Our sister company
Quantum Innovation Lab
Quantum Innovation Lab is a separate software company operated by our founders — an AI-native software studio that builds for independent businesses like restaurants, dental practices, law firms, and learning providers.
Two organizations, one set of founders. The Lab serves its own clients; Quantum Institute of Science and Technology is a SCHEV-certified Virginia school. This page explains how the two connect.
For our students
Senior engineers build. Students learn alongside them.
Every Lab project is built and shipped by senior engineers. Students at our school have opportunities to learn alongside that work — the kind of exposure to production software a classroom alone can't replicate.
See production software take shape
Students have opportunities to observe how real client systems are designed, reviewed, and shipped — decisions, trade-offs, and all.
Ask the people who build for a living
Mentorship happens in the open: students join discussions, ask questions, and get answers from engineers doing the work.
Mentees, not a labor force
Students join as learners. Client work is built and shipped by the Lab's senior engineers — students are there to learn from it, not to staff it.
Who teaches here
The engineers who ship for Lab clients teach at our school.
The Lab's senior engineers are veterans of teams at companies like Adobe, Microsoft, Capital One, and UnitedHealth. The same practitioners bring that experience into our classrooms — so what students study reflects how software is actually built today.
Graduates are prepared for modern engineering work by people who do modern engineering work.
Prior engineering experience from
- Adobe
- Microsoft
- Capital One
- UnitedHealth
- Freddie Mac
- LPL
Quantum Institute of Science and Technology is certified to operate in Virginia by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) as a postsecondary institution. Quantum Innovation Lab is a separate company and is not part of that certification.
Looking to work with the Lab?
Project inquiries, previews, and client conversations all happen on the Lab's own site. If your organization wants software built, that's where to start.
Visit quantuminnovations.co(opens in new tab)Two missions, one standard.
Explore the software studio, or see the programs where students learn from the people who build it.