1 slot open in Q4 2026
The team for your hardest problems.
Rubric 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 forAlbertsons · Cal.com · Sligo AI
Products, end to end
New products and major features, built full stack from the first commit to launch, in your codebase.
Built forGumloop · E2B · Graphite
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 | 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 |
- RubricFounder-level engineersTypical agencyA rotating team behind an account manager
- RubricShipping in your codebase within daysTypical agencyWeeks of discovery decks
- RubricA research lab testing what’s nextTypical agencyLast year’s playbook
- RubricBuilt 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