Product Design Agency

Your design strike team
on demand.

Your core team is heads down shipping the roadmap. But you have ideas that can't wait, features in discovery, and MVPs that need polish. Tiger Team Studios exists for these very moments. Like the original NASA Tiger Team, we parachute in, solve it, and move on.

Book a call See our work

View all recent work

What we do:

Design Sprints
Team Expansion
UI/UX Refinement
Design systems

Who we work with

Founders & CEOs
Product Leaders
Early-Stage Startups
Innovative Enterprises

The Why:

“I spent 10 years watching some of the most adopted and successful products not come from a road map. They came out of hackathons and side-projects, big bet ideas that felt too risky to put resources on.

I started Tiger Team Studios to de-risk those big bets before they die in a backlog.”

Trevor Borden, Founder

Pricing & How We Work

We offer three types of services:

AI-Powered Rapid Prototyping

$8k-$15k3-6 weeks

Working coded prototypes to validate ideas—with strategic thinking AI can't provide.

Perfect for:

Testing features or new product directions with real users
Investor-ready demos that close funding rounds
Adjacent products outside your core roadmap
De-risking bets before allocating engineering teams

What you get:

Strategy session: what are we testing? what validates success?
User-testable prototype with realistic interactions
AI-accelerated build (Cursor, Claude, v0) + iteration cycles
Clean handoff and recommendation: build, kill, or pivot

How we work:

Week 1

Discovery & Strategy

Strategy session. Shape the idea into a testable hypothesis.

Weeks 2-4

Build & Deliver

AI-augmented build 3-5x faster. Strategic thinking and craft AI can't match.

Weeks 4-6

Test & Refine

You test. We iterate.

Handoff

Documentation and recommendation: build, kill, or pivot.

Not sure which fit? Book a call and we'll scope it.

Our reputation

What Clients Say

"I've had the chance to work with Trevor across both consumer and enterprise-grade products, and he consistently delivers. On a recent consumer app, he quickly gathered the right inputs, translated them into thoughtful UX flows, and delivered a ready-to-use prototype in record time. When you don't have full headcount and need fast turnaround, that kind of speed and clarity is invaluable."

Anna Grigoryan

Director of Product Management, Product Leader

"They helped us validate our core feature in 4 weeks instead of 3 months. Shipped almost directly to production."

Sarah Chen

VP of Product, TechFlow Inc

"Like having a senior product engineer join overnight. Understood our vision and executed flawlessly."

Michael Rodriguez

Founder & CEO, DataVault

"The strategic thinking they brought was invaluable. We thought we knew what to build, but they helped us see the bigger picture and pivot early. That early alignment saved us months of rework and gave the whole team confidence in the direction."

Emily Watson

Head of Design, CloudSync

"Best $12k we ever spent. Production-ready in 5 weeks."

James Park

CTO, ScaleUp Labs

"Their AI-augmented approach meant we could iterate quickly without sacrificing quality. Every decision was thoughtful, every line of code was clean. We went from concept to user testing in half the time we'd budgeted, and the feedback from our beta users was overwhelmingly positive."

Lisa Thompson

Product Lead, InnovateCo

Get in touch:

Book a call with Trevor

Test an idea, scale capacity, or polish the product. We'll scope it in 30 minutes.

Frequently asked questions:

Why not just AI?

AI Tools (Lovable, v0, Bolt)

Tiger Team Studios

Starting point

Needs a clear, specific prompt to get started

Start with strategy session—we help you figure out what to build.

Design decisions

Generates generic patterns pulled from millions of existing products

Opinionated decisions for your specific users, market, and brand

Output quality

Has an "AI look" that founders, investors, and enterprise buyers recognize instantly

Prototypes polished enough to close deals and fundraising rounds

The hard questions

Builds whatever you ask, no pushback

Will tell you when the brief is wrong, the assumption is flawed, or you're solving the wrong problem

Iteration

You're on your own figuring out what to change and why

We guide the refinement based on what's working, what users responded to, and what the data says

Strategic value

None—AI executes, it doesn't advise

Strategic thinking is half the engagement—we help you validate the idea, not just build it

Best for

Known specs that need to be built fast

Fuzzy ideas that need shaping before they're built

Your design strike team on demand.