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10 Best Web Design Agenciesfor Series B Startups (2026)

The 10 best web design agencies for series B startups, compared on pricing, Clutch rating, engagement model and hourly rate, drawn from a documented benchmark of 57 agencies.

Aug 20, 202611 min read

Best web design agencies for series B startups

By Series B the website has more contributors than the Series A site had pages. A demand generation team is publishing weekly, product marketing wants segment pages, recruiting wants a careers section that matches the hiring plan, and the first enterprise buyer is asking for a security page before procurement will move. Nothing on that list is hard on its own. The difficulty is that five people now edit the same site without a shared component set, so the third quarter of pages looks nothing like the first and the brand quietly degrades.

Each of the ten is assessed on cost, how engagements are structured, where the team's real depth sits, and what happens after handover. Every agency here carries a verified Clutch profile, and the ratings below are taken from it. Each entry says what an agency is worth hiring for and where it is the wrong choice for a Series B website.

Average agency pricing for product design and development: $2,500 lowest, $43,000 median, $150,000 highest. Source: The State of UI/UX Design Agencies 2026, a benchmark of 57 design agencies by Bricx
Source: The State of UI/UX Design Agencies 2026, a benchmark of 57 design agencies by Bricx

How the ten agencies compare

Agency Best for Starting price Clutch rating Not a fit for
Bricx Series B sites with many contributors $25,000+ 5.0/5, 27 reviews Staffing an in-house web team
Wve Labs New app or AI launches $10,000+ 5.0/5, 31 reviews Marketing site publishing systems
Zajno Web Design & Development Studio Site, onboarding and product together $10,000+ 5.0/5, 20 reviews Many parallel workstreams
ustwo studio Brand ambition with product rigour $50,000+ 4.5/5, 2 reviews Incremental page programmes
Apadmi Several workstreams at once $100,000+ 4.8/5, 29 reviews B2B marketing sites
Attract Group Page throughput at a low rate $25,000+ 5.0/5, 39 reviews Setting art direction or positioning
Awsmd Next.js sites at scale $10,000+ 4.8/5, 41 reviews Marketer-editable CMS work
Brights Site plus the measurement stack $10,000+ 5.0/5, 40 reviews Visual design and art direction
Coderfy Calculators and interactive tools $10,000+ 4.9/5, 9 reviews Design direction, documented scale
Codica Self-serve signup and checkout $25,000+ 4.7/5, 17 reviews B2B software brand work

Best web design agency for Series B startups: Bricx

Bricx homepage
Bricx

Bricx is the best companies whose marketing site has outgrown one person's ownership and now needs a component set several teams can publish into without diverging. Bricx has completed 50+ SaaS design projects across 30+ industries, with clients including Writesonic (YC S21), Collectwise (YC F24), Gigacatalyst (YC X26), Sybill, Camb.ai, LTV.ai, Instadapp, Hobbes and AT Kearney. The agency holds 27 verified reviews on Clutch at an average of 5.0/5.

Bricx works exclusively with B2B and AI SaaS companies, from seed stage through Series C, covering branding, website design, product UX/UI and end-to-end development. Engagements start at $25,000. Bricx builds the website and the product interface off one system, which is what stops a Series B site and app from drifting apart while several teams publish into them. Clients include Writesonic, Sybill, Camb.ai and LTV.ai, across 50+ SaaS projects in 30+ industries.

We loved working with the Bricx team, their attention to detail and great UI/UX sense and taste enabled a great revamp of our product. Highly recommend!
Mehak Aggarwal, Founder at Sybill
Starting price
$25,000+
Engagement model
Fixed-scope projects and monthly retainers
Timeline
First delivery within the first week; full scope varies by project
Clutch
5.0/5, 27 reviews
Hourly rate
$50 - $99
Best for
Series B companies needing a component set several teams can publish into without the brand diverging.
Not a fit for
staffing an in-house web team, weekly campaign page production, or budgets under $25,000.

Wve Labs

Wve Labs homepage
Wve Labs

Wve Labs is a 50 to 249 person build shop in Costa Mesa where half the work is mobile app development and a fifth is AI development. That maps onto one Series B situation: the company has just added a mobile product or an AI feature, and the site now has to sell something that did not exist at the last round.

UX/UI is 10% of output and web design is not a named service, so the publishing system a Series B marketing team needs is not what this firm sells. Its reviews are consumer apps, a dating product and a fantasy soccer game, with no B2B site work and no enterprise page types on the record.

Starting price
$10,000+
Engagement model
Project and retainer
Clutch
5.0/5, 31 reviews
Hourly rate
$100 - $149
Team size
50 - 249 people
Best for
a Series B whose new mobile or AI product still needs building.
Not a fit for
a component system several marketing teams publish into, or budgets under $25,000.

Zajno Web Design & Development Studio

Zajno Web Design & Development Studio homepage
Zajno Web Design & Development Studio

Zajno's reviews describe one engagement covering a software company's marketing website, its onboarding flow and its core product experience together. That is the seam a Series B site splits along, where the page that sold the deal and the screen the trial starts on stop looking related. Its service mix is even, 30% UX/UI with web design, web development and mobile at 20% each.

Medical at 25% and financial services at 20% are its two largest sectors, so B2B software is present but not dominant. Ten to 49 people at $50 to $99 an hour is good value, though a Series B running several page types in parallel will be sharing a small team with its other clients.

Starting price
$10,000+
Engagement model
Project and retainer
Clutch
5.0/5, 20 reviews
Hourly rate
$50 - $99
Team size
10 - 49 people
Best for
closing the gap between the marketing site and the first product screen.
Not a fit for
several page types running in parallel, or budgets under $25,000.

ustwo studio

ustwo studio homepage
ustwo studio

ustwo studio leads with product design at 30% and takes half its work from companies over a billion dollars, which is the audience a Series B is starting to sell into rather than the stage it is at. From London since 2004, it has done geolocation work for a large bank, an engagement where brand ambition and product constraint get settled in the same room.

Two Clutch reviews at 4.5 is the thinnest public record here, and one of them says the team could hold its external perspective better. That is the risk of embedding a studio inside a company that is changing every quarter. The $50,000 floor at $150 to $199 an hour prices out an incremental page programme.

Starting price
$50,000+
Engagement model
Project and retainer
Clutch
4.5/5, 2 reviews
Hourly rate
$150 - $199
Team size
50 - 249 people
Best for
one large statement rebuild aimed at an enterprise audience.
Not a fit for
steady incremental page production, or budgets under $25,000.

Apadmi

Apadmi homepage
Apadmi

Apadmi is the only firm on this page with 250 to 999 people and a $100,000 minimum, which buys the one thing a Series B site programme usually lacks: enough hands to run a careers section, a segment launch and a pricing rebuild at the same time. It also sells mobile and app marketing at 20%, so acquisition and delivery sit under one roof.

Web development is 10% of its output and web design is not listed, so the website is the smallest thing this Salford firm does. Its reviews are a news app, a pizza ordering app and a telecoms app, all consumer, and none of them a B2B marketing site with an enterprise buyer at the end.

Starting price
$100,000+
Engagement model
Project and retainer
Clutch
4.8/5, 29 reviews
Hourly rate
$100 - $149
Team size
250 - 999 people
Best for
a large mobile programme running alongside the web work.
Not a fit for
B2B marketing site work, or budgets under $25,000.

Attract Group

Attract Group homepage
Attract Group

Attract Group sells capacity rather than direction. Its services are 50% mobile app development and 50% web development with no design line at all, and its reviews describe outstaffing and dedicated developer and designer teams working in Figma. For a Series B whose art direction is already settled in-house and whose real constraint is page throughput, that is a rational way to buy at $25 to $49 an hour.

The corollary is that nobody here will decide what the site should say. Medical is 40% of its book with retail and eCommerce making up the rest, so B2B software is absent, and a company still arguing about its own positioning will get that argument built rather than resolved.

Starting price
$25,000+
Engagement model
Project and retainer
Clutch
5.0/5, 39 reviews
Hourly rate
$25 - $49
Team size
50 - 249 people
Best for
adding build capacity to a design direction already set in-house.
Not a fit for
deciding what the site should say, or budgets under $25,000.

Awsmd

Awsmd homepage
Awsmd

Awsmd builds marketing sites in Next.js and hosts them, which is the stack a Series B engineering team is likely to accept without a fight, and its reviews include website design and development for an AI sales company. Enterprise clients are 80% of its book at 250 to 999 people, so the throughput a multi-team publishing calendar demands is there.

A hand-built Next.js site is also the version a content marketer cannot edit, and low and no-code work is only 10% of what Awsmd does. Its industries sit at 25% each across consumer, financial, medical and eCommerce, so there is no concentration in the software category a Series B is trying to own.

Starting price
$10,000+
Engagement model
Project and retainer
Clutch
4.8/5, 41 reviews
Hourly rate
$50 - $99
Team size
250 - 999 people
Best for
an engineering-approved site stack with the headcount to keep shipping.
Not a fit for
a CMS a content team edits daily, or budgets under $25,000.

Brights

Brights homepage
Brights

Brights is the only firm on this page whose record includes marketing measurement rather than only marketing pages: it merged HubSpot, Xero and Google Analytics 4 into a single source for one client and built Looker dashboards for sales and SaaS metrics. At Series B the argument about whether the new site works gets settled by attribution, and most web agencies cannot reach that far.

Design is not in its service list. Web development is 15%, custom software 15%, and the rest is AI consulting and development, so the pages themselves would have to be drawn elsewhere. Its industry mix is flat at 10% each across automotive, consumer products, education and financial services.

Starting price
$10,000+
Engagement model
Project and retainer
Clutch
5.0/5, 40 reviews
Hourly rate
$25 - $49
Team size
50 - 249 people
Best for
wiring the new site into attribution a board will accept.
Not a fit for
visual design and art direction, or budgets under $25,000.

Coderfy

Coderfy homepage
Coderfy

Coderfy built mortgage calculators and a rates page for a financial services client, which is the one Series B page type most design studios quietly subcontract: an interactive tool that captures intent rather than a page that describes a product. Another review has it building from a Figma file the client supplied, so an in-house design team short on front-end hands can hand work over intact.

Founded in 2022 with nine Clutch reviews and 10 to 49 people, it is the youngest and least documented firm on this page. Its published work is a bakery, a mortgage broker and an advertising agency's app, with no B2B software company on the record and nothing resembling a multi-team site system.

Starting price
$10,000+
Engagement model
Project and retainer
Clutch
4.9/5, 9 reviews
Hourly rate
$25 - $49
Team size
10 - 49 people
Best for
building the interactive tools an in-house design team has already drawn.
Not a fit for
setting design direction or proven multi-team scale, or budgets under $25,000.

Codica

Codica homepage
Codica

Codica's reviews name subscription management and checkout optimisation on a multivendor platform, which is the flow a Series B often adds to its website for the first time when self-serve gets bolted onto a sales-led motion. eCommerce is 40% of its book, so the sign-up and payment path is native work here rather than a page it reasons about from first principles.

Web development is 25% and design is not a named service, and at 4.7 across 17 reviews the record is the least decorated on this page. Its industries are eCommerce and automotive rather than software, so a Series B selling a platform to other businesses is asking for a transfer this record does not show.

Starting price
$25,000+
Engagement model
Project and retainer
Clutch
4.7/5, 17 reviews
Hourly rate
$25 - $49
Team size
50 - 249 people
Best for
adding a self-serve purchase path to a sales-led website.
Not a fit for
B2B software brand and messaging work, or budgets under $25,000.

How much does a Series B website programme cost?

Fixed-price reality. The same documented scope came back anywhere from $2,500 to $150,000-plus. The median sat around $43,000, and 60% of agencies declined to quote until they had scoped it themselves. Those figures cover product design across the whole benchmark, so treat them as the range a Series B website is quoted inside rather than a price for it.

What an hour costs. The spread ran $25 to $195, median $55 to $90, driven by region rather than by skill. A Series B engagement runs above the benchmark median because the deliverable is a page system rather than a page count, and the cost sits in the components and the content model the next hundred pages get built from.

Hourly rates across 57 design agencies: lowest $25, median $55 to $90, highest $195. Source: The State of UI/UX Design Agencies 2026, a benchmark of 57 design agencies by Bricx
Source: The State of UI/UX Design Agencies 2026, a benchmark of 57 design agencies by Bricx

Three structures cover almost everything: Time & Material at 45%, fixed price at 35%, retainer at 20% across the agencies benchmarked. For a Series B website the model usually matters more than the headline figure, because it decides what happens when the scope moves.

  • Fixed price where the spec is settled.
  • Time & Material where the spec is a hypothesis.
  • Retainer where the spec is a backlog.
  • Which one fits a Series B website comes down to whether the scope is settled before the work starts.

Payment models offered by 57 design agencies: 45 percent Time and Material, 35 percent fixed price, 20 percent retainer or subscription. Source: The State of UI/UX Design Agencies 2026, a benchmark of 57 design agencies by Bricx
Source: The State of UI/UX Design Agencies 2026, a benchmark of 57 design agencies by Bricx

How do you evaluate a web design agency for a Series B startup?

Five things separate a Series B website from a Series A one.

Ask how a new page gets made without them. The measure of a Series B build is what a content marketer can assemble alone at the end of it, not what the agency shipped on launch day.

Ask what the pricing page does when a third tier appears. Tiers, usage meters and a contact sales route all arrive at this stage, and a pricing layout designed for two plans breaks the moment there are four.

Ask who they are designing the security page for. It is read by a procurement reviewer rather than a buyer, and it either shortens the enterprise cycle or adds another call to it.

Ask how the site survives the rebrand that has not happened yet. Most companies rename or reposition between Series B and C, and a site built on tokens survives that while a site built on fixed pages gets rebuilt.

Ask what happens to the pages nobody owns. Careers, legal, integration listings and expired campaign pages multiply at this stage, and an agency with no answer for them is leaving half the domain to rot.

What are the red flags when hiring a design agency?

  • A long discovery phase with no shippable output. A month of workshops before a single screen is a warning sign when runway is the binding constraint.
  • Rigid contracts with no exit. A year-long lock-in is a poor match for a roadmap that changes quarterly. Look for a break clause or a shorter initial term.
  • A portfolio without outcomes. Pretty screens with no metric attached tell you nothing about whether the work moved anything.
  • No pushback on your brief. Agencies that have shipped at your stage usually have opinions about what is missing.
  • No answer on post-launch. Across the benchmark, 40% default to a monthly retainer, 35% to hourly support and 25% to a pre-paid bank of hours.
  • No comparable example of a Series B website. An agency that cannot point to work of the same shape is learning on your budget.

Should you hire a web design agency or build in-house?

Agencies win on speed and on breadth. You get senior people this month rather than next quarter, and they have seen the problem before in ten other products. For a Series B website specifically, the question worth settling first is how often the work recurs.

In-house wins on depth and on availability. Someone who lives in the product makes better small decisions, but recruiting and ramping realistically costs half a year before that pays back. Where a Series B website falls on that line is usually clear once you count how many times it will need doing again.

By Series B there is usually a designer and sometimes two, and they are correctly pointed at the product. The failure of hiring for the site is that those people get pulled into a launch page every sprint and the roadmap slips. The failure of retaining an agency is a system handed over without documentation, so the in-house team stops using it within two quarters and the drift starts again.

FAQs

What makes a Series B website hard?

Contributor count. Several teams publish into the same domain at once, so the work is less about designing pages and more about designing the parts that pages get made from and the rules that keep them consistent.

When does a Series B need a component system rather than templates?

Once more than two people publish and more than three page types exist. Below that a template is cheaper. Above it, every new page becomes a small negotiation, and the negotiations are what cost the quarter.

How much does a Series B website cost?

For a five-page website 25% of agencies quoted under $10,000, 58% quoted between $15,000 and $50,000 and 17% quoted over $50,000. A component system built for several publishing teams sits at the top of that range or past it. Bricx starts at $25,000.

Should the marketing site and the product share one design system?

They should share tokens and voice, not components. A landing page and a data table have different jobs. But a buyer who moves from the site into a trial should not feel handed to a different company.

Author

Siddharth Vij

Siddharth Vij

Co-Founder, Bricx

Siddharth Vij is the Co-Founder & design lead at Bricx, a website and UX design agency working with B2B and AI SaaS companies.

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