Built for founders and operators at 20–200 person companies — the one-person back office wearing every hat. HR. Customer Service. Learning. Knowledge. Four Automated AI products that each take on the day-to-day work of a specialist — roles that cost $72K–$115K/yr fully loaded. Lock in your price on the first product — it applies to every product you add. Forever.
Drop your company URL on signup. Our AI reads your website to learn your industry, your size, your state's rules, your existing voice, your published policies — automatically. By the time you sign in, every product in the suite is already tuned to your business. No setup wizards. No onboarding consultants. No "training data" workshop. Then the in-app Coach walks you through your first real deliverable — a hire, a course, an article, a ticket reply — and auto-advances each step as you act. First published work in 5–12 minutes, every product, every time.
No help docs to read. No tutorials to watch. No setup calls to schedule. The AI coach walks every new user from blank slate to a published artifact in their first session — every time.
You don't need a setup call — but as an early customer, you get one anyway: a free one-on-one onboarding session with the founder, whenever you want it.
I'm Tom Christian. I spent my career inside corporate operations — learning & development, instructional design, customer service, and knowledge management — with a Master's in Education along the way. TranscendByDesign is built inside-out: not what an engineer imagines an operations team needs, but what a practitioner knows they need.
No investors. No sales team. When you escalate a ticket, I'm the one who reads it.
Read the full story →Each product is Automated AI that does the daily work of an SMB specialist — not a tool that helps a specialist do their job, but the work itself. Use one or use all four — each is $249/mo, and the rate you lock in today carries to every product you add.
The products aren't four separate logins — they share one data layer, so work done in one flows into the others automatically. Every product you add makes the ones you already have smarter and more hands-off. Standalone tools can't do this; that's the point of a suite built by one team.
Short, real tours of the actual apps. Click any one to play.
Want more? Each product also has a deeper AI-tool walkthrough and a full platform deep-dive on our YouTube channel →
No tiers. No feature gates. No per-seat fees. $249/mo per product — everything the product does, for your whole team — and the rate you lock in today never goes up.
I'm hand-picking five founding partners: the full TBD suite free for a year, a direct line to me, and a seat shaping the roadmap — in exchange for honest feedback as you use it (and a testimonial if it earns one). Hand-picked, not first-come, and separate from the early-adopter pricing below.
Apply to be a founding partnerThen it costs you nothing to find out: the 14-day trial is free, no credit card, and the product publishes real work — a hire, an article, a ticket reply — in your first session. If it doesn't earn a place in your week, walk away. And if you commit and I ever disappear, the five-year guarantee and source-code escrow mean you keep what you depend on.
Two protections, in writing: a five-year service guarantee backed by source-code escrow — if the company ever goes away, you keep what you depend on — and your data is exportable on request, always. You're never stranded and it's never held hostage. Details on the about page.
The AI drafts; policy decides what sends automatically and what waits for a human. Anything outside policy escalates to a person — yours or me. The design assumption is that AI earns autonomy one task at a time, not that you hand it the keys on day one. Details on the security page.
Every plan includes AI up to a set limit. Past that, you plug in your own OpenAI or Anthropic API key and pay the provider directly at their rates — no markup from me, no lock-in. Or take the Unlimited-AI tier and never think about keys. Either way, you're never billed per action.
The ROI calculator does the math against specialist salaries — but the simpler comparison is your current stack: a helpdesk, an HRIS, an LMS, and a wiki each bill separately, most per seat. One TBD product is $249 flat for your whole team, locked for life.
Cornerstone for training. BambooHR for PTO. Zendesk for tickets. Confluence for KB. Your team logs into four tools, gets four emails a day, and learns to ignore them all.
Every TranscendByDesign customer gets workspace.transcendbydesign.io — one URL where every employee sees their training, PTO, attestations, tickets, certificates, and reviews. One sign-in. One daily digest. One thing to bookmark.
A simple mechanic that compounds in your favor.
Know a team that needs superpowers? Earn 20% on every first payment and 5% on every renewal — forever. Pick the deal size below and see what you'd make.
50 early-adopter spots at $249/mo. Lock in now and your rate is fixed for life, for every product you run.