Modulus Elastic
Work Units
Elastic development, delivered in fixed scope. Provide a job description, get reviewed work back within 24 hours. Up to 10x more efficient and cost effective than standard consulting.
No subscription or long-term contract. Scale to any size project. Work Units never expire; pause and resume work at any time.
One Modulus engineer, 10x performance
You interact with one Modulus engineer accountable for your work. The engineer directs Modulus AI workcells with access to millions of lines of Modulus code, and returns documented work within 24 hours. Scale with multiple engineers and Work Units in parallel.
How it works
Provide a job
Anything from product design to a new feature, API integration, or the next phase of development. Plain English is fine; so are AI-drafted specs: "Build a prediction market. Refer to my specification document."
We do the work
A Modulus engineer directs our AI workcells backed by three decades of capital-markets source code, architecture, and patents. Your Modulus engineer reviews and documents the output, and meets with you as needed.
Output in 24 hours
Output is provided within 24 hours, including code, documentation, and licensed deliverables. Need changes or the next step? The next unit picks up exactly where the last one left off.
Scale with Elastic Work Units
Modulus Elastic Work Units augment your internal development with scalable engineer-directed AI capacity. Our engineers leverage Modulus-tuned AI to build for you: job description in, get results within 24 hours. Up to 10x more efficient and cost effective than standard consulting. Start with one Work Unit, scale into larger builds, and license proven Modulus components where it saves time. No subscription, pause and resume as needed. Once your product is live, you may apply for the Partner Program and distribute to Modulus clients worldwide.
Modulus Work Units
Scale development with Elastic Work Units, which pair top talent Modulus engineers with AI-accelerated development leveraging millions of lines of Modulus source code. Reviewed work returned within 24 hours. Use independently or alongside your team, with 24/7 production support available when needed.
Partner Program
Build a new solution or integrate your existing solution with Modulus, pass review, and offer your solution through Modulus. Approved products may be positioned, demonstrated, and presented to suitable Modulus clients worldwide, so you can focus on innovating and building rather than selling.
Work Units scale from one unit to any number and may be used in parallel. You approve scope before work begins. If a job is not suitable for a Work Unit, we return the credit before work begins. A Modulus engineer checks every deliverable before it ships, and every delivered unit includes reviewed work, documented assumptions, limits reached, and recommended next steps. Where a ready-built Modulus component fits or saves time, it is offered as an optional, separate license. Also see our Enterprise Solutions and Production Support options.
Work Unit specifications
A Work Unit is engineer-directed AI work with a 24-hour turnaround time. You send a job description, Modulus routes the work through AI workcells which have access to Blueprint and Code Foundry, a Modulus engineer runs human quality control on the result, and you receive a reviewed deliverable within 24 hours. A Work Unit is a turnaround window, not a quantity of labor: you buy the deliverable and the deadline, and how we produce it is on us. Jobs can be complex: the size of the job is variable, and the workcells scale up or down as needed. Bigger jobs are quoted in Work Units before work begins, run in parallel, and return reviewed work every day, not at the end.
Use Work Units for software development, bug fixes, integrations, automation, stuck or stalled project rescue, assessment and recovery of orphaned or AI-generated codebases, research, documentation, testing, QA planning, product specifications, technical review, architecture planning, customer support workflows, data analysis, market research, and business operations. For financial technology projects, Work Units also draw on Modulus source-code intelligence, production lessons, domain expertise, and patented infrastructure.
Build faster and safer with Modulus
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Opencode and other AI development tools can handle much of your build. The Modulus MCP server gives your AI specialized guidance, skills, and post-build audit protocols, leveraging three decades of production engineering, while your project remains inside its existing environment. When your AI identifies a critical component, unresolved risk, or requirement for independent review, it may suggest an optional Elastic Work Unit.
Work Units also cover assurance testing with independent audits of your code, trading logic, risk controls, and security. Use one or two Work Units weekly to audit your AI engineering team's output, and run a full pre-production audit before the system goes live. Your AI can also help determine when an audit is required.
A human responsible for results
A Modulus engineer reviews your requirements, performs the work using our tuned AI, and delivers documented code.
Engineering, not output
Architecture, review, testing, and documentation on everything the workcells produce.
Thirty years behind every build
Modulus capital-markets source code, domain expertise, and patented infrastructure working inside your product.
A way to sell what you build
Completed, approved products can enter the Modulus Partner Program and reach the clients we have served since 1997.
Accelerate with proven Modulus technology
Work Units replace or augment your internal engineering with elastic, engineer-directed AI capacity from Modulus. Each $499 Work Unit combines a Modulus engineer with AI-scale execution to compress days of conventional development into a 24-hour delivery cycle. Get the speed of AI, coupled with Modulus source code, without leaving your team responsible for prompting, supervision, quality control, and final review.
Start with Work Units to build what your project requires. When proven infrastructure can save time, reduce risk, and strengthen the finished system, you may optionally license and integrate Modulus components that have already performed at global scale. Our exchange matching engine has powered some of the largest exchanges in the world. Our charting technology has been used by millions of traders since 1997. Our backtesting and walk-forward testing engines evaluate strategies across 24 statistical benchmarks, while our market data, risk, compliance, and integration components bring decades of production experience into your build.
You develop what is unique to your business while using proven Modulus technology where rebuilding from scratch would add cost, delay, and unnecessary risk. Follow-up development and maintenance can continue through Work Units after launch. Live production support, emergency troubleshooting, monitoring, incident response, and 24/7 coverage are available through a separate production support package.
No long-term commitment or vendor lock-in
The old consulting model made you sign before you knew what you were getting: a contract, a retainer, a statement of work, and a team you paid whether it produced or not. Work Units invert that. You evaluate us every day, with reviewed work in hand, and you never sign your way into a relationship you cannot walk out of.
And you can stop worrying about SLAs. Service agreements exist to protect you from vendors who disappear. As long as you hold an active Work Unit, Modulus is on the job, and support, maintenance, and upgrades are delivered the same way everything else is: by the unit, for as long as you want them.
Modulus helps you scale
Work Units scale without changing shape. An entire trading platform, banking system, or exchange is built the same way, unit by unit: scale capacity up before launch and down after, pause on your funding timeline and resume without losing a line of work, and spend to your budget instead of a contract. See Enterprise Solutions.
Completed, Modulus-approved products can apply for the Modulus Partner Program to reach the enterprise clients we have served since 1997. Explore the Partner Program.
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Answers to the questions your committee will ask
Technology built for regulated markets is approved by the people responsible for risk, compliance, security, legal exposure, and business continuity. Modulus provides clear architecture, licensed source code, defined commercial rights, security review, audit support, and a delivery model built for accountable results.
“Will this work in production or just in the demo”
Our AI provides the first draft that implements our off-the-shelf components, then our engineers review and add test coverage. We deliver documentation and production-ready code with AI markdown, and ongoing support, maintenance, and training are delivered by the unit for as long as you want them.
“Who owns the IP and what is the provenance”
You get licensed, clean-title source code with documented provenance, plus AI development files and markdown. You receive an irrevocable perpetual license to the custom features developed using Modulus AI and to the existing source code, components, and documentation.
“Can our own team run it after delivery”
This is the benefit of licensing a coherent, human-architected codebase augmented with AI. Modulus provides full source code and development files so your engineers can leverage AI to maintain and extend the codebase, instead of paying extra for ongoing support to maintain a black box system.
“What happens when AI is not enough”
Modulus engineers handle this inside the work. When engineering becomes complex, your Modulus engineer makes the architecture decisions and solves the problems AI cannot, and the delivered code and documentation reflect it. When your risk team asks why the system is correct, there is an engineer at Modulus who can answer.
FAQs
If something matters to your decision that isn't here, just ask us.
Yes. The Modulus MCP server gives compatible AI development environments access to selected fintech skills, development guidance, review protocols, and audit recommendations. Your AI performs the analysis inside its existing environment, and Modulus does not receive your source code through the MCP server. MCP guidance is applied by your AI using Modulus-provided instructions. It is not legal advice, a compliance determination, certification, or an independent Modulus audit.
Yes. Connect the Modulus MCP server and allow your existing AI to use selected Modulus skills, development guidance, review protocols, and audit recommendations. Modulus does not receive your source code through the MCP server. A Work Unit is purchased only when you choose to have Modulus perform engineering or an independent review.
A Work Unit is $499 worth of work performed by Modulus. Provide a job description, and a Modulus engineer directing Modulus-tuned AI returns a reviewed deliverable within 24 hours, checked by a human engineer. Not all jobs can be completed in 24 hours, but we'll do our best.
A Work Unit is a turnaround window, not a quantity of labor. You buy the deliverable and the deadline, such as one clearly scoped job, and you receive a reviewed deliverable back within 24 hours. How we produce it, with Modulus-tuned AI doing the heavy lifting and a Modulus engineer directing and checking the work, is on us. Each Work Unit returns reviewed work within the stated window, but it does not promise that a larger job or project will be complete in one unit.
Because you are not paying for hours. A Work Unit draws on millions of lines of production fintech source code, patented infrastructure, 30 years of trade secrets, and AI workcells directed by a Modulus engineer, so the work starts from what we have already built and proven rather than from a blank page. The price reflects what AI-era delivery costs; the output stands on everything Modulus has built since 1997, which is also why raw AI and cheaper operators cannot match it.
Yes and no.
When you connect the Modulus MCP server, you continue using Claude Code, Codex, or another compatible AI inside your existing development environment. The MCP server provides specialized fintech skills, source code, review protocols, and audit guidance drawn from three decades of Modulus experience. Your AI applies that guidance to the project, while Modulus does not receive your source code, prompts, or proprietary project data.
An Elastic Work Unit is different. It is an independent, engineer-directed engagement performed by Modulus. A Modulus engineer directs Modulus-tuned AI through our internal Blueprint™ and Code Foundry™ systems, which incorporate millions of lines of production fintech source code, proven architecture patterns, trade secrets, and three decades of production lessons. The engineer reviews every deliverable before it ships and is accountable for the work.
The MCP server strengthens the AI you already use. Elastic Work Units add Modulus engineering, internal systems, and human accountability when the project requires more.
Yes. There are two ways to try Modulus.
Connect the Modulus MCP server to experience selected Modulus fintech skills, review protocols, and audit guidance inside the AI development environment you already use. Modulus does not receive your source code through the MCP workflow, and there is no obligation to purchase a Work Unit.
To evaluate Modulus engineering directly, purchase one $499 Elastic Work Unit. Submit a clearly scoped job and receive reviewed work within 24 hours from a Modulus engineer directing Modulus-tuned AI. There is no subscription, long-term contract, or minimum commitment. If the work does not justify another unit, you stop, and the deliverable remains yours to use under its license.
A single Work Unit returns reviewed work within 24 hours. You can purchase as many Work Units as needed, to run side-by-side, if your project is large and must be developed as fast as possible.
No. Work Units do not include revision cycles, acceptance periods, or ongoing support. If you want changes, continuation, bug review, or additional work after delivery, submit another Work Unit.
Production Support is available however it is sold separately. See Production Support.
Yes, on a weekly schedule. Clients with more than one active Work Unit meet with their Modulus engineer once each week in a scheduled alignment meeting to review delivered work and set direction for upcoming units. Outside that meeting, Work Units run on written requirements, with no per-unit calls, texts, chats, or email threads; that discipline is how a job that would normally cost thousands stays at $499. If your requirements are not clear enough to execute, we do not spend your unit asking questions. We return the credit before work begins with a written explanation of what was missing, and you resubmit with clearer instructions.
Yes. Work Units support a single job or a full platform build, and they run in parallel under your Modulus engineer's direction, so a ten-unit job does not take ten times as long. A company building an exchange, prediction market, broker platform, market-data product, or financial AI product buys Work Units as needed, pauses when needed, and resumes when ready. See Enterprise Solutions.
Each Work Unit returns reviewed work within 24 hours. Whether that completes your job depends on the job's size. Jobs that fit one unit come back done. Bigger jobs are quoted in units before work begins and return reviewed progress every day until the job is complete.
Most jobs are, but that's not a problem, and that's the benefit of Work Units. You can purchase multiple Work Units back-to-back or all at once to run in parallel.
Yes, but larger projects usually require multiple Work Units. A small focused job may take one unit. A technical module may take several. A platform-scale build may require dozens or hundreds of Work Units, licensed components, and production support.
If a submitted job is not suitable for a Work Unit, Modulus returns the credit before work begins with a brief explanation. You can revise and resubmit at no additional charge.
Completed products built with Modulus, or existing products integrated with Modulus, may become eligible for Modulus Partner review. Approved products may qualify for Modulus Client Network support, including demos, introductions, and outreach to relevant Modulus relationships.
A Work Unit includes the work: engineer-directed AI execution informed by Modulus source-code intelligence, architecture, and production lessons. Pre-built Modulus components and products, such as matching engines, charting, and connectivity modules, are licensed separately as an option. When a job could be served by an existing Modulus component, we will inform you, because licensing a proven component is often faster than rebuilding one. Components are never required; anything can be built in units instead.
Some infrastructure is faster and safer to license than rebuild. Where it makes sense, Modulus provides ready-built solutions that are instantly available, production-proven, and usually cost less than rebuilding them from scratch.
Then we build it the way we built financial systems for three decades before AI existed: by hand. Traditional engineering engagements are available for firms that prefer them or whose policies restrict AI tooling, with AI tools limited or excluded entirely and your data-handling requirements honored. These engagements are scoped and quoted individually rather than priced in Work Units; schedule a call to discuss yours.