Straight forward, without limit.
Your grant has a software line item. We're the team that builds it. Tell us what you need, we'll give you a real scope and price, and we'll ship something that works.
We work with researchers at two points. Either you're writing a proposal and need a vendor lined up, or your grant already funded and you need the software built.
Send us your draft proposal. We'll look at what you're trying to build, put together a realistic scope and budget, and write a letter of support you can include with your submission. No charge. If the grant gets funded, we're already lined up to do the work.
Your grant came through and now you need the app, the platform, the dashboard — whatever was in the proposal. We'll scope it, price it as a fixed bid, and deliver it. Usually 3 to 6 months. We invoice against milestones so your grants office knows exactly what they're paying for.
Every study is different, but the software tends to fall into a few categories. Here's what we see most.
We're engineers, not consultants. We write code, ship software, and make sure it works when real people use it.
We started Pylon because we've seen what happens when grant-funded software projects go to the wrong team. The app gets built by developers who've never worked under a federal grant before. They don't understand the timeline pressure, the compliance requirements, or the fact that the people using this thing are researchers and coordinators, not tech-savvy early adopters. The result is usually something that took too long, ran over budget, and barely works.
We've been on the other side of that. Our engineering team has led frontend development on a multi-million dollar Department of Education research platform, built HIPAA-compliant healthcare and Medicare applications, and worked on Department of Defense projects. We have biology and CS degrees on the engineering side and a medical professional with a doctorate advising on clinical workflows.
We're not a big agency. We don't hand your project off to juniors. We do the engineering ourselves, we deliver on schedule, and we pick up the phone. If your grant has a software component and you need it built right, that's what we do.
