No one size fits all

As people who have worked at, with and founded startups, we really understand the tech landscape. We also focus on staying small, so we’re perfectly sized for dynamic work. We’ve replaced a team of six (at a cost of $300k from a traditional agency) with as little as teams of one or two.

How we work drives excellence in what we make, so it’s important that each project has defined process from beginning to end. Steps vary by project, but generally we have nine:
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1. Start with strategy
2. Create a smart scope
3. Form a core team
4. Research
5. Brand direction
6. Design
7. Develop and design support
8. Handoff
9. Launch, learn and repeat

We can also embed a high performance, vetted designer directly within your venture or team. Meaning we’re able to find designers, drop them into your company and integrate them faster than it would take to hire someone full time.

All our projects are unique in size, but we’re especially proud of the long-term partnerships we’ve built working on large-scale, strategic projects. Our average project size is $50k USD.

We’re proud to work with partners of all scale, from fast-growing startups to Fortune 500 companies.

We focus on four core services: strategy, design, development and communication.

We’d never sacrifice speed for quality, but the real question is: how fast do you want it delivered?
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We’ve created entire brand executions over a weekend sprint and designed and developed entire MVPs in three months.

If time is a constraint, we’ll work closely with you to set expectations without sacrificing quality of work.

Definitely. Although one of our core values is staying lean, that doesn't always apply when your business is in a position to scale. We're happy to adjust the team as big or small as you want—whether that’s 10+ people or just one person.

Launch, learn and repeat—that’s the motto. Once your product is launched, we'll pay close attention to how customers are behaving and reacting. We'll speak to users and iterate on what we've built together to optimize experience and conversion.

During our design phase, we'll make sure to create a system that is scalable to the growth of your business. Plus, we’re available to your design or development team as they implement our ideas. We’ll spec out all the interactions and individual components and provide ongoing support to ensure that our designs are correctly executed.

It may help, but it isn’t necessary. Whether you have an exact idea or a general interest in creating something, our team can step in to help ideate, test, design, flow, build and launch. We've been through the journey ourselves so we know a thing or two.

We’re more than happy to work with our partners on an ongoing basis. We can also work with you to embed one of our designers directly into your team.