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Lovable ships the demo. We ship the product you'll sell.

Production-grade in 30 days. Built by an ex-Google, ex-PANW Director.
The CTO build, on a startup clock, with audit-ready security.

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Built by

Nikhil Garg

Now
Founder, VectorLabs · Delhi NCR
Previously
Director of Engineering, Palo Alto Networks — $50M+ ARR Prisma SaaS API Security
Co-founder, Gamma AI — acquired by PANW (2021)
Senior Engineer — Coursera · Google Search Ads Quality
Education
IIT Delhi — Computer Science · AIR 6, JEE 2008
Shipped to production
InvestYadnya
Fintech AI-powered financial planning · SEBI-compliant advisory · paying subscribers
Govform
Civic-tech Government-adjacent regulatory compliance workflows
AskMeAnything.Life
Marketplace Paid AMA platform · structured founder mentorship at scale

Each shipped from empty repo to paying production users.

01 The 30-Day Path

From idea to enterprise-ready, in thirty days.

Seven phases. One mandatory call. Five sign-off gates. What used to be a six-month CTO build, compressed into thirty days. Senior judgment at every gate. AI is our power tool — invisible to you, the engine behind our speed.

Calendar time
30 days
vs 6 months for a CTO build
Customer time
~5–9 hrs
vs 40–80 hrs at a traditional agency
Mandatory calls
1
kickoff only · everything else async
Day -10 to -1 · Founder-led, senior-facilitated

Optional pre-Launchpad discovery sprint for founders whose spec isn't quote-ready. We compress senior product and architecture thinking into 7 to 10 days. The output is a spec a builder (us or anyone) can quote against.

Customer side

1 to 2 working sessions plus async iteration. The spec is yours to keep.

Our side

Senior product and architecture work. No code. Pure thinking, on a 7 to 10 day clock.

Sign-off gate

Spec delivered · from $7.5K · 100% credited toward Launchpad if you proceed within 30 days.

Day 0 · Founder-led

The only mandatory call. We confirm scope, tier, timeline. You sign before we start.

Customer side

60 minutes. One video call.

Our side

Nikhil confirms fit; declines if scope exceeds the package.

Sign-off gate

Signed agreement — locks scope, price, timeline.

Day 1–2 · Senior-architected, AI-accelerated

Senior architect drafts the spec, data model, API contracts, low-fi wireframes. AI compresses what would be a week of iteration into two days.

Customer side

Structured intake form upfront; 30–60 min review of spec in portal.

Our side

Nikhil writes the architecture. AI handles the typing and iteration speed.

Sign-off gate

Spec approval (48-hour SLA, 2 iteration rounds max).

Day 3–5 · Design studio

Our design studio drafts mocks for your brand. Iteration is fast; the design decisions are theirs.

Customer side

Async review in portal; annotate any changes.

Our side

Design studio produces → Nikhil approves before customer sees.

Sign-off gate

Design approval (48-hour SLA, 2 iteration rounds max).

Day 6–8 · Design studio-led

The design studio refines the approved system. Component library aligned. Ready to build.

Customer side

Final design sign-off in portal.

Our side

The design studio delivers locked design system + component library.

Sign-off gate

Design system locked.

Day 9–21 · Senior-built, AI-accelerated

Senior engineers build the product, with Claude Code as a power tool. Every architectural decision, security choice, and quality call goes through Nikhil and the engineering team.

Customer side

Daily auto-progress (screenshots, deploy URL, completed features). Mid-build alpha review at Day 14.

Our side

Senior engineers ship the code. AI accelerates the typing, not the thinking. 1–2 hours/day senior review across architecture, security, quality.

Sign-off gate

Alpha review Day 14 (72-hour SLA).

Day 22–26 · Structured testing, senior triaged

We hand you a structured UAT script — 50 to 100 test scenarios derived from your spec. You run them. We triage and fix the gaps.

Customer side

Run the UAT script. Log issues in portal.

Our side

Senior triage + fix (max 2 fix rounds in scope).

Sign-off gate

UAT sign-off (72-hour SLA).

Day 27–30 · Senior cutover

Production deployment. Smoke tests. DNS cutover. Handoff documentation. 30-day bug warranty starts.

Customer side

Production sign-off + optional 1-hour transfer call.

Our side

Senior cutover + monitoring setup + documentation.

Sign-off gate

Live in production. Warranty begins.

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02 Why VectorLabs
i.

Senior judgment, AI-accelerated.

Most "AI-powered agencies" are juniors with Cursor open, accepting the first suggestion. We're not. Architectural decisions, code review, security posture — every call goes through an engineer who shipped a $50M+ ARR security product at Palo Alto Networks. AI is our power tool. Senior judgment is the work.

ii.

Built for what comes after V1.

Most agencies hand you a working V1 and disappear. We're built for the journey to enterprise — production-grade architecture, audit-ready security, a trust posture you can put in front of a CISO. The version of your product you'll actually sell.

iii.

Locked scope. Visible progress. No drift.

One signed agreement. Daily auto-generated progress. Five sign-off gates. No hourly billing, no scope drift, no relationship dependency. You see exactly what's being built, exactly when it ships.

Before the build
Optional · from $7.5K

Spec not quote-ready yet?
Start with a Spec Sprint.

7 to 10 days of senior product and architecture thinking. User stories, use cases, scope-locked MVP, low-fi wireframes for grounding (not UI design), success metrics. The output is a spec a builder — us or anyone — can quote against.

100% credited toward Launchpad if you proceed within 30 days. Worst case, you walk away with a portable spec.

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03 Pricing

Three tiers. Visible prices.
Audit-ready security in every one.

Final scope confirmed on the kickoff call; pricing committed. No hourly billing. No security upcharge.

Tier 01

Tablestakes

The first version that ships, built for scale.

From $25K
Three to four weeks
Build
  • 5–7 core features
  • Multi-tenant + role-based auth
  • Mobile OTP + payments integration
  • Backoffice admin panel
  • Production hosting · CI/CD · monitoring
Security + ops baseline
  • Hardened authentication
  • Encryption at rest + in transit
  • Error tracking + alerting
  • Cost-tuned infrastructure
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Most popular
Tier 02

Core

The version most teams scale on.

From $50K
Five to six weeks
Build
  • Everything in Tablestakes, plus:
  • 8–12 features
  • Subscription billing + plans
  • 1–2 grounded AI features
  • 2–3 third-party integrations
  • Content hub / CMS surface
Security + handoff
  • OWASP top-10 audit + report
  • Vulnerability scan + remediation
  • 1 AI feature security review
  • Compliance readiness baseline
  • Codebase ready for AI-assisted extension
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Tier 03

Pinnacle

The version your buyers audit.

From $100K
Eight to ten weeks
Build
  • Everything in Core, plus:
  • 3+ AI surfaces · agents + vector infra
  • Eval harness + prompt observability
  • Full SSO (SAML, Okta) + custom RBAC
  • Per-tenant theming · multi-region
Enterprise security suite
  • SOC 2 Type I readiness package
  • Data residency + multi-region controls
  • VSQ + public trust center + vendor monitoring
  • Full audit log + structured access logs
  • Compliance frameworks (HIPAA / GDPR / DPDP)
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Every tier includes a 30-day post-launch bug warranty.

Security architecture lineage

Built by an engineer who ran a $50M+ ARR security product (Prisma SaaS API Security) at Palo Alto Networks · co-founded a B2B data security startup acquired by PANW (Gamma AI). The architecture instinct doesn't go away. It shows up in every Launchpad project.

04 Shipped to Production

Products that survived their first enterprise customer.

01
Fintech / SEBI compliance

InvestYadnya

AI-powered financial planning + SEBI-compliant advisory. From empty repo to paid subscribers.

Django · React · GCP
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02
Civic-tech compliance

Govform

Government-adjacent compliance workflows. Regulatory data handling done right.

Python · Postgres · GCP
Request case study
03
Marketplace / mentor sessions

AskMeAnything.Life

Paid AMA platform turning founder mentorship into a structured marketplace — mentor profiles, bookings, payments, SEO-led discovery.

Next.js · Django · Postgres · GCP
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Architecture decisions, build timeline, and outcome metrics shared under NDA on request. No trophy logo wall — the work is the case study.

Nikhil Garg, founder of VectorLabs
Nikhil Garg
Founder, VectorLabs · Delhi NCR
A note from the founder

A $20 vibe-coded demo for the pitch. A six-month $200K production build. The gap stays wide — and will, for a few more years.

AI is collapsing what used to take months into weeks. For senior teams, depth at startup pace is no longer a tradeoff — it's a craft.

That's the craft VectorLabs is built around.

— Nikhil
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A note on alternatives

Lovable and Bolt build prototypes in minutes — we build the version you'll actually sell. Traditional agencies take four to six months at $80–200K — we deliver in 30 days, fixed-price. Hiring a CTO is a $200K-per-year commitment with a three-month hiring cycle — we're done before that hire even starts.

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The brief, restated

From idea
to enterprise-ready,
in thirty days.

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