A designer who already knows your product. On call, every month.
A reserved block of principal design time each month. No re-briefing, no ramp-up, no scrambling when something ships wrong. The work changes; the ceiling doesn't.
Size your block →The work that never makes the roadmap
Products don't stop needing design when the project ends. The retainer is how shipped products stay sharp.New components, token changes, and reviews that keep the system honest as the product grows, especially one we built.
The recurring fixes users keep reporting, worked through steadily instead of piling up into a redesign.
Flows and build-ready specs for the features on this quarter's roadmap, from a designer with full context.
Reviews, engineering questions, "does this look right?", answered by someone who knows why every screen is the way it is.
How the monthly block works
The block is a monthly cap with the same mechanics as any capped sprint: daily time logs, visible burn, and rules for the edges agreed upfront.
We size the block to your cadence on the intro call, resize it any month if the cadence changes.
A short monthly planning call orders the queue. Mid-month requests reorder it, your call, always.
Quiet month? Up to 50% of unused time rolls into the next 30 days. Loud month? We flag at ~70% burn and re-plan.
Cancel with 30 days' notice. Everything, files, specs, documentation, already lives in your tools.
Retainer or fractional?
- → Product is shipped; design need is ongoing but not weekly
- → You want continuity: same designer, full context, no re-briefing
- → The work is upkeep, iteration, and the occasional feature
- → You're actively building; design decisions block sprints weekly
- → You need someone in standups, 2–4 days a week
- → See the fractional model
Most retainers start as something else, a fractional embed that shipped, or a design system that needs a steward. Moving between models is a conversation, not a renegotiation.
Keep your product
sharp after launch.
Book a 20-minute call. Tell us what shipped and what keeps coming back; we'll propose a block size and a monthly cap, or tell you a retainer isn't what you need yet.