By Harish Malhi, founder of Goodspeed · Updated 21 October 2026
Disclosure: I run Goodspeed and DesignMe goes after the same clients we do, so treat this as a competitor writing about a competitor. The DesignMe facts are from their site and Clutch, linked at the bottom.
Of the agencies we get compared with, DesignMe is the closest. Same buyer, a funded tech company that has outgrown its site, and both of us build in Framer. Where we differ is the commercial model.
Short answer: go with DesignMe if you want a team on a monthly retainer, from $6,000 a month, covering product, brand and web. Go with Goodspeed if what you need right now is a Framer site with a fixed price and a launch date: from $10,000, live in three to six weeks.
Goodspeed vs DesignMe at a glance
Goodspeed | DesignMe | |
Founded | 2022, London | 2020 (Clutch); based in Gdansk, with San Francisco and London listed |
Main build platform | Framer (Framer Enterprise Partner) | Framer, Webflow, Astro, Next.js and React |
Starting budget | Sites from $10,000; landing pages from $2,500; embedded team from $2,000 a month | Retainers from $6,000 a month; design and development from $10,000 a month; fixed projects from $15,000 |
Timeline | Three to six weeks for a full site | Not published; says work usually starts within days |
Reviews | Clutch 5.0 from 46 reviews | 5.0 on Clutch |
Named clients | Wisk, Reka, Sydecar, Zen Educate | Lightdash, Seamless.AI, N3XT, Quotient |
Best for | Funded startups with a raise, launch or press moment coming | Funded SaaS, AI and fintech teams that want an ongoing monthly design and development team |
Retainer or fixed price
DesignMe's pricing page starts with retainers. Design or development is $6,000 a month, both together is $10,000, and a growth add-on is $3,000 or more on top. If you'd rather buy a project, those start at $15,000.
We do it the other way round. You get a fixed price for the site before anything starts: a Signature Site is from $10,000 and usually lands between $10,000 and $40,000, and a Landing Page is $2,500. If you want us to stay on after launch, the Embedded Team is $2,000 a month and you can stop whenever you like. Every number is on our pricing page.
What they build in
DesignMe will build in Framer, Webflow, Astro, Next.js or React. We build marketing sites in Framer only. The reason is handover: your team gets a CMS and a component library they can edit themselves, so a new page doesn't wait on us.
How wide the work goes
DesignMe also does product design, brand identity, pitch decks, motion, CRO and SEO. We're narrower. Marketing sites, launch pages and migrations are the bulk of it, and we build AI products and automations alongside.
Clients
DesignMe lists Lightdash, Seamless.AI and N3XT. On our side: Wisk, the Boeing-backed air taxi company, live in two months and later nominated for a Webby; Sydecar, rebuilt after its Series A into a 50+ page system; and Reka, where we're the in-house design and development team in all but payroll.
DesignMe is the better fit if
You want one monthly team handling product design, brand, decks and the site.
Your site needs to be on Webflow, Astro or Next.js.
Goodspeed is the better fit if
There's a date: a raise, a launch or press coverage, and the site has to be ready for it.
You want to know the full price before you sign.
After launch you want help on tap without a big monthly commitment. The Embedded Team starts at $2,000.
Your site has to be ready before your next raise, launch or press moment
Send me the URL and the date. In 20 minutes we'll tell you what we'd change first, whether it fits the timeline and what it costs.
Or email me directly: harish@goodspeed.studio
Sources (checked 21 Oct 2026)
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Harish Malhi
Founder of Goodspeed
Harish Malhi is the founder of Goodspeed. He left Google in 2019 to build his own product, and started Goodspeed to give other founders the same head start. Today the studio designs and builds websites and the whole digital experience around them for funded tech companies, at the moments that matter: a raise, a launch, a press cycle. Goodspeed is a Framer Enterprise Expert, was Bubble’s Agency of the Year in 2024, and has shipped 300+ products, including launch pages for an NVIDIA-backed AI lab and a Webby-nominated site for a Boeing-backed aviation company. It holds a 5.0 rating from 46 reviews on Clutch.
