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We filter out 99% of candidates who don’t make the cut in soft skills.
Product design, delivered as a service.
You shouldn’t have to build a design team to get great design. We plug in as an ongoing extension of your product team — always on, always shipping.
We can help.
Same backlog. A steady stream of shipped design.
Drag across the screen to compare a backlog waiting on design with the pace you get once it’s handled as an ongoing service.
Use cases
When teams reach for design as a service
Growth surfaces the same design bottlenecks again and again. Here’s when SaaS teams turn design into an ongoing service instead of another hire.
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Design work piles up between hires
Someone leaves, or you haven’t hired yet, and the backlog just waits. We keep design moving continuously, with no coverage gap to plan around.
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You need design across more than one product
Several backlogs, one small team. We add capacity that flexes across products instead of forcing everything through the same one or two people.
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Your roadmap is unpredictable
Some weeks need a lot of design, some need almost none. A fixed hire doesn’t flex with that; a service does.
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You don’t want to manage a design team
Hiring, retention, career growth, performance reviews — all real overhead. We carry that so you can just brief the work and see it shipped.
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Freelancers keep losing context between projects
A new freelancer for every project means re-explaining your product every time. A standing design service keeps context — and quality — consistent.
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You want design to feel like infrastructure
Always available, always moving, without you thinking about staffing it. That’s the point of treating design as a service instead of a project.
Why treat design like infrastructure, not a project?
A project-by-project approach breaks down the moment your roadmap does. Here’s how a standing service holds up instead.
Problem
Your design needs swing week to week, but a project quote or a fixed hire doesn’t flex with them.
Solution
A subscription that scales with the queue — add capacity when it’s heavy, ease off when it’s not.
No surprises. Just consistent
design output
Outsourcing design is a leap of trust. Every Augment designer is an in-house trained specialist — not a freelancer — so quality stays consistent from the first task to the hundredth.
English
Only those who communicate fluently get hired at Augment.
Team expertise
Your specialist is backed by our Head of Design, who supervises the project.
Inside bootcamp
Every newcomer gets 3 months of training before working with their first client.
How design as a service works
We tailor the setup to how much ground you need covered. For most teams it comes down to one of two shapes.
Continuous queue
Send tasks in as they come up — flows, features, audits — and they move through a standing design queue with senior review, no new quote each time.
Dedicated pod
For heavier or multi-product roadmaps, a small pod of designers plus senior oversight covers more surface area in parallel.
We’ve helped 100+ SaaS teams turn design into a service, not a scramble.
When design output is steady, everything downstream of it gets easier.
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One connected brand and product system spanning an infrastructure platform, enterprise software and mobile workflows.
How design as a service works
Four stages, from the first conversation to a continuous delivery cadence. Hover any stage to see what happens in it.
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Discovery
We learn your product, your design system, and how your team already works, so output fits in from the first task.
You get
- Product & design system review
- Workflow & tooling setup
- Scope & priorities
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Design-as-a-service questions,
answered.
Short, honest answers — and if we missed one, our team would love to chat.
Not sure we’re the right fit?
Try us for 3 days first.
Choosing a design agency online is often a gamble. So we let you test the collaboration before you commit to anything.
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Send us a real task from your backlog.
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See it move through our process.
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Review the delivered work against your standards.
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Decide if you’re ready to make it ongoing.
Ready when you are
Let’s make design a non-issue.
Book a call and we’ll tell you honestly what ongoing coverage you need.