A senior design team for US software companies, without the US agency rate.
We work with American SaaS and enterprise teams the way a good in-house function works: senior people, async by default, live overlap when it matters, and accessibility treated as a legal requirement rather than a nice-to-have.
What US software teams tend to need
Accessibility is a litigation surface
ADA web accessibility claims in the US run into the thousands annually, and enterprise procurement increasingly requires a VPAT. Designing to WCAG 2.1 AA from the start costs a fraction of retrofitting under legal pressure.
In-house senior design is expensive and slow to hire
A senior product designer in a US metro is a significant salary plus a months-long search. For many teams the constraint is not budget in principle — it is getting senior capacity onto the problem this quarter.
Enterprise buyers audit design maturity
Procurement reviews now examine accessibility conformance, design consistency and documentation. Inconsistency that a startup tolerates internally becomes a blocker in an enterprise sales cycle.
Offshore has burned you before
The common failure is not skill — it is layers. Account managers relaying requirements, junior designers appearing after the pitch, and no overlap hours. Those are structural choices, and we have made the opposite ones.
What you actually get
Senior designers, directly
No account managers and no junior hand-off after the sale. You work with the people designing your product, which is the main reason clients move to retainers with us.
ADA and WCAG 2.1 AA compliance
Contrast, keyboard navigation, focus states and screen-reader semantics designed in rather than retrofitted — with the documentation enterprise procurement asks for.
SaaS product design
Dashboards, onboarding and workflow tools — the surfaces where usability drives activation and retention. See our SaaS product design service.
Async-first collaboration
Loom walkthroughs, structured written updates and Figma comments, so progress does not depend on both sides being awake simultaneously — with EST/PST overlap for the conversations that genuinely need it.
US contracting norms
USD contracts, NDAs and IP assignment as standard, with W-8BEN documentation handled so your finance team is not solving an unfamiliar problem.
Engineering-compatible handover
Specs designed against your stack and sprint cadence, delivered in increments matching your release rhythm rather than one large drop at the end.
How the engagement runs
Discovery
Week 1. Interviews, product walkthrough and analytics review, ending in a written problem definition signed off before design starts.
Structure
Weeks 2–3. Architecture and flows — where the hard decisions are made and most of the value is created.
Design
Weeks 3–8. High-fidelity design reviewed weekly during overlap hours, with accessibility checked continuously rather than at the end.
Build support
Ongoing. Handover, engineering walkthroughs and design QA against what actually ships.
Proof
Kelp Global — CRM intelligence platform
Three connected products on one design system: a Chrome extension, an analytics dashboard and a deals module. Onboarding time fell 40% and feature adoption doubled. Read the full case study →
Related work
We are an India-based studio serving US clients remotely — we do not have a US office and would rather say so. Our work spans Betacrew, Adda247 and Tata Elxsi; see our B2B SaaS practice.
What it costs
Engagement models
Project, retainer or fixed-scope audit, quoted and contracted in USD. Most US clients start with a two-week UX audit because it is the lowest-risk way to test working together across a distance. See the pricing page.
Typical timeline
Design kickoff within 48 hours of signature. Focused work runs 3–5 weeks; a full product redesign with a design system is 10–12.
Common questions
We keep a 9am–1pm EST overlap window for live calls and reviews, and run everything else async — Loom walkthroughs, written updates, Figma comments. In practice most US clients find this faster than a local agency, because async forces decisions to be written down rather than lost in a meeting. For PST teams the overlap shifts earlier in our day.
No. We are an India-based studio serving US clients remotely, and we would rather state that plainly than imply a presence we do not have. What we do offer is USD contracting, US-standard NDAs and IP assignment, EST/PST overlap hours, and senior designers on your project rather than an account layer.
WCAG 2.1 AA is our default, not an upgrade. In the US this matters commercially as well as ethically — web accessibility claims run into the thousands annually and enterprise procurement increasingly requires a VPAT. Designing to standard from the start costs a fraction of retrofitting under legal pressure.
US-standard NDAs, full IP assignment on payment, and USD contracts. We provide W-8BEN documentation so your finance team is not navigating an unfamiliar process. These are routine for us — most of our client base is outside India.
The honest answer is cost and senior availability. You get senior designers directly rather than the account-manager-plus-junior structure common at that price point in the US, and capacity is available in weeks rather than after a months-long hire. The real trade-off is timezone, which async working and a defined overlap window address but do not eliminate — if you need someone in the room daily, hire locally.
Design kickoff is normally within 48 hours of signature. We run a structured onboarding session to gather product context, access and analytics, and typically have an initial direction within five working days.
Let's look at your product.
Thirty minutes at a time that works in EST or PST. We'll tell you what we'd tackle first — no deck, no pitch.