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Growmodo matches you with freelancers from a global network and puts a project manager in front of them. You write the brief, the manager passes it to someone you have never met, and the reply comes back the same way. Pricing is per active talent at $1,795 a month each, so one person means one thing at a time. Quarterly gives you a named designer you talk to directly, from £1,266 a month.
Growmodo keeps you apart
You Can't Talk To Your Designer
There is no call, no message thread, no name. You send the brief to a project manager and they pass it on. When the work comes back not quite right, you explain it again to the same manager, who explains it again to the designer. At Quarterly you message your designer and they answer.
$2,000
per month
40 hours per month · quarterly commitment · or $2,499/mo rolling, cancel any time
30 or 90 day commitment
You'll know within days if the fit is right
Same day turnaround as standard
Senior creative direction included
$1,795
per month
Per active talent · unlimited requests · 1 to 2 day turnaround · pause any time
One active talent, one thing at a time
1 to 2 days, not same day
Freelancers rotate, so nobody owns your brand
The Honest Summary
Growmodo is a managed network of freelance designers and developers with a project manager in front of it. Quarterly is an embedded studio with employed designers. Both are subscriptions. Only one puts you in direct contact with the person doing the work.
What they do well
Design and development in one subscription, which is something we do not offer. If you need Webflow, Shopify or WordPress build work alongside your design, that is a real advantage. Flexible talent matching, no long contract, and you can scale the number of people up or down as you go.
Where it falls short
You brief a project manager, who briefs a freelancer you have never met, and the work comes back the same way. Talent is matched from a network and can change, so nobody accumulates any real knowledge of your brand. Pricing is per active talent, so one person means one thing at a time and two people means paying twice.
What we do differently
A named designer, employed by us, working only on your brand. You talk to them directly, so nothing is lost relaying a brief through a third person. Same day turnaround as standard, creative direction included, and the same person still there a year later with a studio of 18 behind them.
Where we excel
Marketing teams who want a relationship, not a resource. If your brand has any nuance, the gap between briefing a manager and talking to the designer who made your last twenty assets is enormous. We do not do web development, so if that is your main need Growmodo is the better fit and we would say so.