Review the browser-facing part of custom or AI-built software without becoming a frontend developer: workflows, states, access, speed, and handover.
When a builder shows you a working screen, ask to see the rest of the customer task: slow data, no data, mistakes, permissions, and use on a phone.
This guide gives a nontechnical founder a way to review navigation, forms, components, rendering, accessibility, and performance as product responsibilities.
You will leave with a handover sheet that names what each critical page depends on and what still needs testing.
We use this guide in Brownsmith's own team training. The tools are available to anyone; the creative work is choosing what fits the problem and knowing how to judge the result.
Non-technical founders working with consultants, developers, agencies, freelancers, or AI coding agents.
No engineering experience is required. Bring a product idea, proposal, or existing software decision to examine.
Put the guide to work
Ask the builder to demonstrate the entire customer task across those states, rather than approving screenshots alone. Give a founder a plain-language inventory of what each page does and where frontend risk sits.
Illustrative product or service: A subscription dashboard for a small B2B service
Continue the decision path
Brief a builder or coding agent, review the hidden system as well as the interface, and accept the result with repeatable tests.