Senior design talent. On mission or on payroll.
Our designers join your teams, billed by the day. And when you hire for good, we run the search — paid only on success.
The people who change a team's trajectory are never on the market.
For years, we've kept a ledger. Designers and design leaders we've worked beside, watched under pressure, and would vouch for without hesitation. It opens two doors. Most days, our designers join your team on mission, billed by the day. And when a role is meant to last, we run the search — senior, lead and executive profiles, paid only when your hire signs. Either way, we don't fill seats — we shift your organization's center of gravity.
01. Staffing
The core of our market. Senior designers, leads and design directors from the ledger join your team — your rituals, your tools, your roadmap — for a sprint, a quarter, or the whole mission. One daily rate, backed by Designshot from briefing to handover.
- Embedded senior designers
- Complete design squads
- Fractional & interim leadership
- Transition & leave cover
- Daily-rate billing
- Extend, scale or convert anytime
02. Executive search
When the role is permanent, we hunt. Senior, lead and executive positions filled by direct approach — never a job posting. We assess craft and soft skills, present a shortlist you can trust, and stay through onboarding. Our fee is a percentage of the salary, due on success only.
- Head of, VP & Director searches
- Senior & lead ICs
- Direct, confidential approach
- Hard + soft skills assessment
- Offer & closing counsel
- Success fee — % of salary
Senior, lead, executive. Nothing else.
We work one segment of the market: senior individual contributors, leads, and design executives. People with a track record you can verify and the judgment to matter from week one. That focus is what keeps the ledger sharp.
Hard skills, then soft skills.
Craft is vetted by practitioners — portfolio, systems, decisions, how the work holds under pressure. Then we assess what a CV can't show: how someone leads, collaborates, and behaves when a launch slips. Both have to pass. Most don't.
The unlisted market
The people you want aren't applying. They're shipping, leading, mentoring — and they answer when someone they trust calls. Years of working beside them is what opens that door. A job board never will.
Accountable after the signature
A placement isn't the end of our work. We stay through the first months — onboarding, expectations, the honest conversations both sides need — because the hire that matters is the one that lasts.
The role matters. So does how you fill it.
Tell us who's missing. We take on a handful of searches at a time — be the next.
Describe the role. We read every request, one by one.
We come back to you within 48 hours.
We set up a first call — if the ledger holds your person, you'll know quickly.
Designers — you don't apply to the ledger. You get written into it.