Growth-stage businesses face a design paradox: they need more creative output than ever, but cannot afford the headcount to produce it. TDS DaaS's DaaS subscription provides the full creative infrastructure of an in-house design department — brand, digital, campaign, collateral, and video — at a fraction of the cost, with no hiring lag.
Post-product-market-fit, the creative demands on a business multiply rapidly. Marketing needs campaign assets for acquisition. Sales needs decks and collateral for enterprise deals. Product needs UI and marketing site updates. The CEO needs investor materials and board presentations. HR needs employer brand content for talent acquisition.
A single in-house designer — often the first creative hire — cannot cover all of this. The work queues, priorities conflict, and the designer spends as much time managing stakeholder requests as producing output. Within six months of the first design hire, the business is already under-resourced on creative.
Building a full in-house team to cover brand, digital, motion, web, and video requires four to six hires at a combined salary cost of $400,000–$600,000 per year — before tools, benefits, and management overhead. For most growth-stage companies, this is not feasible until Series B or later. The gap between what the business needs and what it can afford to hire is exactly where DaaS operates.
TDS provides growth-stage businesses with a complete creative function — covering every discipline, every channel, and every stakeholder need — under one flat monthly subscription.
Brand design, graphic design, digital design, web design, motion graphics, video production — the entire creative stack available from day one of the subscription, without hiring a single person.
Every TDS account is led by a Creative Director who owns brand integrity, output quality, and creative strategy. Growth-stage companies get senior creative leadership without a senior creative hire.
TDS serves every department simultaneously — marketing, sales, product, executive — with a prioritised queue system that ensures the most commercially important work is always delivered first.
TDS builds and evolves your brand system as your business grows — adding new product lines, market expansions, and brand extensions without the fragmentation that comes from managing multiple agencies across different growth phases.
Pitch decks, board presentations, investor updates, and data room documents — produced to institutional standard and updated rapidly as your fundraising narrative evolves.
As your company grows through Series A, B, and beyond, your TDS subscription scales with it — more capacity, more disciplines, more strategic input. No lock-in, no re-procurement, no vendor change at each growth milestone.
TDS maps your current creative resources, backlog, stakeholder requirements, and growth objectives. We identify the gaps and recommend the right subscription tier and scope to match your stage and ambitions.
TDS onboards your brand in 5 days — capturing guidelines, existing assets, stakeholder preferences, and channel priorities. If your brand system needs strengthening, TDS addresses gaps in the first two weeks.
From week two onwards, TDS operates as your in-house creative function — processing requests from all departments, managing the queue, and delivering assets with Creative Director oversight across every discipline.
Book a growth stage audit. TDS will map your creative requirements, identify the gaps, and show you how to get the design output you need — without the in-house headcount cost.