A design partner,
inside your team.
Senior design and development for product teams and agencies: four or eight days a month, inside your own process — and white-label, if you’re an agency. The person your team briefs is the person who does the work.
Why a partnership
Senior, from day one
No ramp-up and no junior tax. The person your team briefs has shipped products used by more than a million people a month, and SaaS built from scratch — and it’s the same person every month.
Design and build, together
One person across UX, UI and production code, so your team gets designs that are already buildable — or the build itself.
Inside your team
Your process, your tools, your roadmap. I work inside them — and for an agency, under your name, with the client relationship staying yours.
How it works
Low overhead.
High output.
Agree your days
Four or eight focused days a month, matched to your roadmap or your pipeline.
Plan together
A monthly call with your lead to set priorities, so the days go where your projects need them.
Priority turnaround
Your work goes to the front of the queue — fast, senior, and reliable.
Nothing wasted
Unused time rolls over one month. You’re never paying for days you didn’t use.
Two ways to partner
Same senior time.
Pick your pace.
Four days
~4 days a month · rolling monthly
Senior capacity for the busy months: design and build inside your process.
- ~4 focused days of design and build
- A monthly planning call
- Priority turnaround on requests
- Unused time rolls over one month
- Inside your process; white-label for agencies
Eight days
Most embedded~8 days a month · 3-month minimum
Embedded across your roadmap — the closest thing to a senior hire, without the hire.
- ~8 days of design and build
- Planning with your team, sprint by sprint
- Priority response and fast turnaround
- A quarterly look at how it’s working
- Consistency held across your product, or your clients’ work
Both tiers are the same senior time at the same rate — the difference is pace and depth, not who does the work.
The honest comparison
Why not hire,
or book freelancers?
| Design Partner | A freelancer | A full-time hire | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seniority | Senior, always | Varies by booking | One person, one skillset |
| Design + build | Both, one person | Usually one or the other | Usually one or the other |
| Speed | No ramp-up | Ramp-up every booking | Weeks to hire, then ramp up |
| Monthly cost | £2k–£4k | A day rate, unpredictable | £4k–£6k+ salary, plus on-costs |
| Commitment | Rolling, flexible | Booking by booking | Permanent headcount |
| If it’s not working | 30 days’ notice | Find someone else | Redundancy |
Questions, answered
For an agency: is it white-label?
Yes. I work under your name, in your tools and your process, and the client relationship stays yours.
Is it cheaper than hiring?
Not per day — per year, when the work comes in waves. A senior designer-developer costs £60k+ a year once you add NI, pension, kit and management time, and you carry it in the quiet months too. Four days a month is £24k a year, with no recruitment, no on-costs and 30 days’ notice.
What if we don’t have a full month of work?
Unused time rolls over one month, so nothing’s wasted — and we plan together each month so the days always go where they matter most.
Can we cancel?
Four days rolls monthly with 30 days’ notice. Eight days has a 3-month minimum, then rolls monthly. No lock-in beyond that.
What kind of work does it cover?
Anything design or build — research, UX, UI, design systems, prototypes, front-end builds, fixes. Whatever’s on your board that month.
Design and development, or just design?
Both. The same person designs and writes the production code, so there’s no handoff and nothing lost in translation.
Let’s talk about
a partnership.
A 30-minute call about your pipeline, how many days makes sense, and whether we’re a fit. No hard sell.
Talk about a partnership