Pricing
Halaska publishes its prices so you can tell whether we fit before the first call.
There are three ways to work with us: a product audit at $5,000, a design partnership from $12,000 a month, and Immersive, with Chris hands-on, from $20,000 a month. Defined product projects start at $16,000.
Every number below is USD. AED pricing is on our Dubai page.
Ways to work with us
Design partner
Your senior product design team, every week
Senior designers do the work, a design lead runs it, and Chris sets direction and reviews everything that ships. Product UX, UI, the design system and core flows prototyped in code.
The right fit when you have a shipped product, an engineering team and a roadmap that needs a design function without hiring one. Pause or stop with 30 days’ notice.
Senior operators (ex. Google, BMW, Attio, Ogilvy)
Updates every Tuesday and Thursday
Dedicated Slack channel
Design lead, with Chris directing
Figma + Prototypes in code
Monthly from
$12k
Immersive
Chris in your product,
with a team behind him
At capacity
Chris works hands-on in your product each week, with direct founder access. Built for products without a pattern to copy yet: a new AI product from zero, or a trading product where the interaction model is the product.
Clients at this tier have included Pascal, plus AI products under NDA. Two run at a time, never more.
2 senior operators (ex. Google, BMW, Attio, Ogilvy)
Halaska OS (Your AI toolkit)
Continuous updates
Direct comms & syncs
Two clients at a time
Monthtly
$20k
Product audit
A clear view of your product
and what to fix first
A focused review of your product’s UX, UI and design system, delivered as a prioritised plan and a walkthrough call.
The quickest way to see how we think. Credited to your first month of Design partner if you continue straight after.
UX, UI and design system review
Prioritised plan
Walkthrough call with Chris
Credited to your first month
One off
$5k
Defined product projects
Fixed scope, fixed price, one number at the end of the proposal. Final payment is due on handover of the agreed deliverables, not on your launch date, because launches slip for reasons outside our control.
Product design, milestone project
$16,000 to $120,000
From a scoped set of flows or a design system at the low end, to the whole product at the high end: strategy, research, core workflows, prototypes in code, design system and handover. Most teams at that scale move to a partnership; milestones are here for the ones who need a fixed number.
MVP design and prototype
$16,000 to $30,000
A new product’s core flows designed from scratch and built as a working prototype in code, ready for your engineers to build. Different from Dash, which polishes something already built.
The minimum for any defined project is $16,000. Brand and website work is available to product clients as an add-on. For a smaller job, Dash runs fixed-price one-week sprints at dash.halaska.com.
What changes the price
How much of Chris’s time the work needs. The $12k tier is operator-led with his review; the $20k tier is him in the room.
How much gets prototyped. A clickable flow sits at the low end; a working prototype of the whole core experience at the high end.
Stage and readiness. Funded teams with an engineering lead and a decision-maker on the call move faster and pay less for the same outcome than teams that need us to fill those gaps.
Rush. We quote it, we don’t discount it.
What we don’t do
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How much does a product design retainer cost?
At Halaska, a product audit is $5,000, a team-led design partnership starts at $12,000 a month, and Immersive, where Chris leads the work, starts at $20,000 a month. The wider market for a senior studio runs from about $5,000 to $25,000 a month depending on seniority and capacity.
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What does the monthly retainer include?
Senior product design capacity, prototypes in code, updates every Tuesday and Thursday, a dedicated Slack channel, design files and code your engineers can ship from, and Chris reviewing everything that goes out.
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How much should a Series A startup budget for product design?
Between $12,000 and $25,000 a month for an outsourced senior design function, or $16,000 to $30,000 for a defined MVP project. A first in-house senior designer costs roughly 1.3 times salary once you add tooling and management, and takes three to six months to hire.
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Do you negotiate on price?
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Why publish prices at all?