Monthly retainers
A design team on tap.
Design, development, email, brand, small site changes. One monthly fee, cancel any month.
From $800 a month · 4 tiers · Cancel any month
You need something every month
A campaign, a deck, a landing page, an email. The list never ends and there is nobody whose job it is.
You cannot justify a hire
Not enough work for a salary, far too much to do yourself. A retainer is the middle that does not exist otherwise.
Nothing matches
The website, the deck and the emails were all made by different people. You want one team making all of it.
What you get
Everything a retainer covers.
Design and dev
Landing pages, page builds, components.
Social and print
Social creative, brochures, collateral.
Small site changes
Copy, new sections, a new page, fixes.
Decks and documents
Pitch decks, workbooks, one-pagers.
Campaigns and flows on Klaviyo or Mailchimp.
Automation
Scale: automation monitoring. Compound: one automation a quarter.
Brand and identity
Applied across everything we make.
Something else?
If an in-house team would do it, we probably do too. Ask.
Need something not on this list? Tell us what you are trying to do and we will tell you straight away if a retainer covers it.
How it works
Brief it. Get it. Repeat.
Step 1
You brief
A message, a doc or a voice note. We confirm the request within 1 working day and ask what it needs to do for your business before what it should look like.
Step 2
We make it
1 to 3 working days per request, on every tier. You see it before it is finished, not after.
Step 3
You review once
One round of feedback, in one place. Then it ships and the next request starts. Nothing waits on a meeting.
Long-term design support · 5 years
80+ documents.
One brand.
A leadership consultancy that produces decks, workbooks and flyers constantly, with no in-house designer. We built the system first, then made everything on it. 5 years and counting.
“Dev is exceptional. Creative, fast, and always on brief. After nearly five years of working together, I still choose him every time. He doesn't just build websites, he makes them work.”
Pricing
Four tiers. Cancel any month.
Grow
$800
per month
- One active request at a time
- 1 to 3 working day turnaround
- Design, dev and small site changes
For a business producing a few things a month.
Scale
$1,500
per month
- 2 active requests
- 1 to 3 working day turnaround
- Email campaigns and Klaviyo flows
- Automation monitoring
For a business with a marketing calendar.
Compound
$2,500
per month
- Everything in Scale
- One page a month written to be found
- Monthly technical SEO check, fixed not listed
- One automation a quarter
- One-page report: impressions, clicks, inquiries
For a business that wants to be found, not just look right.
Embedded
$4,500
per month · $3,500 founding rate, first 2 clients
- A designer or developer inside your team
- Same person every month
- Your tools, your standups
- Studio cover when they are away
For a company that would otherwise hire.
A designer embedded in a client's in-house team since 2022.
Same person throughout. No recruitment, no notice periods, no cover to arrange.
Questions
Retainer questions.
What counts as one request?
Can I make changes to my website on a retainer?
What does Compound actually do for SEO each month?
Do unused requests roll over?
Start with a free 5-minute audit.
A short video of us on your actual site, pointing at what is costing you inquiries, plus which tier fits. Free, and yours either way.
Cheaper than a job ad. Faster than an interview.
Not sure a retainer is right? Book a 15-minute call and we will tell you, even if the answer is a sprint.