Design Cloud offers a single designer working through your requests one at a time, starting from £699/month. Hatchly gives you a dedicated designer, creative director, and account manager working on daily design capacity — starting from £950/month.
Your Design Cloud designer is also your project manager, your QC department, and your main point of contact. That's four jobs. Hatchly splits them across three people, so your designer can completely focus on the thing they do best: great design.
A simple, structured approach designed to keep your design moving without adding complexity.
Send your design requests through your dedicated dashboard. We align on priorities and work through tasks based on what matters most to you. Simple. Structured. No chasing.
Your work is handled by a dedicated team who understand your brand inside out. We deliver, refine, and iterate until it’s exactly where it needs to be. Fast turnaround. Pixel-perfect execution.
As your volume or priorities shift, we adjust with you. Scale up for campaign launches. Dial down when things quieten. No hiring. No freelancer management. No bottlenecks.
Design Cloud's plans start lower — from £699/month vs Hatchly from £995/month. But the prices cover different things. Design Cloud includes one designer on one request at a time. Hatchly includes a designer, creative director, and account manager on daily capacity. Teams needing more throughput from Design Cloud may need additional subscriptions at £899+ each — which can bring the total above Hatchly's price without adding creative direction or account management.
Design Cloud finishes one request before starting the next. Hatchly's designer can work across multiple tasks in a day based on your priorities. If you need a LinkedIn carousel and email headers the same week, Hatchly progresses both — Design Cloud would finish one first.
Design Cloud assigns a designer who handles both design and quality review. Hatchly includes a separate creative director who reviews all output before delivery — a second pair of eyes for consistency and brand alignment.
If you're a founder or CEO with occasional design needs and you're happy managing the designer directly, Design Cloud's lower price and simple model is a solid choice. If you're a marketing team with competing deadlines, varied work, and a need for consistent quality across everything, Hatchly is built specifically for that — with creative direction and account management included.
Both services share designers across clients — that's how subscription design works. The difference is what else your fee covers. With Design Cloud, your designer also handles communication, prioritisation, and quality review. With Hatchly, those sit with a creative director and account manager — so more of your designer's time goes into actual design work.
