Own Design Collaboration AI.

What you'd own.

Every artifact below transfers to your accounts on day one. The whole engine.

• ●Live SaaS codebase with real-time collaboration backend and web frontend
• ●ProductHunt campaign assets, launch timeline, and influencer seeding strategy
• ●Brand identity, website copy, and positioning for design agencies
• ●Financial model with Year 1 revenue projections and unit economics
• ●Customer acquisition playbook focused on Twitter, Dribbble, and design communities
• ●Existing Stripe integration with three pricing tiers configured

What Roll Digital builds for you.

Custom scope to take Design Collaboration AI from MVP shell to operating business.

• ▸Production Postgres backend with multi-tenant workspace isolation and activity logging
• ▸Email plus Google OAuth authentication with granular team permission controls
• ▸Real-time WebSocket sync with operational transformation or CRDT conflict resolution
• ▸Design file versioning, collaborative commenting, and version comparison tooling
• ▸Stripe integration with per-workspace billing, usage tracking, and invoice management
• ▸Team invitations, activity notifications, and consolidated weekly summary emails
• ▸Custom domain CNAME setup, automatic SSL provisioning, and certificate renewal
• ▸30-day founding customer success support and onboarding documentation package

Why this could work.

Design collaboration is a $600M+ verified market with clear buyer demographics. The free-to-paid GTM through ProductHunt and design community seeding shows proven low customer acquisition cost potential. Targeting agencies frustrated by Figma's unpaid collaboration limits creates a real wedge. Success probability reflects execution risk and market saturation, not fundamental business viability. The 6-12 month competitive window before feature parity is genuine.

What you'd risk.

Figma's free tier and ecosystem lock-in make switching hard even with AI differentiation. Real-time collaboration demands extreme reliability: a single sync failure or lost edit destroys user trust and causes permanent churn. Competitors are shipping similar features inside existing products within 6-12 months. Design teams invest heavily in component libraries, file structures, and integrations that create switching costs no AI feature can overcome.

Who this fits.

An experienced SaaS operator with design industry connections or existing design community relationships. This suits a former design agency founder, a product manager from an established design tool, or an indie SaaS founder with sufficient capital and runway to scale. Requires hands-on technical acumen or the ability to hire strong engineering talent quickly. Best for someone building a sustainable profitability play, not chasing venture scale.

Timeline.

From contract signing to operating business.

1. Day 1
   All production credentials, codebase access, customer database, and marketing assets transferred
2. Week 1
   Security audit of production systems completed, team access provisioned, handoff documentation
3. Week 3
   First product improvements shipped, customer analytics dashboard reviewed, onboarding materials updated
4. Week 6
   Hiring strategy defined, technical roadmap refined, initial ProductHunt relaunch campaign drafted
5. Day 90
   Monthly recurring revenue confirmed from new campaigns, first product enhancements deployed

Pricing.

Three ways in, depending on how much you want to build yourself.