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

The enterprise alternative to Qovery

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Virtualized environments for developers and agents without duplicating infrastructure.
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Enable automated testing and true team collaboration in shared sandboxes.
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Cost-efficient at scale as agents multiply the number of concurrent environments needed.
Diagram of a Signadot sandbox testing a service against the baseline environment
Trusted by engineering teams worldwide

Qovery is built for managing duplicated environments, not efficient microservices testing. Signadot is.

Qovery is a DevOps automation platform for provisioning and managing complete cloud infrastructure and environments
Use cases and capabilities
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Kubernetes-Native Validation Platform
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Virtualized Environments
Lightweight sandboxes spin up in seconds inside your existing cluster, whether triggered by a developer or a coding agent. No infrastructure duplication.
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Composable Validation
A framework of reusable tools and actions that agents and developers invoke to validate changes against real dependencies, including async systems like Kafka and SQS.
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Cost-Efficient at Scale
Practical and affordable to run parallel validation across large fleets of agents and developers on every PR.
Qovery
Environment Management solution
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Heavy & Costly Duplication
Creates a full, heavyweight copy of all services for every environment. This model is slow to spin up, drives up infrastructure costs, and does not scale. This is especially true as coding agents multiply the number of concurrent environments needed.
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No Support for sharing Async systems
Message queues need to be duplicated for every environment
Impractical for Automated Testing
Signadot combines virtualized environments with a composable validation framework on your existing Kubernetes cluster. Agents and developers get fast, isolated, full-fidelity feedback on every change without linear growth in infrastructure cost.
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Previews for Every Pull Request
From web to mobile frontends, generate on-demand previews that let your team test earlier and deploy with confidence.
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Launch Previews in Seconds
Don't waste time waiting. Signadot delivers previews in seconds while competitors take minutes, keeping your engineering velocity high.
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Cut Infrastructure Cost by 90%
Testing across pull requests without duplicating environments cuts down cloud costs dramatically.
Testimonials

Hear from our customers

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$2M saved annually
On the margin, with the Signadot approach, 99.8% of the isolated environment's infrastructure costs look wasteful. That percentage looks like an exaggeration, but it's really not.
Connor Braa, Software Engineering Manager at Brex
Connor Braa
Software Engineering Manager
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83% lower change failure rate
We basically stopped creating full preview environments and replaced our custom solution with Signadot. Instead of isolating the full environment, the strategy using routing keys is much lighter, and we are able to provide an isolated environment, even with isolated databases, per PR quite fast.
Marcus Tavares, Staff Software Engineer at Bitso
Marcus Tavares
Staff Software Engineer
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No more fighting over staging
Creating a sandbox is extremely fast, it works every time, lets me test what I'm building quickly, and move on. This is awesome.
Tyler Marien, Senior Software Developer at Wealthsimple
Tyler Marien
Senior Software Developer
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10x integration capacity
Our engineers were spending more time waiting for an environment than shipping. Now they test against our real services in parallel, which made a whole tier of fixed test infrastructure unnecessary. Retiring environments we had carried for years is projected to save us several million dollars annually.
Jony Jeyaratnam, Head of Engineering at Miro
Jony Jeyaratnam
Head of Engineering

See how we compare

From code changes to testing environments in minutes. Our automated workflow lets you focus on development while we handle the preview environment setup and teardown.
Feature
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Local Development
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Run services locally and route traffic to/from a remote Kubernetes cluster
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Not optimized for local dev
PR Previews
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Automatically create previews for PR testing
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Creates complete duplicate environments for each PR, requiring significantly more resources
Automated Testing
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Built-in support for automated testing (including AI-powered SmartTests)
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Isolation Model
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Request routing based isolation
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Full infrastructure duplication
Primary Focus
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Microservices testing platform
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DevOps automation platform
Agentic Development
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MCP server for autonomous agent workflows
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MCP server and AI Copilot available; full environment duplication adds cost and latency per agent session

The bottleneck has shifted from writing code to proving it works.

Agentic development only delivers value when code generation velocity converts into shipped product. Signadot provides the validation infrastructure to make that conversion happen: virtualized environments that spin up in seconds and a composable validation framework that makes feedback fast, isolated, and reproducible at enterprise scale.

Built for Developers and Agents

Integrate with CI tools you already use
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Support all test frameworks
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Signadot is making it easier for our developers to build and test microservices using deployments that are incredibly similar to production. This has made both human and AI-written code easier to validate and test.
Naomi Klein, Lead Infrastructure Engineer at Laurel
Naomi Klein
Lead Infrastructure Engineer at Laurel
How is Signadot different from other testing solutions?

Unlike traditional approaches that create full duplicate environments, Signadot uses a unique request-routing approach that allows you to test changes in isolation while sharing existing infrastructure. This results in up to 90% cost savings while delivering significantly faster feedback cycles.

How does Signadot integrate with my CI/CD pipeline?

Signadot provides a CLI and API that integrates with all popular CI/CD systems including GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, and GitLab. Our integration creates sandboxes for each pull request, runs tests, and reports results back to your pull request, providing complete visibility into test outcomes.

What testing frameworks does Signadot support?

Signadot works with any testing framework you currently use, including Cypress, Selenium, Playwright, Postman, RestAssured, JUnit, pytest, and more. There's no need to rewrite your tests - just point them at your sandbox environments using our routing mechanisms.

Do I need to modify my applications to use Signadot?

No code changes are required to your applications. Signadot works at the network layer by intercepting requests and routing them to the appropriate services. We provide tools like our Chrome extension, SDK, and CLI to make it easy to manage routing without modifying your application code.

How long does it take to set up Signadot?

Most teams are up and running with Signadot in less than a day. Installation involves deploying our Kubernetes operator to your cluster and configuring your CI/CD pipeline to create sandboxes. Our team provides hands-on support to ensure a smooth onboarding experience.

Does Signadot support coding agents?

Yes. Signadot's MCP server lets coding agents (including Cursor, Claude Code, and VSCode) provision sandboxes, run tests, and verify changes autonomously. This turns agents from code generators into autonomous engineers that can validate their own work in a closed feedback loop.

Can Signadot work with our service mesh?

Yes, Signadot integrates with popular service meshes like Istio, Linkerd, and Consul. We can leverage your existing service mesh for routing or use our built-in routing mechanisms if you don't have a service mesh. Our approach is designed to be flexible and work with your existing infrastructure.

Validate code as fast as agents write it. Cut environment costs by 90%.

Explore how Signadot helps engineering teams validate code at the speed agents generate it, with cost-efficient parallel validation on your existing Kubernetes infrastructure.