BrightStudios vs Metalab
Metalab designs, builds and ships digital products (as listed on their site, Nov 2026). BrightStudios makes the brand identity and website that explain a B2B software or AI product.
The short answer
Choose Metalab if your main need is designing and engineering the product itself, with strategy, research and engineering in one team (as listed on their site, Nov 2026). Choose BrightStudios if the product exists and the brand and marketing website need to explain it. If you’re building or rebuilding the product, Metalab is the better fit.
At a glance
Model
Fixed-fee projects. Monthly work, such as Social Media Management, is billed monthly.
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Focus
Brand identities and websites that make a B2B software or AI product easier to understand
Product design and engineering, with product strategy, UX research, brand and website work shown in its portfolio (as listed on their site, Nov 2026)
Typical buyer
Founders and marketing leaders at B2B software and AI companies
Startups and established brands (as listed on their site, Nov 2026)
Platforms
Figma for design. Framer or Webflow for builds.
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How pricing works
One flat fee per project, agreed before work starts. Paid 50% upfront and 50% on completion through Contra escrow.
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Based in
Tel Aviv, working remotely with teams worldwide
A global team with Canadian roots, with team locations listed across North America, Europe and beyond (as listed on their site, Nov 2026)
How BrightStudios works
BrightStudios is a design studio founded and led by Daniel G. Bright. We make brand identities and websites for B2B software and AI teams, usually around a launch, a move upmarket or a product that changed. Daniel leads strategy, creative direction and every relationship. Specialist designers and developers handle production and builds.
A project runs in three steps. We agree what needs to change. You review the direction before wider production starts. Then we complete the scope and hand it over. Internally, this is the BRIGHT Method: Baseline → Resolve → Identity → Go-Live Surfaces → Handoff + Track.
Our work includes OpaqAI, in AI agent governance. We designed a four-page website and redrew the core diagram so OpaqAI shows up only where it acts, and OpaqAI’s own team built the site. For Diverge, we did the brand strategy, messaging, identity, website design and Framer build.
We design in Figma and build in Framer or Webflow. The fees below are starting points, and your proposal sets one fixed fee for the agreed scope.
Brand Sprint: from $12,000, three weeks, with BrandOS included.
Website Design, design only: from $6,000 for a landing page, three weeks, and from $8,500 for a multi-page site, six weeks.
Website Design + Build: from $10,000 for a landing page in Framer or Webflow, four weeks. A multi-page site starts at $13,500 in Framer, eight weeks, or $15,000 in Webflow, six weeks.
Full BRIGHT: brand and website as one custom scope, agreed on a call.
Social Media Management: from $5,000 a month, three-month minimum.
When to choose Metalab
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You need a web or mobile product designed and engineered (as listed on their site, Nov 2026).
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You want UX research and product strategy as part of the work (as listed on their site, Nov 2026).
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You need frontend or mobile engineering from the same team that designs the product (as listed on their site, Nov 2026).
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You’re looking for a partner across many product surfaces over several years. Its work page describes long partnerships of that kind (as listed on their site, Nov 2026).
When to choose BrightStudios
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The product works, but prospects need a sales call to understand what it does.
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You need a brand identity, a marketing website, or both, and no product engineering.
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You want one flat fee for a defined scope, agreed before work starts.
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You want a Framer or Webflow site your marketing team can update after handover.
Questions
Daniel G. Bright
Founder, BrightStudios
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