Independent quality engineering review of a consumer product before it ships. You send the spec sheet, supplier docs, and photos. We send back a risk-ranked report on what's likely to fail, why, and what to fix — in seven days.
If you're shipping a consumer product to American homes and you've never had a senior quality engineer look at it, this audit is for you.
Private-label brands launching new SKUs in regulated categories.
Direct-to-consumer companies launching their first or second product line.
Kickstarter and Indiegogo projects preparing for production fulfillment.
Sub-$10M consumer goods firms without a dedicated QA hire.
One week from kickoff to delivered report. No discovery calls before scope is set, no surprise add-ons after.
You can read the full 10-point framework, see exactly what AI does and what a human decides, and review the federal data sources behind it — before you decide whether to engage. Transparency is the entire pitch.
Read the Full Methodology →One number, paid half on engagement and half on delivery. The launch-offer rate applies to the first three engagements only.
Knowing the limits is what makes the price fixed and the deliverable clean.
If any of the items below are what you actually need, the Pre-Launch QA Audit is not the right service. We'll tell you so before invoicing.
A traditional senior quality consulting engagement runs twenty to fifty thousand dollars. Most pre-launch products don't need that depth — they need a senior eye on the obvious risks, delivered fast, at a price a seven-figure brand can actually pay.
Pattern-matching across thousands of one-star reviews, recall records, and spec sheets is the kind of work AI is genuinely good at — and it's the work that used to take a junior consultant a week.
What gets ranked high-risk, what's actually a recommendation versus a nice-to-have, what would never pass a real QA review — that's senior engineering judgment. AI doesn't replace it. It frees it.
No hourly billing. No discovery phase. No post-engagement scope creep. The deliverable is published in advance — you know exactly what you're paying for before the invoice goes out.
The questions that come up most often.
Freelance QA consulting typically bills hourly, requires a discovery phase, and takes 4–8 weeks per engagement. The Pre-Launch QA Audit is fixed price, fixed scope, fixed timeline — one week from kickoff to delivered PDF — because the methodology is published in advance and AI handles the data labor that used to take a junior consultant the most time.
Yes. A mutual NDA can be signed before you send any product documents. We have a one-page template that covers most cases; if you have your own, that's fine too.
The 10-point methodology is category-agnostic. The federal-data lookup adapts to your product's regulatory category (CPSC, FDA, USDA, or NHTSA, depending on what you're shipping). If your category has unusual requirements that fall outside the published scope, we'll tell you on the first email exchange — not after invoicing.
No quality engineering review can guarantee that. What we guarantee is that the obvious failure modes, the manufacturer track-record red flags, and the regulatory exposure issues that would be visible in your documents and the public data will be in the report. What you do with the findings is your call.
Send what you have. The first thing the report does is list what's missing — that's part of the value. If too much is missing for a useful audit, we'll tell you before invoicing rather than after.
The federal-data layer covers U.S. regulatory exposure — CPSC, FDA, USDA, NHTSA. If you're selling internationally and U.S. compliance isn't your primary concern, this audit is a partial fit at best. Email and we'll tell you whether it's worth the engagement.
Book a free 30-minute scoping call to walk through what you're launching. If it's a fit, you'll get a one-page engagement brief and an invoice. If it's not, we'll tell you why.