FlakyGuard — AI-Powered Flaky Test Detective for Small Dev Teams

The Problem

Flaky tests are the cockroaches of software engineering. They're tests that sometimes pass and sometimes fail, without any code changes. They erode trust in the entire test suite, block CI pipelines for hours, and waste extraordinary amounts of developer time investigating phantom failures.

According to Google's internal research, flaky tests account for 4.56% of all test failures and consume over 2% of total coding time across the organization. For a 10-person dev team, that's roughly one full-time engineer's worth of productivity lost to flaky test investigation every year.

The problem is compounding because AI-generated code (via Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code) creates more tests faster, but with less attention to edge cases and timing dependencies. The same tools accelerating development are accelerating flaky test accumulation.

Small teams (2-25 devs) are hit hardest. Enterprise teams use Buildkite Analytics ($250+/mo), Datadog CI Visibility ($23/host/mo + overages), or Launchable ($500+/mo). Small teams have nothing — they resort to grep-ing CI logs, maintaining spreadsheets of known flaky tests, or simply ignoring the problem until it blocks a critical deploy.