Pre-Paid Creative Retainers
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12 Hours
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$ 1,500
Per 12 Hour Block (Saves $300) -
Best Used For:
- Essential brand collateral:
- Business cards & stationery
- Flyers & mailers
- New employee stationery
- Icon & pattern creation
- Essential brand collateral:
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32 Hours
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$ 3,750
30 + 2 Bonus Hours (Saves $1,050) -
Best Used For:
- Heavy-lifting collateral:
- Basic pitch decks
- Multi-page brochures
- Trade show banners
- Coordinating with your printers
- Heavy-lifting collateral:
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65 Hours
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$ 7,500
60 + 5 Bonus Hours (Saves $2,250) -
Best Used For:
- Brand management:
- Ongoing collateral rollouts
- Elaborate deck designs
- Website management
- Marketing support
- Brand management:
WHICH SUPPORT PLAN IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
Don’t pay for heavy creative lifting if you just need file management, and don’t buy a $99 subscription expecting a full packaging rollout. Choose the path that fits your current operational needs:
When to Choose a Pre-Paid Creative Retainer
You have active, heavy-lifting design projects. You are launching a new product line, building a 20-page investor pitch deck, designing physical retail packaging, or rolling out a massive ad campaign. You are securing priority access to our design team for large-scale execution.
When to Choose Ongoing Brand Management
Your brand is already built, but you need daily operational protection. You need your files securely hosted, you need direct hand-offs to your commercial printers, or you need rapid “micro-edits” (like updating a business card name, changing a menu price, or formatting a LinkedIn banner).
Ongoing Brand Management
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Brand Vault
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$ 29
Per Month -
package Includes:
- Secure Asset Library: Triple-backed-up cloud hosting of your complete vector and logo file library.
- Format on Demand: 1 quick-format request per month (e.g., resizing your logo for a LinkedIn banner).
- The Vendor Handshake: Direct liaison. Just CC us, and we’ll send the exact correct files to your commercial printer.
- Loss Protection: Peace of mind so you never lose a file or accidentally stretch a blurry JPEG.
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Brand Steward
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$ 99
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package Includes:
- Everything in The Vault, upgraded with active brand management.
- 1 Hour Monthly Design Support: Perfect for updating business cards, quick social graphics, or menu tweaks.
- Seasonal Logo Variants: We will adapt your logo for special events or holidays (e.g., adding a Santa hat) up to 2x per year.
- Brand Guideline Maintenance: We manage and update your brand guideline colors and fonts so your team never goes rogue.
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Brand Partner
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$ 299
Per Month -
project includes:
- Everything in The Steward, acting as your on-demand creative arm.
- Up to 4 Hours of Micro-Design Tasks: Need a new IG Story background or sticker design? We handle the small stuff fast.
- Quarterly Brand Audits: We review your site and social media to ensure strict visual consistency across all platforms.
- VIP Priority Delivery: Front-of-the-line, 24-hour turnaround times on all your design requests.
Branding Retainers
FAQ’s
Leaving your brand execution to rogue employees, cheap freelancers, or unpredictable AI is a massive liability. Here are a few FAQs to clarify how our ongoing support protects your visual identity.
What is the difference between a Retainer and Brand Management?
A Pre-Paid Retainer is a bulk purchase of our agency’s time to execute large, active creative projects (like pitch decks or packaging). Brand Management is a monthly subscription designed for post-launch asset protection, file hosting, and small day-to-day micro-edits.
What counts as a ``Micro-Design Task`` in the $299 Brand Partner tier?
Micro-tasks are rapid execution items that take under 30 minutes. This includes resizing a logo for a specific social platform, updating an employee’s name on a pre-existing business card, swapping a photo on a flyer, or exporting a specific color format for a vendor. It does not include creating net-new marketing campaigns, multi-page layouts, or custom illustrations (these require a Pre-Paid Retainer).
Do my Pre-Paid Retainer hours expire?
Yes. To ensure we can accurately forecast our studio’s capacity and guarantee priority turnaround times for our active clients, all Pre-Paid Creative Retainer blocks must be utilized within 12 months of purchase.
Can I just pay your hourly rate instead of buying a plan?
We do not offer open-ended, ad-hoc hourly billing. To maintain the highest quality of work and guarantee priority delivery times for our clients, our studio operates strictly on project-based flat rates, Pre-Paid Retainers, or our Monthly Brand Management subscriptions. This ensures you know exactly what you are paying for upfront, with no surprise invoices.
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