Research platforms that pass IRB review — on a grant budget

You're a researcher, not a software engineer. We build HIPAA-compliant platforms, behavioral analytics, and participant-facing tools so you can focus on the science.

"He quickly got to work building what we asked for, and he did it well in a reasonable time frame at a reasonable price. We would love to have him on our team full-time."
Dr. Kimberly Pace Becker
Dr. Kimberly Pace Becker
Founder, Moxie (FERPA-compliant EdTech)
"His talent as a remarkable software developer enabled us to take our platform to a level that would take most dev shops months to complete. Gabriel Perez is a true hidden gem!"
Kevin Malley
Kevin Malley
CEO, GyftGram (Techstars '24)

Why Research Software Gets Stuck

"We need HIPAA-compliant data collection but our budget is $6K, not $60K"

We use cloud infrastructure that costs $8-13/month — not enterprise pricing. HIPAA compliance built in from day one, sized for your actual study.

"University IT wants to review everything and it takes forever"

We've been through it before. We handle the DPAs, accessibility requirements, and hosting documentation so your IT team gets what they need without the back-and-forth.

"I need to track how participants interact with the platform for my grant"

We build the analytics your grant requires — session data, engagement metrics, completion rates — all exportable as CSV. You manage it from an admin panel, no coding needed.

"My grant timeline is tight and I can't wait months for a vendor"

We deliver in 5-6 weeks, not 5-6 months. Phased milestones mean you can start enrolling participants before the full platform is finished.

Research software shouldn't cost a research grant to build.

What We Won't Do

We've worked with universities before — we know what matters

Sell you enterprise infrastructure for a 50-person study
Touch your research data for anything beyond your project
Build something only we can maintain
Cut corners on compliance because it's 'just a small study'
Every research platform we build includes HIPAA-ready infrastructure, de-identified data handling, and full code and IP ownership transfer to you.
Our Process

How We Work With Research Teams

We handle the engineering. You focus on the science.

We deliver:

Secure, compliant platforms on grant-friendly budgets
Behavioral analytics and participant data collection
University IT and procurement documentation
Admin panels so your team is independent after handoff
1

Discovery Call

30 minutes to understand your study, compliance needs, and grant timeline.

2

Proposal

A phased plan with clear deliverables and a budget that fits your funding.

3

Build & Deploy

Each phase delivers standalone value. Start enrolling before the full build is done.

4

Handoff

You own everything — code, data, infrastructure, documentation.

Three ways to start. Each one ends with something you keep.

You do not need to know which service you want. Find the situation you are actually in — then check you are not ruled out underneath it.

Proof of Concept

Find out whether it works before you fund it.

This is you ifYou know what you want built, and you want to watch a real piece of it run before you commit the budget.

  • A working feature in your repo, live on your data, inside a week.
  • A real answer to “can this actually work here” for $2,500, instead of a six-figure guess.
  • The code, whether or not you take it any further with us.
Price
$2,500
Time
7 days
Credited to your build
$1,250 back if you build within 90 days

Not you if

  • Nobody internally agrees on what to build yet. AI Blueprint →
  • The build behind this is already six figures and unspecified — one working feature will not de-risk it. Discovery Sprint →
See the Proof of Concept

AI Blueprint

Spend the budget on the thing that pays it back.

This is you ifSomething is clearly costing you time or money, and nobody can tell you which fix is worth making first.

  • Three to five opportunities ranked by what each returns, with the arithmetic behind the ranking.
  • An ROI model you can defend to your board, and use with any team — not only ours.
  • Permission to not build: when the answer is fix the process first, we say so.
Price
$5,000
Time
2-4 weeks
Credited to your build
$2,500 back if you go ahead within 90 days

Not you if

  • You already know which single process to fix and only need it specified and priced. Discovery Sprint →
  • There is only one candidate on the table — ranking five of them is not worth $5,000.
See the AI Blueprint

Discovery Sprint

Know the real number before you sign for it.

This is you ifYou know the problem, and you are about to commit six figures to an estimate nobody has actually checked.

  • A clickable spec of the thing itself, so the argument about scope happens now and not in month three.
  • A price written by the engineer who would build it — at three budget levels, not one number.
  • The whole package to take to any firm, including one that is not us.
Price
$8,000
Time
2 weeks
Credited to your build
$4,000 back if you build within 90 days

Not you if

  • You only want to see one idea work first. Proof of Concept →
  • The build behind it is under roughly $55,000 — this is hard to justify. Email us, there is a smaller version that fits.
See the Discovery Sprint

Turn Your Grant Into a Working Platform

See a working piece of your study’s tooling in 7 days, for $2,500 — half credited if you build with us. You keep the code either way.

We've built platforms for NIH-funded research, 7000+ students at Georgia Tech, and FERPA-compliant EdTech startups.