Free guide for agency owners
Your team is stretched. Hiring is the obvious fix. It usually isn't.
Most agencies answer more work by adding designers — and end up with a bigger payroll and the same delivery dates. This guide shows you why, and how to add capacity without adding salaries. Nine minutes to read. It might save you a $100,000 hiring decision.
Three of the numbers inside
6-10 Weeks
Before a new hire even starts. Useful work on your clients comes later still.
$300k
Of your best designer's week, once the team grows, goes on checking other people's work instead of designing.
50%
Of a senior designer’s week. Can go to reviews, feedback, and team management instead of actual design work.
Sound Familiar?
You're not short of people. You're short of the right capacity at the right time.
You turned down work
last quarter
Not because you couldn’t, but because no one was free.
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Client needs a service
you don’t offer
A website, a video — and you scrambled to find someone.
You hired, and it
didn't help for months
They were still learning your clients while you paid them in full.
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Your best designer
barely designs anymore
They're reviewing everyone else's work instead.
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Every one of these has the same cause.
It isn't team size — it's team shape.
The agencies protecting their profit through growth employ the people whose judgement clients pay for, and rent the rest: the resizes, the versions, the overflow, the one discipline they only need occasionally.
What you get
Three of the numbers inside
Download it free
A straight answer on whether to hire.
Six questions, a score out of twelve, and what each score means for your next move.
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The real cost of covering all three types
of design.
Totalled up, so you can compare it against what you're paying now.
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Hiring vs. freelancers vs. a subscription, compared fairly.
Totalled up, so you can compare it against what you're paying now.
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The roles you should never outsource.
And the ones you probably shouldn't be employing for.
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The four reasons a bigger team gets slower.
So you can spot which one is happening to you.