Lucid Vessel works with founders and in-house teams who have something genuinely worth explaining, and a launch date that is already in the calendar. We build the identity, the interface and the words that carry it.
Working remotely — studio hours 09:00–17:00 CET
Engagements — sprint, build, retainer
Typical start — four to six weeks from signed brief
There is no account layer between you and the work. You brief the studio lead, and the designers and engineers who heard that brief are the ones who ship it.
Two designers, two engineers, a writer and a studio lead. Every engagement uses the same core group, so context does not get re-explained halfway through.
A single studio lead owns scope, schedule and the decisions log from kickoff until your team takes the files over.
You get a short written note each week: what moved, what is blocked, what needs a decision from your side before Monday.
Pick the lane that matches the decision in front of you. Every lane is quoted as a fixed fee against a written scope — no hourly billing, no surprise change orders.
Lane 01
For teams who know the product but cannot agree on the story. Two weeks to settle positioning, naming direction and the visual territory before anyone opens a design file.
Two weeks · one studio lead, one designer, one writer
Brief a direction sprintLane 02
For a launch, a rebrand or a funding milestone. The full pass: identity system, marketing site and the copy that runs through it, built and handed over in code.
Eight to twelve weeks · full studio
Brief an identity buildLane 03
For in-house teams who need design capacity that already knows the brand. A fixed block of studio days each month, planned a fortnight ahead.
Rolling, three-month minimum · booked in monthly blocks
Ask about a retainer slotWeek markers below are for a typical identity and site build. Sprints compress the same sequence; retainers repeat stages three and four on a fortnightly cycle.
A working session with your decision-makers, then a written scope with deliverables, dates and a fixed fee. Nothing starts until that document is signed by both sides.
Weeks 1–2Territories, messaging and structure. We present two routes, take one forward, and record why the other was set aside so the question does not return in week nine.
Weeks 2–4Design and front-end run together in weekly cycles. You review real pages in a browser rather than flat mock-ups, and two rounds of revisions are built into the schedule.
Weeks 4–10Files, source, brand guide and a recorded walkthrough for your team, plus thirty days of support for anything that surfaces once you are live.
Weeks 10–12Three recent engagements, described by the work rather than the outcome. Longer walkthroughs, including the parts that went sideways, are shared on a call.
A sensor company whose engineers could explain the product perfectly to each other and to nobody else. Two weeks to find language a procurement lead would recognise.
A freight scheduling tool with eleven years of accumulated screens. We rebuilt the identity and the marketing site, then turned the interface patterns into one documented library.
A books imprint releasing on a seasonal calendar. A standing block of studio days keeps every title launch on the same visual footing without a new brief each time.
Worth two minutes now rather than a wasted call later. If the second list describes your situation, say so in your brief and we will point you somewhere better suited.
If your question is not here, put it at the top of your brief and it will be answered in the reply rather than on a call.
A few lines is enough to start. The studio lead reads every enquiry and replies with either a time to talk or a straight answer about fit.
The studio lead reads your brief and replies with a fit assessment — including when the answer is no.
One call with your decision-maker to pressure-test scope, sequence and the date behind it.
Deliverables, review dates and a fixed fee in one document. You decide from that, not from a pitch deck.