I work with a small number of clients at a time, usually no more than three, so each one gets a designer who knows their brand rather than a freelancer starting from scratch every time.
Most engagements start one of two ways: a single project, or an audit.
Services
THE AUDIT
It’s not right but you can’t put your finger on it?
Send me the document, the deck system, or the set of files that isn't working. I'll tell you what it needs.
An audit is a written assessment, delivered in about a week. It covers structure, hierarchy, and consistency, what's working, what isn't, and what it would take to fix. It's the same review I've done for clients before taking on their work, now offered on its own.
Useful when:
A report or publication isn't landing and nobody can say why
Your materials have drifted apart across formats and vendors
You're about to commit budget and want a second opinion first
Starting at $1,500
If you go on to engage me for the work, the audit fee comes off your first invoice.
TEMPLATE SYSTEMS
Build it once, so your team stops rebuilding it.
If your team is remaking the same slides or the same report layout every quarter, the problem isn't the files, it's that there's no system underneath them.
I build template systems your team can actually use: PowerPoint decks with working masters, InDesign report and document templates, and the guidelines that keep them from drifting. At Acceleration Partners, the template system put in place let a growing 200-person team produce consistent, on-brand decks at scale without routing every file through the design department.
Scoped as a fixed-fee project with a defined number of layouts.
PROJECT WORK
Single deliverables, owned end to end: a report, an e-book, a deck, a booth, a brand refresh.
Scoped and quoted per project.
RETAINER
Brand Support
For teams producing consistently but without a heavy event or publication load. Decks, collateral, one-pagers, and print pieces, all kept rigorously on-brand. Good when you have the guidelines and need someone senior to work inside them.
Ongoing senior design for companies producing on a regular cycle: a quarterly report, a conference calendar, a steady stream of decks and collateral. One designer who already knows your brand, at a cost below a full-time hire.
Starting at $2,400 per month
Design Lead
I own your document and event calendar: reports, ebooks, and long-form publications, presentations and sales collateral, print and event materials, and the brand guidelines that hold them together. Planned against your year so nothing becomes a fire drill, with production-ready files every time.
Embedded
Everything in Design Lead, plus capacity for the big lifts: annual report cycles, rebrands, full trade show builds, template systems your team can run themselves, and AI product and lifestyle imagery. Handled inside the retainer.
What every retainer includes
Annual calendar planning, so work is scheduled rather than scrambled
Reserved weekly capacity, your deadlines come first
One senior point of contact, from concept through production-ready files
Long-form documents, presentations, print, and events, all from the same hand
Brand guardianship across everything that ships
Prefer to start with a project?
Many clients start with a single project, a report, a trade show package, a brand refresh, to make sure the fit is right, then move to a retainer. Happy to work either way.