Services & rates
What it costs,
before you ask.
Most studios make you sit through a call to hear a number. Here are ours. Every figure below is a floor, the smallest honest version of that engagement. The range above it exists because scope does, rather than because we are guessing what you can afford.
Nothing below
$3,500
Under that, the overhead of working with a studio costs you more than it returns.
Engagements
06 ways to start- 01
Signal audit
From
$3,500
- Typical
- 3.5–6k
- Duration
- 2 weeks
Something is wrong with the site you have. You are not sure what.
We go through the site you have now and come back with a written list of what is costing you, in the order worth fixing. You keep the list whether or not you hire us for the fix.
Includes
- A page-by-page review of the current site
- What is broken on phones
- What is hard to use, and why
- Written findings in plain English, ranked
- A call to walk you through it
Costs more when
- More than one site or app
- Medical, legal or financial rules to meet
- 02
Site, essential
From
$9,000
- Typical
- 9–16k
- Duration
- 3–4 weeks
A real business with a site that looks like a template, because it is one.
Five or six pages, written and built properly: what you do, who it is for, why anyone should believe you, and a contact form that reaches you. Nothing on it that nobody reads.
Includes
- A look that is yours, not a template
- Up to six pages
- Help shaping the words
- Built and put live for you
- Fast on a phone
Costs more when
- More than six pages
- Booking or payments
- More than one location
- 03
Site, full
From
$18,000
- Typical
- 18–32k
- Duration
- 5–7 weeks
Your site is the first thing buyers see, and it makes you look smaller than you are.
The whole thing: how it looks, how it reads, and the built site itself. You see it on a real link every Friday while it is being made, and you end up with the site and the code behind it.
Includes
- A look that is yours, not a template
- Up to eight page layouts
- Built and put live for you
- Your team can edit it without us
- Fast on a phone
Costs more when
- More than eight layouts
- More than one language
- Custom 3D or animation
- 04
Product interface
From
$35,000
- Typical
- 35–75k
- Duration
- 8–12 weeks
People use this all day and it wastes a few minutes every time.
The screens people work in all day: the crowded ones, the awkward ones, and the ones nobody got round to. We work in your codebase next to your engineers, and the reusable pieces come out of real screens rather than a separate exercise.
Includes
- The main things people do, designed properly
- What every screen shows while loading, when empty, and when it breaks
- Real code your engineers review
- Works with a keyboard and a screen reader
- Notes your engineers can keep using
Costs more when
- More than three main flows
- A phone app as well as the web
- Moving off an old system
- 05
Design system
From
$22,000
- Typical
- 22–45k
- Duration
- 6–9 weeks
Different parts of your product have different versions of the same button.
One set of colours, type and components your team can add to without calling us. We build it against screens you are actually shipping, because a set built off to the side gets abandoned off to the side.
Includes
- Colour, type and spacing set once
- Components, built and written up
- Figma that matches what is in the code
- How to add to it without breaking it
- Working sessions with your team
Costs more when
- More than one platform
- An old system to move across
- More than one brand to support
- 06
Continuity
From
$4,500/month
- Typical
- 4.5–9k per month
- Duration
- Monthly, three-month minimum
You need design help regularly, but not a full-time hire.
A standing share of the studio each month. We are in your meetings, your codebase and your review queue. Cancel with thirty days’ notice, because we would rather you leave easily than stay reluctantly.
Includes
- Roughly one week of studio time a month
- Design and build, rather than one or the other
- In your Slack, your board and your codebase
- A review every few months of what to stop doing
Costs more when
- More than one week a month
- Cover for urgent problems
Build your floor.
Pick a shape and the pieces you know you need. The number moves as you go. It is still a floor. We will not quote you properly without reading a brief, but this is the same arithmetic we would do on a call.
In every price.
These are not upsells and they are not negotiable. They are the reason the floor sits where it does.
A fixed price
Quoted before we start, from a written scope. If we misjudge the work, we absorb it rather than raising a change order.
Weekly shipping
Work lands in a real environment every Friday. You never wait a month to see where the money went.
No handoff
There is no junior team behind the pitch. Whoever you meet on the first call is who does the work.
The running thing
You get the repository, the components and the documentation. Nothing is held hostage as leverage for a retainer.
- Professional design and development services, delivered remotely and quoted per engagement from a written scope. Nothing here is a physical product, a licence or a subscription to software we host. What you receive is described under each engagement above, and it is what the agreement obliges us to deliver.
- Half on signature, half on handover, for anything under twelve weeks. Longer engagements bill monthly against a schedule agreed up front. Continuity bills at the start of each month. Invoices are issued in US dollars and payable on receipt; anything unpaid after thirty days pauses the work until it clears.
- Work ships to a real environment every Friday from kickoff, and each engagement above carries its own duration. Final handover is the repository, the running deployment and the documentation. If we are the reason a date slips, we do not bill for the delay.
- The deposit reserves a studio slot and covers the discovery that starts immediately, so it is non-refundable once kickoff happens. Before kickoff, it is refunded in full. After that, fixed-price work can be halted at any milestone: you pay for what has shipped, you keep it, and any balance already paid against unstarted work is returned within ten business days. Continuity ends on thirty days’ notice, and the notice month is not refunded.
- Scope, mostly: more surfaces, more flows, more platforms. Regulated domains cost more because the research and the documentation cost more. Rush timelines carry a 25% premium, and we will usually talk you out of them. Anything outside the signed scope is quoted in writing and starts only once you approve it.
- You do, on final payment. The designs, the repository and the components transfer to you outright. We keep the right to show the work publicly unless the agreement says otherwise. Nothing is held hostage as leverage for a retainer.
- Yes, white-labelled, at the same rates. We will not pretend to be your staff on a client call, but our name does not need to be on the work.
- Three and a half thousand, which buys the audit. Below that, the overhead of working with a studio costs you more than it returns.
- Prices exclude any sales tax or VAT, which is added where the law requires it. Engagements are governed by the laws of the State of New York. If something goes wrong, write to the studio before you write to your bank. Every dispute we have had was a scope conversation nobody started early enough.
- Jacquelyn Meyer Design, an independent design studio operating from Long Island, NY. Reach a human on any question, billing or scope or refunds, through the studio inbox linked on this page.