minitap

Minitap is a Paris-based company developing "mini," an AI agent positioned as an autonomous QA teammate for software teams. mini connects to a company's product specifications, tickets and codebase, learns how the product works, maps its user journeys, and determines what changes with each release. It then tests individual pull requests based on what is at risk, runs full regression suites, investigates failures, and returns reports to engineering teams. The company contrasts this with manual QA and script-based end-to-end frameworks such as Maestro, Appium, Playwright and Cypress, where humans design suites, author tests and maintain them; with mini, the agent handles suite design, authoring, change adaptation and failure triage, while humans retain the decision to ship.

The product, released under the name minitest, runs tests on iOS, Android and web, including virtual and real devices, and covers scenarios such as OAuth and OTP login, offline and flaky network conditions, file and media uploads, personas, GPS and location mocking, and runtime CPU/memory logging. Tests are expressed as outcome-based criteria derived from code, PRDs or a one-line description rather than brittle selectors, with the stated aim that suites survive refactors without authoring or maintenance. Failures are delivered with session replay, expected-versus-actual comparison, repro steps, device logs, and a fix prompt formatted for coding assistants such as Cursor and Claude. mini runs inside customer CI pipelines, returning a pass/fail check on the release pull request or a message in Slack, and integrates with GitHub, Slack, Gmail and Jira, with Linear, Bitbucket, GitLab and Notion listed as forthcoming. Supported mobile stacks include React Native, Flutter, Swift and Kotlin. Optional human QA engineers from Minitap can be added for review.

Minitap also maintains mobile-use, an open-source Python agent framework (Apache-2.0) that lets AI agents control real Android and iOS devices and simulators through natural language, including UI-aware navigation and structured data extraction, and is configurable across LLM providers including OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, Anthropic, xAI, OpenRouter and MiniMax. Related public repositories include a minitest CLI, a GitHub Action for triggering minitest suites, and a Homebrew tap.

Founding story

Minitap was founded in 2025 by Nicolas Dehandschoewercker (co-founder and CEO) and Luc Mahoux-Nakamura, both 23 at the time of the seed announcement. The two grew up together in Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, a village in the Burgundy region of France, where Luc taught Nico to code; they studied together to rank in France's top 0.1% academically and have worked together on projects for about seven years. At 18 they built their first mobile app and bootstrapped a product called Fuego to 10,000 users. Nico studied biomedical engineering at Imperial College London and worked on AI research; Luc built delivery drone infrastructure at Rakuten. The CEO has said the company was started to shorten the distance between building a product and learning whether users want it, motivated by the two years spent building their first mobile product.

Business model

Minitap sells its mini/minitest agent to engineering teams as a service that replaces or supplements in-house QA work. The site presents plan tiers with a monthly estimate generated from a short questionnaire about the platforms and surfaces a team ships on, plus a free trial and a live demo. Minitap's own QA engineers can be added for human review as an optional layer on top of the agent. Deployment options span Minitap's cloud for smaller teams, a customer's VPC, and a customer's own datacenter or fully air-gapped network for the largest accounts, including use of physical devices in customer racks.

Subscription plans priced against the platforms and volume of release checks a customer requires, with a monthly estimate produced from the site's plan calculator; a free trial is offered and a promotional 50% first-year discount was offered to partners booking a demo around the minitest launch.

Traction

The company reports more than 20 customer companies and states that apps tested by mini reach over 100 million people. Memrise is cited as a long-running customer, alongside Nanogram and a stealth EdTech company. The open-source mobile-use repository grew from roughly 1,900 GitHub stars at the time of the December 2025 seed announcement to about 2,800 stars and 237 forks with 879 commits in the GitHub listing. Press coverage states early customers were using Minitap to accelerate experimentation cycles on consumer-facing mobile apps.

Latest developments

In May 2026 Minitap announced the release of minitest, offering partners who booked a demo a 50% discount for the following year, and expanded availability from mobile to web. Public repositories including the minitest CLI, a minitest-trigger GitHub Action and mobile-use show activity through August 2026. The company is hiring in Paris, including a full-time forward deployed engineer role advertised at €50k–€80k depending on experience, to own customer deployments in Minitap's cloud, customer VPCs, on-premise datacenters and air-gapped networks.