The first prototype is free, after that you work per day. We estimate how many days it takes, you decide how far we go.
Exploratory prototype
3 spots leftTest a new idea or feature before you build on it. A first look at how we work and what we can offer you.
What you get
- An exploration workshop in which we get to the core together
- A working prototype, with the insights from making it
- Results within a week and a plan for what comes next
- The prototype is yours to keep, no obligation to continue
Day rate
We work on your product day to day, as a studio or in your team. The longer we work together, the lower the rate.
Per day
For a workshop, an audit or a quick iteration.
€ 999per day
20 days-10%
To design or redesign specific features.
€ 899per day
40 days-20%
To rework a product or build something new.
€ 799per day
Want a more intensive start on firmer ground? Explore a design sprint
Because it leaves room to steer by what we test and learn.
At the start no one knows what a product really needs. A fixed price locks the scope in anyway, and steering then hardly works without consequences for the agreed time and scope. When things get tight, the savings come out of the execution: exactly where a product turns out good or mediocre.
We estimate up front how many days it takes, so you know where you stand. The time goes to what makes the product better, not to what we thought at the start.
A freelancer, secondment, a big agency or Strakzat. Four ways to bring in outside help, side by side.
| What you look for | Strakzat | Freelancer | Secondment | Big agency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Only seniors on your project | Yes | Yes | Sometimes | No |
| Direct line to whoever builds it | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Research, design and code | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Accountable for the outcome | Yes | Yes | No | Sometimes |
| No overhead or middle layers | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Capacity to scale up | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Cost per day | €799–999 | €800–1,000 | €600–1,000 | €1,000–1,400 |
- We start with a free exploratory prototype: in an exploration workshop we get to the core together, and make it a working prototype. Then we work in short loops: make, choose, measure. Once the direction holds, we develop the product, front and back end: ourselves, with a technical partner or alongside your own developers. Design and build stay close together, so less gets lost in the handover.
- An exploration workshop in which we get to the core together, and within a week a working prototype of your idea or feature, with the open questions and insights it brings up and a plan for what comes next. The prototype is yours, even if we go no further. After a first call we decide together whether a prototype fits.
- You choose. If you want to go on, we work per day on what is still open, as a studio or in your team; we estimate up front how many days it takes. If you want to test with your team and real users first, a design sprint is the next step. Or you stop here, with the prototype in hand.
- That's up to you. What you invest decides how many features we can take on and how far we refine them. Before we start, we estimate how many days it takes to reach your goals, so you know where you stand. The exploratory prototype shows what already stands and what is still open; we base that estimate on it.
- Yes. You can book a single day for a workshop, an audit or a quick design task.
- Small on purpose: the people you meet do the work, and nothing gets lost in a handover. With AI a small senior team does what used to take a larger one: AI takes on the making, so our time goes to the research, the design and the choices. When a project needs more, AI scales the making with it, without new people to bring up to speed. And once it is paid, everything we deliver is yours, designs and code included.
- Both. For design sprints, workshops, research and presentations, we're with you in person. The design and development work itself we do in our own studio: the whole team is at hand, no one loses time traveling and we have everything we need to work fast.
- No problem. Book a package of 20 or 40 days and spread it over up to a year: that works as a retainer, at the lower day rate.
- If you booked us for a set number of days, our work stops on the last day of the contract. If you booked us per day, we finish the work in progress and send the final invoice. Either way, once everything is paid, we hand over everything we delivered, designs and code included, to your team.
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