Where do you test AI agents before a real customer touches them?
A builder asks where to test AI apps for companies before a real customer touches them, finding Claude-spun sandboxes insufficient. The answer is two stages: a sandbox with fake customer data to catch crashes, then a watched pilot with one real business to catch the things that technically work but would annoy a real customer. Logging every run with input and outcome from day one makes the pilot failures diagnosable instead of mysterious.