A principal designer on your team. Just not five days a week.
Cristian or Maira, 2–4 days a week — in your standups, in your tools, owning design end-to-end. Judged on the numbers we agree should move: training time, error rate, task speed.
Start with a 2-week trial →"Embedded" is not a metaphor
Not an agency in another timezone, not a contractor who emails PDFs. A team member with a standup slot.Daily presence on embed days. Blockers surface in the meeting, not in next week's status email.
Your Slack, your backlog, your repo. Design work lands where engineering already looks, no parallel process.
Research, flows, screens, specs, QA of the built result. One person accountable for all of it.
The principal you meet on the intro call is the person doing the work. Zero juniors, zero hand-offs.
A 3-day embed, as it usually runs. Days flex with your sprint cadence.
Standup, sprint planning, review of what engineering shipped. Design decisions that were waiting get made today.
Flows, screens, prototypes, plus a user session or operator call when the sprint needs evidence.
Build-ready specs handed to engineering, QA of what's in review, and next sprint's design queue lined up.
Matched to your problem, not your budget tier
There is no bench. You get whichever of us fits the domain, and the other as a sounding board at no extra cost.
If your interface runs on a factory floor, in a control room, or anywhere mistakes cost real money, Cristian embeds. Full profile
If your product lives in clinics, wards, or the hands of thousands of users, Maira embeds, research first. Full profile
A trial before a commitment
You shouldn't marry a designer off one call. The trial is real work on your real backlog. If it doesn't click, you keep the output and we part friends.
20 minutes. Your problem, our honest read on fit, and which of us would embed.
Real sprint, real backlog items, real standups. Both sides find out what working together is actually like.
The minimum engagement, long enough to own a roadmap rather than decorate one. £850/day, by days per week.
Days flex up or down month to month with your roadmap. A retainer keeps continuity when winding down.
Not sure you need embedded yet? An interface audit is a lower-commitment way to start, and doubles as our ramp-up if you go fractional after.
Your team,
plus one principal.
Book a 20-minute call. We'll tell you which of us fits, what a trial sprint would tackle, and what it costs, or tell you honestly if fractional isn't the right model.