Senior product design,
inside your team.

A senior design team inside your SaaS or AI startup — continuously improving UX, shipping faster, and moving the metrics that matter: activation, retention, conversion. Not a vendor. Part of your team.

Built for teams where
design can’t keep up

Your roadmap outpaces your design capacity

Your SaaS or AI roadmap is moving faster than your current design can handle.

You need ongoing product improvements

Across activation, onboarding, retention, conversion, and core workflows.

You want to remove UX friction with data

Use product analytics and experiments to find and fix what is slowing users down.

Design is becoming a bottleneck

For product, engineering, or growth initiatives.

What $12,000 a month
actually buys

One flat rate. No hourly billing, no change orders, no surprise invoices.

The team

A dedicated project manager as your single point of contact, a design lead who owns quality and product direction, and a senior product designer full-time on your product.

The output

Dedicated capacity for ongoing product work, dev-ready Figma files with specs and components, and a design system maintained as your product grows.

The process

A weekly sync, updates every two days and async Slack — and you talk to the designer directly, with no middlemen in between.

How the
retainer runs

From proof to a weekly shipping rhythm, without a procurement cycle in between.

Optional
Week 1
Every week
Free 3-day trial
One or two real screens from your product
No commitment, no contract
Proof before you decide
Optional
Week 1
Onboarding
We map your product, users and metrics
We find the UX debt worth paying down
You get a prioritized backlog
Every week
Ship cycle
Design, review, dev-ready handoff
A weekly sync tied to your metrics
Updates every two days in between

Design Retainer — $12,000 · per month, three-month minimum

One price.
Choose your term.

Enterprise — extra senior capacity for complex products and multiple teams. Starting at $20,000/month, final pricing scoped after a call.

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Minimum term

3 months

$12,000per month

The minimum engagement. No discount, and the shortest way to find out whether this works.

What’s included?

  • PM, Design Lead and Senior Designer
  • Ongoing capacity, scoped to your roadmap
  • Weekly sync and direct comms
  • Design system maintained as you grow
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6 months

$11,400per month

For a roadmap you can already see through to the end of a half-year.

What’s included?

  • PM, Design Lead and Senior Designer
  • Ongoing capacity, scoped to your roadmap
  • Weekly sync and direct comms
  • Design system maintained as you grow
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12 months

$11,160per month

For teams treating design as a standing function rather than a project.

What’s included?

  • PM, Design Lead and Senior Designer
  • Ongoing capacity, scoped to your roadmap
  • Weekly sync and direct comms
  • Design system maintained as you grow

Minimum three-month engagement, then cancel anytime with 30 days’ notice. All prices in USD / USDC. Trial and launch fees are credited toward your retainer.

Why founders
choose Glow

Metric-driven, not screen-driven

Activation, retention and conversion are the scoreboard. We agree what a month has to move before it starts.

Deep AI and SaaS expertise

Agent UX, LLM interfaces and devtools. No onboarding on your category, and no learning on your budget.

Faster than hiring

Finding and onboarding a senior designer takes 6 to 10 weeks. We start in days, with a team rather than one person.

No lock-in

Three-month minimum, then cancel anytime with 30 days notice. The work is yours from day one.

Free 3-Day Trial

See how we work —
before you spend a thing.

Send us one real screen from your product. A Glow designer redesigns it in three working days, and you keep the files — whether you continue with us or not.

Scope
One real screen from your product
Timeline
3 working days
Price
$0 — no card, no contract
Dropcall
10,000
users in two days

AI product launched and went viral in 48 hours, gaining 10,000 users.

Lendflow
6 years
continuous design partnership

From MVP to enterprise platform — six years of continuous product design.

Mobile Banking App
+44%
user satisfaction

14 UX and accessibility issues fixed — satisfaction rose from 3.2 to 4.6 out of 5.

Payment Platform
−63%
transaction time

A 7-step B2B payment flow averaged 4 minutes. Cutting redundant confirmations took it under 90 seconds.

Investment App
−29%
7-day churn

Portfolio performance was buried in the information architecture. Restructuring it cut early churn.

Frequently
asked questions

Why a retainer instead of a fixed project?

Because a live product changes every week. A fixed project prices a scope agreed before anyone has seen how users behave, and every change after that becomes a negotiation. On a retainer the team is already in context — it knows your product, your users and your metrics — so next week’s work starts on Monday instead of starting with a new estimate.

Because a live product changes every week. A fixed project prices a scope agreed before anyone has seen how users behave, and every change after that becomes a negotiation. On a retainer the team is already in context — it knows your product, your users and your metrics — so next week’s work starts on Monday instead of starting with a new estimate.

How is this different from hiring in-house?

Finding and onboarding one senior product designer takes 6 to 10 weeks on average. We start in days, and you get three people rather than one: a project manager, a design lead and a senior designer. When your roadmap quietens down you give 30 days notice instead of managing a headcount decision.

Finding and onboarding one senior product designer takes 6 to 10 weeks on average. We start in days, and you get three people rather than one: a project manager, a design lead and a senior designer. When your roadmap quietens down you give 30 days notice instead of managing a headcount decision.

How much can you ship in a month?

It is dedicated capacity scoped to your roadmap, not a fixed screen count. We agree the priorities at the start of each cycle and work through them in order, so the honest answer for your product comes out of the onboarding week rather than a number on a page.

It is dedicated capacity scoped to your roadmap, not a fixed screen count. We agree the priorities at the start of each cycle and work through them in order, so the honest answer for your product comes out of the onboarding week rather than a number on a page.

Can I pause or cancel?

After the three-month minimum, yes — cancel anytime with 30 days notice. There is no automatic renewal to catch you out and no penalty for stopping.

After the three-month minimum, yes — cancel anytime with 30 days notice. There is no automatic renewal to catch you out and no penalty for stopping.

Do you work with non-AI SaaS?

Yes. Most of what makes product design work is the same either way, and our case list runs across fintech, logistics, healthcare, marketplaces and edtech. AI products are simply where we are deepest, because we have designed the most of them.

Yes. Most of what makes product design work is the same either way, and our case list runs across fintech, logistics, healthcare, marketplaces and edtech. AI products are simply where we are deepest, because we have designed the most of them.

Who owns the work?

You do, from day one. Files, source, design system, everything — there is no clause that keeps any of it with us.

You do, from day one. Files, source, design system, everything — there is no clause that keeps any of it with us.

What if I only need one project?

Then a retainer is the wrong shape and we will say so. A Fixed Scope is one defined scope at a fixed price: a redesign or a feature, delivered and then done. Book a call and we will tell you which of the two your situation actually needs.

Then a retainer is the wrong shape and we will say so. A Fixed Scope is one defined scope at a fixed price: a redesign or a feature, delivered and then done. Book a call and we will tell you which of the two your situation actually needs.