Three ways to work with us.
Build puts an artifact in your hands. Accelerate changes how you decide what to build. Fund gets capital into the work. Most clients start with one and add another.
BUILD
What it is: Engagements that end with something that exists. An assessment you can act on, an artifact that answers a question, a prototype you can put in front of someone.
The situation it's for: You have a concept and a disagreement about it, and the disagreement isn't going to resolve on its own. More analysis produces more analysis.
Right for you if:
You have a specific technology and a specific unresolved question about it
You need a working demonstrator for a customer, an investor, or a program officer
Your team could do the work but doesn't have the bandwidth or the range this problem needs
Four rungs, each a complete piece of work. Most clients start at the first or second and stop when they have what they need.
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Where does this technology actually stand, and what would have to be true for it to matter commercially? We map the technical state, the competitive and IP landscape, and the realistic market. Then we name the assumptions the whole thing rests on and tell you which one to test first. You get: a written assessment, an assumption register with the critical path called out, and a recommendation you can act on.
— from $12,000
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The narrowest possible physical or computational demonstration of the thing in question. Not a product, not a demo — an instrument built to resolve one question that argument can't.
You get: a working artifact, the test data, and a written account of what it did and did not establish.
— from $12,000
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A concentrated build cycle producing a functioning prototype you can put in front of a customer, an investor, or a program officer. Short-cycle builds under hard deadlines are the center of the founder's background — five ISS instruments, every one delivered on a development cycle under six months.
You get: a working prototype, build documentation, test results, and a clear statement of what it proves and what remains open.
— from $17,500
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A more complete system where the requirements are already firm. Scoped and quoted against a detailed work breakdown.
— priced per engagement
Accelerate
What it is: Engagements that improve how you decide what to build, rather than building any one thing. We organize the portfolio, then construct and run the process that moves it.
The situation it's for: Your problem isn't one stuck concept. It's forty of them, arriving faster than anyone can evaluate, with no consistent way to compare them or defend the ranking to anyone who asks.
Right for you if:
You generate more concepts than you can assess
You can't currently give a defensible answer to why you're working on what you're working on
The same evaluation gets redone from scratch every time leadership changes
You want R&D decisions to be repeatable rather than personality-dependent
Three stages. Each one earns the next.
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Review & Organization — one-time, from $6,000 We take in the whole portfolio and give it structure. Every concept becomes a record with its assumptions made explicit, its evidence state assessed, and its standing established against your criteria — not a generic score.
You get: a structured portfolio, an assumption register for every concept, an initial ranking, and a written read on what's live, what's stalled, and what should stop.
Complete on its own. Most organizations have never seen their own portfolio written down this way, and a number of them find that's the whole value.
Ongoing Management — from $3,000/month The recurring cycle. Each month: what advanced and why, what should stop and why, what's worth a focused sprint. Stop recommendations come with written reasoning — a documented dead end is worth more than a silent one, and it stays yours.
What makes this different from a consultant reviewing a list: concepts come out structured. When you decide to move on one, it drops straight into a build engagement without restating anything.
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Once the process has proven itself on your portfolio, we build a version shaped to your organization and your industry.
Validation Study — from $12,000 We walk your actual R&D process end to end. Current workflows documented, decision points and stage gates mapped, stall points identified, and a pipeline architecture proposed against what we found rather than what we assumed.
You get: your process documented — often for the first time — evidence standards defined for your field, a proposed architecture, and a scoped plan for building it.
We don't quote the build before this is done. A large fixed price against an unsurveyed process is a guess, and you shouldn't pay for our guess.
Development & Deployment — scoped from the validation study Building the pipeline, standing it up in your environment, configuring the parameters you want tracked and the reporting that surfaces them, and training the people who'll run it.
Refinement — ongoing Tuning as the pipeline meets real projects. The first version of any process is wrong somewhere. The useful question is how fast you find out.
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In development.
Your pipeline instrumented on our platform, improving against its own data: what each class of question actually costs to resolve, where concepts stall, which gates catch problems and which ones don't.
Being built against real engagements rather than ahead of them. Clients on the earlier stages shape what it becomes and move onto it first.
FUND
What it is: Getting capital into the work — federal, program-based, private, or our own — entered with a working artifact rather than a white paper.
The situation it's for: Most proposals describe what will be built. A proposal backed by something that already works is a different document, and it is read differently.
Right for you if:
You have a real technical concept and no in-house proposal capacity
You have technical people who would rather build than write
You've been rejected before and nobody told you why
You'd rather not give up equity this early
Four lanes, from slowest and cheapest to fastest and most expensive.
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Government research money you don't trade equity for. We co-write SBIR, STTR, DARPA, and agency solicitations, and prepare technologies for the defense marketplace.
The slowest money on this page — solicitation cycles are fixed and awards take months — but it funds real development without touching your cap table. It's also the most technically demanding to win. Reviewers are subject-matter experts, and proposals fail on engineering substance far more often than on writing. That's the part we do.
Structure: proposal authorship fee, plus a negotiated share of the resulting program.
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Programs that trade capital, facilities, and access for structured participation. The right program is a step change — orbital flight opportunities, national lab facilities, customer introductions that would take years to earn. The wrong one costs a quarter of your time and a slice of your company for a demo day.
We identify programs that actually fit the technology, prepare the application, and build the technical package that makes it competitive against applicants with more staff and more runway.
Structure: placement engagement fee, scoped to the program.
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Venture and corporate investment for technology ready to scale. The fastest money and the most expensive.
Deep-tech diligence stalls on unresolved technical risk. Investors discount what they can't evaluate, and a founder without a working artifact is asking them to price uncertainty. Our role is upstream of the raise: get the technology to a state where the technical diligence conversation is short and the remaining questions are commercial. Then we hand off. We are not brokers and we do not raise on your behalf.
Structure: development engagement; equity participation where appropriate.
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Projects we fund ourselves. Where we have genuine conviction in a technology, we develop it on our own capital and hold a position. No solicitation calendar, no program officer, no external timeline.
The smallest lane by volume and the most selective. It exists because some projects are worth backing before anyone else will, and because a firm that never puts its own money behind its judgment isn't offering judgment.
Structure: negotiated — equity or IP position, never both.
Tell us what's stuck.
Whether it's one concept or a backlog of them, the first conversation is free and we'll tell you honestly if we're not the right fit.
or email hello@titrantresearch.com directly