Founders who need a first version live
An MVP with one job-to-be-done, scoped tight, shipped in days to weeks.
Lab Twelve ships premium web apps at fixed prices on tight windows. That model is excellent inside its lane and wrong outside it. This is the honest boundary, so you find out before paying, not after.
The common thread: one decision-maker, a job-to-be-done you can state in a sentence, and comfort working async. If that is you, the next step takes ten minutes and produces a fixed quote.
An MVP with one job-to-be-done, scoped tight, shipped in days to weeks.
Internal tools, admin panels, approval flows, client portals.
Postgres-backed, role-aware, deployed to production.
The smallest package exists exactly for this.
That is the dev lane: unlimited queue, one active request at a time, pause anytime.
If your project is on this list, you are not being rejected; you are being saved a bad purchase. A studio built for your problem will beat me at it, and I would rather you win there than stall here.
Lab Twelve builds web apps. If a responsive web app does the job, we can talk; if you need Swift or Kotlin in an app store, hire a mobile studio.
Real compliance means auditors, signed agreements, and a compliance team. A one-person studio is not that. Hire a firm that lives in your regulation.
Vendor onboarding, security questionnaires, and SOC 2 reviews need an organization shaped for them. An enterprise-focused agency will serve you better.
Two-sided liquidity is a multi-year product effort, not a fixed-scope build. A scoped first slice is sometimes possible; the whole marketplace is not.
Games and live collaborative engines are specialist territory with their own stacks. Find the specialists.
Software only. Nothing that ships in a box.
Describe the idea in the scope chat. It is calibrated to say no early: a genuinely ambiguous or out-of-lane project gets routed to human review instead of a guessed price. You can also browse examples of past scopes to see what in-lane projects look like, or read how the scope policy keeps fixed prices honest.