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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.
Claim the slotOne slot open now
Built for founders who'd rather ship than sit in scoping calls.
Why this exists
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.
Subscribe. Send the request. Approve the working thing when it lands. That's the whole relationship.
How it works
Subscribe
Subscribe and the slot is yours. Two minutes, no call to book.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Dan Roberts Group
Logo design for the fitness coach and his training business.
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.
Gatewick House & Gardens
Logo design and signage for a historic house & gardens.
I handed over a rough brief and got something far better than I'd pictured, and faster than I expected.
Built solo
AI-first eBook creation platform. Conversational writing assistant with multi-turn context, Claude API under the hood, designed and built solo.
Doodle a UI on a blank page. Teach the local recogniser your style and it snaps your strokes into polished wireframe elements. Export clean HTML or React when you are ready. Runs entirely in the browser, no API calls.
Vector drawing in the browser. Sketch freehand, export SVG, print crisp at any size from sticker to poster.
SVG icon animation presets with copy-ready CSS export. Pick an icon, pick a preset, tune the timing, ship. No install.
A prompt workshop. Rubric-based scoring turns fuzzy prompts into specific ones before you spend tokens running them.
A learning platform built from a spark, to teach designers full-stack engineering. A course built for designers, by a designer, so they can build for themselves.
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
Pricing
Monthly
One client at a time. When the slot's yours, it's yours.
- 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
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.
Claim the slotBuilt for my kids
The Triangle Game. A two-player dice game on a hexagonal triangle grid.
An alphabet game for toddlers. Tap a letter, swipe, finish with a quick quiz.
A touch-typing tutor with two modes. A playful course for kids learning their first home row, and a focused practice ground for adults who want to type without looking. Best on a real keyboard.
