Pricing
Fixed fees, quoted after we understand the problem.
No hourly billing and no change-order theatre. Scope changes get re-quoted in writing, and every engagement has a checkpoint you can stop at.
Design Sprint
A focused answer to one hard question.
Fixed feeQuoted after a 30-minute call
- Timeline
- 2 weeks
- Best for
- Validating a concept before committing a roadmap to it
- Discovery and stakeholder interviews
- Competitive teardown
- Concept directions
- Clickable prototype
- Five user sessions with recordings
- Recommendation memo
Most chosen
Product Engagement
The full build, from research through to shipped product.
Fixed fee, per phaseQuoted after discovery, before work starts
- Timeline
- 8–14 weeks
- Best for
- Teams launching or rebuilding a core product surface
- Everything in Design Sprint
- End-to-end UX and UI
- Design system and token architecture
- Production front-end in your stack
- API, schema and integrations
- WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility pass
- Performance budgets wired into CI
- Weekly reviews with your team
- Handover and pairing sessions
Embedded Partner
A senior team inside yours, month to month.
Monthly rateAgreed up front, 30 days notice to stop
- Timeline
- Rolling, 3-month minimum
- Best for
- Scale-ups that need continuous design and engineering capacity
- Dedicated designer and engineers across front-end and backend
- In your Slack, standups and sprint planning
- Design system ownership and governance
- Quarterly roadmap and metrics review
- Priority turnaround on new surfaces
- Pause or stop with 30 days notice
Always included
In every engagement, regardless of size.
A senior team
No junior layer doing the work
Weekly reviews
Work in progress, not milestones
WCAG 2.2 AA
Tested, not assumed
Performance budgets
Enforced in CI
Full IP transfer
Source files and code
Documented handover
Plus pairing sessions
Compare
What each engagement covers.
| Design Sprint | Product Engagement | Embedded Partner | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery & research | |||
| Clickable prototype | |||
| End-to-end UX & UI | — | ||
| Design system | — | ||
| Production front-end | — | ||
| Accessibility audit | — | ||
| Embedded in your sprints | — | — | |
| Ongoing system governance | — | — |
Pricing FAQ
Budget, timelines and the small print.
The questions that come up on nearly every first call.
It depends on surface area and on how much of the build we take on — design only, design plus front-end, or the API and data model as well — so we quote a fixed fee per phase after a discovery call rather than publishing a number that would be wrong for most projects. You get a written figure before any work starts, and scope changes are re-quoted in writing — no hourly billing, no surprises later.
Usually two to four weeks out. If you have a hard deadline, tell us on the first call — we will say honestly whether we can hit it rather than finding out in week six.
Frequently. We can hand off Figma files and a documented component library, or work directly in your repository alongside your team. Both work; the second one produces fewer surprises.
Vue 3 and Nuxt are our default on the front-end, and we also ship React, Next.js and plain TypeScript component libraries. Behind them: TypeScript on Node, Postgres, and whichever of REST or GraphQL your clients already speak. Styling is usually Tailwind. We are comfortable inside an existing design system and an existing codebase — most of this work is joining one, not starting one.
We work remotely and keep a daily overlap window with your team rather than claiming to cover every hour. Tell us where your standup is and we will say plainly how much of your day we can be live for.
You do. Full IP transfer on final payment, including source files, code and the design system. No licensing, no retainer lock-in on your own assets.
Yes, before the first call if you prefer. We can work under your paper or send ours.
Every engagement has a checkpoint at the end of the first phase. Either side can stop there, and you keep everything produced up to that point.
Not sure which fits
Describe the problem and we will recommend one.
Most people arrive thinking they need one thing and leave the call scoped to another. That conversation is free.
Or email us directly at hello@uxatom.com