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SaaS projects · since 2022
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Avg activation lift
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Avg trial → paid
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Avg full rebuild
WHAT EVERY SAAS BRINGS US

Three patterns.
Every SaaS has one of them

Whether you're pre-launch, post-Series A, or scaling toward Series C, the design problem is almost always one of these three. It is also often postponed until next quarter. Don’t.

PROBLEM 01 • ACTIVATION

Activation is dead

Acquisition may be working, but new users still leave. The first four minutes matter: onboarding, empty states, and the first-project flow must make value clear quickly.

// WHAT WE SHIP
// WHAT WE SHIP
// TIMELINE
14 DAYS · $24K
// AVG LIFT · 22 SHIPS
+34% ACTIVATION
PROBLEM 02 • BRAND

Looks like 200 other SaaS

Acquisition may be working, but new users still leave. The first four minutes matter: onboarding, empty states, and the first-project flow must make value clear quickly.

// WHAT WE SHIP
FULL IDENTITY
// TIMELINE
5-10 DAYS • $7.9K
// AVG LIFT · 22 SHIPS
+42% RECALL
PROBLEM 03 • BRAND

Site converts at 1.4%

You're paying for ads that land on a homepage built two years ago. Hero copy doesn't say what you do. No proof, no social, no narrative. Marketing is begging engineering to ship a new section every sprint and getting nowhere.

// WHAT WE SHIP
FLAGSHIP SITE
// TIMELINE
10-21 DAYS • $34.9K
// AVG LIFT · 22 SHIPS
+148% MARKETING-SITE LIFT
SERVICES · SIX OFFERS · ALL PUBLISHED

Six services. All fast  and published

Choose a service. Every tile shows a starting price and published turnaround. The pricing page lists Bench Light, Bench Core, and Bench Pro.

Landing page

A live, deployed landing page — designed, built, Framer · Webflow · Next. Live by Friday every time

FROM $1,950
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Logo Mark

Identity refresh, full mark systems, usage guides.
Designed by senior brand specialists, delivered in 24–48 hours flat.

FROM $1,250
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Brand identity

Mark, type, color, voice, rollout. Identities your client’s board doesn’t push back on, in days not months.

FROM $2,900
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Product UI

Activation flows, dashboards, onboarding. Component-tokenized, dev-ready, prototyped — for SaaS that needs the metric not the moodboard

FROM $3,900
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Website

deployed. Framer · Webflow · Next. CMS-ready, mobile-first, performance-budgeted.

FROM $1,950
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Mobile App

Tokens, components, code, docs. Production-ready. Figma + React. Component libraries other studios fork.

FROM $1,950
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FIVE NEARBY · DEEP-DIVE READY

Five SaaS cases
like your brief

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Landify
Branding & Product Design
Real Estate
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UnifyIQ
Website
Saas
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Klyro Studio
Website
Agency
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Crimino
Product Design
Saas
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ZapMail
Product Design
Saas
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SAAS FUNNEL ·WHAT WE MOVE · ON AVERAGE

The number

that unlocks the funnel

Strong onboarding can improve activation and support downstream metrics such as trial-to-paid, sales cycle, NRR, and CAC payback. A +87% activation lift has been observed in selected work; results vary by product and starting point.

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// AVG ACTIVATION LIFT
MEASURED 6 MONTHS POST-LAUNCH · MEDIAN
SAAS METRIC
SAAS METRIC
SAAS METRIC
Activation rate
+87%
avg lift
N = 1,438
Trial → paid
+62%
avg lift
N = 1,201
Marketing site
+148%
avg lift
N = 892
Time to first value
-68%
FASTER
N = 743
Sales cycle
-41%
SHORTER
N = 421
Demo → close
+78%
AVG LIFT
N = 318
Net Promoter Score
+24 pts
avg lift
N = 647
CAC payback
-3.2 mo
AVG FASTER
N = 289
FAQ

Frequently asked, questions

Do you understand SaaS metrics?

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Yes. Every project starts with a metrics conversation—what's broken, what's measured, and what we're trying to move. We've completed 150+ projects since 2022 across SaaS, fintech, healthcare, editorial, branding, and agency work. Every published case study links to the metric we moved.

Can you ship without breaking my DAU?

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Yes. Cohort-based migrations are standard — 5–10% of users on the new UI on day one, full rollout over 5–7 days. Plotsis migrated 100% of users with zero critical bugs. We treat the migration plan as part of the design deliverable, not an afterthought.

Do you know our stack?

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Likely yes. Most SaaS clients ship in Figma → Storybook → React/Next/Tailwind. We hand off design tokens, libraries, and Storybook entries — engineering doesn't translate. We've also worked with Vue, Svelte, Astro, and native iOS/Android. The system speaks engineering, not just design.

Can you handle Series A through C?

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Yes — different scope per stage. Series A is usually identity + product UI + site (Plotsis playbook · ~$89K · 21 days). Series B is design system + product expansion (~$54K · 14–30 days). Series C is brand maturity, scale-ready system, multi-product surface. The scope follows the stage.

 What about pre-launch · pre-Series A?

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Yes. Logo Refresh, Landing Page Launch Sprint, and Mark + System are built for early-stage SaaS founders. Many of our SaaS relationships started before Series A—that's where the long-term partnerships begin.

Can you partner with our in-house design team?

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Yes. We're often the surge capacity. Your designer leads, ours executes. We attend your standups, ship to your Figma, follow your design system. Many of our long partnerships started this way — your designer can't ship 47 screens in 14 days alone, and a senior on our bench can. No ego, no overlap.

ASYNC BRIEF

Bring us the brief,
We bring back the scope

Skip the call. Drop a one-pager — what your client needs, the metric you’d move, the timeline. Within 4 business hours we send back a tailored package quote, the 3 cases closest to your client’s problem, and the next available slot.

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