Unbound Playground

Pricing

Creative partnership, built for momentum.

More than a menu of services. An extension of your team.

Unbound Playground gives you ongoing access to strategy, creative direction, design, content, web and specialist expertise, coordinated through one creative partnership and built around the work that matters most.

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How a partnership works: ideas wait in your queue, pass through a Creative Director at the center of a multidisciplinary team, and move out along active workstreams Your queue A multidisciplinary team Creative Director Active workstreams

Fig. 01 · One partnership, coordinated

Your queue → Creative Director → Active workstreams

Partnership plans

Billing rhythm

Maximum flexibility, billed month to month.

A committed creative rhythm, billed every three months.

A lasting creative partnership, billed once a year.

Subscription

Standard

Your ongoing creative extension.

$7,500

/ month

Billed monthly

$7,125

/ month equivalent

Billed $21,375 quarterly

$6,750

/ month equivalent

Billed $81,000 annually

For businesses that need reliable ongoing creative support, strategic guidance and a multidisciplinary team without building an internal creative department.

Dedicated team hours / month

70

Active creative workstreams at a time

2

Primary brand

1

How hours and workstreams work
Included
  • Dedicated Creative Director
  • Monthly Campfire strategy and creative direction session
  • Access to multidisciplinary creative support
  • 2 structured revision rounds per milestone
  • Request queue for upcoming priorities
  • Clear scope and timeline before each workstream begins
  • Campfire Kickoff included
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Subscription

Most popular

Premium

A deeper creative partnership for what’s next.

$10,500

/ month

Billed monthly

$9,975

/ month equivalent

Billed $29,925 quarterly

$9,450

/ month equivalent

Billed $113,400 annually

For organizations managing multiple initiatives that need greater capacity, more strategic access and faster prioritization across creative work.

Dedicated team hours / month

100

Active creative workstreams at a time

3

Primary brand

1

How hours and workstreams work
Everything in Standard, plus
  • Biweekly Campfire strategy and creative direction sessions
  • Quarterly creative roadmap planning
  • Priority scheduling
  • Specialized creative and technical talent
  • 3 structured revision rounds per milestone
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Scoped engagement

Custom

Built around the ambition.

Custom pricing

Scoped around the work. Billing discounts apply to subscriptions.

For work that doesn’t fit neatly into a recurring subscription, whether that’s a single focused project or a highly complex, multidisciplinary creative partnership.

Examples may include

  • Standalone branding engagements
  • Major rebrands
  • Complex websites
  • Digital products or platforms
  • Embedded creative teams
  • Four or more workstreams at once

Also multiple brands, SharePoint ecosystems, advanced development, specialized production and other unique requirements.

Let's Scope It

Need something outside your current plan? Let’s talk. Specialized projects and additional capacity can be scoped around the work when needed.

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How your capacity works

Creative capacity, not just design hours.

Every plan reserves time across the whole studio each month, plus a number of creative workstreams that move at once. You’re not buying hours from one person. You’re reserving a team, managed by your Creative Director.

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Dedicated team hours each month

70hours

  • Creative direction
  • Strategy
  • Design
  • Development
  • Copy and content
  • Coordination

Active workstreams at a time

Standard 2 at a time

Brand identityPresentation
Website

Waiting in the queue: Campaign, Content initiative

Illustrative. The mix of disciplines follows your priorities, and a workstream can continue across billing cycles depending on scope, feedback and capacity.

Dedicated team hours

The collective time we reserve for your account each month. Depending on the work, it can include creative direction, strategy, design, UX and UI, development, copywriting, content, project coordination and specialized expertise.

Active workstreams

A workstream is a defined creative initiative with a primary objective, scope, deliverables and review cycle. A brand identity is one workstream; a separate website or campaign would usually be another.

For example

  • Brand identity
  • Website or landing page
  • Marketing campaign
  • Presentation
  • Content initiative
  • Digital experience

Queue as many ideas as you need. We’ll move through them according to your active workstreams and available monthly capacity.

The Campfire Kickoff: people gathered in a ring around a warm terracotta core, with the first two workstreams leading out from the circle Campfire Kickoff First workstreams

Built around the Campfire Method

Every partnership starts with alignment.

Every Unbound Playground partnership begins with a Campfire Kickoff, included with your plan.

We learn the business, brand, goals, audience, challenges, priorities and possibilities before mapping the first workstreams.

The Campfire Method continues throughout the partnership, helping the team create clarity, make thoughtful decisions and keep momentum moving forward.

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Why a subscription

Your creative team, without building one from scratch.

Instead of sourcing, briefing and managing a new vendor for every need, you work with one team that already knows your world, and gets to know it better every month.

Predictable, reserved capacity

One recurring investment you can plan around, with team time held for your work every month.

One coordinated team

Strategists, designers, writers and developers on the same brief, and one partnership to manage instead of a string of vendors.

Senior creative leadership

A Creative Director who owns continuity and quality across everything we make together.

The right expertise, when you need it

The right specialist for each request, without hiring for each one.

Continuity that builds

No retelling your story. Each piece builds on the last, and when plans change, the work changes with them.

Questions

Good questions, honest answers.

Don’t see yours? We’re happy to talk it through.

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No. Dedicated capacity is reserved for the billing period and resets each month. If delays or approvals on your side shift a timeline, your Creative Director will help reprioritize upcoming work.

Your Creative Director will talk through the scope with you before work begins. Depending on what’s right for the work, the initiative may continue into the next billing cycle, be reprioritized against other workstreams, move to a higher plan or be scoped as a Custom engagement.

Yes. Standard includes 2 structured revision rounds per milestone, and Premium includes 3. Additional refinement can use available capacity or be discussed as part of an adjusted scope.

Standard and Premium each support one primary brand. A distinct DBA, subsidiary, product brand or separate identity may require additional scope or a Custom arrangement.

No. External expenses such as advertising spend, printing, hosting, domains, paid stock or licensing, fabrication, travel or specialized production from other providers are separate, unless they’re specifically included in a Custom scope.

Custom engagements are available for clients who need a focused project rather than an ongoing subscription. Tell us about it and we’ll scope it together.

No. Every subscription includes a Campfire Kickoff as part of the partnership.

Need to pause? Talk to us. Account holds may be available depending on the engagement, commitment and team allocation.

Monthly is the most flexible option. For quarterly and yearly plans, cancellation and renewal terms follow your service agreement.

Ready when you are

Bring us the idea. We'll help map the right path.

Not sure whether Standard, Premium or Custom is the right fit? Tell us what you’re building, where you’re stuck or what you want to make possible, and we’ll help you find the right level of partnership.

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