You're buried in portfolios hoping somebody actually gets product. Freelancers go quiet. A full-time hire is three months out. Meanwhile your engineers are blocked and the work just sits there.
You're buried in portfolios, hoping someone actually gets product. Freelancers ghost you. A full-time hire is three months out. Meanwhile your engineers are blocked, and the design work just sits there.
We drop an AI-native senior pod straight into your team, people who've shipped real products before, with AI doing the volume so senior hands stay on the feel. No onboarding, no hand-holding. Real work from week one.
Precious is a product design studio in Austin, Texas. Team extension means a senior product designer, or a small pod, embedded in your team month to month: in your Figma, your Slack, and your rituals, shipping working screens every week. From $4,500 a month, no hiring, no ramp-up, pause when it goes quiet. Built for funded B2B SaaS and AI startups in the US that need senior design capacity now.
Your roadmap has design work on it nobody has started.
One designer is covering three teams and drowning.
Engineers are building screens themselves because waiting is worse.
The last contractor left and took the context with them.
In your tools and shipping. No discovery phase you pay for.
Every engagementWhat a senior design hire takes to find, close and ramp. We skip it.
Typical hiring cyclebrands kept in sync by one embedded pod, with less debt and faster governance
Endeavor Business MediaResearcher, product designer, motion, systems lead, front-end. One pod.
See how it's priced →We drop a senior pod into your team. People who've shipped real products, with AI carrying the volume so senior hands stay on judgment. We work in your Figma, your Slack and your rituals, under your design lead if you have one.
Twenty minutes. What's blocked, who's waiting, what ships next.
Names against the pod, from people we already work with. Inside a week.
In your tools and shipping. No discovery phase you pay for.
Working screens weekly, and a monthly call on scaling, holding or pausing.
Senior from week one. There is no ramp-up period you pay for.
The pod is people we already work with. We're not starting a search after you sign.
An AI-coached gym floor, designed alongside their team as it shipped.
Made the app feel like the studio
Sitting inside their product team, turning a dense engine into something sellable.
View case study →
Extra senior capacity through a build, without adding headcount.
View case study →Pick the screen that's costing you the most. We redesign it in five working days, free, no contract. You keep the file whether or not we carry on.
Send me the screenOne screen per company. We take three of these a month, so tell us early if your date is tight.
The same senior people every month. The pod is drawn from designers we already work with, so there is no search after you sign and no juniors learning on your product. You meet them on the first call.
Names within a week, in your tools and shipping by the end of week one. There is no discovery phase you pay for.
Yes, if you have one. We work in your Figma, your Slack and your rituals, and take direction from whoever owns design on your side. If nobody does, we can hold that seat.
From $4,500 a month, month to month, no lock-in. Scale up before a launch, pause when it goes quiet. The first sprint is guaranteed: if it does not land, you do not pay.
Yes. Motion and UI ship as working front-end code your engineers can merge, not just Figma files and a prayer.
Twenty minutes with the founders. Tell us what's blocked and we'll tell you what a pod takes off your plate.