Studio Partnership
[ Your creative studio, always on ] Great design isn't a one-time event. It's a practice. Our Studio Partnership gives ambitious brands a dedicated creative team who already knows their voice, their audience, and the standard they hold themselves to — available every month, without starting from scratch.
Your brand is always in motion. Your creative support should be too.
A website launch is a starting point, not a finish line. Your brand evolves, your campaigns need new assets, your store gets new products, your competitors raise the bar. The brands that stay ahead aren't the ones with the biggest budgets — they're the ones with consistent, considered creative output, month after month.
A Studio Partnership means you always have a senior creative team in your corner. One that knows your brand guidelines without being reminded, that maintains your visual standards across every touchpoint, and that pushes the quality of your work forward rather than just maintaining it.
[ OUR SERVICES ]
All plans are billed monthly in advance. Minimum commitments apply. Every plan includes a dedicated point of contact and a monthly performance review.
Partnership plans
Essentials
Steady support for brands that want to stay sharp without a full creative sprint.
AED 3,500 / month
Essentials is designed for established brands that don't need constant output but do need a reliable creative partner on call. Think of it as a standing agreement — when something needs doing, it gets done quickly, by a team that already knows your brand, without a new proposal every time.
This plan suits you if you have an existing website and brand that's performing well, and you want to keep it that way: updated, monitored, and consistently on-brand.
[ What's included ]
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4 hours of design time per month
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Monthly site performance report
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CMS content updates and copy edits
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Uptime and speed monitoring
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Minimum 3-month commitment
Growth
For brands that are scaling and need design and performance to keep up.
AED 7,500 / month (Most popular)
Growth is where most of our long-term clients land. It gives you enough design and development capacity to make meaningful progress every single month — not just maintenance, but measurable improvement. CRO experiments, SEO improvements, new landing pages, campaign assets, A/B tests — whatever moves the needle for your business that month, that's what we focus on. We open every month with a 30-minute priorities call and close it with a performance report so you always know exactly what was done and what it achieved.
[ What's included ]
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8 design hours + 8 development hours per month
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Monthly priorities call and creative roadmap
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New landing page design (one per month)
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Campaign creative and visual asset production
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Website design improvements and UX refinements
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Brand consistency review across live touchpoints
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Minimum 3-month commitment
Partner
A senior creative studio embedded in your business - without the cost of building one in-house.
AED 15,000 / month
Partner is for brands that understand design is a genuine strategic function, not a periodic expense. At this level, Create Circus operates as your embedded creative studio — thinking ahead, setting the bar, and making sure every touchpoint your customer encounters reflects the quality your brand stands for.
You get a dedicated senior creative lead, a rolling creative roadmap we build and evolve together, and the capacity to run meaningful design work across multiple channels simultaneously. This isn't task management. It's creative direction at the level your brand deserves.
[ What's included ]
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20 hours of combined design and development per month
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Dedicated senior creative lead
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Rolling 30/60/90-day creative roadmap
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Quarterly brand health review across all touchpoints
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Priority turnaround — 48-hour response on all requests
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Multi-channel creative production
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Proactive brand and design recommendations
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Minimum 6-month commitment
Working at a larger scale?
Some partnerships don't fit a standard plan — multiple brands, larger creative volumes, or a scope that spans strategy through to full production.
If that sounds like you, we build engagements around what you actually need rather than asking you to fit a template.
What makes this different
A retainer with us is not a support queue.
Most agency retainers are a polite way of saying "we'll respond to tickets and fix broken things." The work is reactive, the quality drops after the project wraps, and the senior people you met during the pitch are nowhere to be seen six months in.
That's not how we work.
Every Studio Partnership at Create Circus is led by a senior member of our team — the same people who designed your brand or built your website, not someone it was handed to once you signed. The standard doesn't change between a project and a retainer. The attention doesn't either.
We treat your brand as a living thing that needs consistent, considered creative input to stay strong. Not a box to be ticked each month, but a body of work we're genuinely proud to keep building.
[ Your questions, answered ]
FAQs
Do I need to have worked with Create Circus before?
No — though it's common, because the first month moves faster when we already know your brand. If you're new to us, we build in a focused brand immersion at the start: we review your existing assets, guidelines, voice, and goals before the regular monthly rhythm begins. This is included in the first month, not charged separately.
What happens to unused design hours?
On the Essentials plan, unused hours carry over for one month. On Growth and Partner plans, hours are scoped and planned at the start of each month so they're used with intention — not banked and forgotten. If we're running ahead of plan, we flag it early and find the best use of the remaining time before the month closes. In practice, this is rare: we plan each month to be full and purposeful.
Can I change plans after I start?
Yes, with 30 days' notice. Most clients start on Essentials or Growth and move up as the work compounds. We'll tell you honestly if we think a different plan would serve you better — we'd rather you're on the right engagement than locked into the wrong one for the sake of a higher monthly invoice.
What's the minimum commitment, and why?
Essentials and Growth run a 3-month minimum. Partner runs 6 months. The reason is simple: the best creative work builds on itself. One month gives you a deliverable. Three months gives you a direction. Six months gives you a brand that's visibly, measurably stronger than when you started. After the minimum, contracts roll monthly with 30 days' notice to end.
How does billing work?
Plans are invoiced on the 1st of each month, due within 7 days, billed in advance. We accept bank transfer and card. For clients who commit to 6 or 12 months upfront, we offer a 5% discount — mention this when you get in touch and we'll apply it to your agreement.
Do you work with brands based outside the UAE?
Yes. A significant portion of our Studio Partnership clients are based in the UK, Europe, and across the GCC. We're set up for remote collaboration — all project communication runs through a shared workspace, and monthly review calls work across time zones without friction.
Still have a question?
Contact us or schedule your consultation.