Elysium Designs has a rule most studios say out loud and almost none actually follow: never start designing before you know exactly what's broken. Not what the founder feels is broken — what's actually broken. That one rule is why a deliberately small, deliberately senior studio has been hired by more than sixty companies since 2022, from an AI-powered executive search platform in Austria to an agent-native engineering platform in the US.

None of that is easy to verify from a homepage, so here's the version with the receipts: the services, the four-phase process, three named case studies with real timelines and results, the pricing, and exactly who's behind it.

What Elysium Designs Is

Elysium Designs is a branding, product, and UI/UX design studio founded in 2022 by Shiva Bajpai — who also built Sarv, the studio's venture studio, and the rest of the Sarv product family — alongside co-founder Radhika. It's deliberately small and deliberately senior: no juniors quietly training on a client's budget, no bench padded with hours nobody asked for. The core team includes Kai as lead product designer, Olivia leading brand design, Felix on development, Tyler on motion design, Ryan on AI engineering, Harsh on product, and Shivansh on growth, with a wider bench of 20-plus designers it pulls in when a project needs the extra hands.

The studio's whole discipline is refusing to start a project before it knows what's actually broken. A founder feels like their site looks dated, or their brand doesn't match how big the company's actually gotten — the brief that comes out of that feeling usually aims at the symptom, not the cause. Elysium's house rule is diagnose before you design: figure out whether the real problem is a confusing product, a brand that doesn't say what the company has become, or a site nobody trusts enough to hand over a card, before a single pixel gets pushed.

Services

Elysium Designs works across five service lines, usually in some combination rather than in isolation:

• UI/UX Design — user research, wireframing, prototyping, and visual design for web and product interfaces.
• Branding & Strategy — positioning, visual identity, voice and tone, and brand guidelines built to survive contact with a real company, not just a pitch deck.
• Product Design — product strategy, UX flows, design systems, and usability testing for teams shipping past their first version.
• Website Design — landing pages, responsive builds, CMS design, and design systems for marketing sites that need to convert, not just look finished.
• Motion Design — micro-interactions, animated UI, explainer videos, and motion graphics for products that need to show something, not just say it.

How Elysium Designs Works: The Four-Phase Process

Every engagement runs through the same four phases, regardless of which service lines are involved:

1. Ideation & Strategy — understanding what's actually broken before any design work begins.
2. Wireframe & Prototype — mapping the user flow before it becomes a visual design.
3. Execution & Deployment — building and shipping the real, live product.
4. Release & Support — staying on for updates and maintenance after launch instead of disappearing at handoff.

Case Studies: Highflyers, Factory, and Jether

Highflyers (Austria)

Highflyers is an AI-powered executive search platform. Elysium delivered web design, UI/UX, and brand identity in six weeks. It's live at highflyers.ai.

Factory (United States)

Factory is an agent-native software engineering platform. Elysium delivered web design, UI/UX, and brand identity in seven weeks, for a product Factory reports runs at a 98.7% validation pass rate. It's live at factory.ai.

Jether (United States)

Jether is a cybersecurity SaaS platform. Elysium delivered brand identity and web design built specifically to communicate resilience and protection — the visual language had to earn trust from security buyers, not just look clean.

Results Clients Report

• BB's Backing — leads and conversions up 10x after the redesign.
• Gently — bounce rate down, time-on-site tripled.
• Axiv — 3x inbound inquiries and $100K+ in deals closed.

Who Else Has Worked With Elysium Designs

Sixty-plus companies in, the client list also includes Allora, Sherlock, REX, Bremont, Speakeasy, Arc, Quizard, Quper, Spot AI, and Unstuck — mostly AI, cybersecurity, fintech, and consumer companies moving too fast to afford a design partner who needs six weeks just to understand what the product does.

Pricing and Timelines

Project-based engagements start around $10,000+; ongoing retainers run $6,000–$10,000 a month. There's no public rate card — pricing is quoted after a discovery call, once the scope is actually clear. Most projects run two to six weeks from concept to delivery, and the studio can usually start within one to two weeks. The best fit is a funded or traction-stage team in SaaS, consumer, or fintech that needs senior design without hiring a full in-house team.

What Elysium Designs Is Building for Itself

The same taste the studio rents out to clients also gets pointed at its own ideas. DropHaus — a marketplace for limited-run digital drops — started as an internal experiment inside Elysium before it became a real product on its own, and now runs on the Sarv shelf, Elysium's venture studio. Inspire, a curated feed of standout design work at inspire.elysiumdesigns.in, grew the same way: something the studio built to answer its own question — "what does great actually look like right now" — that turned out to be useful to more than just the team.

Elysium Designs and Sarv

Sarv — short for Sarvagya AI — is Elysium's venture studio: SarvTrack and the rest of the product shelf are built outright by the same team, under that name. Elysium itself keeps running as the studio proper, with its own name, its own clients, and its own P&L, but the same underlying discipline: diagnose before you design, ship instead of theorize.

Sixty-plus projects in, the rule hasn't moved: diagnose first, design second. If that's the kind of partner you're after, you now have the whole picture. And if you just wanted to know who's behind the name — Elysium, the studio behind Sarv.