Testlio Answers Critical Software Quality Gaps with Next-Gen LeoCore™

AUSTIN, TX, July 20 – Testlio, the leading AI-powered crowdsourced testing solution, today unveiled the next evolution of its AI-driven testing platform, LeoCore™, alongside its newly released 2026 Software Quality Report. 

LeoCore orchestrates the entire software testing lifecycle in a single intelligent platform, combining AI-powered test creation at machine speed with the domain expertise of Testlio's global testing community to help enterprises accelerate releases, expand test coverage, and deliver higher-quality software at scale.

Key findings from Testlio’s 2026 Software Quality Report

Testlio’s 2026 Software Quality Report shows that 34% of clients who work with the company uncover at least one critical or high-severity defect in the very first testing cycle. Most often, these issues are found in functional bugs (44%, like broken logins and onboarding flows) and payment failures (22%), with the remainder split across UX/usability (20%) and other areas like localization, accessibility, and regression (14%).

AI assistants posed an even greater risk, with 77% of failures being significant enough to damage user trust and product integrity.

These high failure rates highlight a growing vulnerability in the modern software lifecycle. To ship flawlessly at scale, global enterprises need the velocity of automated workflows anchored by the nuance of human validation. The pressure to release faster is compounding the need for machine speed orchestration within this lifecycle.

Testlio’s AI-driven platform, LeoCore, aims to do exactly this: orchestrate the critical balance between AI speed and human insight to help enterprises address these critical failures more reliably and at machine speed.

LeoCore™: Orchestrating Human Testing at AI Speed

For more than a decade, Testlio has been the trusted QA partner for enterprises across fintech, ecommerce, media and entertainment, and software, sectors where a single glitch can ripple into a damaged brand, severe regulatory penalties, and millions in lost revenue. That history in high-stakes validation is what LeoCore is built on, designed to catch the kinds of high-severity risks the 2026 data report uncovered before they ever reach users.

As an example, popular fitness training app Strava accelerated its release velocity by 6x, establishing a rapid 6-to-9 hour turnaround for insights gathered by real athletes physically testing across 13 global locations. “Testlio knows how important speed is to our growth. I love Testlio’s flexibility and willingness to accommodate our needs. When I send Testlio a release, I know it will be ready,” said Benjamin Wolak, Mobile QA Engineer at Strava.

LeoCore is Testlio's proprietary platform that orchestrates the crowdsourced testing process end-to-end, while qualified human testers provide the high-fidelity, real-world insights needed to validate that every release works just as users expect it to. Built on an intelligence layer fueled by 13+ years of testing data, LeoCore elevates crowdsourced testing from a tactical QA step into a predictive intelligence engine.

This proprietary intelligence layer manages all aspects of the testing lifecycle, powering precision talent orchestration through LeoMatch™ and driving actionable data analysis with LeoInsights™. By tracking quality patterns over time, LeoCore allows enterprises to benchmark their performance against industry peers and accurately predict potential release risks before they ever reach users.

The platform coordinates QA experts, executes test cycles, and schedules targeted test runs across highly specific physical device matrices. It tracks the exact hardware, operating system, and localized network attributes of real devices, then blends that information with human insight to deliver actionable intelligence.

“The report is a wake-up call. Teams are shipping faster than they can verify, and AI is widening that gap, not closing it," said Darin Brown, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Testlio. "A passing test suite tells you what you asked it to check. It won't tell you the onboarding flow is confusing, or the chatbot's answer is technically right but tone-deaf. That's what LeoCore is built to catch."

Crowdsourced Testing at Scale

Fueling LeoCore at scale is Testlio's global community of vetted testers and specialized domain experts in payments, AI, localization, and more, validating products exactly as intended for users to experience them. The community tests across 600K+ real devices, 800+ payment methods, 150+ countries, and 100+ languages to uncover real-world issues and edge cases that no software testing toolchain can replicate on its own.

“Automation alone can only validate what it's designed to detect. Testlio's global network of expert testers uncovers the real-world issues that matter most: the payment that fails with a local wallet, the AI response that offends or erodes customer trust, the accessibility gap, or the edge case that only appears on a specific device or in a particular market. That's the difference between software that passes tests and software customers trust,” said Dean Hickman-Smith, Chief Revenue Officer at Testlio.

Together, Testlio's managed services, its growing ecosystem, and the AI-driven intelligence behind LeoCore form a single model: automated efficiency, validated by human judgment, at the scale enterprises need.

To learn more, visit testlio.com/platform.

To read Testlio’s 2026 Software Quality Report, click here.

Methodology

The findings in Testlio’s 2026 Software Quality Report draw on Testlio client engagements conducted over the last 12 months and AI testing experiments involving thousands of real-user prompts across multiple AI assistants. The engagement findings are intended to illustrate patterns observed across Testlio testing programs and connect them to broader industry trends. 

About Testlio

Testlio helps global brands release better products with confidence, speed, and scale. Our AI-powered platform, LeoCore™, orchestrates the crowdsourced testing process, while qualified human testers provide the high-fidelity, real-world insights needed to validate that every release works just as users expect it to. Built for enterprise security, Testlio is an ISO 27001:2022-certified vendor and a trusted Microsoft Supplier, applying rigorous global privacy and compliance measures to every engagement. Female-founded and 100% remote, Testlio partners with world-class engineering teams at Paramount, PayPal, Clari, Strava, and Merck. Learn more at www.testlio.com.