Design Partner Retainer is reserved monthly design capacity with one person who already knows your product.
Hiring a senior designer takes three months and costs six figures a year. Hiring freelancers project by project means explaining your product again every time and waiting on availability you do not control.
This sits in between. You get a designer who remembers why you made the decision you made last quarter, and you skip the scoping call before every small task.
What's included
Monthly Planning: We set priorities once at the start of each month in a single call, then you adjust as things change. (Includes a shared board you can add to and reorder any time.)
Product Design: New features, flows, screens, and all the states that get discovered during testing when nobody designed them. (Includes user flows, wireframes, final screens, and empty, loading and error states.)
Website and Framer Work: Landing pages, campaign pages, site updates, and experiments you want to run. (Includes design and build, since I do both.)
Design System Upkeep: The thing every team puts off until it breaks. New components, cleanup, and documentation as the product grows. (Includes component updates, token maintenance, and usage notes.)
Design Review on Shipped Work: I check what your engineers built against what was designed and flag what drifted, before your users find it. (Includes a written list of fixes ranked by how much they matter.)
Access and Input: Quick decisions do not need a meeting. (Includes Slack access during working hours, most answers within a couple of hours, and a 30 minute weekly call you can skip whenever async is working.)
Around 35 hours a month, used however you want. Everything I make is yours permanently.
Who this is for
Funded startups with continuous design needs and nobody in house.
Teams whose single designer is underwater and needs senior help rather than another junior to manage.
Founders who want a design partner inside decisions rather than a vendor receiving briefs.
Not the right fit for: one off projects with a clear ending, where a fixed price service is cheaper and cleaner for both of us. Also not for teams needing more than about 35 hours a month, because at that point you should hire, and I will help you write the job description.
Design Partner Retainer is reserved monthly design capacity with one person who already knows your product.
Hiring a senior designer takes three months and costs six figures a year. Hiring freelancers project by project means explaining your product again every time and waiting on availability you do not control.
This sits in between. You get a designer who remembers why you made the decision you made last quarter, and you skip the scoping call before every small task.
What's included
Monthly Planning: We set priorities once at the start of each month in a single call, then you adjust as things change. (Includes a shared board you can add to and reorder any time.)
Product Design: New features, flows, screens, and all the states that get discovered during testing when nobody designed them. (Includes user flows, wireframes, final screens, and empty, loading and error states.)
Website and Framer Work: Landing pages, campaign pages, site updates, and experiments you want to run. (Includes design and build, since I do both.)
Design System Upkeep: The thing every team puts off until it breaks. New components, cleanup, and documentation as the product grows. (Includes component updates, token maintenance, and usage notes.)
Design Review on Shipped Work: I check what your engineers built against what was designed and flag what drifted, before your users find it. (Includes a written list of fixes ranked by how much they matter.)
Access and Input: Quick decisions do not need a meeting. (Includes Slack access during working hours, most answers within a couple of hours, and a 30 minute weekly call you can skip whenever async is working.)
Around 35 hours a month, used however you want. Everything I make is yours permanently.
Who this is for
Funded startups with continuous design needs and nobody in house.
Teams whose single designer is underwater and needs senior help rather than another junior to manage.
Founders who want a design partner inside decisions rather than a vendor receiving briefs.
Not the right fit for: one off projects with a clear ending, where a fixed price service is cheaper and cleaner for both of us. Also not for teams needing more than about 35 hours a month, because at that point you should hire, and I will help you write the job description.