EST async cycles.
NYC delivery pace.
NYC founders move fast and procure faster. Our async cycle aligns to your time zone (no offshore lag), our fixed-price format collapses 6-month agency engagements into 6-week sprints, and our cross-border IP terms are standard work-for-hire writable into a Delaware C-Corp's MSA without legal-review cycles. EST-to-EST, written deliverables, source files on milestone — built for the pace founders here actually operate at.
Real considerations for founders shipping out of New York — tax-credit math, regulatory awareness, time-zone alignment, talent ecosystem.
We're in Montréal — EST, same as Manhattan. Your spec at 11pm Tuesday is being worked at 9am Wednesday. Your milestone delivery hits your inbox before your morning standup. No India offshore overnight hand-off, no Pacific-time gap.
Sprint MSAs are written for Delaware C-Corps and standard US work-for-hire. IP transfers on payment, source-files-on-delivery model, no foreign-vendor friction. Your counsel reviews once and signs; no 4-week back-and-forth on IP carve-outs.
NYC is fintech-density per square mile. We don't take legal risk on NYDFS, FINRA, or SEC compliance for you — your counsel does — but we ship aware of the patterns: KYC/AML hooks, audit-log structures, data-residency switches, SOC 2-friendly architectural choices. Sprint deliverables built compliance-adjacent, not compliance-blind.
A typical NYC agency build for a Series A / B founder runs $200K–$500K and 6–12 months. We deliver the same scope (Full Stack Sprint, $99,995) in 12–16 weeks. The math is in our comparison page — but the practical effect for an NYC founder is: capital efficiency, speed, and a defendable scope.
Standard. Our MSA is written as a US-friendly work-for-hire: IP transfers fully to your entity on payment, no withholding rights, no carve-outs. We invoice in USD. Your tax treatment of the spend (Section 174 R&D capitalization vs immediate expense) is independent of vendor location. Your counsel reviews our MSA once; subsequent SOWs reference the MSA. No different from hiring a Delaware-based agency, except the engineering happens in Montréal.
Aware, not certified. We don't sign on the legal hook for your specific NYDFS Part 500 cybersecurity certification, FINRA broker-dealer compliance, or SEC reporting. That's your counsel and your in-house compliance team's domain. What we do: ship architectures that pass the technical-pattern audit (audit logs, encrypted-at-rest data flows, role-based access, segregation of duties primitives, MFA hooks). If you have specific certification deliverables that need our cooperation (SOC 2 audit fieldwork, penetration test remediation), we cooperate fully — but the certificate sits with your org, not us.
NYC agencies run 6–12 months on full builds because they bill hourly and run discovery for 6 weeks before writing code. We run 12–16 weeks on Full Stack because we scope tightly up front and commit to a fixed price. The trade-off: our scope is more rigid (any added feature is a written change order, not a verbal okay during a standup) and our deliverable is more defined (no open-ended R&D included). For founders who already know what they're building, the speed and price compression are 3–4× advantage. For founders genuinely figuring it out as they go, hourly is a better fit.
Yes. We are async-first by default — every engagement runs identically whether you're in New York, MTL, Toronto, NYC, or anywhere else in North America. The New York-specific advantages above (local tax credits, industry awareness, time-zone alignment) are bonuses for New York founders, not constraints on who we'll work with.
Most New York founders start with an Ideation Sprint ($4,995, 1 week) or HTML Demo Sprint ($9,995, 3–4 weeks) before committing to a Full Stack build. The smaller sprint validates fit and credit applies to your next sprint within 60 days. No retainers, no minimum spend.
Tell us what you're building. We'll confirm the sprint tier, timeline, and price in writing — usually within 24 hours.
Start a sprint → amatrix.studio/contact