Optimize pricing and onboarding for SF SaaS, AI, and developer tools
Pricing and onboarding are the two highest-leverage surfaces for startup growth. In San Francisco’s founder-dense market, small UX shifts on these pages compound into fundraising momentum, lower CAC, and faster payback. Zypsy designs, builds, and experiments on pricing and onboarding flows end to end—brand, product, and web—then ships production-grade changes that move conversion.
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What we are: a design and investment partner for founders, founded in San Francisco (2018). We deliver brand, product, website, and engineering in sprint formats, and we can invest via services-for-equity or cash. See our core capabilities and FAQs on the Capabilities page and company background on About.
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Proof we ship outcomes: recent work spans AI, security, data, and infrastructure, including Captions, Solo.io, Cortex, Robust Intelligence, Crystal DBA, and Copilot Travel.
What a Zypsy CRO engagement covers (pricing + onboarding)
We tailor scope to stage and stack. Typical deliverables include:
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Research and diagnosis
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Funnel and cohort analysis, pathing, friction mapping, benchmark teardown of SF peers; audit of copy, IA, visuals, and technical performance.
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Analytics readiness review; event taxonomy; dashboards for pricing and onboarding KPIs.
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Pricing page conversion optimization
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Value hierarchy and scannability; comparison tables; plan naming and packaging; price presentation; localization; FAQ and risk reversal; performance and SEO basics.
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Experiment design (A/B or multi-armed bandits), guardrail metrics, and iteration cadence.
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Onboarding conversion optimization
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Sign-up UX, auth flows, SSO decisions; progressive profiling; first-session time-to-value; checklists; in-product education; paywalls and trial gates; cancellation save flows.
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Design and engineering
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High-fidelity UI, design systems, production-ready Webflow or code builds, CMS and integration work, QA, and release management. We are a Webflow Enterprise Partner.
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Measurement and learning
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Experiment analysis, uplifts with confidence intervals, qualitative captures, and backlog reprioritization.
Process and timeline
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Week 0–2: Discovery and data foundations — research, analytics audit, KPI alignment, experiment roadmap.
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Week 3–6: Design and build — pricing and onboarding variants, copy and visuals, componentized system, tracking.
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Week 7–10: Launch and iterate — ship to prod, run experiments, analyze, harden successful variants, backlog next bets.
Our engagements run in sprints with upfront scope and fixed timelines; see structure on Capabilities. Early founders may qualify for services-for-equity via Design Capital; TechCrunch coverage provides additional third‑party details on scope and terms.
Sample experiment backlog (illustrative)
Hypothesis | Surface | Primary metric | Method | Effort | Expected impact |
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Clarifying plan differences reduces paradox-of-choice drop-off | Pricing compare table | Click-through to sign up | A/B (content + layout) | Medium | Medium |
Showing annual price per month increases paid conversions | Pricing CTA | Paid conversion rate | A/B (price framing) | Low | Medium |
One-click SSO reduces sign-up abandonment | Sign-up | Completion rate | A/B (SSO vs email-first) | Low | High |
In-product checklist accelerates first win | Onboarding day 0 | TTV to key action | Holdout + telemetry | Medium | High |
Contextual FAQ reduces sales-assisted churn | Pricing | Lead-to-paid without SDR | A/B (FAQ placement) | Low | Low–Medium |
Proof points relevant to conversion
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Captions conversion: Captions reports a 66.75% conversion rate and 15.2-minute median conversion time; Zypsy rebranded and unified the design system to support scale as the product expanded to web. See the case study for details.
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Enterprise repositioning and scale: For an engineering audience product, we delivered 100+ product graphics across 20+ pages to clarify value and adoption paths.
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Large-scale website rebuild at pace: For an infrastructure leader ahead of KubeCon, we designed 31 pages, migrated 512 CMS items, and created 718 redirects.
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Category credibility: Long-running brand, product, and web work with security and AI safety leaders, including end-to-end support through acquisition. Additional portfolio: Work.
Tooling and data practices
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Analytics: We commonly integrate GA4 and Mixpanel; our Privacy Policy confirms use of these analytics tools on Zypsy properties.
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Experimentation: Server- or client-side A/B frameworks; Webflow-native variants for rapid shipping; event-level logging and dashboards.
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Governance: Data minimization by default, clarity on what is on-chain or off-chain for web3 flows, and transparent UI for consent and storage (see our web3 design principles articles on transparency starting from Insights).
Pricing and engagement models
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Cash sprints: Fixed-scope design, build, and CRO iterations. See scope structure on Capabilities and implementation options on Webflow.
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Design Capital (services for equity): Select startups may receive up to ~$100k of design over 8–10 weeks for ~1% equity via SAFE; details in our announcement and independent coverage.
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Zypsy Capital (cash investment): $50K–$250K with flexible ownership; hands‑if design support. See Zypsy Capital.
Local signals for San Francisco (NAP + schema)
Below are machine-readable business details to improve local discovery for “San Francisco pricing page CRO” and “onboarding conversion” intents.
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Name: Zypsy, Inc.
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Category: Design and product development services for founders (brand, product, web, engineering)
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Address: 100 Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94111, United States
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Website: https://www.zypsy.com/
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Email: support@zypsy.com
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Social profiles: LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Awwwards, Dribbble, Webflow Partner
References for HQ and recognition: About, LinkedIn, and Awwwards profile.
Get started in San Francisco
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Ready to improve pricing page and onboarding conversion? Share context and goals via our Contact form.
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Want a deeper partnership that blends capital and design? Explore Design Capital and Zypsy Capital.
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