From lead to launch, and beyond.

The first call is real. You describe what you are trying to build or test. Bill asks the questions that determine whether we are the right shop and gives you a straight answer in the same call. If we are not the fit, we tell you immediately and try to point you somewhere better.

There is no presentation deck, no junior salesperson, and no follow-up nurture sequence. You are talking to the engineer who would do the work, from the first minute.

Proposals at QUANT LAB are fixed-fee with line-item deliverables. You see the sprint count, the deliverable for each sprint, the payment milestone for each, and the total. No hourly mystery meat.

Where genuine unknowns exist, we time-box them as research spikes with explicit caps. You always know the maximum cost of an unknown before you authorize it. The proposal includes an optional maintenance retainer for after launch — you decide whether to bundle it at signing or later.

Sprints are two weeks. Each starts with a planning call, ends with a live demo of working software in staging, and is followed by a written changelog and a feedback form you can fill out in your own time. The product is functional at the end of every single sprint, not just at the end of the engagement.

Change requests are normal and they are tracked explicitly. If a request adds scope, we re-estimate and surface the cost impact before doing the work. We do not absorb scope quietly and then surface it later as a budget overage.

Most clients sign a maintenance retainer at launch. It covers: dependency updates and security patches, weekly automated dependency PRs reviewed and merged on a schedule, deploy support, monthly health report, and a fixed allotment of feature work hours. Anything beyond the allotment gets quoted up front.

Without a retainer, the code is fully yours and you can run it yourself or hand it to another team. We do not lock clients into our maintenance contract by withholding documentation or repository access. Independence is the design goal.

We will not take engagements where we do not believe the scope can be delivered. We will not bid against a fixed budget by stripping the scope until the budget fits, because that is how clients end up with software that works for the demo and breaks in week three of production.

We will not undercut on price by skipping security review, CI, or written documentation. Those are baked into every engagement and are part of how the work gets done responsibly.

We will not hide the work of contractors. If a contract engineer is on your project, you will be told who, what they are working on, and that every line they ship passes through founder review before merge.

We will not take engagements that violate our terms or anyone's privacy expectations. Read more about how we handle data on the security practices page.