The design subscription that gives you
a team, not a queue

Your design team:AI speed, Human taste.

Design stops being a thing on your to-do list. A dedicated creative team that knows your brand, moves at AI speed, and costs less than one hire. That's it. That's the pitch.

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4.9/5
Stars

from 1,000+ brands who switched to Deer Designer

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Mon, 9:04am

Q3 Campaign

- Target: SaaS founders

- Tone: bold, confident, not boring.

- Need:

- Landing page

- Ads

- Email

NEED
THIS ASAP

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Completed landing page on a laptop
Mobile design preview
Finished ad creative

We get to work

Finding the best designer
Planning your project
Creating Initial Concept
This usually takes 24-48 hours

Project Delivered!

Great work! Your project is complete

Tue, 7:21 am

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you get this

Trusted by 1,000+ brands who needed design handled, not just delivered.

STORYSELLS
Accor Hotels
Axe
WPCRAFTER
Cisco
Clinique
BenevolentAI
Gillette
Reebok
convesio
Unicef
Walmart
MARQUEZ
wpelevation
mywebAudit

Is this for you?

Built for teams tired of
the freelancer lottery.

Deer Designer is for founders, marketing teams, and operators who need consistent, high-quality design output without managing headcount or gambling on a new freelancer every month.

Marketing teams

High volume, multiple formats, zero time to babysit a freelancer

Startups & scale-ups

Design that keeps up with how fast you're moving

Agencies

White-label design capacity without adding headcount

E-commerce brands

Product pages, ads, email — all on rotation, all on brand.

12–48h

turnaround

4.9/5

client rating

Dedicated pod

no random people

1,000,000+

designs delivered

The problem

You've tried everything.
It all kinda sucks.

Freelancers

  • Unreliable. They disappear mid project (always at the worst time)
  • Inconsistent quality (hello, template city)
  • You're the project manager now (wasn't that their job?)
  • Nickel and dime pricing adds up fast
  • "Sorry, I'm booked for 3 weeks"

In-House
Designers

  • $80k-120k per person (ouch)
  • They're only good at one thing (web? motion? pick a lane)
  • Vacation, sick days, turnover (back to square one)
  • Can't scale when you land that big client
  • Managing designers wasn't in your job description

Traditional
Agencies

  • $8k-15k/month minimum (plus "scope creep" fees)
  • Meetings about meetings (is this billable?)
  • Slow turnarounds (2-3 weeks for a landing page?)
  • Rigid contracts (locked in even when you don't need them)
  • Junior designers do the work, you pay for the senior pitch

"Unlimited"
Design Services

  • Queue system = one at a time (that's not really unlimited)
  • Rotating designers who never learn your brand
  • You're paying for a promise, not capacity (try measuring it)
  • No senior oversight (just a project manager shuffling tasks)
  • Quality drops when they're slammed with clients

Let's be honest: The old ways suck. They don't work for modern marketing teams and agencies that need reliable creative capacity. You need speed, quality, and a team that knows your brand inside out, so you're not stuck babysitting every project.

That's what we built.

The Deer Designer team

The solution: Pod model

Meet the humans
behind the taste.

Every account gets a pod: the same specialists on your brand every single time. No rotating queue, no re-explaining, no starting over. The longer they work with you, the better the work gets.

Creative Director

Your quality firewall. Reviews and approves every complex deliverable before it reaches you. Included, not an upsell.

Senior Designers

Your brand's muscle memory. The same hands on every request, no re-explaining, no resets.

Production Designers

The resizing, variations, and grind, handled at machine speed so the humans stay on the craft.

Client Success Manager

So you're never the one chasing status updates. The pod runs itself.

Specialist pool

When your project needs it, we pull in specialists from a vetted bench: motion designers, illustrators, web developers, brand designers and more. Already briefed. No extra cost.

Freelancers forget you between projects. Your pod never stops learning you.

How it works

From idea to finished file in 5 steps

Tell us what you need designed

The brief, the files, the references, the do's and the don'ts, all in one place. No follow-up call to explain what you actually meant.

Your team gets the work done

Your request lands in your pod's pipeline and you can see where it stands at any point. If the brief is clear, has examples and needs no clarifications, your pod works their magic.

The first draft comes back ready to look at

And it's not a rough sketch of a rough idea, it's an actual first version. It's already been checked against your brand and your brief before it ever reaches you.

Request as many changes as you need

Drop a pin on the exact spot, circle it, say what you mean. No writing three sentences trying to describe which corner you're talking about. It's that easy.

You approve it and move on

Print-ready files, source files, social crops, all delivered in the same place. Next time you need a version of it, the team already knows the brand.

Scaling your output
with Slots

A slot is one piece of design work actively in production. The slot is held while the work is with us. The moment it's with you for review, the slot frees up and the next thing on your pipeline starts. You are never charged capacity for sitting in your own inbox.

Queued
No slot held
In production
Slot held
Slot frees up here
With you for review
Slot released
Done
Closed

Most subscriptions lock the slot until you approve. Which means a decision-maker on holiday costs you a week of the thing you paid for. Ours doesn't. That's why one slot here ships more than one slot somewhere else.

Buckboard · the AI platform

AI does the grunt work.
Humans do the thinking.

Submit briefs, track progress, leave feedback, and access your full design history, all in one place. No email chains, no Slack threads lost in the void, so your humans spend their time on the work that actually needs a brain.

  1. 01AI-supported briefs

    Start a request in a sentence. Buckboard shapes it into a brief your
    team can run with — no back-and-forth.

  2. 02Smart delegation

    The right request lands with the right designer instantly. No triage, no “who’s free,” no limbo.

  3. 03AI previews

    Fast visual directions before a human invests hours. Creative direction happens early and cheap.

  4. 04Annotate-on-the-design

    Mark up designs and videos right where the change goes. Point at the thing, don’t describe the thing.

  5. 05Brand library

    Store assets, logos, and guidelines in one central folder. Your designers sync automatically so everything stays on-brand.

New requestAuto-brief

Type:Landing page · hero + 3 sections

Goal:Drive demo signups

Brand:Pulled from your library ✓

Assigned to:Maya R. · senior designer

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Maya R.web · brand
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Jonah L.motion · ads
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Sara P.decks · print
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Smart Financial Solutions for Growing Businesses

From bookkeeping and tax planning to business advisory services, we help companies simplify their finances, stay compliant, and make confident financial decisions.

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Why teams stay

No retainers. No surprises.
Just design that ships.

Your design backlog stops existing

The list of things you've been meaning to get made, the ones that have quietly been sitting there for months, just gets made. You stop triaging what's worth asking for, because asking costs you nothing.

You stop being the project manager

Your client success manager chases status, not you. Nobody on your team writes "any update on this?" ever again.

Launch weeks stop being panic

Overdrive adds a slot for seven days when the calendar gets complicated. You flex, then you go back to normal.

Your brand gets sharper every month

The same pod, compounding. Month six needs half the brief that month one did, and the work is better.

You stop shipping "fine"

Unlimited revisions means you never approve something you don't like because you've run out of goodwill.

You can cancel, which is why you won't

Month to month, pause in one click, resume when you're back. We keep you by being worth keeping.

Run the numbers

Every option, side by side.
You decide.

Whether you're comparing unlimited design services or figuring out whether to hire, here's what you're actually choosing between.

Dedicated teamWho works on your projects
Creative DirectionCreative guidance & strategic execution
Quality controlHigh standards, every time
Specialist accessDesign, motion, web & illustration
Brand memoryLearns and builds your brand
Slot frees up on deliveryYou're not billed capacity while you review
Scales up or downFlexibility when you need it
Time to first designGet started quickly
Team seatsWho gets access, and what it costs
Pause without penaltyWhat happens when you stop for a while
Monthly costSimple, transparent pricing
Your whole pod
On all complex projects
Every project
Motion, web, illustration
Built over time
Yes
Change as needed
12–48h
Unlimited, free
Free, one click
From $1,299
Other design services
Whoever is next in the queue
Rarely
Rarely
Sometimes
Rebrief often
No
Limited
1–2 days
Often charged per seat
Often a fee
$699–$5,000+
In-house designer
One person, one skill set
Depends on hire
Depends on hire
Limited skill set
Strong, until they leave
n/a
Hire/fire cycle
4–8 weeks to hire
n/a
No
$5,000–$8,000+
Freelancer
One person, if they're free
Just follow orders
Just follows orders
Limited skill set
Rebrief every time
n/a
Find someone new
Depends who's free
n/a
No
$50–$150/hr, no ceiling
Agency retainer
Shared team
Usually
Usually
Sometimes
Varies
No
Renegotiate scope
2–4 weeks
Named contacts only
Notice period
$8,000–$20,000+
From $1,299
vs
Other design services$699–$5,000+
Dedicated teamWho works on your projects
Your whole pod
Whoever is next in the queue
Creative DirectionCreative guidance & strategic execution
On all complex projects
Rarely
Quality controlHigh standards, every time
Every project
Rarely
Specialist accessDesign, motion, web & illustration
Motion, web, illustration
Sometimes
Brand memoryLearns and builds your brand
Built over time
Rebrief often
Slot frees up on deliveryYou're not billed capacity while you review
Yes
No
Scales up or downFlexibility when you need it
Change as needed
Limited
Time to first designGet started quickly
12–48h
1–2 days
Team seatsWho gets access, and what it costs
Unlimited, free
Often charged per seat
Pause without penaltyWhat happens when you stop for a while
Free, one click
Often a fee
Monthly costSimple, transparent pricing
From $1,299
$699–$5,000+
From $1,299
vs
In-house designer$5,000–$8,000+
Dedicated teamWho works on your projects
Your whole pod
One person, one skill set
Creative DirectionCreative guidance & strategic execution
On all complex projects
Depends on hire
Quality controlHigh standards, every time
Every project
Depends on hire
Specialist accessDesign, motion, web & illustration
Motion, web, illustration
Limited skill set
Brand memoryLearns and builds your brand
Built over time
Strong, until they leave
Slot frees up on deliveryYou're not billed capacity while you review
Yes
n/a
Scales up or downFlexibility when you need it
Change as needed
Hire/fire cycle
Time to first designGet started quickly
12–48h
4–8 weeks to hire
Team seatsWho gets access, and what it costs
Unlimited, free
n/a
Pause without penaltyWhat happens when you stop for a while
Free, one click
No
Monthly costSimple, transparent pricing
From $1,299
$5,000–$8,000+
From $1,299
vs
Freelancer$50–$150/hr, no ceiling
Dedicated teamWho works on your projects
Your whole pod
One person, if they're free
Creative DirectionCreative guidance & strategic execution
On all complex projects
Just follow orders
Quality controlHigh standards, every time
Every project
Just follows orders
Specialist accessDesign, motion, web & illustration
Motion, web, illustration
Limited skill set
Brand memoryLearns and builds your brand
Built over time
Rebrief every time
Slot frees up on deliveryYou're not billed capacity while you review
Yes
n/a
Scales up or downFlexibility when you need it
Change as needed
Find someone new
Time to first designGet started quickly
12–48h
Depends who's free
Team seatsWho gets access, and what it costs
Unlimited, free
n/a
Pause without penaltyWhat happens when you stop for a while
Free, one click
No
Monthly costSimple, transparent pricing
From $1,299
$50–$150/hr, no ceiling
From $1,299
vs
Agency retainer$8,000–$20,000+
Dedicated teamWho works on your projects
Your whole pod
Shared team
Creative DirectionCreative guidance & strategic execution
On all complex projects
Usually
Quality controlHigh standards, every time
Every project
Usually
Specialist accessDesign, motion, web & illustration
Motion, web, illustration
Sometimes
Brand memoryLearns and builds your brand
Built over time
Varies
Slot frees up on deliveryYou're not billed capacity while you review
Yes
No
Scales up or downFlexibility when you need it
Change as needed
Renegotiate scope
Time to first designGet started quickly
12–48h
2–4 weeks
Team seatsWho gets access, and what it costs
Unlimited, free
Named contacts only
Pause without penaltyWhat happens when you stop for a while
Free, one click
Notice period
Monthly costSimple, transparent pricing
From $1,299
$8,000–$20,000+
One flat fee. One team. Zero surprises.

What clients say

Don't take our
word for it.

Adam Preiser
Adam PreiserWPCrafter | United States

I've tried all the design services out there. Deer Designer takes the crown for many reasons. First of all, they have the best designer to client ratio.

They also do it all, literally! Other services stick only to requests that take less thought and effort.

The quality of the designs is also a big step over their competitors (Design Pickle included).

"Working with Deer Designer has allowed us to scale our design capacity while maintaining the quality standards our clients expect. The team consistently delivers professional work, communicates well, and is easy to collaborate with."

Rune Brynestad
Rune BrynestadTotalweb AS

"Deer Designer has allowed us to confidently take client's design inspirations and create beautiful websites that represents their brand."

Keelie Reason
Keelie ReasonR5 Website Management
Sarah Kuglin

We've used Design Pickle and Deer Designer and now we've moved completely to Deer Designer.

Our clients are so happy with all the designs! Their work is outstanding and they're very responsive. I absolutely LOVE it!

Sarah KuglinRedwood Valley Technical Solutions | United States
Aaron Marquez
Aaron MarquezAmarquez | United States

I used Design Pickle and hated it. We've switched to Deer Designer over a year ago. Their website samples are good but the work they do for us is insane!

We have 5 slots with deer designers in our team (looking at 6 now!).

They help us with website mockups, logos, flyers, etc. They also designed the site for a $150 million/year company (client of ours) and they loved it!

Jennie Lakenan
Jennie LakenanJennie Lakenan | United States

I just wanted to say how much I totally LOVE working with Deer Designer.

Their work is just amazing! Our clients are obsessed with their designs.

I feel like I have a wishing tree I can just send a video with what I want and... tada! So much energy freed up now that I'm not doing design myself.

"Reliable and professional workforce at Deer. Love the artists and our relationship with them."

Gilda Caserta
Gilda CasertaAmplify Music

"Incredible service, our business thrives with DD"

Haydn Peers
Haydn PeersSnowdon Digital

Pricing

Stop paying for a queue.
Start paying for capacity.

A slot is one piece of work in production at a time. Every plan gets the whole team and every discipline, so the only thing you're choosing is how much moves at once. See how slots work.

Core
$1,299/mo

For founders and small teams who need design to stop being the bottleneck.

1 slot15 to 20 tasks a month
  • Standard turnaround, standard specialist access
  • Creative director QA on every deliverable
  • Self-serve brand setup
  • Adds one slot for 7 days. $349, three business days' notice, 30-day cooldown.: Add-on
  • Slack app included
  • White label: Add-on
Start with Core
Pro
$2,499/mo

For marketing teams shipping constantly who need more moving at once.

2 slots30 to 40 tasks a month
  • Priority turnaround, priority specialist access
  • Creative director QA, plus a monthly working session
  • Guided onboarding, we build your brand system
  • Adds one slot for 7 days. Yours every quarter, three business days' notice. week every quarter
  • Slack app included
  • White label: Add-on
Start with Pro
Partner
From$4,999/mo

For agencies and brands running a full creative function without the headcount.

4 slots60 to 80 tasks a month
  • Guaranteed turnaround with credits, first call on specialists
  • Creative director QA, plus a weekly working session
  • Immersion workshop onboarding
  • Adds one slot for 7 days. Yours every quarter, three business days' notice. weeks every quarter
  • White label and Slack app included
  • Named contact, quarterly business review
Talk to us

Need more moving at once?

Bigger team, higher volume, custom workflow? Book a call and we’ll size a pod to your output.

Book a 15-min walkthrough

*Monthly task count is an average and varies based on brief clarity, feedback speed, and pipeline volume.

Aaron Marquez
"We have 5 slots with deer designers in our team (looking at 6 now!)"
Aaron Marquez, Amarquez5 stars

In every plan. No exceptions.

No tier is locked out of anything. If you can brief it, your plan covers it.

Your full pod: creative director, 2 senior designers, 3 to 4 production designers, client success
Every discipline: web, brand, motion, video, illustration, decks, print, no-code development
Full access to the specialist pool
Unlimited revisions
AI QA on every production task
Multi-brand support
Your named team, visible in your account
Pause anytime, free. We never charge you to not use us.
Your whole team. No per-seat charges, ever.

Adding slots later

Grow into it. Slots get cheaper the more you run, and you can add or drop them month to month.

$1,199/mo
each, slots 1 to 4
$1,049/mo
each, slots 5 to 8
$899/mo
each, slots 9 and up

Launch week is not a normal week, so Overdrive adds a slot for seven days. That and white label, rush lane and creative working sessions are all available at checkout.

FAQ

Questions?
We’ve got answers.

What's a slot?

A slot is one piece of work actively in production. One slot means one thing being designed at a time. The important part is when it frees up: the slot is held while the work is with us, and released the moment it lands with you for review. So the next thing in your pipeline starts immediately instead of waiting for you to open an email. Most services hold the slot until you approve. That difference is why a slot here ships more than a slot elsewhere.

Is it unlimited?+

Revisions are unlimited, genuinely. Push back as many times as it takes. Requests are not unlimited and no honest service's are. What you're buying is how much runs at once. One slot typically ships 15 to 20 tasks a month, two slots 30 to 40, four slots 60 to 80. We'd rather give you a real number than a word that means nothing.

What can I ask for?+

Anything on the list, on any plan. Web and landing pages, brand and identity, motion graphics, video editing, illustration, decks, print, email, social, no-code and low-code development. No plan is locked out of any category. Heavier work holds your slot longer, which is the only thing that changes.

What if I add more requests to my pipeline than my slots?+

Add as many requests to your pipeline as you like. You order the pipeline, we pull from the top as slots free up, and you can drag it into a different order any time. Two guardrails: you can have up to twice your slot count sitting in review at once, so if you have one slot you can have two things waiting on your feedback before we ask you to look at something. And a task with no response for ten business days archives itself. You can reopen it, it just rejoins the pipeline rather than jumping the line.

Something is on fire. Can I jump the queue?+

Yes! Every slot gets one emergency swap per month, which interrupts whatever's in production and starts your urgent thing instead. Beyond that there's Rush Lane at $199 for same-day on a single task, and Overdrive if the whole week is on fire.

What's Overdrive?+

Temporary extra capacity for launches. One unit adds a slot for seven days, costs $349, and needs three business days' notice. Pro includes one per quarter, Partner two. There's a thirty day cooldown between activations so it stays a pressure valve rather than quietly becoming your real plan.

What's the typical turnaround?+

First draft on most everyday assets within 12 to 48 hours. Pro gets priority in the queue, Partner gets a guaranteed turnaround backed by credits if we miss it. Bigger pieces like a full site build or an explainer video get scoped and scheduled rather than dropped in a queue.

How do revisions work?+

Annotate directly on the design in Buckboard, point at the thing rather than describing it, and your pod picks it up. Revisions take priority over new briefs inside your own pipeline, so unfinished work never sits behind something you submitted yesterday.

Do I get the same people every time?+

Yes. That's the whole model. Your pod is a creative director, two senior designers, three to four production designers and a client success manager, and they're named and visible in your account.

What if I don't get on with my designer?+

You don't have a designer, you have a pod. So the fix is usually smaller than you think.

Just tell us. The first thing we do is work out what's actually going wrong, because “it's not clicking” usually means one of two things: the person isn't the right fit for your brand, or the direction was never properly pinned down and everyone's been guessing. Swapping someone fixes the first and does nothing for the second.

If it is the person, we swap that designer. Not the whole team. Your brand memory stays intact, and you're not starting over. No awkward conversation, no notice period.

Can I pause?+

Yes, one click, no phone call, and we never charge you for it. Monthly plans pause at the end of your current cycle. Annual plans push your renewal date instead, so you don't lose what you paid for. Give us two weeks' notice and we hold your exact pod for 90 days. Your brand library, your history and your team are waiting when you come back.

Do you sign NDAs, MSAs, security questionnaires?+

Yes to all three, on your paper if you need it. Net 30 and PO numbers on invoices are available on Partner.

What files do I get?+

Canva, Figma, Adobe source files, PDF, PNG, JPG, SVG, MP4 and GIF as appropriate. Source files always, not just flattened exports. They're yours.

Do you build websites, or just design them?+

Both. Design is on every plan and so is low-code and no-code development, Webflow, Framer, WordPress and similar. Custom-coded builds get scoped as a project rather than run through slots.

Can we run multiple brands on one account?+

Absolutely! On every plan. Separate brand libraries, separate guidelines, one subscription.

Does it integrate with Slack?+

There's a Slack app for ticket visibility, status and delivery notifications, and flagging a request without leaving Slack. Included on Pro and Partner, an add-on at Core. One deliberate limitation: you can't brief work in Slack. Notifications out, work in. A request buried in a thread never becomes a ticket, never gets tracked, and disappears when the person who read it goes on holiday.

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