Tested automation kits
Tested automation kits for small shops and ops teams. Before we show a kit, we break it on purpose with made-up bad data and a crash mid-run. Then we publish what failed and what we fixed.
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Kits set up on your data from $49. A test run on your own automation from $45. Fixed quote in writing before any work.
Totals from the seven kits' own test files. The one that got through is shown below. See the numbers per kit
One kit's logged test runs
We feed it bad data, crash it mid-run and push it past rate limits and time limits. All on made-up data and mock services.
We change one small thing in its code on purpose, like one retry too many, and run the tests again. If no test fails, a test is missing.
What failed, what we fixed, what got through and what we did not test go on the kit's page.
Across 7 kits: 359 tests passed, 190 of 191 planted bugs caught. How we test
Each card shows the tests the kit passed, the planted bugs it caught and its main limit.
Keeps two stores on one inventory count and flags oversold orders.
Covers: two online stores and one master count. Oversold orders are listed for you, not cancelled.
Both stores are mock APIs. It has not run against a real store or sheet account.
Checks a product file before import and sends doubtful rows to a person.
Covers: your product file before import. Doubtful rows go to a person, and the checks stop at the file.
No live import was run and no store was involved. The checks stop at the file.
Copies shop orders into a CRM, with no duplicates on a rerun.
Covers: new shop orders into CRM deals and contacts, with no duplicates when it runs again.
The shop and the CRM are mock APIs. It has not been tested against a real vendor account.
Cleans messy sales exports into one workbook. Every rejected row has a reason.
Covers: sales exports in the layouts it knows, cleaned into one Excel workbook with a reason for every rejected row.
The rules fit three synthetic layouts. These numbers say nothing about real exports.
Our own flawed, AI-style demo script: we test a script that half works and fix what the tests catch.
Covers: one script of yours that runs but gets rows wrong, tested and repaired after a written brief.
Mock API, made-up data, no real key.
Checks every row of a sales sheet. Doubles stay out of the totals.
Covers: every row of one sales sheet, checked by a script inside the sheet, with doubles kept out of the totals.
It has not been run on a live Google account.
Reads PDF invoices into Excel and flags totals that do not add up.
Covers: text-based PDF statements and invoices into Excel, with totals checked. Scanned pages are out.
Text-based PDFs only. No OCR, so scanned pages are out.
Free test sheet
Twelve checks to run before an automation touches real records. Each one says what to do, what a pass looks like and what a failure looks like.
Free PDF. No email, no sign-up.
Our own tests use made-up data and mock services, with no real accounts. We work on your data only after a written brief that says what we touch and why. We start with test data, and we check logs and outputs for keys and personal details before real data goes in.
It can. Every kit has limits, and its page lists them. Each kit writes a report or log of every run, so we can see where it stopped. Send it to us. Your written quote says what a fix after delivery costs, or whether it is included.
CSV exports, Excel workbooks, Google Sheets and text-based PDFs, plus shop and CRM APIs. Most kits are Python scripts. The sales tracker is a script inside a Google Sheet. In our tests, the shops, the CRM and the mail service are mocks we wrote. Connecting a kit to your real tools is part of the written brief.
You send a short note on what it does and where you think it breaks. We ask a few questions, then send a fixed quote in writing that states the delivery date. Work starts only after you say yes.
The price is fixed in writing before any work starts. The starting prices are at the top of this page.
Built with AI assistance. Reviewed by a person, tested by our own test suites. Every number on this site comes from a kit's own test files.
Email us or send a DM on X: what it does and where you think it breaks.
About your tools, your data and what counts as done.
The quote states the price and the delivery date.
Nothing is built before you agree to the quote.
Tell us what it does and where you think it breaks. We reply with questions or a fixed quote in writing.
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Kits set up on your data from $49. A test run on your own automation from $45. Fixed quote in writing before any work.
Logged across the seven kits