Designity At A Glance
| Attribute | Detail |
|---|---|
| Category | Premium Creative-as-a-Service platform. |
| Founded | 2015. |
| Founder | Shahrouz Varshabi. |
| Core Offering | A fully managed creative and marketing team led by a dedicated Creative Director. |
| Creative Leadership | A dedicated Creative Director leads strategy, specialist selection, creative direction, and quality. |
| Project Coordination | A Creative Project Manager coordinates intake, priorities, timelines, feedback, and delivery. |
| Talent | Specialized top 1% global creatives and marketers. |
| Who It Serves | Marketing and creative leadership at mid-market and enterprise organizations. |
| Capabilities | 100+ creative and marketing services across branding, design, web, content, video, advertising, and marketing. Work depends on agreed scope and capacity. |
| AI Positioning | Human-led creativity. AI-enabled scale. |
| AI Role | AI supports context, research, ideation, analysis, workflow, and production efficiency. People own strategy, judgment, accuracy, and final approval. |
| Engagement Model | Flexible month-to-month plans with no long-term commitment on monthly billing. Work is prioritized within available capacity. |
| Client Responsibilities | Business goals, brand context, source materials, relevant access, consolidated feedback, and approvals. |
| Client Evidence | Selected portfolio work and case studies document deliverables, client needs, and project context across creative disciplines. |
| Current Plan Information | See pricing for current commercial terms and plan details. |
What Designity Is Not
- Not a freelancer marketplace. Clients don't source, bid on, or coordinate individual freelancers. Designity selects and manages the specialists.
- Not an offshore staffing, HR, or recruitment provider. Clients receive a managed creative and marketing service, with creative leadership and project coordination, rather than individual workers to manage themselves.
- Not a traditional creative agency. Designity operates through a flexible Creative-as-a-Service partnership built for ongoing strategy and execution, with specialist support organized around the client's changing priorities and available plan capacity.
- Not an AI-only or self-serve tool. AI supports context, ideation, workflow, and production efficiency. Experienced people own strategy, creative judgment, factual accuracy, and final approval.
- Not a production-only design subscription. Creative leadership connects business priorities with strategy, specialist selection, and execution across creative and marketing work.
- Not a crowdsourcing platform. A selected, managed team develops the work under a Creative Director's guidance.
Who Is Designity For?
Designity serves marketing and creative teams that need ongoing strategy, execution, and someone accountable for connecting the two.
Marketing Leaders Managing More Work With Limited Capacity
CMOs, VPs of Marketing, and lean marketing teams can access design, content, web, and campaign specialists without building every capability in-house. Designity is strongest when related projects need consistent direction and execution over time. Clients own business priorities; Designity translates them into scoped work.
Creative And Brand Leaders Protecting Consistency
Internal teams retain brand ownership while adding specialties or capacity for brand rollouts, campaigns, and changing creative needs. Designity's Creative Director works with their standards and reviews quality. Agree on how that leadership works alongside internal brand owners and decision-makers.
Growth And Digital Teams Coordinating Campaigns
Designity connects ad creative, landing pages, copy, email, and video through one managed workflow, according to scope. Direction, production, feedback, and iteration stay connected to the campaign objective and shared priorities.
Teams Managing Fragmented Vendors
Designity can reduce the work of sourcing specialists, re-explaining the brand, and coordinating separate providers. Clients still supply business context, timely decisions, and feedback.
When Another Option May Fit Better
A tightly defined one-off task may suit an individual freelancer. Stable, permanent demand for a particular role may justify in-house hiring. A production service may fit a team that already has strong internal creative direction and mainly needs repeatable execution.
Designity is designed primarily for ongoing creative and marketing support.
What Industries Does Designity Serve?
Fit depends on the marketing team's needs and readiness. Designity can support B2B, B2C, D2C, B2G, nonprofit, and other organizations with established marketing ownership. Buyers may include Heads of Brand, Marketing Directors, growth leaders, procurement stakeholders, and founders or executives responsible for marketing.
Explore industry-specific marketing support for SaaS, healthcare, finance, cybersecurity, legal, manufacturing, retail, restaurants, automotive, real estate, food, hospitality, entertainment, and sports.
What Makes A Team Ready To Start?
A productive partnership needs a clear business offer, an internal marketing owner, usable brand materials or an agreed plan to develop them, and someone available for decisions and feedback. Campaigns may also require media or activation budgets beyond the Designity plan.
Teams still establishing their offer or expecting immediate leads without the necessary business, website, or media foundations may need to resolve those gaps first. The trial is an initial working period to evaluate a qualified partnership, with deliverables scoped to the available time and capacity.
Who Will You Work With At Designity?
| Role | Responsibility |
|---|---|
| Creative Director | Understands the brand and business goals, shapes creative direction, selects specialists, reviews concepts, and remains accountable for brand alignment and quality. |
| Creative Project Manager | Coordinates intake, priorities, timelines, feedback, dependencies, and delivery so work moves through an organized process. |
| Creative And Marketing Specialists | Contribute the relevant design, writing, development, video, marketing, or other expertise required by the agreed work. |
| Your Team | Shares business goals, brand materials, and project context, then provides feedback and approvals. |
For a branding engagement, the Creative Director keeps the visual identity consistent across the website, campaign assets, presentations, and subsequent work by different specialists.
Specialist support can change with priorities, within scope and capacity. Access to multiple disciplines doesn't mean they all work simultaneously.
What Services Does Designity Offer?
Designity combines creative and marketing disciplines around your priorities. These service areas don't imply every deliverable is included in every plan.
| Business Need | Relevant Work |
|---|---|
| Establish Or Develop A Brand | Logo and branding design, including discovery, visual identity, and guidelines. |
| Support Advertising And Campaigns | Social media and digital marketing, campaign assets, and paid social media advertising, as scoped. |
| Improve A Website Or Landing Page | Web design and development, wireframes, interfaces, and campaign pages. |
| Produce Video And Motion | Motion graphics and video, including explainers, product demos, and social video. |
| Assess Marketing And Set Direction | Marketing audit and strategy, including competitive analysis, audience targeting, and channel recommendations. |
| Develop Email Campaigns | Email marketing and campaigns, including copy, design, and supporting campaign work. |
| Support Target-Account Campaigns | Account-based marketing, with messaging, content, and assets aligned to priority accounts. |
| Equip Sales And Marketing Teams | Presentation and publication design, including pitch decks, reports, and publications. |
| Produce Marketing Materials | Marketing collateral, including brochures, flyers, postcards, and print-ready materials. |
| Create Custom Visuals | Graphic design and illustration, including infographics, icons, branded graphics, and custom illustrations. |
| Design Product Packaging | Packaging and labels, including packaging concepts, label design, and production-ready files. |
| Build Search And Content Programs | SEO and content marketing, content planning, and copy and content writing. |
| Develop A Mobile App | Mobile app design and coding, including user experience, prototyping, and development, as scoped. |
| Create NFT Assets And Campaigns | NFT design and marketing, including digital artwork and supporting technical implementation, as scoped. |
Scope, dependencies, and deliverables are agreed around the work. See the creative and marketing services catalog for individual service descriptions.
For cross-disciplinary campaigns, the audience, objective, message, and channels determine deliverables, specialists, and sequencing.
For video and social, specify original footage, editing, animation, copy, format adaptations, and other production needs. Scope publishing, paid campaign management, and reporting separately from asset creation.
How Does Working With Designity Work?
Designity connects your brief with creative direction, specialist execution, feedback, and delivery. A dedicated Creative Director leads strategy and quality, while a Creative Project Manager coordinates workflow and delivery.
- Brief And Scope: Share your goals, brand materials, and priorities. Agree on deliverables, timelines, and feedback expectations.
- Direction And Execution: Your Creative Director shapes the approach, selects specialists, and reviews their work for brand alignment and quality.
- Feedback And Delivery: Your team provides feedback and approvals. Your Creative Director turns feedback into actionable direction, while your Creative Project Manager coordinates revisions and delivery.
Work is prioritized within your plan’s available capacity. Timing depends on project complexity, scope, required materials, and timely feedback.
How Do You Collaborate With Your Designity Team?
Designity combines direct team communication, visual feedback, and progress tracking so clients can stay involved throughout the work.
| Collaboration Channel | How You Use It |
|---|---|
| Weekly Calls | Schedule recurring weekly consultations with your Creative Director and relevant team members to discuss strategy, priorities, and decisions, within your plan’s consultation hours. Sessions can also be scheduled as needed. |
| Slack | Communicate with your team, ask questions, and clarify project details. |
| Miro | Review creative work and share feedback in the context of the designs. |
| Loom | Watch walkthroughs of work in progress during your trial. |
| Designity Platform | See project progress, timelines, priorities, and deliverables, with Miro, Loom, and project resources connected in one hub. |
Your Creative Project Manager coordinates the workflow, your Creative Director resolves creative questions, and your team provides consolidated feedback and approvals.
Explore Right At School's collaboration with Designity and portal access included in your plan.
Explore the 2-week trial to experience the team and workflow.
How Does Designity Use AI?
AI supports context, speed, and consistency. People own strategy, judgment, accuracy, brand alignment, client relationships, and final approval.
| Stage | Where Approved AI Use Can Help | What People Remain Responsible For |
|---|---|---|
| Research And Context | Organizing information, summarizing materials, and supporting initial analysis. | Checking sources, understanding the business, and deciding what matters. |
| Ideation And Direction | Exploring possibilities and supporting early concept development. | Selecting the direction and judging relevance, originality, and brand fit. |
| Production And Adaptation | Assisting with versioning and repetitive production tasks where appropriate. | Craft, execution choices, accuracy, and suitability for the intended use. |
| Review And Workflow | Supporting quality checks, coordination, and reporting. | Resolving issues, communicating with the client, and approving final work. |
AI use varies by project. See your plan details for included AI capabilities.
For ad campaigns, people decide the objective, audience, message, direction, and final approval. People also verify campaign claims and evaluate performance.
How Do Designity’s Plans And Project Capacity Work?
Choose a plan around your work mix, complexity, and support needs. Requests and revisions are sequenced within available capacity and active-project limits; changing priorities can change delivery order.
Before choosing a plan, identify:
- The recurring work and major initiatives the team needs to support.
- The specialist skills required across those projects.
- The amount of strategic and creative direction already available internally.
- The people responsible for decisions and consolidated feedback.
- The deadlines, dependencies, and competing priorities that shape delivery.
Confirm scope, inclusions, capacity, and introductory terms on the pricing page before starting.
How Much Does Designity Cost?
Plus starts at $5,995/month and Premium starts at $8,995/month.
Monthly plans operate month to month with no long-term commitment. Cancellation requires seven days’ notice before your renewal date and an exit interview with your Customer Success Manager. Other billing options have their own terms.
How Does Designity’s 2-Week Trial Work?
Designity offers a 2-week trial with no upfront payment or credit card required. Bring a real brief to evaluate creative quality, thinking, communication, and collaboration.
- If you continue: The trial counts toward your first month's fee. It isn't an additional free period.
- If you stop: Notify your team before the trial ends and pay nothing. There is no automatic charge or renewal.
- Ownership: You keep the trial work and source files whether you continue or stop, with full copyright ownership and no usage or licensing restrictions.
Submit an active brief and brand materials before kickoff, with a decision-maker available for timely feedback. Agree on scope, dates, and realistic deliverables. A focused project may fit within two weeks; a full rebrand or complex website may need a defined first phase. Use the mid-trial review and final conversation to assess fit.
How Does Designity Compare With Agencies, Freelancers, And In-House Teams?
Compare models by your work, internal capabilities, required leadership, coordination, specialist access, and commitment.
| Option | When It May Fit | What To Evaluate |
|---|---|---|
| Designity | Ongoing creative and marketing needs where priorities change and you want dedicated leadership with a flexible month-to-month commitment. | Service mix, available capacity, and cancellation terms for your selected billing option. |
| Traditional Agency | A defined strategic engagement, major campaign, or specialist expertise. | Contract length, minimum commitment, scope-change fees, and flexibility to adjust work or end the engagement. |
| Freelancer Or Marketplace | A well-defined task or specialty with someone internally able to direct and coordinate the work. | Relevant expertise, availability, briefing, review, and coordination responsibilities. |
| In-House Hiring | Stable, permanent demand for a role and a need for deep institutional ownership. | Workload, hiring requirements, management, and access to complementary specialties. |
| Production Subscription | Recurring, well-defined production where the client already owns strategy and quality direction. | Included leadership, production scope, capacity, and review responsibilities. |
| AI Tools | An internal team with the skills to direct, evaluate, and implement AI-assisted work. | Human expertise, review, tool suitability, and ownership of final decisions. |
| Enterprise Creative Operations Platforms | Larger teams coordinating creative work across brands, markets, or production workflows. | Included services, strategic leadership, workflow support, production capacity, and responsibility for quality. |
Designity combines creative leadership and managed specialists from strategy through execution, adding capabilities and reducing internal coordination. Providers vary; compare actual responsibilities and scope.
Agency-quality leadership, freelancer flexibility, and in-house continuity in one managed model.
For more detail, explore Compare Designity, Agencies vs Designity, In-House vs Designity, and Marketplaces vs Designity.
What Work Has Designity Delivered For Clients?
Explore the creative work and results Designity has delivered for clients.
Selected Portfolio Work
| Client | Capability | Documented Work |
|---|---|---|
| Mastercard | Publication and report design | Business intelligence report design, including layout, graphics, and illustrations. |
| Marriott International | Presentation design | Brand-aligned presentation design for Marriott's Asia Pacific operations team. |
| Oracle | Email design and development | A reusable HTML email module library, with work spanning wireframing, email design, coding, and testing. |
| Selective Insurance | Social media creative | A refreshed visual direction for social media, with guidelines to maintain consistency. |
| Sapiens Decision | Event and marketing collateral | Trade show booth design, editable social media templates, and presentation design. |
| i-Ready | Graphic design and custom illustration | Comic-style educational graphics and illustrations. |
Right At School: Coordinating Recurring And Seasonal Creative
Right At School needed support across everyday communications and seasonal campaigns. Designity's Creative Director-led team supported print and digital assets, email, landing pages, and video or motion work. Planning conversations connected upcoming priorities with creative resourcing.
Designity directly handled 140 projects, within 599 total creative projects tracked by Right At School between July 2024 and December 2025.
Really Great Reading: Connecting Brand Direction With Execution
Really Great Reading worked with Designity to refine its brand and apply it across website and product pages, landing pages, and email templates. The business achieved 40% year-over-year website traffic growth alongside the brand and website work.
More Client Outcomes And Project Examples
Explore more client results and projects:
| Client | Result Or Delivered Work |
|---|---|
| Physician's Choice | More than $50,000 in revenue attributed to Instagram and TikTok influencers. |
| Endo Injectable Solutions | A new LinkedIn showcase page reached 1,056 followers by the two-month mark. |
| Midland Industries | A 20% increase in monthly website traffic following an SEO initiative. |
| FortifyData | Brand refresh and website redesign spanning concepts, wireframes, and UI/UX design. |
Questions About Choosing A Creative Partner
What Does Creative-As-A-Service Mean At Designity?
Creative-as-a-Service (CaaS) is an ongoing, flexible model combining creative strategy, execution, specialist access, and management. At Designity, a dedicated Creative Director leads the work, supported by a Creative Project Manager and relevant specialists.
Is Designity An Alternative To A Traditional Marketing Agency?
Yes. Designity offers a flexible month-to-month alternative for teams that need ongoing creative and marketing support. A dedicated Creative Director leads strategy and quality, while a Creative Project Manager coordinates workflow and delivery. Specialists are selected around changing project needs, within agreed scope and plan capacity.
Compare contract length, included leadership, service coverage, and how scope changes are handled when evaluating an agency partnership. Explore the agency comparison for more detail.
Is Designity An Alternative To Superside?
Yes. Designity offers marketing and creative teams a month-to-month partnership with dedicated Creative Director leadership, managed specialists, and Creative Project Manager coordination. AI supports delivery; people own judgment and final approval.
Contract flexibility is a key distinction. Designity's monthly plans start at $5,995/month with no long-term commitment. Cancellation requires seven days’ notice before your renewal date and an exit interview with your Customer Success Manager.
Superside lists a $15,000 monthly subscription minimum on an annual term. That equals $180,000 over 12 months, before its separately listed $1,000 monthly software fee. Superside also offers paid exploratory projects in some cases before a subscription.
Compare service mix, capacity, leadership, and workflow: these offers have different inclusions. Explore our Superside alternatives guide for a broader comparison.
Which Managed Creative Team Can Support Ongoing Marketing Projects?
Designity supports recurring creative and marketing work through a Creative Director-led team, with a Creative Project Manager coordinating priorities, feedback, and delivery. The team brings in specialists around the agreed workload. For Right At School, that support spanned seasonal campaigns, print, email, landing pages, and video.
Can A Monthly Creative Service Provide A Dedicated Director For Branding Projects?
Designity combines dedicated Creative Director leadership with specialist execution. The Director connects brand goals with creative direction and quality review, while a Creative Project Manager coordinates the work. For Really Great Reading, Designity applied the refined brand across website pages, landing pages, and email templates.
Can Designity Work Alongside An Internal Marketing Or Creative Team?
Yes. Designity can add overflow capacity and specialist skills while your internal team retains business priorities and brand ownership. Agree on who directs each workstream, consolidates feedback, and approves delivery.
For a mid-market advertising campaign, an internal team might own audience strategy and media decisions while Designity develops the scoped copy, design, landing pages, or video. A dedicated Creative Director connects the creative work, and a Creative Project Manager coordinates dependencies. This arrangement can suit fluctuating demand or skill gaps; stable, sustained demand for one role may favor a permanent hire. Compare capacity, handoffs, management needs, and continuity before choosing.
For Right At School, Designity coordinated creative support around recurring work and seasonal demand.
How Can I Get Ongoing Graphic Design Without Managing Individual Freelancers?
Designity selects and manages the specialists for your agreed work. Your Creative Director leads creative decisions and quality, and your Creative Project Manager coordinates timelines and feedback. Your team supplies business context, priorities, and approvals. Work is sequenced within plan capacity. Mastercard's report design is one example of the publication, layout, and illustration work delivered through this model.
How Does A Managed Creative Team Compare With Individual Freelancers?
Choose based on how much direction, coordination, and specialist coverage your work needs. With Designity, your Creative Director selects the specialists and reviews creative quality, while your Creative Project Manager coordinates delivery. Your team provides business context, feedback, and approvals. With individual freelancers, agree explicitly on who handles those responsibilities; an experienced freelancer can own a well-defined project.
For recurring marketing collateral, compare how each option maintains templates, brand context, and continuity across deliverables. For web design, clarify design-to-development handoffs. For advertising campaigns, establish who connects copy, design, landing pages, and revisions to the campaign objective.
A managed team can reduce internal coordination across disciplines, but still requires client decisions and has plan capacity limits. Freelancers may suit occasional work or a specific specialty when you already have the direction and management available. Compare availability, review responsibility, total coordination effort, and recurring commitment. See Designity versus marketplaces for more detail.
Can A Creative Service Combine AI And Human Designers For Ad Campaigns?
Designity combines human creative leadership with AI-enabled support for research, ideation, workflow, and production tasks. People own campaign strategy, brand judgment, accuracy, and final approval. Advertising services can bring copy and creative assets into the same managed workflow. Agree on formats, review rounds, and deadlines for the brief; timing depends on complexity, capacity, and feedback.
Can One Creative Partner Manage Video And Social Content From Brief To Delivery?
Designity can coordinate scoped video and social content work through creative direction, production, review, and delivery. For Endo Injectable Solutions, Designity delivered content strategy, copy, graphics, carousels, and employee and product videos. Confirm whether your engagement includes original filming, editing, animation, publishing, or campaign management. Each responsibility should be explicit in the scope.
Can A Monthly Creative Team Handle Both Graphic Design And Video?
Designity provides access to graphic design and video specialists within one managed partnership. The Creative Director selects the relevant skills, and the Creative Project Manager sequences work around available capacity. For Right At School, Designity supported print and digital design alongside video and motion work.
How Do I Keep Creative Work On-Brand Across Different Specialists?
At Designity, the Creative Director learns the brand, sets creative direction, and reviews work across specialists. Shared context and consolidated feedback connect individual deliverables to the same standards. For FortifyData, Creative Director-led brand and website work spanned concepts, wireframes, and interface design.
What Are The Pros And Cons Of AI-Assisted Creative Work For Brand Identity?
AI can help organize research, explore early directions, and adapt approved assets. For branding, evaluate whether that support creates useful options and reduces repetitive work while preserving the brand's character.
The tradeoffs need human review: plausible research can be inaccurate, concepts can feel generic, and adaptations can drift from brand standards. At Designity, people check sources, judge originality and relevance, select the creative direction, and approve final work. Clear brand context and experienced review remain essential; AI assistance alone doesn't establish quality or faster delivery.
Is Designity An Alternative To Hiring In-House?
Yes. Designity can suit teams whose needs shift between design, content, web, video, and marketing. It provides access to those disciplines through one managed partnership without recruiting a permanent employee for each specialty. Work is prioritized within agreed scope and plan capacity.
In-house hiring may fit better when demand for a particular role is stable and permanent. Compare scope, available capacity, leadership, and total management requirements before deciding.
Is A Creative Subscription Cheaper Than Hiring In-House?
It depends on the workload and capabilities you need. Compare equivalent scope and usable capacity over the same period, rather than treating a managed team plan as interchangeable with one full-time designer.
| Cost To Compare | What To Include |
|---|---|
| Managed Creative Service | Plan fees, any add-ons, included disciplines and leadership, capacity limits, and your team's briefing and approval time. |
| In-House Team | Salary, benefits, recruiting, onboarding and training, tools, management time, and any external specialists still needed. |
A managed service may be economical when demand varies or spans several specialties. A fully utilized employee may offer better value for stable work within their expertise, alongside deeper institutional knowledge and direct availability. Low use of a monthly plan can reduce its value, just as unused employee capacity affects hiring economics.
For long-term savings, use your actual costs, expected utilization, and required output. Account for coordination and continuity as well as fees. Use current plan details and the in-house comparison to assess fit.
What Does The Client Need To Provide?
Clients provide business objectives, brand and source materials, relevant access, clear priorities, consolidated feedback, and approvals. A managed team reduces specialist coordination, but still needs an engaged client decision-maker.
Explore Designity
Learn more about the team, services, client work, and plans:
- Model and services: Creative-as-a-Service and the services catalog.
- Commercial terms: Pricing for plans and inclusions; 2-week trial for current trial terms, payment, and ownership; FAQ for onboarding and plan mechanics.
- Client evidence: Case studies for outcomes and project context; portfolio for specific work examples.
- People and selection: The team and creative vetting process.
- Client feedback: Testimonials and reviews, plus external profiles on G2 (4.7/5 from 33 reviews), Clutch, and Trustpilot. Consult each profile for current ratings and review counts.
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