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Speed without compromise
Less than 5 days from contract to first deliverable. Less than 14 days to a fully deployed team. No recruitment lag. No capability gap.
helix & frame — index 01Built, governed, & owned by youRiyadh, KSA
BUILT TOOPERATE.
Governance without slowing deliveryOperating frameworks for design at scaleAI-native by defaultConsistency across products and teams
We build the structures that allow design to function reliably at enterprise scale.
Built to operate●Owned by you●5 days to first deliverable●14 days to a fully deployed team●Governance, not guesswork●AI-native by default●
[ 02 ]The thesis
You don't have a design problem. You have a design operations problem.
Most enterprises hire designers and call it a strategy. Six months in, the same questions return. Why is the work inconsistent across products. Why does every initiative re-invent the system. Why does shipping anything take three quarters and a steering committee. The honest answer is structural. Talent is not the constraint — operations are. We install the operating model that makes design reliable, repeatable, and accountable. Then we hand it to you.
— Helix & Frame — design capability, operationalised.
[ 03 ]Why the current model fails
Three structural failures that no amount of hiring will fix.
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Recruitment lag
Months disappear filling design roles. Product timelines slip. Strategy waits on JD reviews and visa approvals.
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Talent churn
High turnover forces re-hiring on rolling cycles. Institutional knowledge resets every 14 months. Quality drifts.
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No single hire covers the surface
Research, strategy, UX, UI, motion, design ops — one head cannot hold all of it. The gap shows up in shipped work.
[ 04 ]Three ways in. One operating standard.
What does Helix & Frame build?
6–12 month engagements · Capability transfer includedShared · Semi-Dedicated · Dedicated · CustomWhether you want to own your design capability, rent a managed team, or hand us the brief — every engagement runs on the same governance.
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Studio Build
Build to own. On-site or hybrid.
We design, recruit, and operationalise a fully governed in-house design studio inside your organisation, then transfer the keys. Org design, hiring pipeline, governance framework, tooling, playbooks, structured exit.
6–12 month engagements · Capability transfer includedHow we build a studio - 02
Virtual Studio
Rent a team. Remote, hybrid, or on-site.
On-demand managed design pods — remote, hybrid, or embedded on-site at your office. Governed by a Design Lead under defined SLAs, sprint cadences, and monthly executive reviews. Three access tiers — Basic, Standard, Dedicated — sized to your roadmap.
Shared · Semi-Dedicated · Dedicated · CustomBrowse the tiers - 03
Project Studio
Hand us the brief. We deliver.
A retainer or fixed-scope engagement for organisations that need outcomes, not headcount. You write the brief, we run the studio. Same governance, none of the team management.
Project · Retainer · SprintScope a project
[ 05 ]AI-native by default
Designed for the era you're shipping into.
AI-native by defaultAI changes both what we design and how we design it. Every Helix & Frame engagement is built on an AI-native operating model — so you ship faster, with fewer people, on systems that learn.
What we design
AI-native interfaces
Conversational UI, agentic workflows, human-in-the-loop systems, AI dashboards, and prompt-driven product surfaces — designed with the rigour of the rest of your stack.
How we operate
AI-augmented design ops
Research synthesis, component generation, design-system codegen, accessibility audits, and content generation — orchestrated, evaluated, and governed inside the studio.
What you get
Velocity that compounds
Faster discovery. Faster prototyping. Faster handover to engineering. Lower cost per shipped surface, quarter over quarter.
[ 06 ]How we govern
Measured. Accountable. Transparent.
Every engagement runs on a defined accountability framework. Same rigour you'd expect from a Big 4 partner — without the deck factory.
5days
to first deliverable
14days
team fully deployed
70–80%
target bench utilisation
<5%
monthly client churn
How we govern
- Daily
Dedicated Design Lead. Sprint backlog visibility. Instant escalation path.
- Weekly
Sprint demos. Quality review. Backlog grooming.
- Monthly
Steering committee. KPI dashboard. Roadmap review.
- Quarterly
Capability audit. NPS pulse check. Contract health review.
[ 07 ]Built for the sectors where digital experience decides the outcome
Where we operate.
Regulated, complex, customer-facing. We build inside the industries where bad design has board-level consequences.
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Telecom
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Banking & Fintech
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Airlines
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Hospitality
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Education
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Healthcare
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Government
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AI & Emerging Tech
Telecom
Self-care apps, MyAccount surfaces, B2B portals, network ops UIs — at the scale and reliability KSA operators expect.
Telecom●Banking & Fintech●Airlines●Hospitality●Education●Healthcare●Government●AI & Emerging Tech●
[ 08 ]The H&F difference
Three commitments your current model cannot match.
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Governance, not guesswork
Every engagement runs on SLAs, sprint reviews, RACI frameworks, and executive dashboards. The rigour you'd expect from a Big 4 partner.
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You own it. Always.
IP, process, team — fully yours. Studio Build engagements end with a structured exit so the capability outlasts the engagement.