Neil McArdle

NEIL
McARDLE

Digital design and build, on subscription.

I take on one client at a time and ship working product to your domain. Fast, async, no calls. Design and code from the same hands, so nothing gets lost in translation.

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One client at a time. One slot open now.

Built for founders who'd rather ship than sit in scoping calls.

Neil McArdle
Thinking...

+ Why this exists

The usual way

Hire a studio and you get months of forms, calls, scoping decks and contracts before anyone touches the work, then a Figma file you still can't ship. Hire in-house and you're recruiting for a quarter. Either way you're managing people instead of shipping product.

With me

Subscribe. Send the request. Approve the working thing when it lands. That's the whole relationship.

+ How it works

01

Subscribe

Subscribe and the slot is yours. Two minutes, no call to book.

02

Request

Drop requests in however suits you, a Loom, a doc, a sketch. I work them one at a time, in priority order. No intake meeting, no forms.

03

Receive

Shipped, working, live on your domain. Most requests land in 2 to 4 working days. You review async and add the next one.

+ Why one client at a time

I take one client at a time. You get my full focus.

01

Only your backlog.

Most design subscriptions run a queue of thirty-plus clients and rotate between them. I don't. I take one. Your requests never sit behind a stranger's.

02

Async by design.

By day I'm a senior digital product designer at Avis Budget Group, so I work with you in focused blocks around it. No standing calls, no status meetings. You send work when it suits you and it's waiting when you're back.

03

Design matches build.

The person who designs it is the person who ships it. No handoff, no “the dev interpreted it differently,” no Figma file gathering dust.

+ Work

Selected client work

Branding·2015

Dan Roberts Group

Logo and brand identity for the fitness coach and his training business.

Brand identity + signage·2025

Gatewick House & Gardens

Identity and wayfinding signage for a historic house and gardens.

Clients and experience

  • Avis Budget GroupProduct design
  • Banner of TruthBook covers + illustration
  • Dan Roberts GroupBranding · 2015
  • Gatewick House & GardensBrand identity + signage · 2025

Built solo

+ What I make

Design

From identity to interface.

  • Branding
  • UI design
  • Landing pages and marketing sites
  • AI chat and AI product interfaces

Build

Working product, not handoffs.

  • Web apps, shipped to your domain
  • iOS apps

+ Praise

Neil turned work around at a pace I'd never seen from a studio, and it landed right the first time. The quality spoke for itself.
Dan RobertsDan Roberts Group
I handed over a rough brief and got back something far better than I'd pictured, far faster than I expected. Genuinely high-quality work.
Guy SandersonGatewick House & Gardens

+ Pricing

Monthly

One client at a time. When the slot's yours, it's yours.

Pause anytime
£5,000/month+ VAT
Included
  • One active request at a time, worked in priority order
  • Design and build, by one person, start to finish
  • Shipped to your domain in days, not months
  • Async only, no calls, no meetings
  • Pause or cancel anytime
Claim the slot

Email, payment, you're in. Two minutes.

Try it for a week. If it's not for you, cancel. No call to book, no notice to give.

+ About

One designer, on purpose.

You hire me, you get me. No account managers, no process to sit through, no meetings on the calendar. I design it and I build it, which is why it stays fast and the product stays coherent. I take one client at a time, so the work always has my full attention, not a slice of it.

+ FAQ

Can one person really design and build a whole product?

Yes. Everything in the work above was built this way, solo, start to finish.

Do you only design, or do you build too?

Both. That's the whole point. The design and the working product come from the same hands.

How fast is it?

Most requests ship in 2 to 4 working days. Because I take one client at a time, your work isn't sitting behind anyone else's.

How does a request work?

Send it however's easiest, a Loom, a doc, a sketch. No forms, no intake call. I get on with it.

Do we need to get on calls?

No. It's async by design. That's what keeps it fast and keeps the time going into the work instead of meetings.

What if I need changes?

Revisions are part of it. I keep going until it's right.

One request at a time, isn't that slow?

It's the opposite. One focused request, shipped, then the next. Big builds get broken into a sequence, each piece live in days. Nothing stalls in a pile.

What if I run out of things to build?

Pause the plan. Billing freezes and picks up where it left off when you're ready.

Got something to ship?

One client at a time. One slot open now. Two minutes to your first request.

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+ Built for my kids

+ My eBooks and Audiobooks

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Sol0 — Part One of Three cover
Sol0Sci-fi Novel

He came to Mars expecting solitude. He found home.

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