Natural language processing tools enabling 88% cost reduction for a European advertising firm
An advertising-tech company spent €2.1 million annually on manual QA and code reviews.
StartDate delivered an AI co-pilot that performs static analysis, writes unit tests, suggests refactors, and catches 96% of security vulnerabilities before commit. It integrates directly into VS Code and JetBrains IDEs.
Defect leakage to production fell from 11% to 0.8%, and the client reduced external QA headcount by 88%, saving €1.85 million in the first year.