Case Study How Laurel brings production-ready validation to AI-native development while cutting change failure rate by 82%

Cloud native verification platform

AI writes code.
We make sure it works.

Give every code change a realistic ephemeral environment and automated tests. Run hundreds in parallel on the infrastructure you already have.

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Architecture diagram: a browser request flows through an API gateway to cart, user, notification, auth, and config services backed by three databases. A sandboxed copy of user-svc for pull request 42 is spliced into the request path, and an Agent Skills panel shows end-to-end tests, API diff, and contract checks passing.

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Validate every code change

Three building blocks that work together: sandboxes give you isolated environments, jobs run your test suites at scale, and plans encode your team's validation expertise. All inside your existing Kubernetes cluster.

Sandboxes

Ephemeral Environments

Lightweight environments that share your existing cluster. Scale to as many parallel environments as your team needs.

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Jobs

Scalable test execution

Execution infrastructure to run the Playwright, Cypress, or custom suites you already have, massively parallel inside your cluster.

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Plans

Your validation logic

Compose actions into reusable plans that agents run to validate changes.

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Trusted by teams shipping faster

  • 10x faster

    Feedback in seconds

    Developers and agents spin up sandboxes and get instant feedback on every change.

    Wealthsimple: faster testing
  • 80% fewer bugs

    Bugs caught pre-merge

    Test against real dependencies in your cluster pre-merge. No mocks.

    Earnest: catching bugs earlier
  • 85% less infra costs

    Cut infrastructure costs

    Scale to thousands of sandboxes without duplicating infrastructure.

    Brex: saved $2M annually

Fast feedback from local dev to pull request merge

One Signadot platform powers two loops: fast functional feedback for agents and developers locally, and comprehensive validation for every PR.

Inner loop

Fast functional feedback. Agents close the loop autonomously.

  1. Write Code Agents and developers collaborate on features. Rapid iteration on every change.
  2. Spin Up a Sandbox Local agent connects to your live cluster via MCP or CLI. Sandbox ready in seconds.
  3. Closed-Loop Validation Agents run E2E and integration tests against the live cluster, debug failures, and iterate autonomously.
Outer loop

Comprehensive PR validation. Regression, E2E, and non-functional suites.

  1. A Sandbox for Every PR Every PR auto-provisions its own sandbox in the cluster. Same Signadot platform.
  2. Run Comprehensive Tests Plans and Jobs run integration, E2E, regression, and non-functional suites in Kubernetes.
  3. Merge with Confidence Validated in both loops. Ship code with high confidence in quality and behavior.
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Tunable isolation

Ephemeral environments for the whole cloud-native system

Real systems are more than services answering requests. Signadot ephemeral environments also cover your databases, message queues, workflow engines and batch jobs, and the cloud resources outside Kubernetes they depend on, so every change is validated against the system it will actually run in, however complex.

Databases

Share the baseline database and keep each environment's test data apart, or give an environment a database of its own: a temporary instance or schema from a resource plugin, or a branch of a branchable database such as Neon or Xata.

Message queues

Producers tag each message with the environment's routing key, and consumers handle only the messages meant for them, so every environment shares one broker. Libraries cover Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS and SNS, Pub/Sub and NATS, and a resource plugin can create a topic or queue per environment instead.

Workflows and batch jobs

The routing key travels with every workflow, task and job, down to the steps they start. Workers in an ephemeral environment take only the work tagged for it and baseline workers take the rest, from the same queues and servers.

Resources outside Kubernetes

Signadot installs and runs in your Kubernetes cluster, and still reaches past it. A resource plugin creates the cloud resources an environment needs, such as a managed database, a queue or a storage bucket, with your own Terraform or cloud CLI when the environment starts, and removes them when it ends.

Resource plugins: any resource, on the environment's lifecycle

A resource plugin is a set of create and delete steps your platform team writes once, with Helm, Terraform, a cloud CLI or a script. Signadot runs create when an ephemeral environment starts and delete when it ends, and hands the outputs, such as a host or credentials, to the environment's forked services as environment variables.

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Built for how your team actually works

Different roles, same platform. Signadot fits into your existing workflows.

Engineering Leaders

For Engineering Leaders

You're being asked to adopt AI coding tools and increase developer productivity without increasing headcount or cloud spend. Signadot is the infrastructure layer that makes that possible. Scale validation to match the pace of code generation, without scaling costs.

Platform Engineers

For Platform Engineers

You need infrastructure that fits your existing stack, not another abstraction to manage. Signadot is Kubernetes-native and integrates with your service mesh (Istio, Linkerd), CI/CD pipelines, and observability stack. Give your developers and their agents self-service environments without filing tickets.

Developers

For Developers

Get instant feedback on every change. No more waiting for a shared staging slot. Your coding agents can spin up sandboxes, run tests, and iterate autonomously to give you back the time you'd spend babysitting their output.

Everything your team needs to ship with confidence.

Coding agents generate more code, faster, and in parallel. Signadot gives every developer and agent a lightweight ephemeral environment in your Kubernetes cluster, connected to real services and real dependencies, without duplicating the entire stack. Changes are validated during development and before merge, so your team ships to production as fast as code is written.

Local development with real services

Agents and developers use the MCP Server and CLI to establish a secure, bi-directional tunnel between your local workstation and a remote Kubernetes cluster. Instantly test your local code changes end-to-end from mobile, web, or API frontends. No mocks required.

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Ephemeral environments for every pull request

Get a lightweight, ephemeral environment for every pull request, scalable to hundreds of concurrent PRs. Integrate easily with your CI to automate setup for every PR. Preview changes, manually validate, and run both functional and non-functional automated tests before merging code.

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Run E2E and integration tests pre-merge

Run your Playwright, Cypress or any other tests using Jobs. Signadot Jobs run securely within your Kubernetes cluster and are Sandbox-aware. Shift left end-to-end tests and catch integration issues before merging code.

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Signadot Plans

Platform teams build secure custom actions inside your Kubernetes cluster. Developers compose actions into deterministic plans that coding agents run to validate changes. All runs are fully deterministic, with no token costs, making plans fast and cost-effective at scale.

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Voice of our customers

Customer Success Stories

Frequently Asked Questions

How is Signadot different from other solutions?

Most ephemeral environment tools copy the whole stack for every change. Signadot multiplexes many ephemeral virtual environments within one physical environment, such as staging, and each one duplicates only the components a change touched. That keeps them light and fast to create, so hundreds run in parallel for developers and coding agents.

What capabilities does Signadot offer?

Local development. Run the service you are changing on your laptop, or let a coding agent do it, inside an ephemeral environment with real dependencies.
Preview environments. An ephemeral environment for every pull request, including web and mobile frontends.
Your own automated tests. Run Playwright, Cypress, k6 or any other suite in your cluster against each environment.
Smart Tests. API tests that compare a changed service with the baseline and flag breaking changes.
Coding agents. An MCP server and agent skills let agents create environments and test their own changes.

How does Signadot enable agentic development?

Each coding agent gets its own ephemeral environment with real services and data, whether it runs on a developer's laptop or as a background agent in the cloud. The agent runs its code against the real system, reads the errors, fixes them and runs its tests again before anyone reviews the change, without touching anyone else's work.

What coding agents does Signadot integrate with?

Any coding agent that supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP) or agent skills, including Claude Code and Cursor. Agents create and manage ephemeral environments and test their changes from inside their own workflow. Background agents running in cloud sandboxes get their own ephemeral environment too.

What is the Signadot MCP server?

The Signadot MCP server connects coding agents to your Kubernetes clusters through the Model Context Protocol. It ships with the Signadot CLI and gives agents tools to create and manage ephemeral environments and read cluster context, so they can test their changes against real services from a prompt.

What is a Signadot ephemeral environment?

An ephemeral environment, called a Sandbox in the Signadot CLI and API, holds only the components a code change touches and shares everything else in your existing environment, such as staging. Whoever uses it sees what looks like a full copy of staging, without interfering with anyone else's work.

Where do ephemeral environments run?

Inside the Kubernetes clusters you already run. Signadot installs as an operator, so workloads, data and tests stay in your infrastructure. The Signadot control plane manages the environments but sees only resource metadata by default, never your code or application data.

How much effort is it to get started?

Most teams create their first ephemeral environment in about 15 minutes. You install the Signadot operator in your Kubernetes cluster and use the CLI to create an environment and run your tests, or start on our playground cluster with no cluster of your own.

How does Signadot integrate with CI/CD systems?

Through the Signadot CLI, as a step in any pipeline. The pipeline creates an ephemeral environment for each pull request, runs your tests against it, and deletes it when the pull request closes. The docs have guides for GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins and Bitbucket Pipelines.

Does Signadot work with Istio and other service meshes?

Yes. On Istio it is native: Signadot updates the routing rules in your VirtualServices and Istio routes the traffic, in sidecar or ambient mode, with no extra sidecar to install. With the Gateway API, Signadot adds routes beside your HTTPRoutes and GRPCRoutes. With Linkerd or no mesh, a lightweight DevMesh sidecar routes requests. The routing key travels in the OpenTelemetry baggage header your tracing libraries already pass along.

Does Signadot support running automated tests?

Yes. Signadot runs your existing test suites, such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Postman, k6 or your own, in your cluster against each ephemeral environment, on pre-warmed runners, with the results in one place. Coding agents can also write new tests and run them in their environment, which gives them immediate feedback on their changes.

What are Signadot Smart Tests?

Smart Tests are API tests you write once in Starlark. Signadot sends the same requests to the changed service and to the baseline, and a model flags the differences that matter, such as a removed field or a new error, without an assertion for every field. They cover REST APIs with JSON and complement contract tests rather than replacing them.

Is Signadot secure?

Yes. Signadot runs in your infrastructure, and its control plane receives only resource metadata by default, never your code or application data. It supports SSO and role-based access control, and Signadot is SOC 2 Type II. See the security docs.

What types of applications work best with Signadot?

Cloud native applications built from microservices on Kubernetes, especially with 10 or more services, where testing a change against real dependencies gets hard. It also suits teams adopting coding agents, where 50 or more agents and developers need environments at once. Resource plugins bring in what runs outside Kubernetes, such as managed databases and cloud services.

How does pricing work?

Signadot has a free Starter plan, and paid plans that scale with usage as your team and coding agents ship more changes. See the pricing page, or talk to us for a custom quote.

How does Signadot compare to testing tools like Playwright, Cypress or Selenium?

Signadot works with them rather than replacing them. Those tools run your tests. Signadot gives each change a realistic ephemeral environment for them to run in, and runs them in parallel across many environments.

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