spur's results. "We never test ourselves anymore" - the team can now focus on building features instead of manual testing.

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Results

2x Faster deployment velocity

2x
Faster deployment velocity
4x
Automated test runs daily
100%
Trust in automated testing

Spur is always right. We used to spend hours testing stuff manually. Now we just run Spur and never test ourselves.

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Thomas Bueler-Faudree

Co-founder, August

Challenge

Lawyers Demand Perfection: Manual Testing Couldn't Keep Up

For a legal tech platform, bugs don't just frustrate users. They undermine trust with an audience that demands precision. August's small founding team faced mounting QA challenges:

• Manual Testing Bottleneck: Every deploy required an hour of manual testing, creating a significant bottleneck in the development cycle.
• Inconsistent Coverage: Testing quality varied, sometimes thorough, sometimes rushed, leading to bugs slipping through to production.
• Inability to Scale with Development Speed: As the team pushed to ship faster, manual testing couldn't keep pace.
• High Stakes for Quality: Legal professionals expect flawless software. Even minor bugs could damage customer relationships and trust.

Spur's AI Agents Test Critical Legal Workflows Automatically, 4× Daily

Spur replaced August's entire manual testing workflow with AI-powered agents that run automatically throughout the day. The result: consistent, comprehensive testing without any manual effort.

• Set It and Forget It Testing - Tests run 4× daily automatically. Tests execute overnight and throughout the day. Thomas checks results each morning.
• From Hours to Minutes - 2× faster deployment velocity. What used to take an hour of manual testing before every deploy now takes just minutes.
• Complete Confidence - "Spur is always right." August has built complete trust in Spur's results. "We never test ourselves anymore."
• Zero Maintenance Burden - Tests adapt to product changes. Unlike traditional automation tools that break with UI changes, Spur's tests require minimal maintenance.
• Critical Bugs Caught Pre-Production - Spur caught a file upload failure during a weekend before customers were impacted, and even caught a critical bug during a live demo, helping close the deal.