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Scalar Labs builds web and mobile products: architecture, build, release and iteration, with design brought in when the work calls for it. Fixed scope or ongoing, agreed up front.
Architecture comes first, sized to the product you are building rather than the one a bigger company would build. The build itself covers web, iOS and Android as the product demands. We stay through release and the iteration after it, while real usage shows what the first version got right.
Scalar Labs is senior-led: whoever scopes your product carries it through architecture and build. When more hands are needed they come from people we have worked with before, briefed and supervised by whoever scoped the build.
For: founders and product teams who know what they want built.
Two shapes, agreed before work starts. Fixed scope fits a product that is well defined: an agreed build, an agreed price, delivery against it. Ongoing fits a product still being discovered, where the roadmap moves as the answers arrive. An engagement can start as the first and become the second once the product is live.
Less than the list you have. A first version exists to answer a question: will someone use this, pay for this, or approve this. We scope to that question and park the rest for iteration, where real usage sets the order.
Fixed scope means a fixed price, agreed before work starts and tied to a defined first version. As a working range, first versions land between A$60,000 and A$150,000 over eight to sixteen weeks, and where a build sits in that range is decided by scope: deciding what the first version is for settles most of the budget.
Chosen per product, and boring where boring will do. The test we apply: can your own engineers, present or future, run this on their own.
You do. The repositories are yours from the start, the accounts are in your name, and nothing about the arrangement depends on staying with us. Handover is part of the scope.
Yes, and it is work that suits us. We make the technical calls so you do not have to, and we explain them in plain terms as we go. The health tech engagement below was exactly this shape.
Through release and iteration, yes. Launch is the middle of the work. Real usage produces a second list, and we stay to work through it.
Client work is confidential as a rule, so you'll find sectors here rather than names. We can go into specifics on a call, and put you in touch with references.
Built a custom platform for a US health technology company whose founders came from the clinical side, not engineering. We made the technical calls so they did not have to, and they finished with a product, not a prototype.
Built the platform for an education technology company, then stayed on through their first fundraising rounds while investors examined what they were backing.
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