The design agency for startups
on a flexible plan
Cluma is the design agency for startups on a flat subscription: product, brand and launch design at startup speed. Progress roughly every 48 hours, pause when your roadmap slows.
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Trusted by startup and SaaS product teams
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.
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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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 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.
Design demand bursts.
Your billing should pause.
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.
Start this week
No scoping calls, no proposals. Subscribe, brief your board, work starts.
Runway-friendly
Flat monthly price and a genuine pause. Billing stops immediately between bursts.
Senior-owned output
A senior designer owns direction and signs off on everything that ships.
Scales with your stage
Add modules at launch, drop them after the raise. One subscription throughout.
Build your design team one module at a time.
Every module works like a senior-led designer. Add one when you need it. Drop it when you don't.
Step 01: Hire a discipline.
Every module is a senior-led design seat for one discipline: product, web, brand, decks, ads or social. Turn on the seats your roadmap needs this month. No recruiting, no onboarding weeks, no notice periods.
Step 02: Brief it in Trello.
Every request is a card in your private Trello board. A sentence, a few references or a short Loom is enough. One column per module shows what is queued, in progress and done, so nobody chases status in meetings.
Step 03: One task. Full focus.
Each module works on one request at a time and gives it its full attention. Queue as many requests as you like behind it. Need two things moving at the same time? Add a second module.
Step 04: Progress every 48 hours.
Everyday tasks like social posts, ads or a one-pager land within about 48 hours. Bigger projects like UX/UI or a full website are split into milestones, and each milestone moves forward every 48 hours until launch.
Step 05: Scale up. Scale down.
Comment right on the card. Revisions are unlimited while you subscribe. When the roadmap shifts, add a module or drop one for next month, or pause and bank your unused days.
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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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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UX Certificate
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Design Certificate
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source.
What design returns when it ships
No inflated house numbers. Independent research puts figures on what disciplined design work returns.
Up to $100 returned per $1 invested in UX (Forrester)
Higher revenue growth at design-led companies (McKinsey, 2018)
S&P 500 outperformance by design leaders (DMI, 2015)
Real Clients,
Real numbers
Real results from teams using Cluma
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
The smartest way to resourceSaaS design
See how a design subscription stacks up against the alternatives.
FAQ
What founders ask before they subscribe
Flat and published: modules run $2,995 to $4,995 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.
It depends on scope. Your MVP is split into milestones, and each one moves forward every 48 hours from the first brief until launch, right in your Trello board. Most MVP scopes are measured in weeks, not the quarter a fixed-scope project takes.
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.
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.
SaaS specialists: a modular design subscription built only for SaaS and startups, with modules for product, brand, website, decks and content. Senior-owned and senior-reviewed, AI-accelerated where it saves time, human where judgment matters.