A flat monthly fee for a design team you can brief as often as you like, instead of quoting every project. You add requests to a queue, they come back one at a time, and you pause or cancel when the work slows down. Kernly Design's version adds a senior designer on every task, development included, and four hours free before you commit.
Unlimited design requests, a senior designer on every one, and development included, for one flat monthly fee. Pause when it's quiet. Start with four hours of free work before you commit to anything.
Design subscription
A senior design team, on a monthly plan.
No card · Pause or cancel anytime · Reply within one working day
Why a subscription
Most teams don't have a design project. They have a design week, every week: the product page for the new SKU, the ad refresh, the deck for the board, the email for the launch, the social templates that keep drifting off-brand. Quoting each one is slower than doing it. Hiring for it is a salary for a job that never fills a full day.
A design subscription turns that stream into a queue. You add requests, they come back in order, you pay one number a month. The catch with most subscriptions is who does the work: a rotating production desk, with a mid-level designer learning your brand on each task. Kernly's plan gives you a senior designer who knows your brand by week two, and a developer so the page ships.
How it works
Add it to the queue. Review it tomorrow.
01
Try it free first
Send one real task. We confirm scope within one working day and deliver the first four hours free, no card, so you judge the work before the plan.
02
Fill the queue
Add requests in Slack, Notion, Trello or email, in the order you want them. Your senior designer picks up the next one as soon as the last is approved.
03
Review, refine, ship
First drafts in 48 hours on average. Unlimited revisions. Built pages, not just mockups. Pause the plan whenever the queue empties.
Compared
What a typical design subscription gives you, and what this one adds.
The flat-fee, unlimited-requests model was popularised by services like Designjoy, Penji, ManyPixels and Design Pickle. The model is good. The difference is who does the work and what ships.
| Typical design subscription | Kernly dedicated plan | |
|---|---|---|
| Who designs | A production team or rotating designer | A named senior designer who stays on your account |
| Development | Not included; you get Figma files | Included: Shopify, WordPress or custom build |
| Try before you pay | Money-back window after you subscribe | 4 hours of free work on a real task, before any fee |
| Requests | Unlimited, one or two at a time | Unlimited, one at a time, with scoping help so big jobs don't stall the queue |
| Turnaround | 48 hours per task | 48 hours average; most small tasks next working day |
| AI | Varies; often undisclosed | AI-first exploration and production, every output reviewed by a senior designer; your data never trains a shared model |
| Brand knowledge | Rebuilt on each request | Your guidelines and libraries held by the same person, month to month |
| Pause or cancel | Yes | Yes, no notice period |
| Price | Published flat fee | Flat fee quoted on your capacity, within one working day |
What's included
Everything a marketing team needs designed in a normal month.
- 01
Websites and landing pages
New pages, redesigns and campaign pages, designed and built. CMS set up so your team can edit.
- 02
Product and app UI
Flows, screens and a small design system your developers build from. Figma handoff included.
- 03
Brand identity and guidelines
Refreshes, extensions and the guide that keeps everyone on-brand after you.
- 04
Ads and social
Paid social and display sets, weekly posts, carousels, thumbnails and templates in a system.
- 05
Decks, email and print
Sales and board decks, email flows, brochures and packaging with print specs checked.
- 06
AI product imagery and motion
Brand-tuned product and model shots without a photoshoot, plus short motion for ads and social.
Plans
Two ways to work with us. Both start free.
Monthly partner
Dedicated plan
The subscription. A senior designer and build team on one flat monthly fee, priced on the capacity you need. Unlimited requests, one at a time.
- Named senior designer who knows your brand
- Development and AI content included
- 48-hour average turnaround
- Pause or cancel anytime
4 hours free to start
Pay as you go
For one-off projects and quieter months. Hourly, quoted on scope before we start, no retainer. The way most clients try us first.
- 4 hours of free work on your first brief
- Senior designer on every task
- Weekly report of hours spent
- Move to the plan whenever it makes sense
FAQ.
What founders and marketing leads ask before starting a design subscription.
Three things. Every task is designed by a senior designer, not a production queue. Development is included, so a landing page is built, not just drawn. And every company starts with four hours of free work on a real task, so you see the quality before paying a monthly fee.
You can add as many requests as you like. They are worked on one at a time, in the order you set, so a typical month gets through 8 to 15 pieces depending on size. A landing page is one request; a 12-size ad set is one request; a full website is a project we scope separately or run over several weeks of the plan.
The dedicated plan is one flat monthly fee priced on the capacity you need; tell us what a typical month looks like and we quote within one working day. If you prefer not to subscribe, pay as you go is hourly and quoted on scope. Either way the first four hours are free.
Yes, from the next billing date, with no notice period and no cancellation fee. Many clients run the plan for a launch quarter, pause, and come back.
Founders and in-house marketing teams with design work every week: product pages, campaigns, social, decks, email, brand updates. If you need one thing a month, pay as you go is cheaper and we will say so.
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