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Investor Materials · Series Seed

The Quality Oracle
for AI-assisted
mobile development.

An AI-native quality engineering platform replacing mobile QA departments — and the missing feedback loop for every AI coding agent that ships mobile code.

The Thesis

Mobile QA was a department.
Now it's a model.

We're replacing manual mobile testing with an AI-native quality engineering platform — built specifically for the era where 41% of code is written by agents and tested by no one.

The Problem

Mobile QA hasn't kept up
with the things it has to test.

01
Device fragmentation is exploding. 24,000+ distinct Android devices, multiple iOS versions, OEM-specific skins (Samsung One UI, Xiaomi MIUI). Manual coverage is mathematically impossible.
02
Agents are writing the code. Nothing is testing it. 41% of new code is AI-generated. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex ship without a quality oracle. The feedback loop closes at "looks good to me."
03
Manual QA is structurally broken. Headcount-bound, slow, expensive. By the time a release is "tested," it's already three sprints behind. Fintech and regulated industries can't afford the gap.
Why Now

A 12–18 month window
before the category closes.

Three forces are converging — and the first AI-native mobile QA platform to capture mid-market mind share will define the category.

Force 01

AI coding agents have no quality oracle.

Every Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex deployment is a flying blind iteration. The Agent Feedback API is a $500M opportunity — designed into Aucert's architecture from Day 1.

Force 02

Mobile complexity is widening.

More devices, more OS versions, more form factors per quarter. Emulator-first economics with AI Device Twin overlay solves what device-cloud incumbents structurally cannot.

Force 03 · Existential

Big Tech is circling.

Firebase App Testing Agent: Gemini-powered, free, in preview. Currently Android-only. The window closes when Google extends to iOS — likely 12–24 months. Speed is the only defense.

Honesty Architecture is not a moat. Speed of customer compounding is. Every month without a paying customer is a month closer to commodity.
The Platform

A 5-layer AI testing pipeline.

Each layer is independently optimized, MCP-standardized for inter-layer communication, and decoupled enough to swap models without re-engineering the system.

L1 Generation Designs test scenarios from Knowledge Graph context — code ASTs, PRDs, historical bug patterns.
L2 Execution Runs on emulators with AI Device Twin overlay. Near-zero marginal cost. Infinite parallelism. No device queuing.
L3 Analysis Visual reasoning on screenshots, failure classification. Fine-tuned vision models at 1/100th API cost.
L4 Decision Confidence-gated routing: 95% of decisions at $0.001. Only 2–5% trigger multi-model verification.
L5 Reporting Structured outputs for both human teams and AI coding agents. Jira/Linear integration. Regression-risk prediction.
$0.04–0.11 Cost per test run vs. $0.15–0.60 for incumbent device-cloud testing.
89–96% Gross margin Scaling to 96–98% as orchestration learns to route 65%+ of tasks to fine-tuned models.
~6 wks MVP shipping Compliance-gate wedge first, then KG-powered functional QA by Month 3.
The Magic

Two technical bets
everything else compounds on.

Bet 01 · Per-customer moat

The Knowledge Graph.

A relational map of each customer's app — Code ASTs, runtime telemetry, historical bug patterns, UI component graph. "Truth is in the code, not the docs."

Day 1 value
Tests are contextually aware of architecture, business logic, and historical failure patterns. Eliminates AI hallucination.
Year 2+ value
Anonymized cross-customer structural patterns. "React Native nav components with this pattern fail 40% more on Android 14+." The CrowdStrike/Stripe Radar model applied to QA.
Bet 02 · Cost & accuracy moat

The AI Device Twin.

Predictive models simulating real-device behavior from emulator tests. Emulator-first economics. Real-device accuracy.

The advantage
5–10x cost advantage vs. device-cloud incumbents. 75–85% real-device behavior coverage. Provisional patent planned.
The flywheel
Every customer's emulator-vs-real comparison data improves the twin's accuracy for everyone. Network effect on calibration data.
The Long Bet

Every AI-generated code change
should pass through a quality oracle.

The Agent Feedback API positions Aucert as the quality gate for AI coding agents — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex. We design for it from Day 1. We build it after PMF.

TAM Expansion

From mobile QA to AI-assisted development quality.

Today: Mobile QASAM 2025
$17B
+ Adjacent: AI Agents2030 PROJECTION
$50B+

Combined opportunity expands the addressable market 3–5x. Exit multiples shift from QA/DevOps (5–8x) to AI platforms (15–30x).

What we ship Day 1

Structured JSON output from L5.

Good API hygiene. Costs nothing extra. Serves both humans and agents. Designed for the future. Doesn't depend on it.

What we don't ship until PMF

The full Agent Feedback API.

Built at Month 12–18 only after 10+ paying customers and >80% accuracy proof. Discipline is the moat. Premature scope creep is the named risk.

The framing This is slide 12–14 of a 16-slide deck — not the lead. We sell core mobile QA. The Agent API is the call option that separates a $50M company from a $500M one.
Market

Big enough. Growing fast.
No AI-native incumbent.

Mobile App Testing ServicesSAM · 16–17% CAGR
$7.7–17B
App Test AutomationSAM · 20.7% CAGR · 2031
$59.5B
Adjacent: AI Agent Market~47% CAGR · 2030
$52.6B
Mobile App Security TestingNICHE · 11.2% CAGR
$1.35B
Ideal Customer Profile

Mid-market. Mobile-first. Regulated.

200–2,000 employees. Fintech, e-commerce, health-tech. Mobile is core revenue, not adjunct. Target ACV $120–300K.

Why Fintech First

BFSI = 28.3% of mobile testing spend. Mobile banking failures = direct monetary loss + regulatory fines. Non-discretionary budget. Vivek's PhonePe pedigree opens doors cold outreach cannot.

Year 3 SOM Target

$15–30M ARR

75–150 customers. ~0.2% of SAM.

Competition

Fragmented landscape.
No AI-native leader yet.

Player Threat Level AI-native Knowledge Graph Device Twin Agent API Cross-customer learning
Aucert
BlinqIO HIGH
Firebase App Testing EXISTENTIAL
BrowserStack MED
TestMu / Sofy / Apptest MED
Honest Threat Assessment BlinqIO is closer than originally acknowledged — Gartner Cool Vendor 2025, SOC 2 Type 2, Experitest founders, fintech customers. We out-execute on KG depth and Device Twin. Firebase is the existential risk: free, Google-scale, currently Android-only. If they extend to iOS with deep AI, our window closes. Our defense: cross-customer learning, enterprise trust tiers, multi-platform from Day 1, and the Quality Oracle positioning Firebase cannot credibly own.
Defensibility

Moats are sequential,
not parallel.

Each layer requires the previous one to validate. We tell investors what's earned versus what's earned-with-execution. Composite grade today: B+. Path to A- in 18 months.

Now · Active Founder Domain Authority Grade A Vivek led mobile QA at PhonePe (500M users). Rajesh oversaw QA at Multiplier + PayPal. Surgical expertise. Opens fintech doors cold outreach cannot.
Now → Month 3 Workflow Embeddedness Grade B+ CI/CD quality-gate integration. Removal requires re-engineering deployment workflow. First structural switching cost.
Month 6–12 Per-Customer Knowledge Graph Grade B+ App-specific context, bug patterns, code structure. Compounds with usage. Core switching-cost narrative for Year 1.
Month 12–18 AI Device Twin Models Grade A− Predictive real-device behavior from cross-customer comparison data. Network effect on calibration. Provisional patent planned.
Month 18–24 Cross-Customer KG & Quality Oracle Grade A− / A Anonymized structural patterns benefit every customer. Quality Oracle for AI coding agents expands TAM 3–5x. CrowdStrike/Radar precedent.
What is NOT a Moat The 5-layer architecture (any competent team can replicate). Multi-agent debate (table stakes by late 2026). The capability ecosystem (a product strategy, not a technical moat). Model orchestration routing (commoditizing). Architecture is good engineering. Speed of customer compounding is the actual defense.
Go-to-Market

Land. Expand. Compound.
130%+ NRR by Year 2.

Three sequential phases. Founder-led sales powered by the PhonePe story. Land at $120–180K ACV. Expand to $240–480K through capability modules — the SentinelOne / CrowdStrike playbook applied to QA.

Phase 01 Validate Month 0–9 · Services-led 3–5 design partners. Hands-on onboarding. Direct founder-led sales. PhonePe story is the door-opener. Target · 3–5 paying partners @ $5–10K/mo
Phase 02 Product-Led Month 9–24 · Self-serve Auto-Discovery Agent builds V1 KG. First capability modules. Content + community marketing. Hire 2 AEs. Target · 20–50 customers · $2–5M ARR
Phase 03 Enterprise Month 24+ · SOC 2 Type II VPC / on-prem option. Enterprise sales team. Channel partnerships. Tiered trust architecture for fintech. Target · 100+ customers · $10–15M ARR
$120–480K ACV growth path Land Core QA, expand via capability modules.
130%+ Target NRR by Y2 Free enrichments drive retention. Paid modules drive expansion.
96–98% Gross margin at scale Emulator-first economics. Self-learning model orchestration.
~20–30% Tier-4 enterprise refusal Fintech that won't accept any cloud analysis. We accept it. Offer on-prem.
Team

Founder-market fit.
Three for three.

Both technical founders have managed mobile QA at scale. Bay Area + India distribution. Expert syndicate team grade: A.

CEO & Co-founder Vivek Soneja

14 years mobile development. PhonePe founding team, led Mobile QA at $12B fintech with 500M+ users. Flipkart early mobile team. WhatsApp billion-user-scale engineering. Architect-track since.

CTO & Co-founder Rajesh Kumar

14 years engineering. PayPal enterprise fintech backend at global scale. Multiplier B2B SaaS — oversaw QA team. Director-level engineering leadership. Polyglot: JVM & Go.

COO & Co-founder Vibhu Singh

beans.ai COO ($24M raised, 500+ enterprise customers including FedEx, Verizon, Domino's). McKinsey consulting background. MBA. B2B sales-cycle management and operational scaling.

Why this team, why now Two founders have personally managed QA for fintech apps with hundreds of millions of users. The COO has scaled an enterprise B2B sales motion to 500+ customers. This is not theoretical credibility. It is surgical expertise meeting an exact problem.
The Ask

$3–5M Seed.
12 months to Series A.

Validate product-market fit with 5–10 design partners. Achieve SOC 2 Type I. Build the core platform through Month 12.

Use of Funds
60% Platform Build Engineering team. ML hires. Core 5-layer pipeline + KG.
20% Design Partners Services-led validation. White-glove onboarding for first 5.
10% SOC 2 Type I Vanta/Drata automation. Table stakes for fintech.
10% Operations Legal, compliance, infrastructure, founder runway.
Series A Milestones (Month 12)
M3
3+ design partners on contracts. Validated mobile QA pain. Pricing tested.
M6
1+ paying customer. Kill criterion gate. Pivot if missed.
M9
3+ paying customers · NPS > 30. SOC 2 Type I achieved. First capability module shipped.
M12
$500K+ ARR trajectory. 5+ customers. Working KG-powered platform on Android. Series A-ready.
The Bottom Line

Mobile QA was a department.
Now it's a model.
And every AI coding agent will need a quality oracle.

Build the ugliest possible thing that proves the Knowledge Graph makes tests better than a prompt. Six weeks. One framework. One emulator. If it works, customers will forgive the ugliness.