An agency runs its own project with its own process. Augmentation adds senior designers to your team: they work in your tools and design system, take briefs from your team and hand work back for your review. You keep ownership of the brand and the roadmap.
Senior designers and developers who plug into your marketing, brand or product team when the backlog outgrows it. Your tools, your design system, your sprint. No new headcount, no agency onboarding.
For in-house teams
Design team augmentation, without the headcount.
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Who it's for
Your in-house design team is good, and it's never big enough. The launch, the rebrand rollout and the quarterly campaign all land in the same month, and everything that doesn't make the cut piles up in the backlog. Headcount is frozen, a contractor needs weeks to learn the brand, and a traditional agency wants a six-week project and a statement of work.
Kernly Design gives you overflow design support that behaves like part of the team. Senior designers who work in your Figma libraries and design system, join your Slack or Teams channel, and take the work you'd rather not hand to a junior. You stay in charge of the brand. We add the capacity.
What you can hand over
The work your team has no hours for, done to your standard.
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Campaign and ad creative
Paid social, display and video statics in every size, from one concept. Resized and localised without your designers losing a week.
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Landing pages and web updates
New pages, conversion tests and site sections in WordPress, Shopify or your own front-end, built from your component library. See website design.
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Product UI and UX support
Feature flows, UI mockups and design system components for product teams with more roadmap than designers. See UI/UX design.
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Brand rollouts and templates
Take a new identity across decks, documents, social and sales material, and build templates the whole company can use.
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Decks, reports and sales material
Board decks, annual reports, case studies and one-pagers, on brand and on deadline.
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AI product imagery
On-model and in-context product shots without a photoshoot, tuned to your brand and kept private to it.
Recent work
All projectsHow it works
Add us to the sprint. Keep your roadmap.
One senior lead learns your brand system once, then works like a member of your team.
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Start with one real task
Something from the backlog. We confirm scope and timing within one working day and sign your NDA first.
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We work in your system
Your Figma libraries, brand guidelines and tools: Slack, Teams, Jira, Asana, Notion or email.
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Your team reviews and ships
Your designers keep the final say. We hand over clean, organised files and source, ready to drop into your system.
Why in-house teams choose Kernly
Extra senior hands, without a hiring plan.
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No new headcount
Capacity from the operating budget, not a hiring plan. Scale up for a launch, pause when the backlog is clear.
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On brand from week one
We learn your design system once and work inside it. No drift, no off-brand one-offs for your team to fix.
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Senior only
The work you'd trust to a senior designer, done by one. No rotating production desk.
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Faster with AI
AI-first exploration and variant production, with a senior designer reviewing everything before it reaches you.
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Design and development
Pages ship, not just mockups. Front-end builds in your stack, handed to your engineers clean.
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Confidential by default
NDA before the first brief. Your files stay in your tools, and your work never trains a shared model.
Pricing for in-house teams
A line in the budget, not a new role.
4 hours free to start
Pay as you go
For launches, peaks and one-off projects. Hourly, quoted on scope before we start, with a weekly report of hours spent you can pass straight to finance.
- 4 hours of free work on your first brief
- Senior designer on every task
- No minimum commitment
- Scale up, down or pause anytime
Monthly partner
Dedicated plan
For teams with design work every week. An embedded senior designer and build team on one flat monthly fee. See how the design subscription compares.
- Unlimited requests, one at a time
- Dedicated senior designer
- Development and AI content included
- 48-hour average turnaround
FAQ.
What heads of marketing, brand and design ask before adding us to the team.
Yes. We start by learning your Figma libraries, components and guidelines, and every file we hand back uses them. If the system has gaps, we flag them to your design lead rather than inventing around them.
Yes. We work in Slack, Teams, Jira, Asana, Notion or email, and join stand-ups or critiques when that helps. Most teams use one shared channel and a weekly check-in.
We confirm scope within one working day of your first brief. Most requests come back within one working day; larger pieces like a landing page or a deck run on a timeline agreed before we start.
Usually, for teams without a full-time role's worth of steady work. There's no recruiting, salary, benefits or equipment, and you pay only for the hours or the plan you use. We break down the numbers in the real cost of a design hire.
Send one real task from the backlog. We confirm scope within one working day, sign your NDA, and deliver the first four hours free. If it fits, keep going on pay as you go or move to a dedicated plan.
Who else we work with
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