TestBox - Test drive your software options before you buy

This is such a ridiculously helpful tool for software buyers. No more imagining how SAAS would work with your data, you just get to try it. We at SignalFire are honored to be investors

Thank you so much for hunting us @nikkielizdemere The inspiration for TestBox came from repeatedly hearing just how incredibly frustrating the software buying experience is – from the Enterprise software buyers I worked with to sales reps at large tech companies and even my own friends. In every conversation, I heard similar stories where buyers felt that the process was all on the sales team’s terms, often taking many months, and without all the information and access they needed to be truly confident in their decision. @peter_testbox and I built TestBox to change that. TestBox is the first truly Customer-Led buying experience. Our self-serve platform is all about empowering the end buyer to buy on their own terms, without needing to go through the typical sales process. We have actively chosen a business model that allows us to provide a free service to the buyer so that it’s accessible to any company of any size. TestBox gives buyers a true side-by-side experience of each product so buyers can test if each solution will truly work for their team. It’s also super easy for buyers to track their feedback on each product and collaborate with their teams to ensure that they make the right decision the first time. Today we’re live with Customer Support software (Zendesk, Freshdesk, and Hubspot so far and in partnership conversation with other vendors as well) and we will be expanding to more vendors and across more verticals (like CRM, Customer Success, etc.) very soon. We’re really excited to be building the first truly Customer-Led buying experience and hope it’s the best buying anyone has had for Enterprise Software.

Enterprise Software has come a long way in the last decade but we’re still stuck in the painful traditional sales process of demos and sales calls. We've all wanted to get our hands on a real environment and compare options and now it's possible. It’s why I’m thrilled to be sharing TestBox with you all. @samuelbsenior and @peter_testbox have built the first Customer-Led buying platform that means you can actually test drive your software options side-by-side before buying. No more needing to go through a long sales process instead self-serve and buy on your own terms. The way they’ve built TestBox is really cool - they use OpenAI to generate data that looks like your own company and then automatically build out all the most important use cases for your team. Meaning you get the same experience for a like for like comparison across multiple software platforms. They even make it easier to collaborate with your team by having all feedback built into the testing experience, no more wrangling Google Sheets. Right now they’ve built for Customer Support software but are expanding into more verticals soon. TestBox is going to be huge for both buyers and sellers of software by making it faster and easier to self-serve and get to a software decision with confidence. Congrats to Sam and Peter, excited to continue seeing TestBox flourish. 🥳

This is epic - I HATE the enterprise sales process from a buyer's perspective and I'm keen to see this problem fixed. Congrats to the team on the launch!!

Thanks @nikkielizdemere, you're an absolute legend! (one of the highest honors an Australian can give) I met @samuelbsenior when we were both studying CompSci and working as customer support heroes. We quickly became good friends and had many conversations about building something awesome together – I always knew it was only a matter of time. Fast forward to last year when Sam first brought the TestBox idea to me. I was immediately excited. Not only was there an opportunity to dramatically change software buying to be about the customer, but I’d get to work with my best friend! As we researched and refined the idea, we grew increasingly confident that we could build something that software buyers would find valuable. We then found some awesome people who believed in our vision and together we’ve already been able to release our platform to the world and we’re all super excited to see it become the standard for companies when buying. Over the past year, we’ve overcome some challenging technical obstacles like how to embed another company’s product within our platform without compromising security. (Hint: we built a very advanced proxy service.) How do we build interactions between our platform and the products that we’re embedding? How do we quickly build up unique environments for each of our users? With the help of an awesome team, we’re really proud and excited to share TestBox for our first vertical, Customer Support (Zendesk, Hubspot, Freshdesk...more coming soon). Over the coming months, you’ll see us build out our TestBox for Sales, TestBox Insights and move into more and more verticals. There will be many more challenges along the way, but we’re up for it!

Huge congratulations on this launch! Very exciting times. I can't wait for TestBox to expand beyond the current use cases. This tool would've been immensely helpful during the many cumbersome software evaluations that I've gone through.

Love it!

Nice one!

Absolutely incredible. I can’t believe this hasn’t existed until now!

Woah, this is insane. Will definitely be coming back to this before I buy software next.