Happy Pizza Studio

Services: Brand Identity, Website and Campaign Packages and Pricing for Startups, SaaS and Small Business

Brand identity, websites and launch campaigns for startups, SaaS companies and small businesses. Fixed prices, one to six weeks, and a design.md plus design tokens in every brand handover.

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What clients say

“Dan and team did a phenomenal job giving Hacktron AI a modern logo. I posted on Twitter 2 weeks ago that we needed a new logo. Happy Pizza Studio delivered!”

Zayne ZhangCEO, Hacktron

“This has turned out fantastic. Truthfully really stoked with the outcome.”

Sam RogersFounder, Brumby

Essentials Package

$15,000
2–3 weeks

The full package. Logo suite, colour system, typography, brand mark variants. Everything your brand needs to exist in the world with a spine.

Ideal for: Seed-stage startups, product launches, rebrands

Book a call. Usually kicks off within 2 weeks
What's included
Primary & secondary logo
Colour system
Typography system
Usage guidelines
design.md + design tokens, plus every file in every format
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Growth

$20,000
3–4 weeks

Everything in the Essentials Package, plus company merch and a small library of physical and digital ready ads.

Ideal for: Funded startups scaling fast, teams preparing for a public launch

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What's included
Everything in Essentials Package
Brand Merch (tees, hoodies, caps)
Ad Creatives (social + display)
design.md + design tokens, plus every file in every format

Enterprise

$30,000
5–6 weeks

Your brand system, extended into motion and physical spaces. Built to outlast your Series B.

Ideal for: Series A+ companies, consumer brands, product launches with serious budget

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What's included
Full brand system (logo, colour, type, motion)
Hand-drawn animation (up to 3 brand mark variants)
Custom illustration library (8–12 brand assets)
Event package (banners, badges, booth graphics)
design.md + design tokens, plus every file in every format
30-day post-launch Slack support

Designed and built by the two people who designed the brand. Fixed price, live in weeks.

Website

$12,000
3 weeks
4 alongside a brand project

Up to six pages in Next.js, built by the two people who designed them.

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What's included
A lightweight CMS built into the site, with your blog or changelog in Markdown files
Motion that holds up on a phone
SEO basics
Analytics
Forms wired into your CRM
30 days of support after launch

No long-form copy, illustration, migrations or web apps. Extra pages are $1,000–1,500 each.

Landing Page

$6,000
1–2 weeks

One page with one job, built in Next.js by the same people. The fee counts toward a Website if you book one later.

Ideal for: A launch, a waitlist or a product that needs its own pitch

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Essentials + Website

$25,000
4 weeks

The brand and the site in one go, so the site gets built on the system instead of bolted on after. $2,000 less than buying them separately.

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What's included
Everything in Essentials Package
Everything in Website

Launch creative built from your brand, then kept fresh month to month. We make the ads, your media buyer runs them.

Launch Campaign

$8,000
3 weeks

A full launch campaign built from your brand, not the handful of ads in Growth.

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What's included
Two concept routes narrowed to one
A key visual
A headline bank
Around 20 assets, static and motion, in any size or placement you need, from social ads to billboards and bus stops
A spec sheet for every channel

We don't buy media or run shoots.

Campaign Refresh

$4,000/month
3-month minimum

About 10 new variants a month, so you're not running the launch ads into the ground. A new concept each month, carousels included, and it doesn't need a Launch Campaign first.

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Our guarantee

If we miss the brief on round one, we fix it. If you still hate the direction after round two, we refund the deposit and part professionally. That's never happened.

Payment

Projects are split 50% to kick off, 50% on final delivery. No payment is due until you've reviewed and approved the proposal.

Standalone services, on their own or on top of any brand project.

Merch & Swag

$5,500
2–3 weeks

Tees, caps, totes, hoodies, pins, stickers, conference swag that doesn't end up in landfill. We do the design. You do the print run, or we'll point you at suppliers.

Ideal for: Developer tools, conference presence, community brands

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What's included
T-shirt & hoodie design
Cap, tote & accessory design
Sticker sheets
Badge / pin design
Conference collateral
Print-ready files

Brand Strategy

$2,500
1–2 weeks

Positioning, naming, messaging. The thinking under the visual layer, so the visual layer has somewhere to land. Before identity work, or on its own.

Ideal for: Pre-launch or pivoting startups

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What's included
Positioning workshop
Competitor audit
Naming exploration
Messaging framework

Founder Brand Teardown

$1,200
1 week

Not sure if your brand is working? We'll tell you. A recorded teardown of your identity and landing page, scored against 3–4 funded competitors: what's landing, what's off, and what to fix first.

Ideal for: Founders who want a diagnosis before committing to a rebuild

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What's included
15–20 min recorded video teardown
Competitive scorecard vs 3–4 funded companies
Prioritised fix list
Fee credits 100% toward any identity project booked within 30 days
The process

Four Steps. Three Weeks. One Page of Scope.

Legacy branding agencies take six months. You'll have a shipped identity in three weeks.

Discovery Call

15 minutes. We figure out if we're the right fit. No hard sell.

Brief & Proposal

We write the brief back at you: scope, timeline and cost on one page. If anything surprises you, it's the price or the speed.

Design & Review

Focused sprints, not endless threads. Two rounds of revisions included, and most clients sign off in round one.

Handover

Every file in every format, guidelines, and a design.md plus tokens for your engineers. We answer Slack messages for 30 days after.

How much does brand identity design cost?

Essentials $15,000, Growth $20,000, Enterprise $30,000. Website $12,000, landing page $6,000, Essentials plus website $25,000. Launch campaign $8,000, Campaign Refresh $4,000/month. Brand Strategy $2,500, merch design from $5,500, and the Founder Brand Teardown $1,200, credited in full toward any identity project booked within 30 days.

How long does a branding project take?

Essentials 2–3 weeks, Growth 3–4 weeks, Enterprise 5–6 weeks. Website 3 weeks (4 alongside a brand project), landing page 1–2 weeks, launch campaign 3 weeks. Brand Strategy 1–2 weeks, teardown within a week. All from brief sign-off to handover.

Do you design and build websites?

Yes. A website is $12,000 and takes 3 weeks (4 alongside a brand project): up to six pages in Next.js, with a lightweight CMS built into the site. A landing page is $6,000 in 1–2 weeks, credited toward a website if you book one later. Essentials plus a website is $25,000.

Do you make launch campaigns and ad creative?

Yes. A launch campaign is $8,000 and takes 3 weeks: one idea from two routes and around 20 assets, from social ads to billboards and bus stops. Campaign Refresh is $4,000/month on a 3-month minimum, for about 10 new variants a month. We don't buy media or run shoots.

What is included in a brand identity package?

Essentials: primary and secondary logo, colour system, typography, usage guidelines, and a design.md plus design tokens with every file in every format. Growth adds merch and ad creatives. Enterprise adds animation, illustration and an event package.

Do you work with early-stage startups?

Yes, they're most of the work. Clients include CodeRabbit, Hacktron, Sparkles, Databuddy and DeepTrace.

Where is Happy Pizza Studio based?

Austin, Texas. Most clients are remote, across the US and worldwide.

How do I start a project?

Book a 15-minute discovery call. No brief needed: we write it back at you, with scope, timeline and cost on one page.

Do you offer brand strategy separately from design?

Yes. Brand Strategy is $2,500 on its own: positioning, naming, messaging and a competitor audit.

Do you design startup merch and swag?

Yes. Merch design starts at $5,500: tees, hoodies, caps, totes, stickers, pins and conference collateral, print-ready.

How do projects get paid?

50% to kick off, 50% on final delivery. Nothing is due until you've approved the proposal.

Not sure which package fits?

Book a 15-min callThat's what the call is for. I'll tell you exactly what you need.