Finally! The better way to get 
creative job done.

takasho® is a creative subscription service that works as your outsourced creative partner. We combine the best designers with purpose-built technology to deliver amazing designs at scale.

Cheaper
Then Agency
Faster
Then In-house
Better
Then Freelancer

The best alternative to traditional hiring and outsourcing.

Everything you need to finally focus on strategy instead of hiring & execution.
Unbottleneck creative marketing operations, reduce costs and maximize campaigns efficiency.
Its like hiring an in-house team, but with no-time to hire, faster delivery, much lower costs, all-in-one capabilities, ready expertise and top-notch quality designs right out of the box.

Quality
Better
Delivery
Faster
Price
Cheaper
Comparison vs
In-house designers

Building an in-house design team isn’t easy

Complex Hiring Process

Recruiting and onboarding internal design experts is a lengthy and intricate process, typically taking 3-6 months or more. This includes searching for candidates, conducting interviews, and integrating new hires into your team. The challenge is compounded by often inaccurate assessments of design skills and a scarcity of suitable talent in the market. For startups in their early stages, attracting established designers can be particularly daunting, as they may be reluctant to leave stable freelance or agency positions for a risky new venture.

High Costs

Employing an in-house designer involves significant ongoing expenses. The annual cost for a UX/UI designer, for instance, can range from $80,000 to over $140,000, factoring in salary and benefits. Moreover, the cost of a poor hire—typically around 30% of the employee’s annual salary—adds financial risk. These costs are amplified by the likelihood of making an erroneous hiring decision, which can escalate expenses further.

Limited Skill Sets

It is unrealistic to expect a single designer to master every aspect of design needed by most companies. This includes developing a brand identity, visualizing UX/UI experiences, designing websites, creating marketing materials, and producing videos and animations. The quality necessary across these diverse areas usually requires a team of 5-7 specialized designers, not just one individual.

Comparative Overview

Choose preferred approach: In-house vs. takasho®

Subject of comparison
In-house team
takasho®
The Main goal
Personal growth
Your growth = our growth
Full-stack design skills
Never
Always
Reliable & structured processes
Rare
Always
Time-to-hire
3-6+ months
1 minutes
Additional fees
up to 50% additional fees annually
0$
Dedicated design director
Rare
Always
Expert Project Management
Rare
Always
Scalability
Rare
Always
Flexibility
Never
Super Flexible
Termination cost
Always
None
Ongoing self-education and trend awareness
Rare
Always
DesignOps platform
Never
Always
A final thought from us

When it comes to something as important as your visual appeal and overall marketing effectiveness, why settle for anything less than a dedicated, transparent, and trustworthy design partner that delivers amazing creatives at scale?

Leonid Petukhov
Co-Founder

Working with freelancers can be unreliable and hard to scale.

Inconsistent Quality

The quality of work delivered by freelancers can be inconsistent. Issues such as missed deadlines, the need for multiple revisions, and the delivery of work that doesn’t meet expectations are common. This directly impacts brand consistency and customer perception.

Scalability Challenges

Scaling operations with freelancers can be problematic. As your business grows, managing an increasing number of freelancers and ensuring consistent results across projects can become increasingly complex and inefficient.

Management Overhead

Working with freelancers requires significant management effort. Coordinating tasks, providing feedback, and ensuring alignment with project goals can demand a substantial amount of time and resources from your team.

Communication Challenges

Freelancers often operate independently, which can lead to communication gaps. This can result in infrequent updates, leaving clients uncertain about the progress of their projects.

Commitment Variability

Freelancers may juggle multiple projects, and their commitment can vary, especially if they find other projects more financially or professionally rewarding. This affects their dedication to a single client’s project and can lead to inconsistencies in project execution.

Project Completion Risks

Without the oversight of a formal management structure, freelancers might struggle with accountability. The risk of freelancers becoming uncontactable during a project raises concerns about reliability and the security of the client’s investment.

Punctuality and Scheduling

Freelancers managing multiple clients often face challenges in prioritizing projects, which can lead to missed deadlines. Their autonomy in scheduling can conflict with a company’s timeline, potentially leading to project delays.

Confidentiality Concerns

Maintaining confidentiality is crucial, yet challenging, with freelancers who handle multiple clients. The potential reuse of ideas and strategies across different projects poses a risk to business confidentiality and creative integrity.

Comparative Overview

Choose preferred creative partner: Freelancer vs. takasho®

Subject of comparison
Freelancer
takasho®
The Main goal
Sell all hours at the highest possible rate
Your growth = our growth
Full-stack design skills
Never
Always
Reliable & structured processes
Rare
Always
Same-day turnaround
Sometimes
Always
Predictable delivarable quality
Rare
Always
Predictable project timeline
Rare
Always
Time-to-hire
Week+
0 minutes
Expert Project Management
Never
Always
Scalability
Never
Always
Predictive availability
Sometimes
Always
Ongoing self-education and trend awareness
Rare
Always
Security & confidentiality
Rare
Always
DesignOps platform
Never
Always
A final thought from us

Your brand deserves more than being served by a long list of freelancers, with no other context. Some could be good, but most of them won’t be. Some might be a good fit, but most of them aren’t. Every freelancer is a self-proclaimed "expert", however, they’re unvetted, and reviews are hard to believe these days.

Eugene Behun
Co-Founder

Some agencies are good, many of them are not...

High Costs

The cost of working with agencies can be prohibitively high, often comparable to the salary of a full-time employee for a year or even the cost of a luxury car. In contrast, a design subscription service operates under a unique business model that allows for more cost-effective solutions, delivering projects within a shorter timeframe and at a fraction of the cost typically charged by traditional agencies.

Wide Quality Range

The quality of work provided by creative agencies can be highly variable. While there are some excellent agencies, many fail to deliver the expected quality. The inherent unpredictability in agency performance means that even extensive scouting and procurement efforts may not guard against substandard outcomes. Agencies often prioritize short-term achievements over the consistent quality that supports long-term client growth, leading to frequent disappointments.

Different Interests

Traditional agencies often prioritize increasing revenue and enhancing their own reputations over the specific needs of their clients. They might focus on short-term gains from a current project to attract more lucrative or prestigious future work. This approach can lead to a misalignment of interests, where the agency's goal is to maximize immediate returns rather than fostering a long-term partnership aimed at delivering consistent, high-quality solutions tailored to the client's needs.

Inconsistencies

Agencies may produce inconsistent designs due to a lack of familiarity with a client’s existing design infrastructure. This inconsistency can manifest in a company’s websites, apps, and ads appearing disjointed, which is often a result of multiple agencies working independently rather than a unified strategy. Such discrepancies can confuse users, slow down design and development processes, and complicate the integration of new design team members.

No Maintenance

Once a project is delivered, agencies typically move on, with little interest in ongoing maintenance or future enhancements unless it promises additional revenue. This practice forces clients to start from scratch with each new agency, increasing costs and effort as no continuous improvement or updates are provided to the existing work.

Limited Knowledge of Your Company and Strategy

Agencies generally possess limited understanding of their clients' businesses and user base. While more competent agencies may invest effort into learning about their clients, there remains an inherent limitation to how well they can truly understand and represent the client's needs compared to internal teams who are fully immersed in the company’s context and strategy.

Comparative Overview

Choose preferred creative partner: Agency vs. takasho®

Subject of comparison
Design Agency
takasho®
The Main goal
One-time profit
Your growth = our growth
Cost
High ($$$$)
Moderate ($$)
Outcome predictability
Rare
Always
Transparency
Rare
Always
Time-to-hire
3-4+ weeks
1 min
Reliable & structured processes
Sometimes
Always
Min. Project size
$5000 - $10000 +
None
Skill-focused professionals
Sometimes
Always
24h turnaround
Rare
Always
Security
Rare
Always
Ongoing Education and Trend Awareness
Rare
Always
DesignOps platform
Rare
Always
A final thought from us

When it comes to something as important as your visual appeal and overall marketing effectiveness, why settle for anything less than a dedicated, transparent, and trustworthy design partner that delivers amazing creatives at scale?

Eugene Behun
Co-Founder

Dedicate time to tasks outside of main expertise is impractical and inefficient.

Shift Away from Strategic Focus

Handling design tasks can significantly detract from focusing on strategic activities such as campaign planning, market analysis, and performance optimization. This shift can lead to missed opportunities and less effective marketing strategies.

Inefficient Use of Time

Designing without specialized skills often extends project timelines and consumes valuable time that could be better utilized in core marketing functions or high-level decision-making.

Compromised Output Quality

Without formal design training, the quality of self-produced digital assets may fall short of professional standards, potentially undermining the brand’s credibility and the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.

Increased Risk of Burnout

Balancing design tasks alongside strategic marketing responsibilities can lead to increased workload and stress, impacting personal well-being and leading to decreased productivity and creativity.

Lack of Professional Design Expertise

Utilizing general design tools cannot replace the nuanced skills of a professional designer. This often results in outputs that lack the precision and creative flair crucial for impactful marketing materials.

Branding Inconsistencies

Maintaining consistent branding across various materials becomes challenging without professional design input, potentially resulting in a disjointed brand identity that can confuse customers and dilute brand impact.

Substantial Learning Curve

Investing time in learning and mastering various design tools detracts from engaging in more impactful marketing activities, reducing overall marketing effectiveness.

A final thought from us

When it comes to something as important as your visual appeal and overall marketing effectiveness, why settle for anything less than a dedicated, transparent, and trustworthy design partner that delivers amazing creatives at scale?

Eugene Behun
Co-Founder

Case Studies

Design experience reimagined

Top 1% of creative talents

We hire only the best talents

Structured creative process

The right & efficient battle-tested process

Super Flexible

Scale up or down when needed

Better

95% Net Retention. NPS 90 +

Cheaper

30-50% cheaper than the average agency

Faster

Same-day turnaround

No time to hire

From 30 days to 10 minutes

Easier

Submit briefs and get the work done

Collaborative

Manage all designs in 1 simple platform

Our Customers Love Us

Discover why marketers & entrepreneurs trust takasho

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Eric Collier
(Co-Founder & CEO BrykHealth)
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What an incredible group! I was impressed by their ability to define the problem before going straight to a solution. Their work is above and beyond. They would be an asset to any company that needs to strategize on problems related to the intersection of business and technology. Highly Recommended.

Eric Collier (Co-Founder & CEO BrykHealth)
Healthcare / Healthtech
Industry
United States
Country
Ideation
Design
0
Services
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Chase Westbrook
(Vice President Dedicated Freight)
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TAK A SHO was a wonderful partner from the early stages till the end.They worked really well with our whole team to really work through our ideas and concepts to bring a successful website to launch. Their area of expertise kept growing since no matter what problem we brought to the table, they sourced the right solution from the proper expert. No revision or suggestion was too much for them and they always made sure to communicate all changes and their suggestions as well. I would recommend them for any similar project!

Chase Westbrook (Vice President Dedicated Freight)
Logistic
Industry
Canada
Country
Ideation
Design
Test
Development
Launch
0
Services
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Anton Zapolskyi
(Co-Founder & CEO Tradelize)
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We hired TAK A SHO for a complete renovation and redesign of our social crypto-trading solution. We call it Linked-In for crypto-traders and investors. Once we selected TAK A SHO we had a series of discovery meetings to discuss our goals and objectives and align both of our teams. Structured approach and product expertise helped us a lot with establishing a new innovative user-friendly product. Guys are great experts in rapid prototyping and product/business strategy. I can evaluate our collaboration as a top-notch fit.

Anton Zapolskyi (Co-Founder & CEO Tradelize)
Fintech/Crypto & Blockchain
Industry
United States
Country
Ideation
Design
Development
Test
Launch
0
Services
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Sergiu Hamza
(Co-Founder & CEO Coincub)
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They are a brilliant team and management for everything from ideation, fast prototyping to scale and growth. They have an experienced team that can deal with any problem in a fast and get it done. They have worked successfully on UI/UX, back-end, front-end, architecture, API, design, dev-ops, infrastructure in the crypto space. They work in sprints in an agile way. I will hire them again.

Sergiu Hamza (Co-Founder & CEO Coincub)
Crypto & Blockchain
Industry
Ireland
Country
Design
Test
Development
Launch
0
Services
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Mitul Gandhi
(Co-Founder SeoClarity)
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Definitely a great team to work with! They have an excellent understanding of online marketing and SEO industry. During our collaboration they spent time to understand the exact challenge we have. They also reviewed the analytics we have, and performed a heuristic assessment. After questioning the current approach in the UI, they ultimately build variations that addressed a number of key issues. The result of their work was amazing and I highly recommend collaborating with TAK A SHO on any product enhancement project.

Mitul Gandhi (Co-Founder SeoClarity)
Marketing/ Martech/ B2B SaaS
Industry
United States
Country
UX/Ui Audit
Strategise
Test
0
Services