Product 04 — The Retainer

Unlimited requests. One at a time.

A standing slot with the same senior designer behind every Calibr rebuild. Queue as much as you like in a simple dashboard; I take each task one at a time, my whole attention on it until it ships. No meetings, no hourly meter — $4,500 a month, flat. Pause or cancel anytime.

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$4,500/moFlat — nothing metered

UnlimitedQueue as much as you like

1 at a timeNever parallel

Pause anytimeOr cancel — no lock-in

Calibr — your request queue

RQ-06 Checkout trust strip Shipped Fri

RQ-07 PDP buy-box rebuild In progress

RQ-08 Mother's Day lander Queued

RQ-09 Subscription upsell section Queued

+Add a request — takes two minutes

The dashboard — queue it, review it, approve it

How it works

A queue you control.A loop that ships.

01 — Drop a request

Brief it in the dashboard

A page, a section, a test — write what you need and attach anything useful. Two minutes, not a kickoff call. Queue as many as you like.

02 — I design it

One project, all of me

Your project is the only thing on my desk — not a slice of a team's sprint. Twenty years of conversion judgment, pointed at one thing until it's right.

03 — Review, async

Feedback when it suits you

The design lands in the dashboard. You leave comments on your own clock; I revise. No meetings, no status calls — the work is the meeting.

04 — Ship, advance

Approved → next begins

Files ship developer-ready, reasoning documented. The queue steps forward and your next request starts — same standard, same eye, every time.

No standups · no Slack leash · no discovery-call theatre — the queue is the status meeting

A sample month

What a monthactually looks like.

W/01

Spring-offer landing page

Briefed Monday morning. First design Wednesday, your comments Thursday, revised and approved by Friday.

Brief MonV1 WedFeedback ThuShipped Fri

W/02

PDP buy box + gallery

Tighter scope, faster loop — shipped Thursday and straight into your testing calendar.

Brief MonV1 TueShipped Thu

W/03–04

Homepage rebuild

Bigger scope, flagged before it starts — a two-week build with a mid-point review, not a rushed one-weeker.

Brief MonMid-point W/03Shipped Fri W/04

Scope sets the clock — sections take days · pages about a week · rebuilds the weeks they need. You always know which before it starts.

Scope

On the menu, offthe menu. No grey areas.

Why ongoing

Why ongoing beatsthe one-off.

The learning compounds

A one-off guesses once and walks away. On retainer, every ship gets measured — what converted stays, what didn't gets recalibrated next request. Month three is sharper than month one, on evidence.

No re-onboarding tax

Your brand, your customer, your analytics — loaded once, kept warm. Every request starts at full speed instead of paying the get-up-to-speed cost that quietly eats one-off budgets.

A slot, not a waitlist

Projects start when you queue them, not when a studio can fit you in. While competitors are writing agency briefs and waiting on quotes, your next test is already designed.

Flat, pausable, honest

$4,500 every month — nothing metered, nothing scoped-and-surprised. Queue empty? Pause, and the clock stops. It earns its renewal every month or it ends. That's the deal.

Claim it

One slot. One number.Start this week.

The Retainer — monthly

$4,500/mo

Flat · no hourly meter · no surprise invoices

One project at a time — designed, not juggled
Most projects shipped inside a week
Unlimited request queue
Async dashboard — no meetings, ever
Same senior designer, every project
Pause or cancel anytime

One project at a time means few slots exist — total

Claim the slot

Monthly · $4,500 flat · pause anytime

Request received.

You'll hear back within one business day — your start date, dashboard access, and what to queue first. First project can be shipping this week.

Track record

Same eye. Same method.Twenty years of it.

+1500%

CVR 0.2% → 3.2%
Beanstalk funnel redesign

+393%

CVR 1.27% → 6.27%
TMAP landing page

$73M+

Client revenue attributed
across 20 years of pages

Ryan is known as one of the best web designers in the world. This praise does not come lightly — he has personally designed websites that have made millions of dollars.

Bill KirkleyICT Executive

His designs have maximised conversions and increased bottom-lines dramatically for several of my businesses and my clients' businesses.

Michel FortinStrategic Growth Architect

Ryan's one of the few design guys that really "gets it" when it comes to direct response. He delivers as promised — on time, every time.

Andy CatsimanesSenior Copywriter

Questions

Fair questions, beforeyou subscribe.

Why only one project at a time?

Because parallel is where quality goes to die. Agencies run your work as a slice of somebody's sprint; here your project is the only thing on the desk until it ships. Then the next one gets the same treatment. Slower per month than a team of juniors — faster to revenue, because it's right the first time.

What counts as one project?

One coherent piece of work: a landing page, a PDP rebuild, a set of homepage sections, a UGC storyboard, a batch of ad statics. Most take a week or less. Bigger builds — a homepage, a multi-page flow — take the weeks they need, flagged before they start so the queue never surprises you.

How does the dashboard work?

It's a simple request queue. You drop a brief (two minutes, attach anything useful), I pick it up when it reaches the front, the design lands back in the dashboard, you comment when it suits your day, I revise, you approve — and the queue steps forward. No meetings, no status calls; the queue is the status.

What if I run out of requests?

Pause. The subscription stops, the clock stops, and the slot is yours again when you switch back on. You only ever pay for months where there's work to ship.

Is there a contract or minimum term?

No. Month to month, pause or cancel anytime. A retainer should earn its renewal every single month or end — that's the deal, and it's why the work stays sharp.

What format is the work delivered in?

Figma. Every design ships as developer-ready files — components, copy direction and implementation notes your team can build from directly. Video and UGC work ships as final rendered files alongside.

Can't AI do this for me?

It can generate a page — a thousand plausible ones, actually. What it can't tell you is which of them will convert for your customer, at your price point, against your objections. That judgment comes from twenty years of watching real buyers respond to real pages. We use AI where it's fast; the decisions that move revenue stay human — and accountable to a name.