Most platforms that need calibrated measurement build it badly or buy it from vendors with weak validation. QLM provides the measurement layer as embedded infrastructure — your end users see your brand; the calibration, fairness audit, and Profile portability are QLM's. Three integration patterns, four white-label tiers, 18-month SDK deprecation support. The trust boundary is non-negotiable: calibration integrity is preserved across every partner deployment.
Pick the integration pattern that fits your platform architecture and brand requirements. Each pattern preserves calibration integrity, fairness audit on every event, and cross-partner Profile portability. The trust boundary is non-negotiable across all patterns — the methodology accessibility, Profile verification, fairness audit transparency, and limits surfacing exist regardless of branding tier.
QLM SDK renders the full measurement experience inside your container. Lowest integration burden.
REST API drives measurement. You control entire UI; QLM runs the engine in backend.
SDK for question presentation, API for results. Pick what to customize, what to inherit.
Same items, item-pool selection, calibration models as first-party. Partners cannot edit items, reorder them, or insert custom items.
Real-time fairness monitoring runs on every measurement regardless of origin. Items pulled from the global bank benefit all partner deployments.
Users own their Profile. A user generating a Profile through Partner A can take it to Partner B with appropriate consent.
Profile artifacts signed by QLM keys. Third parties verify against QLM's public API regardless of which partner mediated the measurement.
Implementation typically spans 8-16 weeks depending on integration complexity. QLM provides a dedicated solution architect during implementation, plus engineering support with response SLAs (4-hour business-hour, 24-hour weekend). The 18-month SDK deprecation support is non-negotiable — partners need it because their release cycles aren't ours.
QLM solution architect plus your engineering lead define integration pattern, configuration scope, data-flow architecture. Output: integration design document.
Partnership agreement, DPA, security review, IP and exclusivity terms (if applicable). SOC 2 evidence available; standard partner security questionnaire supported.
Your engineering team integrates the SDK or API. Builds partner-side UI, configures branding, integrates with user management. QLM provides SDK, docs, and integration support throughout.
End-to-end testing in staging. Pilot with internal users or beta cohort. Fairness audit validation in your user population. Phased production rollout with monitoring.
When measurement runs inside a partner platform, several trust questions arise. Each has an architectural answer rather than a contractual one. Partners cannot manipulate calibration even if they wanted to; the engine runs server-side, items are immutable to partners, signature integrity is preserved across the entire deployment.
Every measurement event and Profile signed by QLM keys. Partners cannot sign artifacts as if they were QLM-issued. Signature includes partner_id but signing authority is QLM's.
Partner sends QLM end_user_id, demographic data (with consent), session config. QLM sends partner: session_id, items, result, signed Profile artifact. Partner does not get raw response data.
Fairness issues detected in any partner's user population produces item pulls affecting all partners. Calibration improvements happen across the entire system; the item bank is shared infrastructure.
QLM's OEM partnership terms include hard architectural constraints. These exist because brand integrity depends on them being non-negotiable. Five things partners explicitly cannot do — even in full white-label tier.
Most partners use 70/30 revenue share on measurement-derived revenue. Partners with pricing models that don't cleanly attribute revenue to measurement use usage-based pricing instead. Strategic full-white-label partnerships are bespoke and case-by-case.
On measurement-derived revenue. Implementation fees one-time $50-250K depending on complexity. Configurations 1-3 (full co-brand to methodology-attributed white-label) available.
When revenue share is structurally hard. $0.40 per shorter event (5-15 min), $1.50 per baseline (15-25 min), $4.00 per intensive (30-90 min). Volume discounts at 10K, 100K, 1M events/year.
Bespoke partnerships for top 5-10 strategic partners. Different revenue share, longer terms, contractual exclusivity in the partner's market segment. Methodology accessibility and Profile verification non-negotiable.
current releasees with 3-5 strategic partners. Implementation is 8-16 weeks; the trust boundary is non-negotiable.