A flexible design subscription

 for startups

Product, brand and launch design at startup speed. Flat monthly price, progress roughly every 48 hours, pause when your roadmap slows.

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Trusted by startup and SaaS product teams

More about these engagements

Cluma has worked with many startups and companies from the U.S., across Europe, to Japan, including teams funded by Microsoft. Out of those engagements came solutions pitched to big companies such as Netflix, and enterprise interfaces delivered to and used by brands such as the U.S. government, Chipotle, Barnes & Noble and Siemens Energy.

Startups

What design for startups

 actually means

A design agency for startups ships your brand, product design and launch pages without in-house headcount or agency lock-in. One subscription covers it all: activate a module this week, see progress roughly every 48 hours, pause when the roadmap slows.

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Stages

Design for every stage,

 pre-seed to Series A

Pre-seed and seed: core flows, an MVP investors believe, a landing page that converts. Series A and beyond: product depth and a design system that scales with your team.

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MVP design

MVP design that ships in weeks,

 not quarters

MVP design means core flows, a clickable prototype and testable UI, not the full product. Project shops quote it as a fixed scope that runs a quarter. On a subscription, you see progress roughly every 48 hours until it ships.

Runway

Design demand bursts.

 Your billing should pause.

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Design spikes at launch and fundraise, then goes quiet. Pause the subscription and billing stops immediately; unused days bank until you reactivate. Your runway is not paying for idle weeks.

Built for how startups,

actually run.

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Start this week

No scoping calls, no proposals. Subscribe, brief your board, work starts.

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Runway-friendly

Flat monthly price and a genuine pause. Billing stops immediately between bursts.

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Senior-owned output

A senior designer owns direction and signs off on everything that ships.

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Scales with your stage

Add modules at launch, drop them after the raise. One subscription throughout.

Subscribe

Pick your plan and get a private board. First month paid in full, then pause or cancel anytime. No contract, no cancellation fee. 7-day trial.

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Request

Brief a request in a sentence, a few references, or a short Loom. A senior-led, AI-accelerated team designs it, with progress roughly every 48 hours until it is finished.

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Review

Review on your board and request unlimited revisions while you subscribe. Add modules as you grow, or pause anytime and bank your unused days.

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A senior-led process that keeps moving.
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A senior-led process that keeps moving.
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A senior-led process that keeps moving.

Everything a startup ships,

 one subscription.

Activate modules for the work in front of you. Add or drop them as your stage changes.

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Product
Product & app design
Dashboards, flows, and design systems. Product design services built for SaaS.
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Web
Websites & landing pages
High-converting SaaS web design and marketing sites.
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Brand
Brand & identity
Logos, visual identity, and brand identity design.
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Decks
Pitch decks & reports
Investor decks, sales decks, and reports that land.
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Growth

Ads & social creative

Paid, social, and lifecycle creative that performs.

Startups that shipped

What founders say once the first sprint lands

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Google
UX Certificate
Eight courses, around six months at ten hours a week, developed by Google's own UX designers. There is no shortcut exam. You have to deliver three complete case studies, from user research and wireframing through Figma prototypes to usability testing.
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Adobe Graphic
Design Certificate
An exam you sit under test conditions, not a course certificate. Adobe builds it with Certiport and industry practitioners, and it is scored on set production tasks in Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign. You either produce the work on the day or you do not pass.
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Webflow Certified Partner
Not a signup. You apply, and Webflow's own team vets and qualifies every partner before listing them. Just over 1,200 hold the status worldwide, and it stays public in Webflow's directory, so anyone can check it at the
source.
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What design returns when it ships

No inflated house numbers. Independent research puts figures on what disciplined design work returns.

$100:$1%

Up to $100 returned per $1 invested in UX (Forrester)

+32%

Higher revenue growth at design-led companies (McKinsey, 2018)

211 %

S&P 500 outperformance by design leaders (DMI, 2015)

Real Clients,

 Real numbers

Real results from teams using Cluma

“Thanks Cluma for doing the research in this data space and delivering a detailed audit on time. Really appreciate it”
“Exceptional design team with an eye for design that goes above and beyond. I would definitely recommend working with Cluma.”
“Very strong UI/UX thinking, great attention to detail, and clear communication throughout the project. Cluma was flexible, professional, and delivered high-quality work.”
“Pleasure working with Cluma on a tight deadline. They delivered and we got the result we wanted!”
“Cluma has been great to work with in building out the design of the web app for our trading platform. Very pleased and would hire Cluma again for any future projects.”
“Thanks Cluma for doing the research in this data space and delivering a detailed audit on time. Really appreciate it”
“Exceptional design team with an eye for design that goes above and beyond. I would definitely recommend working with Cluma.”
“Very strong UI/UX thinking, great attention to detail, and clear communication throughout the project. Cluma was flexible, professional, and delivered high-quality work.”
“Pleasure working with Cluma on a tight deadline. They delivered and we got the result we wanted!”
“Cluma has been great to work with in building out the design of the web app for our trading platform. Very pleased and would hire Cluma again for any future projects.”
“Cluma listened and made recommendations based on our priorities, and were very invested in the quality of work. You can tell they are knowledgeable and passionate about design.”
“Cluma brings exceptional UX research and product thinking. Working with them felt like collaborating with a senior product partner rather than hiring a freelancer.”
“I hired Cluma to review the current SurveyTester website and suggest changes. Cluma did a fantastic job, defining a completely new user journey and working out the details.”
“We involved Cluma to design the Corporate Identity of our startup and the first UI/UX prototype of our mobile App. We were really excited when we saw the results.”
“Cluma is a very humble and diligent partner that supports across multiple marketing initiatives. I can recommend them to anyone!”
“Cluma listened and made recommendations based on our priorities, and were very invested in the quality of work. You can tell they are knowledgeable and passionate about design.”
“Cluma brings exceptional UX research and product thinking. Working with them felt like collaborating with a senior product partner rather than hiring a freelancer.”
“I hired Cluma to review the current SurveyTester website and suggest changes. Cluma did a fantastic job, defining a completely new user journey and working out the details.”
“We involved Cluma to design the Corporate Identity of our startup and the first UI/UX prototype of our mobile App. We were really excited when we saw the results.”
“Cluma is a very humble and diligent partner that supports across multiple marketing initiatives. I can recommend them to anyone!”

Ship your MVP without the lock-in

Start with one module, see progress roughly every 48 hours, pause between bursts.

Trusted by startup and SaaS product teams

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FAQ

What founders ask before they subscribe

How much does startup design cost with Cluma?

Flat and published: modules run $1,995 to $3,995 per month, one flat rate per module. First month paid in full, then pause or cancel anytime. No long-term contract, no cancellation fee, 7-day trial.

How fast can you design our MVP?

It depends on scope, so we promise cadence, not magic: you see progress roughly every 48 hours from the first brief until the MVP ships, and the queue never sits idle. Most MVP scopes are measured in weeks, not the quarter a fixed-scope project takes.

What is the difference between MVP design and full product design?

MVP design covers core flows, a clickable prototype and testable UI, enough for users and investors to believe it. Full product design adds depth, edge cases and a design system. Cluma’s uShip module handles both, so you never switch vendors mid-journey.

Can we pause between funding rounds?

Yes, that is the point. Pause anytime and billing stops immediately; unused days of the month bank and resume on reactivation. First month paid in full, then no long-term contract and no cancellation fee. Your files and board stay intact.

Are you specialists or generalists?

Product and UX-led specialists for SaaS and startups, with full-stack modules around the product core: brand, website, decks, content. Senior-owned and senior-reviewed, AI-accelerated where it saves time, human where judgment matters.