For teams deploying transactional AI agents

Test before your agents spend real money

Crucible simulates payment failures, vendor outages, rate limit cascades, and adversarial conditions so you can validate agent behavior before it costs you.

57%
of orgs have AI agents
in production
<65%
agent success rate on
enterprise function-calling
32%
cite quality as the #1
barrier to deployment

A chatbot that fails loses a ticket. An agent that fails loses capital.

General-purpose eval platforms test whether agents can hold a conversation. They don't test whether agents can handle a payment API returning a 429 at 3am, a vendor silently degrading response quality, or a price spike that should trigger a budget hold.

Crucible is built specifically for agents that transact. The ones connected to payment rails, procurement systems, and financial APIs. The ones where failure has a dollar sign attached.

What Crucible simulates

Payment Failures

Timeouts, partial charges, duplicate transactions, gateway switches under load. Test how your agent recovers when the payment rail breaks.

Rate Limit Cascades

What happens when 50 agents hit the same API simultaneously? Simulate throttling, backoff failures, and queue starvation.

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Budget Overruns

Test whether agents respect spending limits when vendors raise prices mid-session or when cheaper alternatives go offline.

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Compliance Boundaries

Validate that agents halt, escalate, or switch vendors when they encounter regulatory constraints or approval requirements.

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Vendor Degradation

Simulate services returning slower responses, lower-quality data, or deprecated endpoints. Does your agent notice? Does it switch?

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Adversarial Responses

Inject manipulated pricing, fake success codes, and malformed payloads. Verify your agent doesn't blindly trust external services.

How it works

01

Define your agent's world

Point Crucible at your agent's API dependencies. We generate mock environments that mirror real vendor behavior, latency, and failure modes.

02

Run scenario suites

Pick from pre-built financial scenarios or create custom ones. Run thousands of simulations in minutes. See exactly where your agent breaks.

03

Ship with confidence

Get a risk score before every deployment. Track cost efficiency, vendor selection quality, and compliance adherence across every simulation run.

The agent economy needs QA, not prayers.

Crucible is building the testing infrastructure that transactional AI agents deserve. Because in production, there are no do-overs.