Services / Creative Ops & Design System Setup

Your output
outgrew your
process.

For growing teams whose creative output has outpaced their process: work is inconsistent, production is slow, or there is no shared system at all. Built from standing up the Figma design system and Asana-based creative governance that cut production turnaround in half at Sogolytics.

Fee$5,000 – $9,000
TimelineTwo to four weeks
FormatFixed price, fixed scope
OutcomeYour team runs it without us

At Sogolytics this exact work — the Figma system plus governance in Asana — cut production turnaround in half, on a marketing team that had grown faster than anything holding it together.

See the full cost breakdown and hours →

Who this is for

  • Every request arrives a different way and half of them arrive twice.
  • Two designers produce two different-looking versions of the same asset because there is no shared source of truth.
  • Turnaround is slow and nobody can point at where the time actually goes.
  • You have a brand and guidelines, and no system underneath them that anyone uses.
  • The team doubled and the process that worked at three people is now the bottleneck.

How it runs

01

Audit the current state

How work actually enters, moves, and ships today, traced with the people doing it. Where files live, who approves what, and where the repeated rework is. The map is usually the first time anyone has seen it whole.

02

Build the system

The Figma library: type scale, color tokens, spacing, components with their real states, and the templates that cover the majority of your recurring output. Built to be extended, not admired.

03

Design the workflow

Intake, triage, review, and approval defined as stages in your project tool, with the fields a request has to carry before it counts as a request. Set up in Asana, or in the tool you already use.

04

Hand it over

Documentation written for your team, plus working sessions so they can run and extend it. Not a PDF nobody opens.

What you get

  • A working design system and component library in Figma, with components, states, tokens, and the templates for your recurring output.
  • Documented creative workflows covering intake, triage, review, and approval, set up in your project tool.
  • An intake process with a request form that forces the brief to exist before the work starts.
  • Templates your own team can run without us, which is the entire point of the engagement.
  • Working sessions and documentation so the system survives the people who were in the room.

What it is not

Scope boundary

This is the system and the process, not a standing production line. If what you need is somebody making the work every month, that is the monthly retainer. If the brand itself is the problem, start with the audit or the sprint, because a beautiful system built on the wrong identity just makes the wrong thing faster.

Set up the system

Tell us the shape of the problem and we will tell you honestly whether the Creative Ops and Design System Setup is the right answer to it. We reply within two business days.

Prefer email? hello@ambolt.co. If we are not the right studio for this, we will say so and point you somewhere better.

Three sizes of setup

Priced on the size of the library and how much governance you want standing at the end.

System Starter

$5,000
Two weeks
Hours included50 hours
Audit of how work moves today
Figma library: type, color, spacing tokens
Core components with their real states
Templates for your top three recurring assets
Handover session with your team
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Full Setup

$7,000
Three weeks
Hours included70 hours
Everything in System Starter
Full component library across your output
Intake form and request workflow in your project tool
Documented review and approval stages
Two working sessions plus written documentation
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Setup + Governance

$9,000
Four weeks
Hours included90 hours
Everything in Full Setup
Creative governance model with named owners
Capacity and triage rules for competing requests
Contribution guide so the team can extend the library
Thirty day check-in after handover
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How the hours work. Fixed-price engagements are scoped at a blended $100 an hour; fractional creative direction is scoped at $145 an hour, because it is senior time rather than production. The hours above are what the price is built from. We track against them and tell you where we are, and if a scope change pushes past the block we say so before the work happens rather than after.

Let's strike
while the iron
is hot.

Companies leave here looking like one company again. The same voice on the site, the deck, the ad, and the booth. Every quarter you wait is another quarter of good work going out under a brand that undersells it.

Prefer email? hello@ambolt.co
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