We are in the business of creating intellectual property for our clients, not owning it. Trig operates on a fee-for-service basis. Any copyrightable or patentable material created within the scope of the project is assigned to the client. Trig team members are often listed as inventors on our clients patents in keeping with the requirements of the USPTO for an enforceable patent.

Professional service firms such as lawyers, management consultants, and product development firms, can be incredibly valuable to augment your company’s internal capabilities. Industrial design firms typically operate at half the billing rate of law firms and management consulting firms, but the practical management of costs remain the same.

The benefit of working with a company like Trig that can cover multiple service domains is that you can reduce the number of separate service providers required to achieve your product development goals. We build tribal knowledge alongside your team to maintain continuity of decision-making to build a coherent brand and product experience for your clients.

We have found that early stage entrepreneurs will engage Trig to assist with critical deliverables needed to achieve their next funding milestone with budgets between $5,000 and $15,000.

Larger companies who need support augmenting their teams as they pursue new categories outside of their core product line and capabilities will often engage Trig for a series of larger fixed-price projects then moving to a Managed Services Agreement for more predictable budgeting and increased flexibility.
Each of our service pages includes price ranges for the services to help you get a sense of what it truly costs to engage an industrial design firm like Trig.

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No. As a general rule of thumb, those companies who freely offer equity don’t understand what it is worth and are likely to not succeed at building equity worth investing in. Those companies that we are excited to invest in understand what the equity is worth and aren’t willing to trade it for service fees.