Screen and camera, at once
Dual recording films the hardware through the camera and composites it picture-in-picture with the screen into one file — no second phone, no tripod, no two clips to sync afterwards.
Case study
How BetaSuite came out of a gap we saw ourselves
BetaSuite is one of Goodfield Studio's own products, not a client engagement — designed, built and shipped end to end. This is the problem it was built to solve, what we built, and who it's built for.
The gap
Most beta-testing tools are built backwards. They're designed for the company running the beta — distributing builds, managing tester cohorts, collecting telemetry — on the assumption that the company controls the tooling. The person actually doing the testing, holding a pre-release robot vacuum or a prototype drone and trying to document exactly what it just did wrong, is left with whatever's left over: a notes app, a phone held at an awkward angle, a bug report written from memory an hour later.
That's the kind of friction Goodfield exists to notice — the same ground-floor pragmatism behind everything else we build: solve the problem people are actually hitting, not the one that looks good in a slide deck. So we built the tester's tool that didn't exist.
What we built
Every feature answers a specific failure mode of testing hardware, and the software that ships with it.
Save what just happened
In Instant Capture mode, BetaSuite keeps a rolling buffer of the last 15 to 30 seconds while the app is open, so an intermittent fault that's over before you can react can still be saved with one tap.
Built for NDA work
Confidential Mode blocks cloud AI and uploads, and warns before anything is shared or exported. On supported iPhone and iPad, on-device Apple Intelligence keeps working, so testing an unannounced product doesn't mean giving up useful tooling.
Local-first, no account
There is no account to create. Project records are kept in an encrypted database on the device; photos and videos are ordinary files in the app and are saved to the camera roll by default, which can be turned off. BetaSuite's privacy policy (opens betasuite.app, a separate site) sets out what its online features, such as AI, weather and feature requests, send and where.
Reports that write their first draft
A structured report drafts itself from the markers and feedback already logged during testing, instead of starting from a blank page at the end of the week.
A checklist that can't quietly skip a step
Reusable test protocols run one step at a time and record an answer for every step before the run counts as complete, so the same checks don't get re-typed, or silently dropped, every cycle.
Who it's built for
BetaSuite is built for people testing physical products in the field — robot mowers, robot vacuums, drones, e-bikes, smart-home gear and appliances — plus the companion apps that ship with that hardware. It turns a testing session into timestamped evidence and a report the manufacturer's engineers can actually act on, whether that goes back through a formal beta program or straight to the team building the product.
This is Goodfield's own Test & Diagnose capability, shipped as a real product rather than only a service we offer. See Test & Diagnose Visit BetaSuite (opens betasuite.app, a separate site)
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