No hourly billing, no day rates. Fixed prices a VP can approve, with guarantees written into the contract.
Free
90 minutes. Both founders. A clear picture of what fixing your problem looks like over the next 90 days.
€9,500
2 weeks, fixed
A firm plan for the system, a working prototype, and a signed scope for the Install. Yours to keep, with us or without us.
Credited against the Install if you go forward within 30 days. Yours to keep if you don't.
€125-185k
90 days, fixed
A production design system, shipped into your product end-to-end. One system of record that designers, engineers and AI tools all build from: Figma, code, and the constraint framework that keeps all three on-brand.
95% of projects land between €125k and €185k. Payment 50 / 30 / 20. Both founders do the build, so we take 3 Installs a quarter — no more.
€9,800
per month
The system we installed, kept up to date as your product grows. Senior people only. Install clients only.
Beyond the system itself: €37,000 of named extras, included not invoiced — each one something your team keeps using after day 91.
The bonus ledger
Included, not invoiced
The risk sits with us at week two and again at week eleven, in writing, not in a slide.
If you don't think the token architecture we've delivered is the right call, you walk away. You get a full refund minus a flat €12,500 kill fee, and you keep the week-2 work. You're never stuck with the wrong people.
Your engineers are at least 30% faster by day 91 — PR cycle time on your own GitHub data, against the four-week baseline signed at kickoff — or we keep building free for up to 60 more days. Still short at day 150? We refund the final 20% payment, and everything we built stays yours.
The methodology is agreed and signed before the build starts — so day 91 is a reading, not a debate.
PR cycle time, open to merge, on your own GitHub data. Not our opinion of our own work, and not a feelings survey.
The four weeks before kickoff, pulled in week one and signed by both sides before any code ships.
A fixed engineer population, a six-week reading window, and change-failure rate tracked beside the speed — so the number can't be bought with broken code. A short developer survey runs alongside as context, never as the contract.
Definitions, exclusions and the tie-breaker live in a written annex agreed at kickoff, not negotiated after the fact.
The most expensive option is doing nothing.
Same outcome, five very different price tags and calendars — and a sixth option, doing nothing, whose bill compounds every sprint.
The cheap system
Cost€0-60k
TimeWeeks
shadcn or a Figma-only library. Generic UI or no code at all — nothing your AI reads as your brand.
Hire in-house
Cost~€500k/yr, team of four
Time9-12 months
Six months to hire, nine months to ramp up, gone in 24 on average.
The agency
Cost€300-400k like-for-like
Time12 months
A three-month discovery phase. Most ship Figma files, not working code.
The Big 4
Cost€600k
TimeA year
A design system inside a bigger transformation. Juniors behind the partners.
The Install
Cost€125-185k fixed
Time90 days
Two binding guarantees. Senior founders do the work. After day 91, we're gone.
The problem figures are public and checkable. The promise is ours — in the contract.
The questions vendor onboarding will ask, answered up front. We run them during the Diagnostic, so the Install starts on a signed framework instead of waiting for one.
Everything lives in your repo and your Figma from day one: code, tokens, docs, rules. If we vanished tomorrow you'd hold a working system, not a dependency on us.
Fixed productized scope, published pricing, binding guarantees and a hard capacity cap. The comparison table doubles as the bid comparison your purchasing policy asks for.
Milestone invoicing against the 90-day plan, EU-friendly contract terms, and the measurement protocol attached as a signed annex.
A GDPR data-processing agreement and a written summary of our security practices ship with the Diagnostic pack.
Fixed-scope deliverables, our own tools, several concurrent clients and no seat in your line management — deliberately outside the false-self-employment patterns EU legal teams screen for.
Repo access, a Figma Organization or Enterprise plan (Code Connect requires it), and one named owner on your side.
90 days, fixed price, from €125,000. 95% of projects land between €125k and €185k. Merging many brands or carving out a system after an acquisition costs more.
50% on signing, 30% at week six, 20% at week twelve. No hourly billing, no day rates, no change orders under €5,000 of new work.
Two firm guarantees, written into the contract.
Early exit at week two. If the direction isn't right, walk away with a full refund minus a flat €12,500 fee. You keep the week-two work.
30% faster or we work free. At week eleven we re-measure PR cycle time on your own GitHub data against the four-week baseline signed at kickoff — a developer survey runs alongside as context, never as the contract. If speed hasn't risen 30%, we work free until it does, up to 60 more days.
Miss again at day 150 and we refund the final 20%. You keep every Figma file, every line of code, every governance doc.
Two weeks before you commit to the Install. We prototype the token setup on your brand, scope exactly what we'd build, and hand you a one-page summary your CFO can sign off — plus the vendor pack procurement will ask for, so supplier onboarding runs while you decide instead of after.
The work is yours either way. Hand it to your own hire or another vendor, and we'll do a free one-hour handover call.
The full €9,500 comes off the Install if you book within 30 days. Free if you go ahead, yours to keep if you don't.
In-house means a real team once you count design, engineering and the pipeline work — around €500k a year loaded for four seniors. Six months to hire, nine to ramp, and people stay 24 months on average. Most internal systems teams also report being understaffed within a year.
The cheap routes stay cheap by leaving the job unfinished: a €30-60k build hands you Figma files your AI can't read, and shadcn is free because it's everyone's design system. Like-for-like — design plus tested production code plus the AI layer — agencies run €300-400k over a year, a Big 4 firm around €600,000.
Ours is 90 days, from €125,000, with two firm guarantees. Senior founders on every piece of work.
Up to you. The Monthly is €9,800/month for past Install clients only, capped at six clients at a time. Both founders on every piece of work.
It covers what actually rots: new components, token updates, code-side fixes, and quarterly re-runs of the agent eval — AI models and tools change fast, and the rules that keep them on-brand need re-testing when they do.
Mostly async, one job at a time. The 4-hour rule: we reply on Slack within four working hours, or the month is free. That's in the contract too.
The Diagnostic ends with a binding scope and price for your Install. Not a ballpark, not a range.
Free. 90 minutes. Both founders. 5 calls per month.