You can hire someone to make it look right. That's not the hard part anymore.

The hard part is judgment. What to build next, what to cut, where the product's actually going. Funded teams ship fast and constantly, and somewhere in that speed the question of whether you're building the right thing stops getting asked. Hiring a senior designer to ask it takes six months. An agency will sell you a team where the person with the judgment isn't the person doing the work.

This is an ongoing product design partnership. You get a small senior team inside your product the way a design co-founder would be, shaping what gets built, not just how it looks. Led by Chris directly. No junior handoff, no offshore team, no account manager in between.

No discovery phase, no scoping calls. It's month to month, no long lock-in. We're designing in week one and we work in a weekly rhythm: ship, review, iterate. You stay because the work's worth it, not because a contract says so.

What's included: We work across the product the way an in-house team would. Web and mobile, product and UX, the design system and components in Figma, interactive prototypes you can click through and test. Lightweight research where it sharpens a decision. Developer handoff your engineers can build from, annotated flows, specs, edge cases, plus release support and design QA. Weekly check-ins and an end-of-month recap: what shipped, what we learned, what's next. What you're paying for is two decades of product judgment, and the craft to ship it.