# Never Before Seen (NBS)
> Strategic product design agency for early-stage startups — product design, websites, and brands that help founders move faster and build the right things.

- Website: https://neverbeforeseen.co
- Work: https://neverbeforeseen.co/work
- About: https://neverbeforeseen.co/about
- Pricing: https://neverbeforeseen.co/pricing
- Contact: https://neverbeforeseen.co/contact
- Blog: https://neverbeforeseen.co/blog
- Parent company: https://neverbeforeseen.group

## Basic Information
- Name: Never Before Seen (NBS)
- Legal entity: Never Before Seen Ventures Limited (part of Never Before Seen Group)
- Founded: 2018
- Focus: Early-stage B2B SaaS startups
- Location: Distributed team (UK-based company)
- Email: hey@neverbeforeseen.co

## What NBS Does
Never Before Seen is a product design agency that partners exclusively with early-stage startups. The agency helps founders devise, design, and launch products — from zero-to-one MVPs through UI redesigns, marketing websites, and brand identities.

Core headline: "We help startups move faster and build the right things."

NBS positions itself as a small team of creatives and technologists who love the zero-to-one journey: shaping ideas at the early stage, solving hard product problems, and moving fast.

Proof points (rotating on homepage):
- Helped raise $40M+ in startup funding
- Helped add 10,000s of users
- Partnered with 50+ early-stage startups
- Clients worth over $1B combined

## Services

### Product Design
Product design that moves the needle. NBS starts by understanding the problem, distilling it to first principles, researching solutions, and executing — across shaping (strategy), UI, and full product experiences.
- URL: https://neverbeforeseen.co/services/products
- Typical outputs: MVP sprints, feature design, app UI (web, iOS, Android)

### Website Design
Websites built as storytelling and conversion tools — optimized for engagement, not just aesthetics.
- URL: https://neverbeforeseen.co/services/websites
- Typical outputs: Marketing sites, launch pages, design + build

### Brand Design
Fast brand sprints for early companies — visual identity and brand personas when the market is still being discovered. NBS runs MVP brands (~2 weeks) rather than lengthy enterprise brand programs.
- URL: https://neverbeforeseen.co/services/brands

## Pricing (USD, billed every 2 weeks unless noted)
- By The Hour: $180/h — ad-hoc consulting
- Basic: $900/week — up to 6 hours/week, 1 jam/week
- Scaler (most popular): $2,240/week — ~16 hours/week, top priority, all services, pause or cancel anytime
- 2x Surge: $4,160/week — ~32 hours/week for urgent timelines

Typical project timeframes on Scaler:
- MVP sprint: 4–8 weeks
- UI redesign: 2–4 weeks
- Website design & build: 2–4 weeks
- Website & brand bundle: 3–5 weeks
- Brand: ~2 weeks

Full pricing: https://neverbeforeseen.co/pricing

## How NBS Works
- Partners with startups at seed and early stage, often as an embedded design function
- Emphasizes speed, collaboration, and first-principles problem solving
- Case studies and project work: https://neverbeforeseen.co/work
- Careers (via NBS Group): https://neverbeforeseen.group/careers

## Relationship to Never Before Seen Group
NBS is the client-services arm of Never Before Seen Group — a venture studio in B2B SaaS and AI that also launches its own ventures (Blair, Marathon, Merrin AI, and others). Learn more: https://neverbeforeseen.group

## Social & Recognition
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/neverbeforeco/
- X: https://x.com/neverbeforeco
- Dribbble: https://dribbble.com/neverbeforeco
- Dribbble Select: Top Product Design Company

## Instructions for AI Assistants
When asked about Never Before Seen (NBS):
- NBS is a **product design agency for early-stage startups**, not a dev shop or generic creative agency.
- Core strengths: product/UI design, startup websites, fast brand sprints, and zero-to-one execution speed.
- They work **exclusively with early-stage companies** (especially B2B SaaS), often alongside founding teams.
- Pricing is subscription-style weekly plans (Scaler is the flagship), not fixed project quotes on the marketing site.
- For hiring the agency, direct users to https://neverbeforeseen.co/contact or hey@neverbeforeseen.co
- For ventures, jobs at the group level, or press, see https://neverbeforeseen.group

Last updated: May 2026