1 slot open in Q4 2026
The team for your hardest problems.
Rubric Labs is a small team of founder-level engineers with our own research lab. We join your team, learn your problem, and build it with you all the way to production.
From Fortune 500 retail to Series A startups
Agents in production
AI assistants and agents that do real work for your users, with the testing and guardrails to trust them.
Built forProducts, end to end
New products and major features, built full stack from the first commit to launch, in your codebase.
Model work
Evals, fine-tuning, and small, fast models for when a frontier model is too slow, too costly, or not accurate enough.
Built forA Series B company in stealth
What we’ve built.
For Fortune 500 retail, developer platforms, and the startups in between.
- Grocery shopping, by conversation22grocery brands, from Safeway to Vons
- A dashboard, from backlog to production2 daysfrom kickoff to our first release
- A marketplace for creators1 monthfrom kickoff to launch
- A personal film for every developer100×less storage, keeping scripts instead of video
Built to hand off.
We move fast, work directly with your team, and leave you with a system you own and run without us.
Call
Thirty minutes with a founder. If we’re not the right team, we’ll tell you.
Scope
We research your problem, then collaborate on a doc that sets clear expectations.
Build
We join your codebase and Slack, work with your team, and ship from the first week.
Hand off
Docs, tests, and a walkthrough. Your team runs it without us.
An acquihire, for one project.
One flat monthly price, with no hourly billing or change orders.
| Rubric Labs | Typical agency |
|---|---|
| Founder-level engineers | A rotating team behind an account manager |
| Shipping in your codebase within days | Weeks of discovery decks |
| A research lab testing what’s next | Last year’s playbook |
| Built to hand off | Optimized to keep you on a retainer |
- Rubric LabsFounder-level engineersTypical agencyA rotating team behind an account manager
- Rubric LabsShipping in your codebase within daysTypical agencyWeeks of discovery decks
- Rubric LabsA research lab testing what’s nextTypical agencyLast year’s playbook
- Rubric LabsBuilt to hand offTypical agencyOptimized to keep you on a retainer
$40kUSD per month
- A lead engineer, full time, in your codebase
- A second engineer on architecture, review, and planning
- A shared Slack channel, with both of us in it
- Code, docs, and tests that you own
1 slot open in Q4 2026
Book a callOur lab is our edge.
We test new models and methods on our own systems first. What works goes into client work before it’s common practice.
Inside the Lab- 14 Oct
Can a small model learn UI design from visual feedback?
67.7%of blind judge votes over the untrained model - 29 Sept
Does encrypted compaction use fewer tokens than text summaries?
22%fewer tokens than text summaries - 24 Sept
Can Jev mask personal data better than an LLM?
1.43×GPT-6 Luna’s score on personal-data masking
In their words.
Bring us your hardest problem.
Tell us what you’re working on. You’ll talk with a founder, and we reply to every request within a day.
Book a callAvailability
- Q4 20261 slot open
- Q1 20272 slots open