Your creative department.On demand.

Milktree becomes your embedded brand & design team. Unlimited design requests, senior work back in 48 hours, one flat monthly subscription. No hiring. No freelancer roulette. No waiting weeks.

200+ brands built · 6 years as an agency · No contracts · Pause anytime

The problem

Your marketing team has the ideas. Not the firepower to ship them.

Freelancers

Ghost when you need them.

Talented, but stretched across five other clients. Inconsistent, hard to brief, and gone the moment your deadline actually matters.

Hiring

£50k+ for one skill set.

Months to recruit, then salary, software and management overhead. All for one person who can't cover brand, web, social and ads alone.

Agencies

Four-figure quotes, then gone.

A proposal for every small thing, layers of account managers, and radio silence once the project wraps. Great for one job, painful as a partner.

A better way

There's a better way to get design done. An embedded creative team you switch on, scale and direct. No headcount, no risk.

You direct. We design. Nothing ships off-brand.

EazyPhone, Out-of-Home
EazyPhoneOut-of-Home
Baya Vodka Soda, Packaging
Baya Vodka SodaPackaging
Alltrad Roofing, Signage
Alltrad RoofingSignage
Samuel Harper, Out-of-Home
Samuel HarperOut-of-Home
Zillwoods, Signage
ZillwoodsSignage
Mint Mortgages, Brand Campaign
Mint MortgagesBrand Campaign
Ooh Pho, Packaging
Ooh PhoPackaging
EJW Concrete, Brand Collateral
EJW ConcreteBrand Collateral
Hampshire Food Hub, Out-of-Home
Hampshire Food HubOut-of-Home
Scoop Creamery, Brand Identity
Scoop CreameryBrand Identity
Powerforce, Print
PowerforcePrint
Figurati, Menu Design
FiguratiMenu Design
EazyPhone, Poster Campaign
EazyPhonePoster Campaign
Alchemy Brews, Packaging
Alchemy BrewsPackaging
SaleSprout, Out-of-Home
SaleSproutOut-of-Home
Grin Oralcare, Campaign
Grin OralcareCampaign
Saints Foundation, Event Branding
Saints FoundationEvent Branding
Medlocums, Out-of-Home
MedlocumsOut-of-Home
What's included

One subscription. Every kind of design.

One design subscription across your whole brand, so everything you ship looks like it came from the same place.

Brand identity & guidelines

Logos, systems and rules that hold up everywhere.

AI design

AI-native creative: systems, assets and workflows your team can actually ship.

Social & templates

Always-on creative that keeps your feed sharp.

Ads & email design

Static and motion ads, plus campaigns and flows that convert.

Decks & sales collateral

Pitch decks and sales material that close.

Landing page & web design

Design, not build. Pages engineered to convert.

Packaging & print

Physical brand moments, done properly.

Presentations & OOH

From boardroom screens to billboards.

One request = one deliverable with one revision round included.

How it works

Senior design in three steps.

01

Subscribe

Pick your plan and get dashboard access the same day. No onboarding calls required, no paperwork.

02

Request

Drop guided briefs into your queue. Add as many as you like; we work through them in priority order.

03

Receive

Senior work back in around 48 hours. Approve it in a click or send it back. Every request includes one revision round.

No proposals. No quotes. The process is the product.

The way we work

Everything in one place.

Briefs, assets, delivery and feedback in one managed workspace, so your brand stays consistent and nothing slips through the cracks.

01One managed queue

Drop briefs in and watch them move from requested to in progress to delivered. Add as many as you like.

Managed design queue showing briefs moving from queued to delivered

02A living brand library

Every logo, asset, template and guideline in one organised place. Always current, never lost in inboxes.

Organised brand library with logos, colours, type and templates

03Senior work, fast

Real senior designers and creative direction, delivered in days. No juniors, no hand-holding.

Turnaround dashboard highlighting 48-hour average delivery

04Direct and revise

Comment, adjust and approve in place. The control of an in-house team without the back-and-forth.

In-review screen with comments and approve controls
Proof

The work speaks for itself.

Milktree became our design team overnight. Senior work, on-brand, and faster than anyone we'd hired before.

Founder

Series A SaaS

We cancelled three freelancer contracts and replaced a hire we hadn't even made yet. It just works.

Head of Marketing

DTC brand

The consistency is the thing. Every deck, ad and page now looks like it came from the same place, because it did.

CEO

Fintech

Track record

Six years of agency craft behind it.

Brands built

Identity, campaigns, packaging and web, end to end.

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Industries

Construction to fintech. The process holds everywhere.

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Years as an agency

Six years of agency craft, now delivered on subscription.

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Experienced designers

A vetted bench, quality-checked by a creative director.

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Instagram

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The latest from the studio, brand and design in the open. Follow @milktreeagency for more.

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Seen enough? Your first request could be back this week.

Start today and send your first brief within the hour.

Get started

200+ brands built · 6 years as an agency · No contracts · Pause anytime

Why Milktree

The maths is simple.

Compare the options most teams weigh up, and where an embedded creative partner lands.

Cost

  • FreelancerVariable day rates
  • In-house hire£50k+/yr + overheads
  • £500–950 subscriptionsCheap, but shallow
  • MilktreeOne flat monthly fee

Coverage

  • FreelancerOne specialism
  • In-house hireOne skill set
  • £500–950 subscriptionsOne generalist working a queue. Production, not brand
  • MilktreeSenior team across every discipline

Consistency

  • FreelancerDrifts over time
  • In-house hireStrong, until they leave
  • £500–950 subscriptionsNo creative direction
  • MilktreeOn-brand, every time

Speed

  • FreelancerDepends on their week
  • In-house hireLimited capacity
  • £500–950 subscriptionsDays per ticket
  • Milktree~48h turnaround

Risk

  • FreelancerCan vanish mid-project
  • In-house hireHiring & notice periods
  • £500–950 subscriptionsEasy in, little accountability
  • MilktreePause or cancel anytime
Who it's for

Built for teams that ship.

For agencies

Your overflow team, white-label.

Take on more work without hiring. Senior design capacity under your banner, and your clients never know we exist.

For marketing teams

The ideas are yours. The firepower is ours.

Ship campaigns, decks and landing pages without waiting on a stretched design resource.

For established brands

For businesses that know design is leverage.

Senior-level craft on everything you put out, not just the big projects.

Not the right fit if you need a one-off logo, or design isn't a priority yet.

Plans

A whole creative department for less than one hire.

A UK design subscription: unlimited requests, senior work in ~48 hours, pause or cancel any month. No proposals, no quotes, no hourly billing.

Ongoing design support

Essentials

Your design queue, handled. One request at a time.

£1,999/mo+VAT

Unlimited requests, worked one at a time by vetted designers from our bench of 50+, quality-checked by a creative director before it ships. Pause whenever things go quiet and unused time banks.

  • Unlimited requests, one at a time
  • ~48h average turnaround
  • Vetted designers, quality-checked by a creative director
  • One revision round per request
  • Pause anytime, unused time banks
  • Cancel any month
Most teams choose Design Lead

The flagship

Design Lead

Two requests at a time, with your own dedicated design lead, reachable on Slack.

£3,999/mo+VAT

First 10 Design Lead clients lock £3,500/mo for life. 7 spots left.

A design lead costs £65k+ a year in the UK before National Insurance, holiday cover and recruitment, and buys one skill set. Design Lead is £48k a year, senior across every discipline, cancel any month.

  • Unlimited requests, two at a time
  • Your own dedicated senior designer, the same person every time
  • Direct Slack access to your design lead
  • Creative direction on every piece
  • Full brand builds, typically 4–6 weeks
  • ~48h average turnaround
  • Pause or cancel anytime

Both plans replace the cost and risk of hiring. No recruitment, no management overhead, no notice periods. Need more firepower? Let's talk.

All prices exclude VAT. · No contracts · Pause anytime

FAQ

Questions, answered straight.

The mechanics of how the subscription actually works. No small print, no surprises.

Your business has outgrown its brand.

Let's fix that. Answer six quick questions and we'll take it from there.

200+ brands built · 6 years as an agency · No contracts · Pause anytime