Ongoing design
Mini Studio
A dedicated senior designer, with graphics and motion on call, in your sprints and your Slack.
A working design department from day five, for less than half the cost of one senior hire — and you can stop any month.
- Timeline
- Monthly
- Required from your team
- Weekly demo
- Engagement
- Design capacity
- Investment
- From $5,500/mo
Selected teams shaped with LDS
Sage
Honeycomb
Protocol
The gap
Engineering ships. Design is the bottleneck
You have engineers in-house and no design function. Every feature waits for screens, and hiring a designer takes months.
Speed
Hiring takes 3–5 months to be productive.
Coverage
One hire covers one skill.
Risk
If they leave, you start over.
A clear fit
Built for the moment when good enough starts costing you
A quick check before we talk: who this program is built for, and who it isn’t.
This is for you if:
- You have engineering in-house and no design function.
- You need consistent design output beyond a one-off project.
This isn’t for you if:
- Teams who want an hourly contractor.
- Teams with no product direction — we execute your roadmap, we don’t invent it.
- Anyone needing under 20 hours a month — buy a project instead.
What’s included
A design team, without the hiring
- 01
Senior product designer
Dedicated, at full capacity, inside your sprints.
- 02
Graphic designer on call
Decks, icon sets, marketing collateral, sales and event material.
- 03
Motion designer on call
Product animation, UI micro-interactions, social and ad assets.
- 04
Project manager
Runs the request queue so you don’t have to.
- 05
Design system upkeep
One design-system maintenance pass every month.
Every month
5 days
To productive
You set the priorities.We keep design shipping.
A project manager runs the request queue: one or two requests active at a time, the next one starting as soon as one ships, and priorities you can change whenever you like. Standard requests typically turn around in 48–72 hours, with a demo every week.
How it works
A clear sequence, with momentum built in
Productive in days, not months, with the first month run as a discounted sprint.
- 01
Days 1–5
Onboard
We join your Slack and sprints and learn the product.
- 02
Month 1
First sprint
A working sprint at up to 20% off, with no minimum commitment.
- 03
Every week
Demo
A weekly demo of what shipped and what’s next.
- 04
Ongoing
Rolling monthly
A 3-month minimum after the sprint, then 30 days’ notice.
FAQs
The remaining questions.
Ready to add a design team?
Tell us what’s on the roadmap and where design is holding it up.
