Design partner for
funded startups

Build better products with senior product design and product management support.

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Notable companies we've worked with

Knoetic
Raised $54M
Moz
Raised $29M
HoverAir
Raised $25M
XBuild
Raised $19M
Sparkplug
Raised $17.8M
Catio
Raised $7M
Briefly
Raised $3.37M
TopQuadrant
Raised $1.7M

We're a team of senior product designers and PMs with over 20 years experience that can embed directly into your team. We attend standups, chat on Slack and ship alongside your engineers. One flat monthly fee.

Most clients start out thinking of us as a vendor. Within a week, we're just part of the team.

A full product team's range

AI features

We design AI-native products. Chat, agents, copilots, and the smart defaults that make them feel effortless.

UI design

Pixel-level craft. Clean, modern interfaces built on a system that scales with your product.

User research & testing

We talk to your users, ship tests quickly, and turn what we learn into clear product direction.

Prototyping

We spin up working prototypes in Claude Code or Lovable to pressure-test ideas in hours, then refine in Figma.

Design systems

Scalable component libraries your engineers and coding agents ship from, on brand every time.

UX design

End-to-end flows that keep complex, AI-heavy products simple and intuitive to use.

Insights work
XBuild project
XBuild work
XBuild work
Finance project
Rise project
Insights project
Bull project
Bull work
Bull work
Bull work
Signal Forge project
Signal Forge work
Signal Forge work
Signal Forge work
Briefly project
Briefly work
Briefly work
Briefly work
Embedded design team

A dedicated PM and senior product designer, embedded in your team. Flat monthly fee. No surprises.

$10,000 per month

2 spots left in

"Lived In works with us as if they are our internal team. We love the collaboration, sense of ownership on the projects assigned, attentiveness and attention to detail and deadlines."

Inge B
Inge B.

"Lived In helped bring the ideas to life. You're not going to beat Lived In in terms of dedication and execution. They are craftsmen."

Vish M
Vish M.

"Lived In was a massive help for us in launching our product. The team brought critical design expertise to the project and was a joy to work with."

Arthur C
Arthur C.

What's included

  • Daily progress updates
  • Dedicated PM + senior designer
  • Join standups and team rituals
  • Private Slack channel
  • Product design (web & mobile)
  • No contracts. Pause or cancel anytime.

From kickoff to handoff

Onboarding

We run a structured onboarding to go deep on your product, industry, and users.

Embedded

We join your standups, live in your Slack, and ship inside your team's rituals.

Weekly jams

Weekly working sessions to walk through feedback and brief what's next.

Discovery

We dig into your analytics, user feedback, and competitive landscape to find the opening.

Rapid prototyping

We spin up working prototypes in Claude Code or Lovable, then refine in Figma.

High-fidelity

We turn the direction into polished, production-ready screens, edge cases handled.

Design systems

Scalable component libraries your engineers and coding agents ship from.

User testing

We put work in front of real users and turn what we learn into clear direction.

Engineer handoff

End-to-end annotated flows and clean specs, ready to build without guesswork.

Full-time hire vs. Lived In

12 mo+
Month to month

Full-time hire

annual contracts + severance risk

Lived In

pause or cancel anytime
3–6 months
1 week

Full-time hire

recruiting + onboarding + ramp

Lived In

embedded in days
Variable
Daily

Full-time hire

depends on individual

Lived In

daily progress updates

Design that helps teams actually ship faster and get users

A design partner that
feels in-house

01

Senior talent, embedded

A senior designer and PM who join your standups, live in your Slack, and ship beside your engineers. Within a week you forget we are not in-house.

02

One flat fee

$10,000 a month, no contracts, pause or cancel anytime. You always know exactly what design costs, with no surprises.

03

Built for speed

Daily progress and direct access to your team. We move at startup pace because moving at startup pace is all we do.

Essential information and
answers to common questions

A senior product designer and a PM will cost you $300K+ in salary, benefits, equipment, and overhead. With us you get both for $10k/mo, embedded in your team from day one. Zero ramp-up, no recruiting risk, and you can pause anytime. Most of our clients tried hiring first.
You can pause your retainer at any time and resume when you're ready. No penalties, no guilt. Startups move in bursts and we built our model around that reality. Most clients find that once they have a design team on tap, they always have a backlog of things they've been putting off.
We set up a private Slack channel, attend your standups if necessary, and deeply study your product, competitors, and users before we touch a single pixel. Within a week you'll forget we're not in-house. We've worked with dozens of tech and AI products, and that cross-pollination is actually an advantage. We bring patterns from across the industry that an in-house designer wouldn't see.
Everything is custom. We don't farm out your work, and you work with the same team throughout. Our work is our reputation. You can see it in our portfolio. We're not an "unlimited design" subscription. We're a small studio that does focused, high-quality work for a handful of clients.
We intentionally keep our client roster small. Every retainer client gets dedicated time on our calendar every week, no exceptions. We'd rather do great work for fewer clients than spread ourselves thin. If we're at capacity, we'll tell you and put you on our waitlist rather than compromise quality.
It's all we do. You get daily progress updates and direct access to your team via Slack. No ticket queues, no "we'll get back to you in 3 business days." We join your standups, work in your tools, and ship alongside your engineers. We move fast because our clients move fast.
You own everything. All designs, source files, assets, and IP are yours. We're also happy to sign NDAs upfront and never share your work publicly without written permission. Your unreleased product concepts stay completely confidential.
Ask any of our clients. Better design directly impacts conversion rates, user retention, fundraising success, and brand perception.
Product design for B2B AI SaaS companies. We design for web and mobile, building design systems along the way. We focus on product because that's where we're strongest. If something falls outside our core skill set, we'll tell you upfront rather than deliver mediocre work.
No contracts, no lock-in. Retainers are month-to-month and you can cancel anytime. You keep all your files, assets, and design systems. We want you to stay because the work is great, not because you signed a 12-month contract. Most clients stay for 6+ months because it works.

We're always hiring

We're a small, senior team embedding with funded startups. If you do exceptional product work, we'd love to meet you.

Senior Product Designer

Own product design end to end for our clients, from rapid prototypes in code to polished, shipped UI. Senior, embedded, and AI-native.

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Senior Product Manager

Drive product direction with our designers and our clients' teams, turning ambiguity into a shipped roadmap that moves at startup speed.

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