Sharpen Partners

Sharpen's elite designers turn smart investments into exceptional exits. THE STARTUP LANDSCAPE HAS CHANGED Usability and customer experience are the key differentiators separating good products from exceptional investments. But it’s almost impossible to find business-savvy design consultants who understand the full product lifecycle— from the needs of a pre-seed startup to the customer- and employee-experience challenges of a game-changing market leader and a lucrative exit. This is why startup investors, founders, and enterprise intrapreneurs choose Sharpen Partners. Our team of veteran product designers draw on diverse careers in research, technology, architecture, business, and the arts to assemble the perfect team for your new or re-imagined product. Contact Sharpen for a free remote consultation with our product-design leaders to see how we bring ideas to life and transform them into results. Service packages for every product & every need. GO FROM ZERO TO PROOF OF CONCEPT IN JUST ONE WEEK Our team joins your squad for a one-week Unicorn Invasion design sprint, leveling-up your project with a mixture of business analysis and user research all the way to information architecture and high-fidelity visual design. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO GO TO MARKET IN AS LITTLE AS TWELVE WEEKS Experience Transformation is our proven and repeatable process for elevating both the user’s experience and the business’ results through the rigorous application of design-thinking and an omnichannel approach to tactical execution. PRODUCT-DESIGN LEADERSHIP— A PARTNERSHIP FROM BEGINNING TO END Our design leaders and consultants join your startup to help with every phase of customer- and employee-experience work by offering creative pricing that converts a third of our fee in exchange for equity.