Your custom software development partner for the AI era

Yes. We built a HIPAA-compliant lab portal for Digital Dental Solutions and shipped it in under three months. In financial services, we redesigned the National Futures Association’s search directory, used by roughly 3,500 traders, and built the website for Amplify Credit Union, which holds $800M+ in assets. Plus, we’re SOC 2 compliant.

Usually, yes. Prototypes built in Cursor, Replit, or Lovable are a strong start, because they prove the idea works. Production is a different job. It has to be secure, with real authentication, permissions, and compliance controls. It has to scale, with a data model that holds up as records grow and behavior you can trust under real load. And people have to want to use it, which is where our product strategy and design work comes in. We keep what’s sound, and rebuild what isn’t.

Usually two to four months, and sometimes less. Kawasaki’s dealer portal shipped its first release in four months, and Prepmedians’ test-prep platform launched in eight weeks. The Blueprint Workshop gives you a real timeline before the build starts.

Both, depending on what you need. Some clients don’t have an internal tech team, so we become one. Others bring us in to own a build end to end when their team is stretched too thin, or embed us alongside their engineers on a specific piece, like AI agent development or a stalled prototype. We scope which one fits during the Blueprint Workshop, before the build contract is signed.

It is, when it’s reviewed like any other production code. In our Nova delivery model, AI generates a first pass, but a senior engineer reviews, tests, and takes ownership of every line before it ships. We’re SOC 2 compliant, and we’ve built HIPAA-compliant systems for healthcare clients and secure platforms for financial services firms. AI makes the first draft faster. The review and the compliance checks don’t change.

LaunchPad Lab was founded in Chicago in 2012. Our senior team is made up of US-based and nearshore teammates who work US hours, so the people on your project are available when you are. We’re a remote company, so we collaborate closely with clients across the country and come on-site when a workshop or launch calls for it. Every client works directly with the engineers, product managers, and designers building their product.

“Agency” can mean different things. Some hand off a narrow deliverable, like a campaign or a brand refresh, and step back. Others, like staffing shops, supply headcount you direct yourself and bill by the hour. LaunchPad Lab is a software development agency and a partner: we help define the right problem before we build it, then own execution alongside you. After launch, we measure the results against the outcomes we agreed on at the start,  whether that’s billed hourly or through our outcomes-based Nova model.