Skip to main content
(001)
+
Why partner with Rex Black

Sleep through your launch weekend. Here is exactly why you can.

Most agency decisions are really one decision. Who do you trust to be calm when something goes wrong. This page is written for the non-technical buyer who has to defend that choice to a board, a CEO, or a physician panel. No jargon. No theater. The worries, and the specific way we answer them.

Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design., Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design., Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design., Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design., Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design., Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design., Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design., Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design., Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design., Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design., Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design., Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design., Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design., Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design., Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design., Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design., Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design., Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design., Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design., Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design., Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design., Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design., Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design., Founder-owned. Senior-led. Accountable by design.,
(002)
+
The ten worries

The things that keep you up. And the way we answer each one.

01

My boss will blame me if this fails.

Career-risk is the real decision. Our job is to make you look competent in front of your CEO every time we send an update. Every status note is short, plain, and forwardable. No jargon wall. No 200-slide deck of activity.

02

I will not understand what they are building.

If we cannot explain it to you, we have not earned the right to build it. Every engagement includes a weekly 20-minute walkthrough in your language, recorded so you can send it to your team.

03

The site will go down during our biggest moment.

Thirty years of QA is the entire foundation of this company. Your launch weekend is our Tuesday. We load test, failover test, and dry-run the release before your stakeholders ever see it.

04

I will be on a 2 AM call with nobody on the other end.

The founder is the account. Not an account manager, not a ticket queue. When something breaks, you reach the person who owns the outcome.

05

The bill is going to double.

Fixed scope. Named deliverables. One invoice per phase. If the scope changes, you see the new number before we touch a keyboard. Hourly billing rewards the wrong behavior and we refuse to run projects on it.

06

My team cannot babysit another agency.

We work the way your team already works. Slack, one shared doc, one weekly call. We write our own tickets, chase our own blockers, and escalate to you only when a decision actually needs you.

07

When they leave I will be stuck with a black box.

We ship you the system, a runbook your team can follow, and the training to run it without us. Your independence from us is the acceptance criteria. Agencies that refuse this are protecting their retainer.

08

A competitor will launch first and I will look slow.

We ship phase one in sixty to ninety days. No 18-month death marches. No strategy quarter. You will see something working in production before you see a second invoice.

09

Our physicians, KOLs, or channel partners will revolt.

Channel-facing systems are where most commerce projects actually break. We build them first, stress them first, and document them first. The people you depend on see the same polish your customers do.

10

They will subcontract the work I am paying for.

US-based, in-house, senior-led. No offshore pass-through. The name on the contract is the name doing the work.

(003)
+
Founder-owned, not fund-owned

We answer to our clients. Our competitors answer to a fund's exit timeline.

Most large digital agencies are owned by private equity or public holding companies. That is a business model choice. It shows up in every decision their teams make on your account, whether you see it or not. We made a different choice. Here is how it shows up.

What it isFund-owned agencyRex Black
OwnershipPrivate equity. Exit timeline drives every decision.Founder-owned since 1994. No fund, no flip, no forced growth.
Who pitches, who shipsSenior on the pitch, junior on the account after signing.Same people, start to finish. We are small enough that this is literally true.
Billing modelHourly or time and materials. Utilization drives scope.Fixed scope with named deliverables. Outcome owns the invoice.
Escalation pathAccount manager. Regional lead. Global partner. Tuesday.The founder. One number. Reachable, not anonymous.
What you own at the endThe bill. The retainer. The vendor dependency.The working system. The runbook. The training. The freedom to leave.
Where the work happensDistributed global bench. Sometimes pass-through offshore.US-based. In-house. Senior-led. Same time zone as your team.
(004)
+
The founder answers

The founder is the account. Not an account manager.

Every non-technical buyer we have ever worked with has the same story. Something broke on a Friday night. The agency account manager was out of office. The escalation path was a ticketing queue.

Active clients have a direct line to the founder. Not an account manager, not a ticket. The person whose name is on the contract is the person who owns the outcome and stays reachable when it matters.

This is the single thing a 4,000-person agency cannot match. The math does not work for them. It works for us because we designed the company around the buyer who needs the vendor to care as much as they do.

What active clients get
  • 01Direct access to the founder, not an account manager or ticket queue
  • 02Same-day response on business days, prompt response around agreed launch windows
  • 03Shared Slack or Teams channel with the senior engineer on your account
  • 04Monthly 30-minute strategy call with the founder, not a sales lead
  • 05Direct escalation path for any status, commercial, or staffing concern
(005)
+
Why the site does not go down

Quality assurance is our name. It is also what we have done for three decades.

Most agencies bolt testing onto the end of a project as a checkbox. We were founded as a quality assurance firm in 1994 and we never stopped. Your launch weekend is our Tuesday. This is not a slogan. It is the discipline that keeps enterprise commerce sites, physician portals, and production AI agents calm when the traffic arrives.

30+
Years of QA

Founded 1994. One of the first ASTQB-accredited ISTQB providers in the United States.

3,000+
QA teams trained

Enterprise QA engineers across commerce, gaming, finance, healthcare, and defense.

5 countries
Commerce rollout

Three-year, five-country commerce program for a Fortune-listed skincare brand. 17% US revenue growth in the first year.

(006)
+
Credentials for the procurement file

For the form your CFO fills out. Everything in one place.

01

Salesforce Consulting Partner

Commerce Cloud, Data Cloud, Agentforce, MuleSoft

02

ASTQB Accredited ISTQB Provider

1 of 8 in the United States

03

Anthropic Cloud Partner

Production Claude agents with NIST AI RMF governance

04

AWS Solutions Architect

Cloud migration, serverless, production infrastructure

05

Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect

Hybrid cloud, enterprise identity, Azure-native

06

Shopify & HubSpot Partner

Ecommerce, CRM, and marketing automation

07

SBA SDVOSB Certified

Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business

08

NMSDC MBE & SBE Certified

Minority and Small Business Enterprise

09

$2M E&O, $2M General Liability

Full insurance coverage for enterprise work

(007)
+
Next step

Talk to the founder. Thirty minutes. Walk through the pressure.

No pitch deck. No sales lead. The person who owns the company, listening for an hour to what you are trying to build and where the risk actually is.