Embedded, not outsourced.

I work inside your product, not alongside it: design direction, the core flows, and the judgment calls about what deserves to exist. Design, code, and AI in one head, with no account managers and no junior hand-offs.

01 · What you get

A partner in the work, not a queue.

01
Senior, and that's all there is
No account manager, no junior doing the real work. The person you talk to is the person designing it.
02
In the room, weekly
Your Slack, your standup, your roadmap. Shipping every week, not presenting every month.
03
Design that arrives shippable
I build too, so direction comes as working front end and design tokens your AI tools can follow.
04
Month to month
Three months to start, because month one is learning your product. After that, month to month. No lock-in.

In practice that means the onboarding flow one week, the pricing page the next, and the week after that, telling you the feature you're excited about isn't the one to build. You own 100% of what I make.

02 · How it starts

Three steps. No surprises.

1
Fit call
Twenty minutes to see whether this is the right shape for where your product is. I'll tell you what the engagement would cost on that call, before you send a brief.
2
Month one, I learn the product
An audit of what's there, time with your users and your team, and a point of view on what to fix first. You get direction you can act on even if we stop here.
3
Then we ship, weekly
Shipping every week, month to month after the first three. Thirty days notice whenever it stops being useful.
03 · What it costs

What you'd otherwise be choosing between.

Senior product designer, in house
$140K–$210K / YEAR
Loaded cost in year one, plus two to three months to hire, and you still need someone to lead them.
Design agency
$100K+ / ENGAGEMENT
Senior partner pitches, then hands the work down. You brief through an account manager.
Design subscription
$4K–$6K / MONTH
A task queue. Good for volume, no judgment about what should be on the queue in the first place.
Fractional design partner
LET'S TALK
Senior, embedded in the team, month to month. Priced against what the work is worth to you, which is a conversation, not a number on a page.

Market rate for a senior fractional design partner in 2026 runs $10k–$15k a month. I'll tell you where I land on our first call, before you send a brief.

Not ready for a partner? Start here

The Prototype

$5,000 USD

One core flow, clickable and live, in a week. Enough to show a board, test with users, or find out what working together is actually like before anyone commits to a quarter.

See the Prototype
+ · Also available

Fixed scope, if you prefer.

Some work has a clean edge around it: one tool, one flow, one thing that needs to exist by a date. When that's the case I'll quote it fixed rather than talk you into a retainer you don't need.

The Prototype, $5,000 →
Workflow Automation, $8,500 →
The Full Build, $12,000 →

Building something that has to be right?

I take one founder at a time. Twenty minutes to see if the timing works.

Book a fit call humayun@studiomaya.io