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Dedicated product teams for design and development

Build the features you need without overloading your team

Your next feature has to fit the product around it. Our designers and developers learn how it works and why your team made the choices it did. We can build alongside your team or lead an agreed part of the product, with you setting the priorities.

Raised by our clients
$700M+
Teams we’ve worked alongside
20+
Clients choose us for what’s next
80%

When to bring in a dedicated product team

When to bring in a dedicated product team

You have features and improvements planned, but your team is committed to other work. Our dedicated teams help startups and established product teams work through a growing backlog.

You’re adding a new module while your core team handles existing priorities. You need people who can stay focused on that work through several design or development iterations.

You need ongoing design or development work after launch. As you learn from users and plan new releases, a team familiar with the product can build on earlier decisions.

The product work we can take on

Your dedicated team can focus on one area or combine several. We agree the scope and roles based on your product backlog.

Product UX/UI design

Our dedicated design team creates user flows, screens and reusable components, with interface states defined for development.

Front-end development

We build responsive web interfaces with the forms, validation and loading states your features need, and connect them to your APIs.

Full-stack development

Our dedicated development team builds front-end and back-end features, including APIs, business logic and service integrations.

Mobile app development

We build cross-platform apps with React Native, turning product flows into mobile screens, navigation and interactions.

QA and release checks

We check features against agreed criteria and test failure scenarios, with release checks across supported browsers and devices.

Delivery coordination

We plan agreed tasks, track dependencies and flag blockers. You review progress and make delivery decisions.

Two ways to work with a dedicated product team

Extend your product team

Our designers or developers work alongside your team on features and improvements from your product backlog.

Keep your existing workflow

Our specialists use your tools and follow the planning and review practices your team already uses.

Set day-to-day priorities

You decide which tasks come next and review our work through your team’s existing approval process.

Let us lead a product workstream

Our team takes responsibility for a defined module or product area, with scope and deliverables agreed together.

We plan and coordinate delivery

We organize the work within your product’s design, technical and release requirements.

Approve work at agreed checkpoints

You set product priorities, provide context and review deliverables at the checkpoints we agree.

Design and development delivered with our clients’ teams

We supported Restream’s website releases, designed new product flows for Zeebu and shaped Owkin’s research interface. Each case shows our scope, contribution and collaboration with the client’s team.

Restream

Restream

Restream is a multistreaming SaaS that helps creators and teams broadcast to several platforms at once. We supported its website with design and front-end development, working within the existing visual style on regular updates and larger page releases.

The challenge

The client needed small fixes, new pages and campaign changes from a shared backlog. Sales periods brought tighter deadlines, while parts of the website still ran on an older stack that also needed updating.

Our contribution

We launched a new pricing page with reusable components and a mobile-first layout, improved login and signup flows, and migrated Pug views to Next.js. For Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we prepared banners, pricing changes and rollback steps.

How we worked together

Tasks lived in Linear, with Notion for shared context. We used Slack and short calls with Restream to agree priorities, resolve access questions and coordinate design and development specialists as the work required.

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Zeebu

Zeebu

Zeebu is a DeFi product with an established brand and a working token-swap platform. Our dedicated design team took on UX/UI for its expansion into staking, farming and airdrops, building on an early UI kit.

The challenge

User feedback revealed unclear starting points, difficult wallet connections and cluttered dashboards. The product also had to accommodate airdrop participants and long-term users managing nodes, staking and liquidity.

Our contribution

We designed staking and delegation journeys, airdrop screens and dashboards showing what is staked, earning and ready to claim. We added transaction progress and success states, and extended the UI kit with reusable components and animation assets.

How we worked together

We reviewed the existing platform and direct user feedback before mapping flows. The handoff included organized Figma files, components and flow documentation, with walkthroughs of key journeys, screens and states for the client’s team.

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Owkin K Navigator

Owkin K Navigator

Owkin’s K Navigator is an AI-powered research tool for biologists in pharma, biotech and academia. We led discovery sessions, designed the web interface and created a modular design system to support the product’s expansion.

The challenge

Biologists needed to explore public and private data and develop scientific hypotheses without writing code. The interface had to present complex data and AI-generated insights while making the sources and methods behind answers visible.

Our contribution

We mapped the journey from a hypothesis to validation and designed guided onboarding, AI chat and interactive data visualizations. Our team created wireframes and high-fidelity screens in weekly sprints, with reusable UI components to support product expansion.

How we worked together

We led structured sessions with product owners, biologists and developers to agree user goals and priorities. As features were implemented, we reviewed them with Owkin’s product and development teams to check the UX in the working product.

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What our clients say

“The collaboration between our two teams has been great. It’s very easy to work with the Merge teammates. With Merge, we’re shipping more iteratively, working faster.”

Ryan Mick

Head of Product Design at Truemed

“Natural, easy, and partnership. Those are the three words that come to mind. You guys have been an extension of our team. You blend your expertise of actual technical design with my brand design and vision.”

Fady Hawatmeh

CEO at Clockwork

“The Merge Development team is very good at what they do. It’s why we’ve continued to use their services even after a year. We plan to work with them for the rest of our business’s life.”

David Kemmerer

CEO & Co-Founder at CoinLedger

“Overall, it’s been a great experience. The team’s been super responsive. The speed of implementing the designs in Figma and the speed of responding to our feedback and implementing changes were really good. Pleased with the amount that we got done.”

Winston Chenery

Senior Director of Marketing at Everyday Speech

"It almost felt like the Merge team was part of our team... very open, honest, real collaboration. Our metrics have improved for sure."

Sankari Nair

Co-Founder of Recall

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Dedicated team pricing

Dedicated design

Keep new features consistent as your product grows.

Average monthly budget · USD

$7,200

Best for

Your developers need ongoing product design.

What you get

  • UX flows for agreed features
  • Screens and interface states
  • Reusable Figma components

Dedicated development

Work through your backlog with a senior engineer.

Senior developer · USD/hour

$45–55

Best for

You have designs or code and need an engineer.

What you get

  • Front-end or full-stack work
  • API and data integrations
  • Updates in your existing codebase

Design + development

Keep design decisions connected to the build.

Based on roles and scope

Custom

Best for

Your roadmap needs design and engineering.

What you get

  • Roles scoped around your backlog
  • Design and engineering together
  • QA and coordination as agreed

Know what you’re paying for

Share your backlog or tell us what you want to build. We’ll recommend a team and estimate the cost.

How your dedicated product team gets to work

We agree where to start, how the team will work with you and when you’ll review the results. Your feedback helps set the next priorities.

1

Context

Share your goals and any backlog, designs or documentation you have. We identify priorities, dependencies and open questions together.

2

Planning

We agree the first tasks and acceptance criteria, with responsibilities on both sides. You name who gathers feedback and who gives final approval.

3

Onboarding

Provide access and materials for the agreed work. We align task tracking, communication and reviews with your team’s workflow.

4

Delivery

We carry out agreed tasks and share designs or working features at review checkpoints. Your feedback and approvals guide the next iteration.

Why product teams choose Merge Rocks

People who think with you

You can have a feature on your backlog and still be deciding how it should work. Our senior designers and developers explain the options and recommend an approach before you commit to building it.

Part of your product team

Your team already has its own way of working. At Mural, our designers joined the in-house process and helped shape a new immersive product concept with the people building it.

Design and build together

When you need both, our engineers review the design before the build and designers check working features. That helps us catch gaps between the experience you approve and the one users get.

Technologies for building and connecting your product

When you bring us an existing product, we start with its codebase and the services it connects to. For a new product, we help choose technologies around what it needs to do and how your team will maintain it.
React

React

Next.js

Next.js

Vue.js

Vue.js

Storybook

Storybook

React Native

React Native

Expo

Expo

Node.js

Node.js

Nest.js

Nest.js

Supabase

Supabase

Strapi

Strapi

AWS Bedrock

AWS Bedrock

Zapier

Zapier

Keep progress visible and decisions documented

We keep feedback and agreed changes with the relevant tasks or files, so you can see what was decided and why. At handoff, we use a checklist tailored to your scope to share the agreed design or code files and documentation. You also get a record of unfinished tasks, their status and who is responsible for open questions.

Keep progress visible and decisions documented

See our work in your industry

Explore our design and development services, with examples from real products.

Fintech

People need to understand a charge before they trust it. We make payments and tax calculations easier to check.

Healthtech

Researchers can trace an AI answer back to its sources. Findings and supporting data stay together as they explore.

Edtech

New members come to practice their English. Onboarding helps them find a conversation and feel ready to join.

Proptech

Property details and documents stay together, helping buyers follow the deal and see what needs their attention.

Logistics

Shipping costs can hide in the detail. We help teams spot the invoices and charges that need a closer look.

Security

People should know why a message looks suspicious. Clear warnings explain the risk and help them choose what to do.

Your questions about team setup, collaboration and ownership

Yes. We can provide an individual full-stack developer for a defined scope. We review the work and confirm availability and responsibilities before agreeing the engagement. We also agree which supporting roles, if any, the work needs.

Yes. Our designers can work within your existing design system and coordinate with your engineers on flows, component states and implementation requirements. We agree what the design handoff includes and how questions will be reviewed. Development can stay with your team or be included in our scope.

We review the designs, codebase and technical constraints before committing to the work. That review establishes what we can reuse, what needs updating and which integrations or dependencies need attention. We then agree the changes to make within your existing product.

We agree these responsibilities as part of the scope. QA checks, task planning and delivery coordination can be included, with owners and acceptance criteria defined before work starts. An individual developer or a design-only engagement does not automatically include a separate QA specialist or project manager.

The required skills, availability and access to your product all affect the start date. Share your priorities and any existing designs, backlog or technical documentation. We review dependencies with you before agreeing when the work can begin.

Custom code and design created for you transfer to you after full payment for the relevant work, under the terms of our agreement. Your existing content, data and accounts remain yours. Pre-existing materials, open-source components and third-party services or licences remain subject to their own rights and conditions.

With Dedicated Teams, our specialists or team carry out agreed product work, either alongside your team or leading a defined workstream. IT Hiring focuses on finding and selecting people for roles you need to fill. Choose based on whether you need product work delivered or help finding people.

Monthly billing covers the team and work we agree on. We can also base payment on specific deliverables. Either way, you’ll know what’s included up front. Extra work starts only after you approve its cost and timing in writing.

Guides to choosing and working with a dedicated team

Should you build your MVP with an agency, a freelancer, or an in-house team?

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Should you build your MVP with an agency, a freelancer, or an in-house team?

Compare ownership, coordination, continuity, and handoff to pick the model that fits your first release.

The product design process: from problem to a buildable product

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The product design process: from problem to a buildable product

Eight product design stages, from problem framing to post-launch learning, with the decisions, possible outputs and review criteria for each.

Continuous product design: how teams keep improving after launch

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Continuous product design: how teams keep improving after launch

Use a six-step loop to assess product signals, choose the next action and review results, with a decision template and a hypothetical example.

More ways to support your product team

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