EMBEDDED DESIGN PARTNER
Senior design capacity that stays after the launch.
3 years
longest continuous partnership
2020
start of a partnership still running
1
team, and no account layer
60+
teams shipped
The value of a design partner compounds. The value of a project ends at launch.
The first month of any engagement goes on learning: the product, the audience, the internal politics, the reason the last idea got killed. On a one-off project that cost is paid once and then thrown away. On a partnership it is paid once and earns interest every month after.
That is why our longest engagements produced the best work. Roamless ran for three years and ended up with a custom search engine, dynamic pricing and QR attribution, none of which was in the original brief. Nobody scopes that on day one. You get there by staying.
Onboarding
Product, audience, brand system and the decisions already made, absorbed properly once.
Monthly rhythm
A planning session, a working backlog, and a cadence your team can rely on.
Design sprints
Focused blocks on whatever matters most that month, decided together.
Launch support
Campaign pages, product announcements, and the assets that always arrive late.
Design QA
Checking what shipped against what was designed, on real breakpoints.
System maintenance
Keeping components, tokens and CMS structure from drifting as the site grows.
Partnerships that outlasted their original brief.
Roamless
Three years, twelve locales, and a site that grew into a commerce platform.
AG2
A twenty-hour launch that turned into a partnership still running two years later.
Frigade
One landing page, then a second project, then ongoing marketing support.
Who this is for
Product and marketing teams shipping faster than they can hire, and companies that would rather add senior capacity than manage a vendor.
How it works
A monthly commitment, a shared Slack channel, a working backlog, and the same people every month. No account manager in between.
Hiring per project
A new brief, a new onboarding and a new interpretation of the brand every time, plus a month of context-building you pay for repeatedly.
Keeping a partner
Context that accumulates, decisions that stay consistent, and a team that can start work from a Slack message rather than a brief.
What an embedded partnership covers
Design sprints
Focused monthly blocks on brand, product or marketing work.
Launch support
Announcement pages, campaign assets, and the launch itself.
Product iteration
New surfaces, new flows, and the screens the roadmap keeps adding.
Brand iteration
Keeping the system coherent as the company and the product change.
Design QA
Reviewing what shipped, on real devices, before customers find it.
System maintenance
Components, tokens, CMS structure and documentation kept current.
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