DUBLIN, IRELAND · STELOR EVOLUTION LTD · FOUNDED 2026
About QubitBoost
QubitBoost is building the vendor-neutral trust layer for quantum compute.
Quantum compute is now a billed line item on enterprise invoices, with per-minute pricing on utility-tier hardware. Every superconducting backend drifts between calibration windows , that is physics, not vendor failure. Vendors publish calibration data; nobody cross-references it with the live job queue in real time. We score every execution, flag shots outside the calibration window before the bill lands, and return a signed record the customer can show to a regulator.
FOUNDER
Mike Walshe
Founder and CEO, Stelor Evolution Ltd. Dublin.
Background in physics, software electronic systems, and A.I. Builds QubitBoost with the discipline the quantum industry has not yet adopted: adversarial red-team review of every number, public retraction when methodology reveals inflation, and block-stratified drift analysis on every hardware run.
LinkedIn →Why Now
- NOV 2025IBM Nighthawk ships. Quantum compute is now a billed line item at per-minute utility-tier rates.
- FEB 2026Classiq closes $110M Series C, Riverlane $75M. The compiler and decoder layers are claimed. The vendor-neutral trust layer across them is still open.
- APR 2026qb-compiler accepted to the IBM Quantum Ecosystem alongside the other algorithm vendors. Free distribution into the IBM Qiskit user base, Apache 2.0 telemetry surface, paid SDK on top.
- APR 2026Algorithmiq wins the Wellcome Q4Bio prize on 100 qubits of IBM Heron. The workload shipped without independent verification. That is the gap we fill.
What We Do
QubitBoost provides a policy-driven control plane that sits above existing quantum SDKs and cloud platforms. It scores every backend in real time, intervenes when a run falls below statistical or economic thresholds, and returns a signed Result Passport for every execution.
Typical interventions:
- • Abort runs at round two when the signal says they will not recover, so you only pay for shots that make the paper.
- • Postselect decoded QEC shots by matching-weight confidence.
- • Drift-score each backend against its published calibration before you submit.
- • Certify the execution and sign the result.
Where We Sit
We are not a decoder (Riverlane owns that), not a control stack (Q-CTRL owns that), not a compiler or IDE (Classiq owns that). We are the vendor-neutral governance layer across all of them. If the incumbent owns a slot we integrate; we do not compete for it. What we own is the signed answer the enterprise hands to its regulator.
Credentials
- ✓IBM Quantum Ecosystem member (qb-compiler, tagged Error Mitigation + Circuit Optimization, April 2026).
- ✓qb-compiler published on PyPI under Apache 2.0. Calibration-aware compiler.
- ✓201,000 per-shot labelled hardware records across four vendors (IBM, Rigetti, IonQ, IQM) and eight backends.
- ✓Five public retractions logged in Q1 2026. Every number on qubitboost.io is drift-stratified and methodology-verified.
Roadmap
- Q2 2026First paid pilot. Methodology paper to arXiv. Qiskit Functions Catalog submission.
- Q3 2026Qiskit Functions Catalog acceptance. Raw 201K-shot dataset public on Zenodo.
- Q4 2026Second pilot. First enterprise contract with SLA. Seed raise opens.
- Q1 2027Seed close. Hiring: commercial lead, QEC research engineer, compliance engineer.
What We Do Not Do
We are not an SDK, not a decoder, not a workflow engine, not a job scheduler. We do not claim quantum advantage. We do not invent customers. We do not publish a number on this site that is not drift-stratified and traceable to a hardware experiment directory.