A utility-scale quantum execution substrate — available for verification today.
Aligned to DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) Stage A · DARPA-PA-26-02-02 · abstracts on a rolling basis through July 31, 2026.
"If an approach to quantum computing is discovered that enables utility-scale quantum computing much faster than anticipated, DARPA is interested in the immediate and timely verification and validation of the approach's viability — performed in parallel with ongoing R&D efforts." — DARPA-PA-26-02-02, QBI Stage A, §B Introduction
That clause was written for an approach exactly like ours. We are the faster-than-anticipated approach — and we are ready for V&V now.
Rolling abstracts through Jul 31 2026 · full proposals Sep 30 2026 · new entrants explicitly encouraged. Solicitation on SAM.gov ↗
So the market rewards whoever can execute useful quantum workloads today — not another roadmap promise.
Catalyst-Q executes gate-model and optimization workloads on a bounded-width phase representation — never materializing the 2n statevector, never depending on a fragile physical qubit stack.
Honest framing: this is a virtual quantum-computation substrate on commodity classical infrastructure, distributed through Cloudflare's edge — not a cryostat. That is precisely what makes it available for immediate V&V, and what maps it onto a room-temperature photonic hardware path in Stage C.
Exactness and bounded memory hold for every circuit. For all-to-all volume-law circuits, time scales — the same #P-hardness every exact method faces. We eliminate the memory wall that stops statevector at ~50 qubits; we do not claim to repeal complexity theory. No supremacy claims. No "simulate any circuit for free."
These are not slideware. They are third-party, open benchmarks on the Unitary Foundation's Metriq record — the industry's neutral scoreboard.
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A utility-scale run is one where the answer is worth more than the compute to get it. Catalyst-Q returns exact results for workload classes — Mirror Circuits, QML kernels, QAOA — at widths and depths where physical qubits are still noisy and classical statevector has already run out of memory. Value delivered, cost bounded. That is the definition, met.
catalyst_q_v3_1Public, third-party, reproducible — the same repository DARPA and the field already use for cross-platform evaluation. Anyone can check it.
.rain certificates.Each execution emits a hash-chained, re-runnable evidence packet. A verifier re-executes the certificate and gets the identical answer — deterministically. This is not "trust our demo." It is verification built into the substrate — which is exactly the muscle DARPA's IV&V team needs.
IP boundary preserved: certificates prove what was computed and let it be re-checked, without disclosing the routing logic or phase-binding internals. Maps cleanly to QBI Category 2 (V&V) data rights.
A running utility-scale quantum-computation substrate — live, distributed, benchmarked — available for immediate V&V today. That is the "faster-than-anticipated approach" §B was written for.
The same targeted-read engine is a verification instrument for other performers' circuits — an exact, memory-bounded oracle plus signed replay. DARPA's Stage-C IV&V mission, in a box.
To our knowledge, no other approach is simultaneously (a) a utility-scale execution substrate ready for V&V today, and (b) a verification instrument for the rest of the field. That dual fit is the moat.
Most performers spend Stage A trying to show a concept could work. We spend it verifying a substrate that already does — and Stage A milestones may be completed early to open Stage B ahead of schedule.
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| Milestone | Deliverable | Due | DARPA funds |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.1.a · Kickoff | Milestone report + government technical review | Month 1 | up to $150,000 |
| A.1.b · Concept Design Review | In-person CDR on the draft concept report | Month 4 | up to $500,000 |
| A.1.c · Final Concept Design Report | Revised USQC concept per IV&V feedback | Month 6 | up to $350,000 |
Our acceleration lever: because the execution engine is already validated in software, the Month-1 kickoff can ship an evidence-replay harness the IV&V team runs themselves — front-loading confidence and opening the door to early Stage B negotiation.
pip install catalyst-q · pip install catalyst-brain — shipping, versioned, documented.Honest status: pre-revenue. The path to revenue is a DARPA Stage A OT ($1M non-dilutive) plus commercial substrate licensing — download momentum and a public benchmark record are the leading indicators. catalyst-q on PyPI ↗
Rolling deadline — abstract due July 31, 2026
Non-dilutive government capital, a public benchmark moat, a live product with real installs, and a clause in the solicitation that reads like it was written for us. Small check now; asymmetric line to $300M and a category-defining position.
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pip install catalyst-q · Metriq PR #461 · DARPA-PA-26-02-02
All figures from public sources: the DARPA QBI solicitation, the Unitary Foundation Metriq record, and live PyPI statistics. Virtual-substrate framing is deliberate and defensible under technical review.