A full-time hire is slow to find and covers one discipline. A bench of freelancers means you become the project manager, and every one of them learns your brand from scratch. A traditional agency wants a fixed scope before it understands your business.

Hiring a senior designer takes months, and one hire still covers one skill set. A design partnership gives you a senior team across brand, web, product and motion, working inside your priorities every month.
Sound familiar?
If one of these sounds like your team, read on.
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We've been trying to hire a senior designer for four months.
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Marketing is waiting on design for everything.
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We're juggling three freelancers and none of it matches.
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We don't need a full-time hire, but we need more than a freelancer.
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Every agency wants a six-month project scope upfront.
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Our brand slips a little more every time someone ships a deck.
Senior designers who already know your brand, plans with you each month, and moves between web, product, decks and launches as your priorities change.
- Design subscriptions
Unlimited requests, worked one at a time, with a new round for every fix.
What we do insteadProjects run to a written scope and a date. A partnership works through monthly priorities you set with us.
- Design subscriptions
A different designer picks up each request and learns your brand from scratch.
What we do insteadThe same named people stay on your account: Koen on brand, Adrian on web and UI, Ramy and Samuel on motion.
Client proof.
See every client resultAnnual client
“Everreach is on Alterra Studio's annual membership, we get immense value from Ryan and his team and we couldn't be happier.”
Ethan Chief Operating Officer, Everreach Labs [$6.5M+ raised]Who does the work.
At many agencies a senior person pitches and a junior designer delivers. Here the people on your first call do the work. Ryan leads the call, and the people below are named in your written scope and stay on it to handover.
- Ryan HofmannFounder & CEO
Leads your first call, strategy and client relationships.
- Koen Van VlietHead of Branding
Koen leads our brand identity work: positioning, logo, type and color systems, and the guidelines teams use afterwards.
- Ramy RaafatMotion Designer
Ramy animates our launch films and product motion, from style frames to the final cut.
- Max Van den BergProject Manager
Max runs project schedules, so milestones, feedback and handover land on the dates we agreed.
- Samuel JutrasMotion Designer
Samuel designs and animates motion for launch films, product UI and social cutdowns.
- Adrian DanilukUI/UX Designer
Adrian designs product interfaces and websites, from wireframes to the final UI.
What happens, week by week.
You see the work at every stage, and you sign off the direction before production starts.
- Week 1
Onboarding
We learn your brand, roadmap and team, set up the shared board and agree the first month's priorities.
Brand & roadmap reviewShared workspaceMonth 1 plan - Every week
Ship & review
We work through priorities in order, share progress in your channels and run a weekly check-in.
Weekly updatesReview sessionsShipped work - Every month
Plan & report
We review what shipped, what moved and what's next, then adjust capacity for the month ahead.
Monthly reviewNext month's planCapacity adjustments
Core partnership
Steady senior design support for marketing and brand.
- One active workstream
- Weekly check-ins
- Shared board
- Source files
Embedded team
A cross-discipline pod working inside your roadmap.
- Parallel workstreams
- Strategy sessions
- Design + dev + motion
- Priority turnaround
How we work on it.
Context that carries over
The same people work on your brand every month, so each request starts from what we already know.
Every discipline in one partnership
Brand, web, product, motion and development, all available inside one partnership.
Planned with you
Monthly priorities, weekly check-ins and a shared board, so you always know what's shipping.
Flexes with your roadmap
Scale capacity up for launches and down between them. No hiring, onboarding or notice periods.
Design Partnership from $8k/mo, fixed price in a written scope. See all prices
Not sure what you need yet? The Brand & Website Diagnostic, $3,000 in 5 working days.
Design & answers.
What founders ask before hiring us for design partnership.
How is a design partnership different from hiring?
You get a senior team across several disciplines in weeks instead of one hire in months, without recruiting, onboarding or long-term commitments. You also keep the context of a team that already knows your brand.
How do we request work?
Through a shared board and your Slack. We agree priorities each month and work through them in order, with weekly check-ins so nothing gets lost.
Can we scale up for a launch?
Yes. Capacity can grow for a launch or fundraise and drop back afterwards. We plan the change with you a month ahead where possible.
Who will we work with?
Senior designers and developers, coordinated by one lead who owns your account. No juniors learning on your project and no layers between you and the people doing the work.
Read before you decide.
Practical guides on brand, websites, product and launches, written by the team that does the work.
All insights- Hiring design7 min read
What is a design partner, and when does a startup need one?
What is a design partner? How an ongoing senior design team differs from a project agency, a design subscription or a hire, and when a startup needs one.
- Hiring design7 min read
Design agency vs freelancer vs in-house: what should a startup choose?
Design agency vs freelancer vs in-house designer for a funded startup: costs, speed, hidden coordination costs and a decision guide by stage.
Other services, same people.
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