Revenue-share powered design & product advice that has helped over 50 early-stage startups grow, all for no up-front cost.
41% of design-led companies reported greater market share than the market average (Adobe, 2016)
The ROI of great design can be as high as 328% (Figma/Forrester, 2024)
42% of users would leave a website because of poor functionality or design (Top Design Firms, 2021)
Design-focused companies have a NPS 1.6x higher than competitors (Bang Design, 2023)
Let's chat about what design leadership support your idea needs to grow.
Get up to 2 strategy calls per month to unblock growth for your startup.
Get in-depth design reviews of anything from product features to web pages.
Watch your vision grow and your product evolve into something users love.
I've worked with over 50+ startups, helping them grow their business through design, validate product market fit, find the right features to build, and ultimately grow their early-stage business using design.
Can't wait to chat!
Our own GPT-powered idea generation assistant. Helping us to think more deeply about creative problems, identify new ideas, and iterate on them to find the most impactful solution
Perplexity provides AI-driven insight like no other tool. With cited sources and in-depth answers, it's easy to dive into research for any product or ideal customer persona.
Our own GPT-powered user data analysis tool. It ingests qualitative user data like interviews, testimonials and documents, and outputs high quality, impact-ranked ideas for us to explore.
UX Pilot is our go-to AI tool for product analysis, providing insight across a plethora of UX and product areas all at the click of a button.
Industry-standard design tooling that covers all of our needs for UX, UI and product design reviews, not to mention whiteboarding for any ad-hoc workshops on our calls.
Avoid months spent iterating on landing pages or perfecting product launches. Get proven design leadership to identify your blind spots ASAP.
Have confidence that anything you implement will get a thorough design review, with in-depth, face-to-face feedback.
For no up-front cost and a simple revenue share model, get proven, experienced leadership to launch and scale your startup.
Bad design execution = unhappy users, poor retention and slow growth. We support your early-stage efforts so you can rest-easy that everything is ready to scale.
We can typically get started within as little as a few days. All we need is a kick off call to learn about your business and what you're looking to get from the service and we're ready to go!
This is precisely why we do this as a revenue share model - it gives us the incentive to provide value for you as quickly as possible to help you grow, and gives you the peace of mind and confidence to know that if we don't deliver value for you, you won't need to pay.
There is no minimum commitment on any of our plans. You can cancel at any time.
The average Chief Design Officer salary is £94,116 per year (without accounting for taxes or bonuses). There's no debating that hiring a Chief Design Officer is well worth the money, but it's also overkill and a lot of overhead for a lot of startups. We want you to have world-class design leadership, as you scale, for less 0% of the up-front cost of a CDO.
Revenue share means that we earn a percentage of the revenue you make. This is set at 10% of revenue with no up-front cost, meaning you can get the growth advice you need in the early stages to launch and grow your product. If you ever decide to exit the agreement, we simply ask for 3 additional months of revenue share to cover our work up-front.
Your design leader will be Telescope founder, Chris! Chris has 10+ years of experience working in design across multiple disciplines, having helped 50+ startups grow and thrive using design over the last 4 years through Telescope and design subscription We Are Heroes.
This is almost impossible to answer, but some of the projects we have worked on before include helping BrewDog increase their e-commerce revenue by 10x in 2020, reworking Alva's menopause consultation to bring them their first online sales and increase consultation bookings by 70%+, helping Lifted significantly increase the conversion of organic traffic on their website through content, and successfully launch products and websites for multiple businesses from FlowGuys to Uncouth to Thomas Pink.
That's not a problem at all. This service works great alongside existing design leadership to provide additional strategic support, design reviews, and an additional person to run ideas by and collaborate with.