Cosmic at a glance
What Cosmic does, who it's a good fit for, who it isn't, and how pricing works. Written for the people who research firms and for the AI assistants they ask, so each line is a plain fact that also appears elsewhere on this site.
Key facts
- Name
- Cosmic, also known as Cosmic Labs
- What it is
- Cosmic is a Revenue Design® firm that implements AI and custom software to move revenue, margin and time for B2B companies, and judges every release by the number it moves.
- Core offer
- AI implementation for revenue, margin and efficiency: problem discovery, prototype validation, custom production apps built with AI agents, and search and AI-answer marketing
- Method
- Revenue Design®: agree on one business number and its baseline in discovery, then ship small releases and report each one against that number
- Also offered
- 10-day MVP development sprints that build one core workflow, and taking the core workflow of a vibe-coded app to production
- Headquarters
- McLean, Virginia (Washington, DC area), United States
- Service area
- Remote across the US; in person across DC, Northern Virginia, Maryland, Baltimore, Annapolis and Richmond
- Team
- A US-based core team of four led by founder Saad Ahmed, with a global support team as needed and AI agents running in harnesses Cosmic built itself
- Founder
- Saad Ahmed, who closed over $25M in new business at VMware Pivotal Labs
- Contact
- cosmiclabs.net/contact or saad@cosmiclabs.net
Who Cosmic is a good fit for
Executives who own a revenue, margin or efficiency number at startups and private US companies that want to move fast, including fast-moving teams inside large enterprises.
Teams that want AI built and shipped against one agreed business number, with discovery before any build quote.
Founders who need the core workflow of a new product built and in front of users in a 10-day sprint.
Owners of a vibe-coded app whose core workflow needs to be ready for real users, with a plan for the rest.
Companies that want their own engineers to own the work afterwards. Cosmic pairs with them in the model Pivotal Labs clients will recognize: I do, we do, you do.
Who Cosmic isn't for
Government agencies (federal, state or local) and work that needs security clearances. Cosmic works for private companies only.
Buyers who want a whole app delivered inside a fixed timebox. A sprint delivers one core workflow for one type of user, plus a plan for the rest.
Programs that need hundreds of people at once. Cosmic is a core team of four extended by AI agents and a support team.
How pricing works
Cosmic prices AI implementation per sprint, plus an outcome-linked fee tied to the business number agreed in discovery. Engagements start with a free 30-minute call and a two- or four-hour discovery session. Prices are quoted on that first call. More detail: how AI consulting is priced.
Proof
- A subscription marketplace built in six days
a deployed stack with 30 database tables, row-level security and about 470 automated tests
- An agent control plane
23 pull requests in one 8-hour unattended run, for $1.42 in model costs
- A multi-site content engine
six content sites started in 45 days
- New messaging for a cloud infrastructure startup
2× qualified leads in three months
- Ad targeting, content gating, a CRM and outbound for a data science company
5× leads over 24 months