Every team has gaps — skills it doesn't have, disciplines it can't cover, or bandwidth that runs out during peak campaign periods. A TDS Design as a Service subscription fills those gaps instantly: a full multi-discipline creative team, operational within five days, no headcount added.
Creative gaps come in two types, and both damage business performance. Skill gaps occur when the work you need requires a discipline your team doesn't have. Bandwidth gaps occur when your team has the skills but not the capacity — too many campaigns running simultaneously, a designer on leave, or a sudden surge in demand that exceeds what the existing team can absorb.
Skill gaps are particularly common in specific disciplines: motion graphics and animation, web design and front-end development, video production, and photography all require specialist skills that a generalist in-house designer typically cannot provide. When these needs arise — and they always do — businesses resort to expensive one-off agency briefs, unreliable freelancers found at short notice, or simply don't produce the asset at all, leaving a gap in the campaign.
Bandwidth gaps are equally damaging. When a designer is at capacity, someone decides which work gets delayed. Usually it is the lower-profile, longer-lead work — internal documents, sales enablement materials, content repurposing — that gets deprioritised. Over time, these deprioritised assets compound into a significant creative backlog that constrains marketing effectiveness.
TDS provides a multi-discipline creative team as a subscription — covering every skill gap and absorbing every bandwidth surge, without the delay or cost of hiring.
One subscription covers brand design, graphic design, motion graphics, web design, video production, and photography. No skill gap remains unfilled — every creative discipline is available from day one.
Submit unlimited requests. TDS absorbs volume spikes without additional cost — campaign peaks, product launches, and increased marketing investment are handled within the flat monthly subscription.
TDS integrates into your existing workflow via Slack and shared brand systems. Your in-house team focuses on strategy and brand governance; TDS handles specialist production and overflow volume.
No hiring process, no notice period, no ramp-up. TDS onboards in five business days — brief templates, brand immersion, workflow setup. Assets in production within a week of signing.
Every deliverable is reviewed by a Creative Director before it reaches you. Gap-filling through DaaS does not mean quality compromise — it means quality maintained at the senior level.
Month-to-month subscriptions mean you can use TDS to cover a temporary gap — a designer on leave, a campaign peak — and adjust or pause when the need changes.
| Gap-Filling Approach | Time to Start | Skill Coverage | Brand Consistency | Cost Model |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hire a new employee | 6–12 weeks | 1–2 disciplines | Variable (ramp-up period) | Fixed, high ($80–110k+) |
| Agency brief | 1–3 weeks | Varies by agency | Poor (re-briefing each time) | Variable, high per project |
| Freelancer | 1–4 weeks | 1 discipline typically | Variable, often poor | Variable, unpredictable |
| TDS DaaS subscription | 5 days | All disciplines | Excellent (brand system held) | Fixed, predictable monthly |
The process is fast by design — no extended onboarding, no lengthy commercial negotiation, no trial period.
Skill gap, bandwidth gap, or both — we start with a 30-minute call to understand exactly where your team's creative capacity is constrained and what TDS needs to cover.
Five-day onboarding: TDS captures your brand guidelines, existing asset library, workflow preferences, and communication channels. Your team and TDS are aligned before the first brief is submitted.
Begin submitting the requests your in-house team can't cover. TDS produces the specialist work, absorbs the overflow volume, and delivers to the same brand standard as everything else your team produces.
Book a discovery call. We'll map your team's current gaps, recommend the right subscription, and have your TDS team operational within five days.