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For agencies

Your team. Our hands.

Websites, web apps and automation, built under your brand. Your name, your client, your process. We never appear.
Send a brief, get a fixed quote in 24 hours

Why agencies work with us

More client work, without more payroll.

Say yes to the projects you would otherwise turn down, and keep the margin.

Hire a developer

  • Downside: About $132,000 a year to employ
  • Downside: Months to recruit
  • Downside: Cover needed when they are away
Best fit

The Design Studio

  • Upside: Fixed quote within 24 hours
  • Upside: Senior judgment on top of AI
  • Upside: Accountable, under your brand

Do it in-house with AI tools

  • Upside: The tools are cheap
  • Downside: Your team's hours go into driving them
  • Downside: You own every bug

Example: your client pays $8,000 for a simple website, our quote is $3,000, you keep $5,000.

Salary: BLS, web developers, May 2025. Employer cost: BLS, benefits are 30% of compensation, June 2026.

What we build

The work you'd otherwise turn down.

What your clients ask for, when your team has no time or no specialist for it.

Web Apps & Automation

The work most agencies turn down: portals, lead systems and automation, built under your brand and handed over clean.

  • Client portals, dashboards, booking and quoting systems
  • Custom applications
  • CRM integration and workflow automation
  • Lead capture and response systems

Design and web development

Websites, landing pages and everything around them, built to your spec.

  • Websites and landing pages
  • Campaign builds and ongoing site changes
  • Brand identity and collateral
  • Email, social, print, and presentations

Start with one project.

A fixed quote within 24 hours. Keep going if it works.

  1. Step 1

    Send the brief

    What you need, your spec and your deadline. A doc, a Figma link or a voice note.

  2. Step 2

    Get a fixed quote

    Within 24 hours, with our rate card. Nothing starts until you approve.

  3. Step 3

    We build, you hand over

    Delivered to your spec and your brand, handed over clean. Your client never hears our name.

Need the same person every month? Ask, and we will set up ongoing capacity.

Try us on one brief. You'll know within a week.

Send a brief, get a fixed quote in 24 hours

Confidentiality

How we protect your client relationship.

Six rules that apply to every engagement.

Confidentiality

  1. 01NDA covering client identity, signed before any work begins
  2. 02We are never introduced to your client
  3. 03IP assigned to you as work-for-hire
  4. 04No work of yours in our portfolio without written permission
  5. 05No supplier branding on any deliverable
  6. 06One point of contact, not a rotating team

Signed before any work begins

The stack

What we work in.

We work inside the tools you already use.

Design and build

  • Figma, Adobe Creative Suite
  • Keynote, PowerPoint, Google Slides
  • Webflow, Framer, WordPress, Shopify
  • Next.js, React, Supabase, Vercel

Marketing and ops

  • Klaviyo, Mailchimp, Resend
  • Make, Zapier
  • Pipedrive, HubSpot
  • GA4, Google Tag Manager

If yours is not here, ask. We have picked up worse.

Proof

Thirteen years of other people's deadlines.

Past clients include LG, Microsoft, Neil Patel Digital, Novartis, Philips, Acquia, and Johnson & Johnson. We have also been the invisible half of someone else's pitch for most of our history. And we are fine with that.
  • 13Years designing
  • 500+Projects shipped
  • 20+Brands for one agency partner
  • 8Years with one design partner

From agency founders

People who already work this way.

Agency founders who trust us with their clients.

I've worked with Dev for 5 years across 20+ brands. Flexible, reliable, and one of the best designers I've worked with.

Alexandre da CostaFounder, Creapuff

I highly recommend The Design Studio. After eight years, they've proven reliable, proactive, and great communicators who always meet deadlines. A pleasure to work with.

Wayne CurtisNotions Design Company

Dev and his team create excellent websites and print materials. They communicate clearly, take direction well, and deliver great work. You'll be glad you hired them!

John McDougallRainstar Digital Legal Marketing
Hand it over

Tell us what you cannot get to.

Send the brief and we will come back within 24 hours with a fixed quote and a rate card. No obligation either way.

Send a brief

Your clients will never know. We are very good at being invisible.