For a steady flow of posts and decks.
$2,100a month, plus tax
- One request at a time
- Posts, graphics and decks
- A senior designer on every piece
- Pause or cancel monthly
Decks, websites, posts and brand for businesses of 5 to 200 people. Senior designers, one monthly fee, and your first piece in use next week.
- A senior designer checks every piece
- Pause or cancel monthly
- Your time zone, Eastern to Pacific
How it works One example job, start to finish: Forelight’s seed deck, needed by Thursday
Call to finished deck: 4 working days (example)
You four quick steps: book, brief, comment, approveUs everything elseDone
Tue4
Call bookedTue 4 November · 14:00 to 14:20 · Eastern time
20 minutes with a senior designer
- The job on your mind, and when you need it
- How it would run, step by step
- Which plan fits, and what it costs
Step 1 of 7 · Book · Today
Twenty minutes to see if it fits.
- You
- Pick a time that suits you. Bring the job that is on your mind.
- Us
- You talk to a senior designer, not a sales team. We show you how your job would run.
Welcome, Forelightexample
- Plan agreedStudio, month to month
- Brand files sharedlogo.zip · fonts · old-deck.pptx
- Portal accessABTR+1
- First requestStarts todayReady when you are
Step 2 of 7 · Onboard · Day 1
Set up in a morning, not a month.
- You
- Agree a plan, share what you have: logo, fonts, the old deck, a few sites you admire.
- Us
- We read it all, set up your brand kit and invite your team to the portal.
What do you needInvestor deck for ThursdayPlain words are fine
Tell us more
Twelve slides for the seed round. Use our new logo and the numbers in the spreadsheet. The problem slide matters most.
Or just say it“Make it pop”“By Thursday”
numbers-q3.xlsxnotes.docx
Needed by ThursdaySend request
Step 3 of 7 · Brief · Day 2
Say it the way you would say it to a colleague.
- You
- Write what you need and when, in plain words. Two lines is enough to start.
- Us
- If anything is unclear we ask once, in the portal, then we get going.
Your designerSenior designer · example
In designSame day- ReceivedMon 09:12
- Picked upMon 10:40
- In designDraft Wed
- Signed off
Your designer
Got it. I will lead with the problem slide and make the numbers easy to read. First draft Wednesday morning.
Step 4 of 7 · Design · Mon to Wed
A senior designer is on it the same day.
- You
- Nothing. Get on with your week. You can see where it is at any time.
- Us
- A named senior designer builds it, and tells you when the first draft lands.
121
You Can 61% be bigger? It is the point.
2
You Make the Tuesday line as big as the first.
Designer Both done, new version up by two.
Step 5 of 7 · Review · Wed
Point at it, say what you want changed.
- You
- Click on the slide and leave a note. No design words needed.
- Us
- We make the changes and put the new version up, usually the same day.
Signed offWed 15:22 · checked by a senior designer
- PPTXforelight-seed.pptxto edit
- PDFforelight-seed.pdfto send
- KEYforelight-seed.keyto present
Step 6 of 7 · Signed off · Wed 15:22
Finished, checked, and yours.
- You
- Tick it off. The files are yours to keep.
- Us
- A senior designer checks every piece before you see it. Your next request starts now.
Presenting · slide 2 of 12Pitch, Thursday 10:00On time
Step 7 of 7 · In use · Thursday
Thursday, 10:00. On the screen, on time.
- You
- Walk in and present. Look as good as the people you are up against.
- Us
- Already on the next thing in your list: the one-pager to leave behind.
Example job in the client portal · times are illustrative
Partners and platforms
- Adobe
- Webflow
- Framer
- WordPress
Before Grafkit
Why teams switch to Grafkit.
Tap the ones you have lived through
a named designer who answers, in your hours
most requests are back in two or three days
tell us Thursday, we plan back from it
One senior team for one monthly fee. You say what you need in plain words, and a person checks every piece before it reaches you.
Work
Three concept studies: fictional brands we made to show what one subscription covers, each labelled as such.
Concept studies · fictional brands by the Grafkit team
Concept study · SaaS · cash-flow forecasting · Boston
Forelight
The brief: We're raising a seed round in six weeks and our brand still looks like a side project. We need investors and accountants to trust us with the numbers at first glance.
- Asked for
- Identity refresh, marketing site, product UI polish, seed deck, launch campaign
- Grafkit job
- 9 requests over 6 weeks
- Plan
- Studio Plus
- Finished by
Concept study · Physiotherapy · Galway, Kilkenny, Clonakilty
Ardú Physiotherapy
The brief: We have three good clinics that look like three different businesses, and every one of them looks like a dentist. We want people to feel calmer before they have even walked in.
- Asked for
- Identity, booking website, shopfronts, stationery, patient print
- Grafkit job
- 17 requests over 11 weeks
- Plan
- Studio Plus
- Finished by
Concept study · Restaurant with rooms · Ballydehob
Sceach
The brief: We are booked out every Saturday until Christmas, but the old menu looked like a café's and the website lost people halfway through a booking. We wanted it to feel like the room does at nine o'clock.
- Asked for
- Identity refresh, menus, reservations website, supper-club posters, table and room pieces
- Grafkit job
- 6 requests over 4 weeks
- Plan
- Studio
- Finished by
The standard
A senior designer checks every piece before you see it. This is the list they work through, every time, on every request.
Try it. Four things are wrong with this poster. Can you find them before we do?
0 of 4 found
Launch night
Example poster · A3 · Brí Cider is a concept study
- Your brand, used properlyColors, type and logo exactly as your guidelines say.
- Every word read twiceNames, numbers, dates and spelling checked against your brief.
- Made for where it is goingSized, exported and named for the screen, the printer or the platform.
- Readable by everyoneContrast and minimum text sizes checked, on a phone as well.
- Print-ready when it is printBleed, color and resolution checked before it reaches a printer.
- Source files includedOrganized and labelled, so your team can edit them later.
Why a subscription
You stop chasing people, the brand stays the same everywhere, and you know what design costs before the month starts.
| What you need | Hiring a designer | A freelancer | Grafkit |
|---|---|---|---|
| A senior designer on every piece | If you hire one | Sometimes | Yes |
| Starts this week | No, months | If they are free | Yes |
| Decks, web and brand in one place | Rarely | Rarely | Yes |
| A cost you can plan | Salary and more | Per job | One monthly fee |
| Stop when you want | No | Yes | Monthly |
- Hiring a designerA salary and more, months to start, one set of skills.
- A freelancerPaid per job, when they are free.
- GrafkitA senior team this week, one monthly fee, stop any month.
Illustrative · a senior designer in the US, year one
A hire costs more than the salary.
Before they design anything, a senior hire means recruiting, employer costs, tools and a few months of waiting. Then you have one person and one set of skills.
Drag it. Employer costs and recruiting move with the salary; tools stay the same.
- Salary
- $110,000
- Payroll taxes and benefits
- $23,000
- Recruiting
- $20,000
- Laptop, fonts and software
- $5,000
- Time to hire
- 2 to 4 months
Year one, before the first piece of work$158,000That is about $13,200 a month.
Grafkit is one monthly fee, with no hiring, notice periods or gaps when someone is on leave. Compare: Grafkit plans start from $2,100 a month
Plans
Every plan is month to month, with one flat fee. We agree the right one on the call, so you never pay for more than you use.
Example · one month on Studio, for Forelight
What a plan buys, in the things you would ask for.
Week 1
Seed deck, 12 slidesabout 3 daysWeek 2
Investor one-pagerabout 1 day
Launch posters, 6 sizesabout 2 daysWeek 3
Website hero and pricing pageabout 4 daysWeek 4
Product screens for the app storeabout 1 day
Brand guidelines for the teamabout 1 day
Six requests in one month, two running at a time on Studio. Each new one starts as soon as a slot is free.
Our suggested start
For teams launching, raising or rebranding.
$3,750a month, plus tax
- Two requests at a time
- Everything in Essentials
- Brand and guidelines
- Motion graphics for social
- A named lead designer
For when your website is the shop window.
$5,350a month, plus tax
- Three requests at a time
- Everything in Studio
- Website design and build
- Website care each month
- Promo films, 3D, cinemagraphs and motion
- Senior designers onlyNo juniors learning on your work, and nothing passed to subcontractors.
- A person checks every pieceA senior designer checks every piece before it reaches you.
- You own everythingFinal files and source files are yours the day they are signed off.
- One fee, no surprisesNo hourly bills, no setup fee for the plan, no extras you did not ask for.
- Pause or cancel any monthNo contract to sign. Stop before your next month starts.
- Hours that suit you: Eastern to PacificCalls, reviews and replies in your working day.
Questions
Something else on your mind. Ask it on the call.
Do I need to know anything about design?
No. Tell us what the thing is for and when you need it. We ask the design questions so you do not have to.
Will it be junior work?
No. Senior designers do the work, and a senior designer checks every piece before it reaches you.
How long does a request take?
Most single requests come back in two to three working days. Bigger jobs are split into steps, each with a date.
What counts as one request?
One piece of work you could describe in a paragraph: a deck, a set of posts, a web page. If a job is bigger, we show you how it splits before we start.
Is this for a business my size?
It is built for businesses of 5 to 200 people who need design every month but not a full-time hire.
Do you make videos and 3D?
Yes. Promo films, 3D product shots, cinemagraphs and motion graphics are part of Studio Plus, and motion for social is part of Studio. Live-action filming days are quoted separately.
Do you use AI?
Where it saves you time, for research, first variations and resizing. A senior designer makes every decision and checks every piece, and nothing goes out that a person has not finished.
What does it cost?
Essentials is $2,100 a month, Studio $3,750 and Studio Plus $5,350, all plus tax. One flat monthly fee, and we agree the right plan on the call once we know your workload. No hourly bills, and you know the cost before the month starts.
What if I am not happy with the work?
Tell us in the portal. We revise until it is right.
Book a call
Bring the job that is on your mind. You talk to a senior designer, not a sales team, and leave knowing exactly how it would run and what it would cost.
- No obligation
- Times in your time zone
- Video or phone
20 minutes with a senior designerYou talk to a senior designer, not a sales team
Bringing to the call
Pick a time
Opens an email to hello@grafkit.com. Send two times that suit you and we reply with an invite within a working day.