We don't take client work

The honest version: JConLabs doesn't sell time anymore.

The team behind it spent the last twenty-plus years writing software for other people's products — across regulated industries, across firms, across continents. The math of that path is straightforward. You bill hours, you bill projects, your ceiling is the number of hours you can sell at the rate you can charge. Past a certain point the rate stops moving and the hours don't either. You're prosperous and stuck.

JConLabs is the next twenty-plus years going somewhere else. Owned products, recurring revenue, leverage that compounds while no one is in the room. That direction requires the calendar go into building products customers pay for, not into engagements where one client pays once.

So: no new client engagements. Not at $50k, not at $500k, not at any intermediate number that would fit on the spec page this site used to have.

What to do instead

If you arrived here expecting to commission custom vertical software, the candid options are:

Use the existing products. PetFoodVerify is in private beta with pet-food brands tracking multi-jurisdiction recall feeds; the next verticals are in discovery. If your problem fits a shape JConLabs is already shipping into, the product is the answer. Cheaper for you, faster for both sides, and JConLabs earns from a customer rather than a client.

Become a design partner. The next two vertical products are unannounced because they aren't queued yet. If you operate in a domain JConLabs should ship into — and you're willing to talk through your workflow, look at early builds, and tolerate the kind of v0.1 a small shop ships — that's the one path where your problem becomes a future product. Write us.

Pass it along. If your problem is genuinely outside the company's trajectory, JConLabs will happily refer you to people who do this kind of engagement well. There are good ones.

What's compounding here, and why it matters

The reason JConLabs's portfolio isn't half-built side projects is that the build infrastructure carries across products. Every new vertical reuses the same schema discipline, the same agent coordination layer, the same deploy posture. The slow part is the per-vertical domain learning. The fast part — building the actual software — is where the agent substrate buys back time.

That dynamic only works if the calendar keeps shipping products. Every client engagement JConLabs would take is months of calendar that wouldn't have compounded into a product. The opportunity cost of consulting is, mathematically, the next vertical product that wouldn't have shipped. At this stage of the company, that trade stops making sense.

If you've gotten this far and still want to talk: send a note. The answer is usually still "wait until the right vertical ships," but the conversations shape the queue, and the right ones are how the company learns what to build next.