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Build your
momentum
Grow your startup with a fixed-cost design subscription.
“Working with Momentum was a step-change for Partly’s brand.”
Mark Song
Co-Founder
Brand excellence made easier.
Drawing from years of in-the-trenches startup experience, we’ve created a light-weight design process for ambitious businesses who are on their journey 'up and to the right'.
Subscribe to a plan and submit your design requests via Trello. Stack your tasks by priority.
Receive each design one after another, typically within 1-2 days each, Monday to Friday.
We’ll revise each design until you’re fully satisfied.
Tactical work creates a brand strategy, organically.
Strategic or tactical work?
Why not both?
The iterative working process described above helps your business build momentum day-to-day. In turn, this progress informs the real-time development of an organic brand strategy.
This way of working is true to the nature of startups. You've got limited resources and projects in flux, yet you still need to get things done today. By building the ship as we sail it, we'll find what works for your audience, offering, market and values.
The goal: an iconic brand.
Creating an iconic brand is about telling a clear story of what your business stands for and how it fits into the world. The foundation is a consistent brand look, feel, and voice that people can easily recognise.
On top of that, you need to talk to your customers in a way that makes sense to them, and build a meaningful relationship based on mutual trust.
The ultimate goal is to set your brand apart in a way that’s so distinct and memorable that it's not just known—it's a part of the culture and conversations within your niche.
Use Cases.
Extra hustle and resilience
There is always more work to be done! Get help in powering through.
Iterative progress
Work through a problem or opportunity in a steady process of iteration, and build momentum.
Position, messaging & direction
Lift your brand and where its placed in market.
Fresh perspective
We’ll review your marketing and product experience, and offer insight and suggestions on bang-for-buck improvement, based on the targets and goals you care about most.
Get started, or bridge the gaps
As you start-up or scale your business, you’ll hit periods where it doesn’t make dollar-sense to hire a designer full-time. We’re here to pitch in and GSD (Get Stuff Done).
Hone your team's craft
We'll work alongside your team in an energising process of mutual learning.
Develop the brand x-factor that unlocks growth and opportunity.
Subscriber benefits.
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Lightweight process
We know you’re busy. Brief in requests and prioritise their delivery on your team’s Trello. That’s all. Zero fluff and padding.
BS Free Guaranteed.
Primo
quality
Commercially-proven, high-quality, customer-centric design, ready to go.
A lotta
leverage
Tap into pragmatic design expertise that has evolved over decades.
Steady shippin'
Get a regular cadence of designs in just a couple working days on average, with a successful, repeatable process.
Go fast, or pause if you need
If you need a greater volume of work performed, simply add another subscription. Or if your stream of work runs dry, you can pause your subscription until you’re ready to go again.
Fixed cost
Know your outgoings with a surprise-free monthly subscription. No hidden costs or budget overruns.
Design for brand, digital & much, much more.
Event / physical presence
Subscriptions.
This introductory pricing is available for a limited time.
Monthly
No minimum commitment
NZ$6,000/month
Pause or cancel any time
Get startedBook a call
What's included:
- One project at a time
- Average 48 hour delivery
- Your whole team can submit requests
- All your brands / projects
- Includes stock imagery
- Easy credit card payments
- Pause or cancel any time
Quarterly
Save a few pennies
NZ$5,750/month
Paid quarterly
Get startedBook a call
What's included:
- One project at a time
- Average 48 hour delivery
- Your whole team can submit requests
- Includes stock imagery
- All your brands / projects
- Easy credit card payments
- Renews every 3 months
FAQ
We're offering a Creative Director's level of experience and a broad range of services. Our service is simple to engage, with a low monthly cost. You save time and money on the hassles of hiring, training, and resourcing a designer in-house, or sifting through options before engaging an expensive agency.
It 100% is. Because the service is subscription based (and cancellation is a couple clicks away), it's on us to deliver value, constantly. You'll be pleasantly surprised by how much progress you can make in a month or two.
Because, reasons! Here are a few:
- Subscriptions shift the typical agency incentive from maximising profit per project, to constantly delivering value.
- By removing the overheads associated with account management, we deliver more design for your dollar.
- We deliver outsize impact and value, with a sustained, high-frequency cadence of iterative work, because:
- “All else being equal, the fastest company in any market will win.” (Link) Building sustained momentum is mission critical for growing a business.
- Following all the above, we are 100% focused on Doing The Work, and helping you make progress.
You can stack up as many requests in Trello as you please, and they will be actioned one after another.
Each request will be picked up one after another, and iterated to completion. Typically, each iteration will be delivered in 48 hours, Monday to Friday.
Momentum is a design agency of one. My name is Alan Bauchop. I've worked in design for 30 years. Previously as Creative Director at Timely, I worked with the team as it grew from 10 to 130 people, and helped shape the brand through to the company's acquisition in 2021. My design sweetspot is early-mid stage startups that are in a constant state of growth and development.
Most designs are delivered through Figma, but we use Adobe Suite for various tasks, and exporting for print. If Canva is your deal, we can work with that too. We're focused on results, not the tools.
We get it! As a startup, your needs may fluctuate from one week to the next. When you pause your account, the remainder of days in your monthly billing cycle are held until you unpause your account again.
Example: if you pause halfway through a 30 day billing cycle, you'll have 15 days of design time to use later on. You will not be billed again until that time has been used in full.
Please note: you must use the balance of your subscription within 12 months of your initial purchase.
No problem. Once we've delivered that design, pause your account until your next project is ready.
Scale up your account with additional subscriptions and power through a crunchy deadline. We offer a 10% discount for each additional work pipeline. The same rules around pausing and cancellation apply to each individual subscription.
Because we aim to deliver a design (or iteration) every 48 hours, larger projects may need to be split into smaller tasks. Consider these scenarios:
- Website design
1. This project starts with a research project / moodboard so we have shared confidence in the design direction.
2. Typically, we start by designing the homepage.
3. We move onto design sprints for the other pages, delivering a 1-2 pages at a time.
Each of these 3 tasks are separate deliverables within your flow of requests. - Identity / brand design
1. We research your competitors and audience.
2. Moodboard your brand's creative landscape.
3. Design a set of logo options.
4. Finished logo with example applications, e.g. social accounts, t-shirt, business card.
5. Light-weight brand reference with colours, typography etc.
Each of these 5 tasks are separate deliverables within your flow of requests.
We'll pick up your feedback and iterate on the design until you are satisfied.
Due to the time invested and high quality nature of the work, there will be no refunds issued.
If AI helps us deliver higher quality results for our clients, faster, then for sure we're using the heck out of it.
But to be clear, Momentum is absolutely not a front for some AI-outsourced design factory. Rest assured that 100% genuine human toil goes into each exquisite, hand-crafted piece of design.
And lastly, thank you for coming all this way to the bottom of the FAQ. You get a lollipop: 🍭
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