DigitalRanch helps startups who have not hired full-time design talent, companies in the Go-to-Market (GTM) phase, companies innovating on an early-stage product, agencies or teams with an overflow of work, and those looking to replace in-house talent.
How it Works
We provide design services in a monthly subscription format for top-notch production design work. We also offer product strategy consulting and web development as add-on services.
Our Customers
Early-stage Startups
Early-stage Startups
Early-stage startups begin with a potentially scalable idea for a product or service targeting a market that is poised to generate value. These companies are often pre-product/market-fit (PMF), but may have a functional minimal viable product (MVP) or have raised an investment round. To continue to grow, an early-stage startup must gain traction in the market and de-risk their ideas by validating their founding hypotheses. These drivers often include increasing key growth metrics that show market adoption or growth.
DigitalRanch offers services that help with fast iteration on product design, for user validation and feedback, and offers design services that help describe and position your story to potential customers and future investors.
Startup Founders
Startup Founders
Startup founders have an idea that they believe could be profitable, so they build a company from the ground up to make that idea a reality. Foremost, startup founders must sell their vision and validate the hypotheses behind why they started their business. With limited resources and a constant need to prioritize, there is always more to be done than time allows.
DigitalRanch comes in at any stage to take workload off of the founders, and provide strategic growth support.
Busy Agencies
Busy Agencies
Busy agencies serve a variety of clients with workloads that also vary. These workloads include anthything from internal status calls to brainstorming, pitches, and client meetings. Additionally, agency workloads may include items such as interactive work they may not have resources for.
DigitalRanch works with agencies in an on-demand flexible streamlined manner. Harnessing our subscription service, additional work can simply be added to a DigitalRanch work queue. This service is flexible and may be paused anytime, while ensuring once resumed, the work will continue at the same consistent and high quality bar.
Nonprofits
Nonprofits
Nonprofits have a mission and purpose to further a social cause and provide a public benefit. Nonprofits harness design to elegantly enhance their mission, make their goals known, and share successes. Not too unlike early-stage startups, nonprofits rely heavily on fundraising, getting noticed, and growing a support network. Storytelling is a very important strategic tool to make a nonprofit standout.
DigitalRanch empowers nonprofits with the resources of high quality design. Our subscription service offers a flexible consistent design services for all nonprofit marketing and storytelling needs.
Small Businesses
Small Businesses
Small businesses, from digital product companies to service companies, that we work with often have a secure foothold of success, but may have growth opportunities ahead they seek to go after. Of course, at businesses of this size many employees are wearing many hats and are too busy chopping wood day-to-day in the business to unlock the proper time it takes to work on the business. Even hiring and management of additional team members can be an unwelcomed time expense.
DigitalRanch provides the design resources to companies of this size with all the upside of having design resources on staff, with none of the downsides. Pause or cancel anytime, and communicate asynchronously with fast under 48-hour design task turnaround.
Midsize Businesses
Midsize Businesses
Midsize businesses across digital product companies and service companies we work with have not only found a secure foothold within a market, but have also approached the point where they have begun to scale. Resourcing effectively becomes a strategic goal equal to the work itself. Because growing companies of this size can be unpredictable and dependent upon variables such as market conditions and adoption, these outfits often must approach hiring with conscientious thought.
DigitalRanch’s subscription service is designed to be the flexible answer for midsize businesses in the midst of scale and growth. With the ability to pause or cancel the service at any time, DigitalRanch can serve as a bridge before full time creative resources are fully folded into the team. Use DigitalRanch to enable a new product team or to accelerate marketing material turnaround for website designs and beyond.
Strategists
Strategists
Strategists are experts and getting from point A to point B, driving the development, and execution of strategic plans to meet organizational objectives. Strategists have the ability to make employees and the outside world embrace their visions. After research and plan development, when it comes to execution, strategists rely on resources such as design to visually communicate across various touchpoints to various audiences.
DigitalRanch’s design subscription is employed by strategists to create everything from pitch decks and digital ads, to fully-functional websites and beyond. Pause or cancel anytime, and easily plan your timelines with our under 48-hour design turnaround time.
Product Managers
Product Managers
Product managers oversee product development at all stages of the product lifecycle. They set goals, speak with customers, and coordinate the multi-team effort it takes to ship good digital products. Iterative prototype design is a key value-add for product managers. Prototypes enable the collection of valuable customer feedback.
DigitalRanch offers a subscription design service for fast design turnaround, as static designs or interactive prototypes. We also offer a product strategy add-on where we can act as a product manager, or assist your product manager, to ensure your team is building a product or feature-set aligned with customer needs and your outfit’s business outcome goals.
Marketing Leads
Marketing Leads
Marketing leads are responsible for crafting strategies, managing budgets, and setting goals for marketing teams. They employ design to produce visual content and assets for marketing and advertising purposes. Strong visuals convey a sense of brand and effective communication.
DigitalRanch offers a subscription service that ensures creative quality is consistent and easy to budget for. Pause or cancel anytime, and receive designs back within 48 hours.
New Initiative Pioneers
New Initiative Pioneers
New initiatives are long-term, complex undertakings that touch multiple teams and usually span more than one quarter. Initiatives are all about long-term success.
DigitalRanch has a subscription service that is relationship based, ensuring the same consistency and understanding is imbued across every design task your team assigns. Multiple team members can access the design task project management board and add items to the active queue. We understand the flexible nature often associated with standing up new projects and have designed our services to efficiently accommodate.
DigitalRanch offers a 30 min. discovery call free of charge. This call is to understand your business and project goals, outline our services, and assess fit.
Call Outline
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Business or project discovery
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Design needs assessment
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Discuss Subscription vs. Add-On services
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Identify fit, based on needs
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Identify where design makes impact
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Onboarding and client portal review
Subscription Workflow
DigitalRanch operates in a streamlined operational workflow so that all team members can interface with our service with as little friction as possible.
Request Queue Project Board Queue
Zero Overhead Expedited Workflow
Full-team Enablement Flexible Board Access
Project Board
Subscription members receive a project board for all design tasks. Send one task to the active queue at a time and receive back your design in under 48 hours, from M-F. Project brief templates may be requested to assist in defining and assigning your tasks.
Asynchronous Collaboration
Communication will happen within the task cards in your project board and in the design tool with inline comments. Web project content can be designed to be editable by your team.