for companies and product leaders

Design Culture Audit

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Find out exactly what's
holding your design
team back.

A focused, fixed-scope diagnostic that tells you where your design practice is strong, where it's fragile, and - most importantly - what to fix first. Delivered in three days. No retainer required.
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the problem

Most teams know something isn't working. Design feels slow. Quality is inconsistent. Decisions get made without design in the room. Nobody agrees on where the problem actually starts.

what the audit is

The Design Culture Audit is a structured three-day engagement that gives you an honest external view of your design practice - from team structure and ways of working, through to how design fits into your wider product and engineering organisation.

You get a clear, prioritised set of recommendations. Not a 40-slide deck of things you already suspected. A practical starting point you can act on the week after we finish.

I've built design functions from scratch inside regulated fintechs. I know what good looks like, and I know exactly where the gaps tend to hide.

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what's covered
  • Team structure, roles, and how work gets allocated
  • Design process and ways of working - where the friction lives
  • Design system maturity and documentation health
  • Cross-functional relationships with engineering, product, and leadership
  • Handoff quality and the gap between design intent and delivery
  • Leadership capability - what your design lead needs to grow
  • Prioritised recommendations with a suggested 90-day action plan
who this is for
Product leaders making structural decisions

You're a CPO, CTO, or VP of Product trying to understand your design function before deciding whether to hire, restructure, or invest. You need honest data, not internal politics.

New Heads of Design inheriting a team

You've just stepped into a leadership role and you want an objective view of what you've inherited - before you commit to a direction or start making promises you can't keep.

Teams where quality feels inconsistent

Your team is capable but the output is variable. Some things ship beautifully, others don't. You want to understand why - and fix the system, not just the symptoms.

how it works
Discovery call (30 min)
We talk through your context, your team, and what prompted you to look at this. I confirm the audit is the right fit - if it's not, I'll tell you.
Structured interviews and observation
Over three days I speak with your designers, your design lead, and a cross-section of product and engineering stakeholders. I review your process documentation, your design system, your tooling, and a sample of recent work. Delivered remotely, or in person in Lisbon.
Findings and recommendations
I deliver a written report with specific, prioritised recommendations - what to address in the next 30 days, what to build towards over 90. We review it together in a 90-minute readout session, and I answer your questions directly.
Optional: 30-day check-in
A single follow-up session four weeks later to review progress, adjust priorities, and answer what's come up since we finished. Included at no extra charge.
engagement details

The audit is deliberately fixed in scope. That's what makes it possible to price it clearly and deliver it without scope creep. If what you need is something broader, we can talk about a fractional engagement instead.

See the Fractional Design Lead option
your investment

€2,500

Fixed price, fixed scope. No retainer. No hourly rate. You know exactly what you're getting before we start. If the audit leads to further work, that's a separate conversation - never assumed or built into the price.

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