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Find white label design for agencies, delivered under your name.
When client approvals create more execution work than your payroll can absorb, white-label design can add production capacity for one flat monthly fee. You keep strategy, client contact, margin and credit; an agency group served by our partner provider routed 2,000+ slides through the model in five months.
The problem
Capacity spikes, payroll does not.
Agency demand spikes when several clients approve work together, then drops before a permanent hire can pay back. A white-label queue can turn that fixed payroll risk into adjustable execution capacity while your team retains creative direction. One account served by our partner provider covers five agencies through the same arrangement.
Absorb it internally
The team works late, quality slips somewhere, and the cost surfaces in retention six months later.
Hire for a peak
A permanent salary to solve a temporary spike, and you are two to three months from the first deliverable regardless.
What to look for
What a white-label provider should give you.
- Deliverables arrive unbranded Native source files, ready to present as your own work.
- No contact with your clients The provider should not need to know who they are.
- You keep the margin and the credit Your brief goes in, finished work comes back, you present under your name.
- Multiple brands on one account Throughput should determine the tier, not the number of accounts.
- A full catalogue behind you Motion, packaging and 3D become sellable without hiring for them individually.
Get these six in writing
- Turnaround commitment and what happens when it slips
- Escalation path when a client deadline is at risk
- Confidentiality and non-solicitation
- Ownership and native source files
- How revisions are handled
- Who covers the account when your contact is away
The part nobody publishes
What your real margin looks like.
A low supplier fee does not guarantee a healthy resale margin. Calculate the monthly fee, routed throughput, client billing and internal handling together, using your last three months of work. That produces a cost per deliverable you can defend before you resell capacity.
Your fixed input cost
A flat monthly fee is a known number. It is the only input in this calculation that does not move.
Your throughput
Effective cost per deliverable is the fee divided by what you actually route. An underused arrangement is expensive; a saturated one approaches free.
Your billing model
Per project or per retainer, cost per deliverable falls as throughput rises. Bill hourly and you are structurally penalising yourself for using a faster supplier.
Your internal handling
Briefing, quality review and client presentation still consume your team’s time. This is where the optimistic version breaks. Count it.
Margin per deliverable = client price, minus the monthly fee divided by deliverables routed that month, minus internal handling time. Run it on your last three months of actual client work rather than a projection. If it does not clear at your real throughput, this model is not your answer, and you should know that before signing with anyone.
The real comparison
Hire, or route it outside?
A hire protects embedded context but turns variable client revenue into fixed payroll. White-label capacity protects flexibility but still requires internal briefing and review. Compare both on real peak and quiet-month demand before choosing the fourth route: a senior internal owner with external execution.
| Hiring a designer | White-label capacity | |
|---|---|---|
| Commitment | Permanent, with notice periods and charges | Often monthly, terms set by the provider |
| Time to first deliverable | Two to three months | Typically a scoping call |
| Cost in a quiet month | Full salary | Often pause, or size down a tier |
| Cost in a peak month | Overtime, or another hire | Same fee, or a higher tier |
| Range | One profile | Branding, web, motion, print, 3D, UI/UX |
| Risk profile | Fixed cost against variable revenue | Variable cost against variable revenue |
Hiring wins when the work is continuous, senior, and needs to sit inside your strategic conversations. Most agencies that get this right do both: senior creative direction stays in-house, execution throughput moves outside.
Accounts like yours
See work examples Two agency accounts served by our partner provider.
Results reported by our partner provider for its own clients.
Jaws Group
Agencies
- Volume
- 2,000+ slides in 5 months
- Requests / month
- 6
- Budget range
- €1,500-€2,500 / mo
Five agencies across content, media buying, SEO and influencer marketing, each with its own clients and pitch needs. The provider rebuilds raw decks and pitch documents, from 15 to 150 slides per project, delivered on schedule.
- Decks
- Creative ads
- Banners
Available morning, noon and night, way past midnight. What more could you ask from an agency? Oh right, I almost forgot: they are also incredibly good.
Gamme Agency
Agencies
- Volume
- 882+ designs in 12 months
- Requests / month
- 3
- Budget range
- Under €1,000 / mo
A full year of continuous production on a starter plan: decks, branding, social media, web design and creative ads, at three requests a month.
- Decks
- Branding
- Social media
- Web design
- Creative ads
I have been a client for a year, and this is hands down the best design solution out there. An attentive, proactive team, tailored results, no-commitment subscription. 100% recommend.
Pricing
Compare budgets Size your budget on your peak, not your average.
Size on deliverables routed per month across all client accounts. Effective cost per deliverable falls as you saturate the capacity you pay for, which is what makes the margin work.
Under €1,000 / month
Occasional creative needs.
Usually fits
- A handful of requests a month
- One piece of work in progress at a time
- Needs that arrive in bursts rather than every week
€1,000-€1,500 / month
Regular ongoing design production.
Usually fits
- A steady flow of requests every week
- Several formats: social, ads, decks, web
- One active request at a time is enough
€1,500-€2,500 / month
Higher-volume creative requirements.
Usually fits
- Campaigns that need many variations
- Two workstreams moving in parallel
- Marketing and product both asking for design
€2,500+ / month
Advanced workflows and multiple concurrent needs.
Usually fits
- Several brands, markets or business units
- Custom turnaround, billing or contract terms
- Design embedded in existing team rituals
Indicative monthly budgets to help you frame your needs, not Design Scaling prices. Design Scaling does not sell design work: the provider you are matched with quotes, contracts and invoices the service directly.
Straight answers
Before you choose a provider.
Does Design Scaling do the white-label work?
No. Design Scaling matches you with a selected independent provider. White-label, resale and confidentiality terms are agreed directly between your agency and the provider, who delivers and invoices.
Will my client ever see the provider’s brand?
It should not. Ask for unbranded native source files, ready for your team to review and present under your own name, and get it in writing.
Can I route several clients through one account?
With most white-label providers, yes: it is the standard agency case, and throughput decides the tier rather than the number of accounts.
Who owns the files my client ends up with?
That is set by your contract with the provider. Make sure source file ownership transfers to you, so it can pass to your client under your own contract.
Is a flat fee better than project pricing for us?
Tell us the throughput you would route in a normal month. We will tell you honestly whether a flat fee beats project pricing at that level, and it does not always.
How many requests run in parallel?
It depends on the provider tier. For sustained multi-client delivery, look for a tier that runs at least two requests in parallel.
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