Your Design Team — Without the Hiring, Managing, or Overhead
Masterly becomes your external design department. Get a full team — designer, project manager, design lead — for less than one in-house hire. Scale up or down as needed. No long-term lock-in.
Trusted by funded B2B SaaS teams
About the Service
Hiring designers is expensive, slow, and risky. Finding good talent takes months. Onboarding takes more months. Then they leave, and you start over.
With Team Extension, Masterly becomes your design team. You get dedicated access to experienced designers, a project manager who keeps things moving, and a design lead for quality oversight — all without job posts, interviews, or HR headaches.
Work with us like you would an internal team: assign tasks, iterate in Slack, hop on calls when needed. But with the flexibility to scale hours up for big pushes or down during quiet periods. No severance, no bench time, no overhead.
Ideal For
- Startups without in-house design capacity
- Product teams needing ongoing design support
- Companies scaling faster than they can hire
- Teams with fluctuating design workload
- Founders who want to focus on product, not managing designers
- Companies testing demand before committing to full-time hires
Deliverables
- Dedicated design team access
- Weekly sync calls
- Slack communication channel
- Task tracking in your tools or ours
- All standard design deliverables (UI, UX, wireframes, prototypes, handoffs)
- Design system maintenance
- Async updates and progress reports
Timeline
Minimum 1 month commitment, then flexible ongoing
Our Proven Workflow
We integrate with your team like an internal department, not an outside agency.
- Step 1
Kickoff & Setup
We onboard to your product, brand, tools, and workflows. We set up a shared Slack channel, get access to Figma files, and align on communication cadence. By week’s end, we’re ready to take tasks.
- Step 2
Backlog Planning
In weekly syncs, we review priorities together. You bring the backlog — features, fixes, explorations — and we help estimate effort and sequence work. You stay in control of what gets designed.
- Step 3
Design Sprints
We work through tasks in focused sprints. You’ll see progress async in Slack and Figma. Questions get answered quickly. No waiting weeks for a “big reveal.”
- Step 4
Review & Iteration
We share work early and iterate based on your feedback. Rounds of revision are built into the process — we’re not counting changes, we’re getting it right.
- Step 5
Handoff & QA
Completed designs get full developer handoff — specs, assets, interaction notes. We stay available during implementation to answer questions and review builds.
- Step 6
Ongoing Optimization
As your product evolves, so does design. We maintain your design system, update components, and keep everything consistent as you ship new features.
Industries We Work With
From fintech to fitness — our design solutions scale across sectors.
Case Studies
A few of the products we've shaped.
PROJECTS
Why Partnering With Us Drives Better Results
We combine expertise, creativity, and a results-driven mindset to deliver exceptional digital experiences.
Reason 1
Full team, not just a freelancer You get designer + project manager + design lead. Execution, coordination, and quality control — all included.
Reason 2
Deeply embedded We learn your product, brand, and users over time. No re-onboarding every project. Institutional knowledge builds.
Reason 3
Flexible hours Time & materials means you pay for what you use. Big month? Scale up. Quiet month? Scale down. No wasted budget.
Reason 4
Self-managing Our PM runs the design workflow. You set priorities, we handle the rest. Less management overhead for you.
Reason 5
Startup speed We’re used to fast-moving teams. Quick iterations, async communication, no bureaucracy. We match your pace.
Reason 6
No lock-in Minimum one month, then flexible. If it’s not working, you can stop. We stay because we deliver, not because of contracts.
What Our Clients Say
50+ SaaS and tech companies have partnered with Masterly to ship faster and grow.
1/6
Peter Mandel
CMO at healthyverse GmbH
Partnering with Masterly was seamless from start to finish. Their design precision and creative thinking went beyond what we imagined. The team was responsive, strategic, and genuinely invested in our vision. The final result speaks for itself — if you're looking to level up your brand with sharp, business-minded design, Masterly is the team to call.
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Get a breakthrough design that wins users and investors — by partnering with a Masterly design agency, without wasting months or making costly mistakes.
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