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Creative on retainer

Hire a What a Story animator or designer. On your team, on retainer.

Ten years of SaaS video craft at the cost of one hire. A full-time creative from $490 a month, part-time from five hours a week. Trained by us, working for you, under contract.

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Our team has made videos for

You are here because

You need an animator or a designer this month, not a six-week agency project
The job posts bring portfolios, not SaaS experience
A good hire takes three months to find and three more to learn your product
Freelancers disappear mid-sprint, and every new one starts from zero
Your content calendar needs hands every week, not one hero video a year
The tools change every quarter and nobody on your team has time to learn them
An in-house creative is a fixed cost your runway cannot carry yet
You want one person who knows your product, not a different one on every ticket

Then borrow one of ours

Hiring in-house vs borrowing from us

Hiring an in-house creative
Three months to find, three more to ramp up on your product
One skill set, one style, one point of failure
Training, tools and software land on your payroll
A resignation resets everything to zero
Borrowing from What a Story
Starts within a week, already fluent in SaaS products
Trained across video and design, kept current by us
One flat monthly fee, change hours or level any month
A stand-in from the same team if your person is away

The same team behind 1,200+ videos for 650+ companies

Since 2015 our animators and designers have made videos for SaaS companies of every size. Now one of them can sit on your team.

What a job post cannot give you

Every creative on retainer comes with:

A decade of SaaS video craft, since 2015
Training that continues at What a Story, at no cost to you
A monthly call with our CEO, Vikas Tiwari
A signed contract: your work, your confidentiality, no other client during the term
Hire a SaaS animator or designer on retainer | What a Story
Build your plan

One creative. Your hours. Your level.

Move the two sliders. The price is per creative, per month, with everything below included.

Hours per week20 hrsPart-time
52040, dedicated

At 40 hours your creative works for you and nobody else.

Experience levelSenior
ExperiencedSeniorExpert

Owns a deliverable end to end and proposes the approach.

Creative on retainer
$600/month
per creative, 20 hours a week, senior
  • A named animator or designer, under contract
  • Trained and kept current by What a Story
  • A monthly call with our CEO
  • Your tools, your hours, your briefs
  • Change hours or level any month
Secure your creative

Billed monthly, in advance. Pause or stop at the end of any month.

What your creative can take on

Explainer and launch videos
01

Product explainers, feature launches and campaign films, scripted with you and animated in your brand.

Product demos and walkthroughs
02

Screen-based demos, onboarding flows and tutorials that use your real UI, updated as the product changes.

Short-form and social cuts
03

Ads, teasers and cut-downs of your core videos for LinkedIn, YouTube and paid campaigns, every week.

UI motion and micro-animations
04

Feature animations, interface motion and loaders for your website, your app and your decks.

Pitch decks and landing pages
05

Investor decks, sales decks and landing page design that match the videos.

Brand and marketing design
06

Social statics, one-pagers, email graphics and the rest of the collateral your calendar asks for.

What you get, beyond the hours

A person, not a ticket queue. This comes with every retainer.

A named creative, under contract

You meet them before you sign. They work your hours, in your tools, on your briefs, and on no other client during the term.

Training that never stops

Your creative keeps learning at What a Story: new tools, new techniques, every quarter. You get the upgrade without the training budget.

A monthly call with our CEO

Thirty minutes with Vikas Tiwari each month to review the work, adjust hours or level, and plan the next month.

A team behind the person

Stuck on a brief? Your creative can ask the team that has made 1,200+ videos since 2015. That knowledge comes with them.

How it works

Tell us the role

Animator, designer or both. The tools you use, the hours you need, and the work on your plate for the next quarter.

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Meet your creative

We propose one or two people from the team. You see their work and talk to them before you decide.

02
Plug them in

Contract signed, access granted. Your creative joins your Slack, Notion or whatever you run, and starts within a week.

03
Review every month

A monthly call with our CEO. Keep going, change the hours or the level, or stop at the end of any month.

04

Who this is for

Companies that need creative hands every week, with SaaS experience built in.

Early-stage startups

One animator or designer, part-time, for the launch quarter. No payroll, no notice period.

Growing SaaS companies

A dedicated creative who owns your content calendar: launches, ads, demos, decks.

Established technology companies

Two or three creatives on retainer as an extension of your marketing team, with one call a month to steer them.

Data Driven Results

10+
Years of
Experience
1200+
Quality Videos that
delivers
7X
Conversion vs. traditional
demo videos
85%
Reduction in Customer
acquisition cost
28%
Average time saved on demo Creation
Creative on retainer

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Videos that move the needle

Pretty animations don't close deals. Clarity does. See how top SaaS teams use our strategic videos to raise rounds, boost MRR, and shorten their sales cycles.

Got a $15,000 quality video for a fraction of the cost.
Corey Feldman
CEO @ Protego Health
ZELIQ Raised $15Mn Series A, with What a Story Video.
Laura P.
Head of Marketing @ ZELIQ
Got government buy-in with a pitch video delivered in just 7 days
Rizwan Goheer
Founder @ NHS Scotland
Our MRR increased $30k with a significant rise in signups.
Renata Schwegler
Product Designer @ Modifi
One single video helped us reach 265k people organically.
Ian Hutchinson
Director of BD @ Duplocloud
Creative, Professionals, and quick with changes.
Johanna van Doorn
Head of Marketing @ Membrain
One video upped conversion by 50% in a single month
Sergiu Cazac
CEO @ Personizely
What a Story delivered a high-quality explainer video quickly.
James Anthony
Sr. Product Manager @ PayCloud+
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