Carte Blanche - Product Design Studio

Why work with US?

One agency + end-to-end service = Valuable time back to you to invest in your startup success + Less cost and management overhead
Your CTO - Design Team - Development & Product Management Team

Experience the you 2.0

Stage 0: the right process

Before: Current You

Pulling hair out on how to build a SaaS startup

Frustrated, overwhelmed,
Fatigued having watched 100s of disconnected YouTube videos and still not having the clue on figuring it out
Pulling hair out trying to translate your idea into a coherent product
Team constantly missing deadlines
Constantly scrambling and failing to meet software development deadlines
Lack of visibility

After: You 2.0

From hit-and-trial to Proven Silicon Valley Battle-tested SaaS Startup Building System to create SaaS products that users love

We implement for you the best agile product development and design thinking practices in SaaS Product Development matured over two decades.

Stage 1: Building product team & Product Management

Before: Current You

Struggling to build product team fast & in-budget

Don’t know which roles and skillsets to hire for
Struggling to piece together how to assess
Taking too much time, effort and very costly

Drowned with non-ROI administrative tasks

Busy processing payroll, taxes, benefits and maintaining office space
Taking precious time away from your product
Spending your limited time and money on non-product effort

Product is out of control; Missed deadlines, poor visibility

Inaccurate estimations and missing deadlines is the norm
Poor visibility and accountability of product team
Aligning product, design, engineering & marketing teams is a losing battle

Product lacks direction

Product documentation is scattered and worse not there
No one has the full picture as to the status of the product
Broken product roadmap and incorrect prioritization leading to delays

After: You 2.0

Scalable SaaS-Product-Team at push of a button

Roles matched to your needs - vetted CTO, Product Manager, Cloud Architect, UIUX Designer, full stack developers, DevOps to QA Tester
Pay-as-you-go scaling of specialized product team members to 2x or 3x your product development pace
Reducing 2/3 of the overall expenses

Invest in activities that produces ROI

Able to focus on product monetization and adoption
Spending quality time building and executing your product

Experience your product move like a well oiled machine; where poor visibility, missed deadlines, and misaligned teams are nightmares of the past

Done-For-You summary and detailed reporting dashboards so you always know current progress against the planned targets
We manage your targets and deadlines so you don’t have to worry about missing deadlines again
Done-with-you product roadmap, release plan and product backlog grooming, prioritizing features, grooming user-stories, sprint planning, and managing sprints to hit your release targets
We will create epics and user Stories and test cases to create foundation of alignment between the product team, management team and stakeholders
Running retrospectives to learn from past experience and shortcomings

Stage 2: User-experience (UX) Design

Before: Current You

Failing to translate your idea into a product

Know the core pain points but struggling to systematically map user needs
Hard for designers to capture the product vision
App design is confusing for your users

Product lacks focus, clarity & business acumen

Everything seems to be important and consequently
Product scope has become too large and is getting out of budget
Investing large sum to build product; don’t know how to mitigate risk

Users cringe when using your product

Never ending complains around product hard to navigate
Doesn’t do what it is expected to do
Buggy, lags and crashes

After: You 2.0

Experience running prototype in 30 days

Design process bundle and intensive product strategy sessions done-for-you to produce storyboards, user-journeys, Information Architecture, user stories and wireframes to distill your product requirements and then transform them into a working prototype; followed by user-testing to make sure it is easy to use

Save thousands of dollars; launch a focused MVP, early

We will run intensive product strategy sessions with you to prune away excess feature baggage reducing time to market and bringing out what critical business assumptions you need to test early to succeed

Running a product that your customers love and share

Done-for-you right UX design so your product is intuitive, snappy, seamless and delivers on expected outcomes

Stage 3: User Interface (UI) and Visual Design

Before: Current You

Pulling hair out on how to build a SaaS startup

Don’t have that banger UI that my customers would love
Product doesn’t align with the brand i wish to create
interface is too cluttered, lacks finesse and pop

Pulling hair out on how to build a SaaS startup

Engineering team has to constantly bug design team for missing visual, behavioral and interaction information
Design is not according to user-experience and accessibility best practices
Design is inconsistent and unorganized causing rework

After: You 2.0

Your SaaS product design so slick that it stands out from a mile-away and rivals likes of Miro and Uber

We will Deliver design on 5 dimensions of Interaction design: Words, visual representation, spatial layout, time and behavior to deliver seamless experience to your users
We will define brand guidelines and design system that lays the foundation for the banger UI you have been dreaming about while making your design consistent and future development faster.
Detailed design work that documents every visual, behavior, and interaction detail for developers to not be confused and cruise through their coding work with diligence avoiding expensive rework and missing deadlines
Design following tried and tested user-experience practices to deliver quick turn-around super seamless user experience and accessibility making your users fall in love with your product

Stage 4: Coding

Before: Current You

Wishing only if your team could code faster

Your development team moving through your product roadmap like a snail

Poor code-scalability and reusability

Poorly written code base making collaboration and scalability difficult
Written in a technical stack where it is hard to find talent easily
Code is not reusable and wastes time and in becoming unreadable

Low-performance, buggy and not according to design

App is slow, unresponsive and buggy and my users hate us for it
Coded app does not match the design
Code does not perform well on different sized screens

After: You 2.0

2x faster development team under your command

Owner of high performance, super-organized, reusable, documented product codebase ready for expansion

Done-for-you strict code quality, functional and design-to-code accuracy reviews
Implementation of common code writing standards
Code written in modern and highly adopted frameworks
Highly modularized code for re-use e

From hit-and-trial to Proven Silicon Valley Battle-tested SaaS Startup Building System to create SaaS products that users love

Stage 5: Product analytics

Before: Current You

Oblivious to who is visiting my product website

Who is visiting your product site
No insight into their user journey to signing up for your product
How conversion looks like through my marketing funnel

Oblivious to who is visiting my product website

What feature sets users prefer to use
How is my product retention
How to know if I have product-market-fit

After: You 2.0

From guessing to continuous improvement to attract the right persona to your website and converting them

Learn where your potential product users are coming from;

Always on top of how your users engage with your product and how it can be improved

Know how they are engaging on your website.
Who is signing up for your product.
Which feature sets are your users engaging with.

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Testimonials from our customers

It was great having had experience building software before, to work with a team that had just immeasurably more experience. Their team listens really well, they always brought creative ideas to the questions that we had and their level of expertise was just truly top notch. I cannot recommend them more highly for their knowledge about UI & UX design. And now we are at a point where we are ready to launch our product.”

Brigham Adams, Phd

Startup founder & Chief scientist
Goodly labs, usa

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“...Their level of expertise was just truly top notch...”

One thing that really stands out is that the team really, really dives deep and really invests themselves in your project and that produces incredible outcomes. The attention to design, the attention to detail and the attention to quality of product really makes Carte Blanche stand out and is why I made a brilliant decision by choosing them as my product team.

Ismaeel Siddique

Lawyer & Startup founder
Nowii rewards, UK

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“...I made a brilliant decision by choosing them as my product team...”

It was a pleasure working with Carte Blanche to build an educational mobile app for trainee doctors working at our local mental health services. It wouldn’t have been possible without their incredible support, creativity and reliability. They created an app that exceeded our expectations in terms of the user interface. They were available to contact at anytime & continued to provide support even after app completion. Highly recommend working with them.”

Dr Vinitha

Doctor & Public Health Teaching Fellow National Health Services (NHS), UK

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“...wouldn’t have been possible without their incredible support, creativity and reliability...”

The Carte Blanche Team made it their objective to ensure that they had a fundamental grasp of the features. The team understands the impact of design well and this was clearly evident in the final product. I found the Carte Blanche team to be engaging, helpful, insightful, dynamic, and would definitely work with them again and would wholeheartedly recommend them to others.”

Dr Joe Hogan

Startup Co-founder
Code Med, United Kingdom

“...The team understands the impact of design well and this was clearly evident in the final product...”

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