Work & Co

Work & Co is known for building robust digital platforms that balance usability and performance at scale. While not real estate-exclusive, they’ve worked on marketplace, listing, and transaction-driven products that require nuanced UX and strong data organization. Work & Co emphasizes resilient design systems and engineering alignment, a good fit for complex real estate tech stacks.

• Employees-to-Client Ratio (Bandwidth):
  Large, multi-disciplinary teams aligned by project needs.

• Process Maturity:
  Enterprise-grade product design process with heavy prototyping and cross-team feedback.

• AI Design Experience:
  Exposure to intelligent product features and personalization layers.

• Client Communication (Meetings + Daily Updates):
  Executive-level syncs and structured reporting.

• App/Web Dev Support:
  Strong design system collaboration with engineering teams.

• Office Culture:
  High-performance, process-driven environment.

  
  

Sidebench

Sidebench works with early-stage and growth-stage tech startups, including marketplace and data-intensive platforms. For real estate tech, Sidebench’s strength is structuring complex search, filtering, and listing workflows into simple, usable journeys. They also help teams align product strategy with UX execution.

• Employees-to-Client Ratio (Bandwidth):
  Dedicated cross-functional pods with UX and product roles.

• Process Maturity:
  Lean discovery, iterative design, and validation cycles.

• AI Design Experience:
  Applied intelligent product UX for dynamic filtering and recommendation.

• Client Communication (Meetings + Daily Updates):
  Weekly planning, async collaboration tools, and milestone reporting.

• App/Web Dev Support:
  Strong dev coordination and delivery alignment.

• Office Culture:
  Collaborative, research-leaning, pragmatic.

  
  

Eleken

Eleken helps startups clarify complex interface flows with clean, user-centric design. In real estate tech, Eleken’s focus on interface simplicity and filter optimization makes them a great choice for listing platforms and search-heavy products. Their subscription engagement is especially attractive for startups that need ongoing design support as the product evolves.

• Employees-to-Client Ratio (Bandwidth):
  Designers dedicated to ongoing product work.

• Process Maturity:
  UX audits, wireframes, UI refinements, and iterative polish.

• AI Design Experience:
  Limited but applies filtering logic and data interaction patterns.

• Client Communication (Meetings + Daily Updates):
  Weekly checkpoints and structured async updates.

• App/Web Dev Support:
  Clean specs and reusable components.

• Office Culture:
  Practical, user-focused, and mission-driven.

  
  

UXReactor

UXReactor excels at research-led UX, which is especially important for real estate tech products with multiple user personas (buyers, agents, brokers). UXReactor uncovers user pain points through testing, then translates them into clearer flows and interfaces. They are an excellent choice when you need to validate assumptions before scale.

• Employees-to-Client Ratio (Bandwidth):
  Research teams that rotate across projects.

• Process Maturity:
  Deep user research, usability validation, and insight translation.

• AI Design Experience:
  Research applied to intelligent recommendations and dynamic UI.

• Client Communication (Meetings + Daily Updates):
  Insight presentations and iterative feedback loops.

• App/Web Dev Support:
  Recommendations and UX documentation.

• Office Culture:
  Analytical, evidence-centered.

  
  

Happy Cog

Happy Cog has strong expertise in information architecture, which is critical for listing platforms and property catalogs. Happy Cog helps real estate tech products structure data so that users find what they need quickly and intuitively. They emphasize trust, hierarchy, and clarity.

• Employees-to-Client Ratio (Bandwidth):
  IA-focused teams with senior oversight.

• Process Maturity:
  Information structure design, interface polish, and usability testing.

• AI Design Experience:
  Minimal AI focus, strong data hierarchy patterns.

• Client Communication (Meetings + Daily Updates):
  Regular design reviews and strategy sessions.

• App/Web Dev Support:
  Strong documentation and implementation guidance.

• Office Culture:
  Clarity-driven, thoughtful, IA-centric.

  
  

Fathom

Fathom is a design and strategy studio focusing on data-driven products and analytics-heavy dashboards. For real estate tech, Fathom is a great fit for investment, valuation, and data insights layers where dashboards need to be intuitive and powerful. Their work emphasizes actionable data interaction over decorative UI.

• Employees-to-Client Ratio (Bandwidth):
  Small, agile teams centered on data design.

• Process Maturity:
  Research, UX architecture for dashboards, and iterative refinement.

• AI Design Experience:
  Experience with predictive interfaces and data amplification.

• Client Communication (Meetings + Daily Updates):
  Weekly reviews and async updates.

• App/Web Dev Support:
  Strong alignment with analytics and engineering teams.

• Office Culture:
  Data-first, analytical, output-driven.