We build apps.
We test it all.

BT Studio is a product studio from Hungary: the company is new (2025), the team has shipped and tested software together since 2016. We make our own apps, and we help teams ship faster with AI enablement, QA and DevOps that hold up.

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The apps

tailored to your needs

Built here, used daily, each on its own site.

on the Atlassian Marketplace

BesTest

Requirement and test management for Jira Cloud. Specs, test cases, cycles and reports, right where your team plans work.

this one pays the bills

early access

Gqlith

Postgres in. GraphQL, REST and MCP out. Automatically.

gqlith.dev

Cathold

One app for your entire household. Calendar, tasks, shopping, meals, budget, notes.

cathold.app

Sleepingbaby

Pick the right sleep method, get your nights back.

sleepingbaby.info
shiny new

movetotop

The backlog where priority is a dollar field. A self-aware bid board for the Atlassian ecosystem.

movetotop.team

And the things we do for you

01
AI enablement

Your developers, testers and POs, shipping with agentic tools. Hands-on workshops and embedded sprints, measured in cycle time.

02
Testing as a service

Manual and automated QA, test management, test leadership. We have done this for a living since 2016, behind apps with almost 5M users.

03
DevOps as a service

Pipelines, releases, cloud infrastructure. Your team ships features, we keep the machinery humming.

Grab 30 free minutes Talk through your testing, AI or DevOps headache with us. Opinions are free. Work is not.

How we got here

2016

Founded CodeCanvas: testing as a service for the Atlassian ecosystem.

meanwhile

Ran QA behind Email This Issue, almost 5M users. Led the testing branches at Green Fox and Codecool, and wrote their curricula as external advisors.

2020

CodeCanvas, with our app Glass, is acquired by META-INF.

2020 to 2025

Engineering and quality at META-INF, on products used by millions.

2025

BT Studio. Same team, brand new company, apps of our own.

Portrait of Balazs Szakal
Balazs Szakal Co-founder. Software tester, Atlassian expert, product owner.
Portrait of Mark Szabo
Mark Szabo Co-founder. Engineering leader, 12+ years, cloud and quality.