How RNO1 and Together Agency Compare
Short answer: RNO1 and Together Agency are both B2B software design firms, but they differ in scope and engagement model. Together focuses primarily on product design and UX for established software teams. RNO1 spans brand strategy, product design, and digital experience, and is built for companies that need those layers to work as one system.
When you're evaluating design agency partners at the VP or C-suite level, the question isn't just who does good work — it's which firm is structured to solve the specific problem your company has right now. Picking the wrong scope of partner is expensive: you end up either paying for services you didn't need or discovering mid-engagement that the agency can't cover the ground you assumed they could.
This comparison gives you a clear picture of both firms — what each does well, where each falls short, and the decision signals that should push you one way or the other.
What Together Agency Does
Together Agency is a UK-based product design firm focused on B2B software companies. Their model is built around embedded product design — providing senior UX and interface design talent that works alongside an existing product or engineering team.
Their public positioning emphasizes long-term partnership over project delivery. The core value proposition is design continuity: rather than parachuting in for a single engagement, they work inside client teams on an ongoing basis. They've built a reputation in B2B SaaS circles, particularly with companies that already have strong product management and engineering in place but lack senior design capacity.
Their strength is the middle layer of digital product work — the parts that sit between validated product strategy and production code. User flows, interface logic, interaction patterns, and the iterative design cycles that shipping software demands. If your problem is "we have a product vision and engineers who can build it, but no design partner to own the experience layer," Together's model fits that problem cleanly.
What Together's model does not natively cover: brand identity, verbal positioning, marketing and conversion architecture, and the kind of strategic redesign that happens when a company needs to change how the market perceives it. Those are different problems — and a firm structured around embedded product UX isn't the natural starting point for solving them.
What RNO1 Does
RNO1 is a San Francisco-based digital innovation partner founded in 2010 — over 14 years serving growth-stage and enterprise technology companies. The firm covers a wider scope than most design agencies: brand strategy, visual identity, product UX and interface design, marketing website design, and digital experience — typically delivered as an integrated engagement rather than as separate workstreams.
The practical difference is that RNO1 is built for situations where the brand layer and the product layer are both broken, or where a company is about to raise, launch, expand into a new market, or emerge from an acquisition and needs everything to read as one coherent business. That kind of engagement requires someone who can hold strategy and execution simultaneously — not a firm that hands off a brand deck to a separate product agency.
RNO1's portfolio reflects this range. The Rezolve AI engagement involved unified brand experience across four acquired companies, a rebuilt mobile app, and a new website — all moving in parallel. The Interos partnership ran for seven years, covering identity, design systems, data visualization, and ongoing UX — a span that only works if a firm can hold both strategic and execution layers over time. Across RNO1's portfolio, clients have collectively reached over $10B in aggregate market growth, including 4 unicorns and 6 acquired companies.
That multi-layer coverage isn't universally useful. If your brand is strong and your only gap is senior product design capacity inside an existing team, you don't need a firm with RNO1's breadth. You need an embedded design partner — and that's a different conversation.
Comparing the Two Firms Directly
| Dimension | Together Agency | RNO1 |
|---|---|---|
| Primary scope | Product UX / interface design | Brand strategy, UX, product design, digital experience |
| Engagement model | Embedded team within existing product org | Integrated partner across brand and product layers |
| Best-fit stage | Post-product-market-fit, scaling product team | Pre-raise, post-acquisition, category repositioning, or scaling with brand gaps |
| Industry focus | B2B SaaS, enterprise software | AI/deep tech, fintech, enterprise, healthtech, Web3, logistics, cleantech |
| Brand strategy capability | Limited or separate | Core offering, delivered before product work begins |
| Design systems | Product-level component work | Brand-to-product translation: ensures what your brand promises, your product delivers |
| Conversion architecture | Not a stated focus | Marketing websites, landing pages, conversion UX |
| Geography | UK-based, distributed clients | San Francisco-based, global client base |
| Track record | Strong B2B SaaS portfolio | 4 unicorns, 6 acquired clients, $10B+ aggregate market growth across portfolio |
The row that matters most: "Best-fit stage." Together fits companies that have solved their brand question and need a design team that can sustain product velocity. RNO1 fits companies where brand, product, and digital experience haven't been unified — and where that gap is costing them in pipeline, sales cycles, or market credibility.
When to Choose Together
Together Agency is the right choice when all of the following are true:
Your brand identity is settled. You're not repositioning, rebranding, or entering a new market. The company name, visual language, and how you describe the product are all working — the only gap is UX execution inside the product itself.
You have an existing product team. You have product managers, engineers, and some design thinking in-house. You're not looking for someone to own the whole product surface — you need a senior design partner who integrates into what's already there.
Your timelines are product-sprint driven. You're running two-week cycles and need a design team that can match that cadence, not a firm that operates in six-week brand sprints or 12-week website rebuilds.
You're in a well-defined SaaS or enterprise software context. Together's methodology is calibrated for software product interfaces — the kind that B2B SaaS companies ship continuously. If your product is a complex data platform or a regulated financial product, their model may fit less cleanly.
The Nielsen Norman Group's research on enterprise UX draws a useful distinction: enterprise product design requires different skills than consumer design, and firms that specialize in it develop distinct instincts for multi-stakeholder workflows, permission structures, and complex navigation patterns. Together has built those instincts. That's a real asset if enterprise product UX is your specific problem.
When to Choose RNO1
RNO1 is the right choice in a different set of circumstances.
You're operating at a brand and product intersection. Your sales team reports that buyers don't understand what you do. Your website says one thing and your product does another. You've just closed a round and the old brand no longer fits the company. You're going to market in a new vertical or geography. These are brand-and-product problems simultaneously, and they require a firm that can solve both without a handoff gap.
You've just been through an acquisition. The Rezolve AI engagement is the clearest example from our own portfolio: four acquired companies, four product surfaces, four visual languages, and buyers seeing a fragmented business. That requires brand unification, product redesign, and website rebuild in a coordinated sequence. A product-only firm can't sequence that work correctly because they don't own the brand layer.
You're in a high-trust, regulated, or credibility-sensitive industry. In fintech, healthcare, or enterprise software sold to procurement committees, how your brand reads is part of the product. The Stanford Web Credibility Project found that design is one of the primary factors users cite when judging whether a company is trustworthy — and in regulated contexts, perceived credibility is directly tied to whether buyers move forward. RNO1's work for Amount — the banking technology company that powers digital lending for major financial institutions — reflects this directly: the design system and website had to communicate the precision and reliability that Tier 1 bank buyers require before committing production loan volume to a platform.
You want a partner with staying power. RNO1's engagements run longer than typical agency relationships — the Interos partnership ran seven years across identity, design systems, and UX. That's not accidental. The firm is structured to stay embedded in how a company thinks and builds, not to complete a project and rotate out.
The Risk in Getting This Wrong
The most common mistake technology executives make when evaluating design agencies is framing the problem too narrowly. A VP of Product evaluating a product design partner will naturally frame the problem as a product design problem — and that framing may miss the real constraint.
If buyers are confused when they land on your website, the problem isn't your product's UX. It's your positioning and your marketing site. If enterprise prospects perceive you as a startup vendor rather than an enterprise-grade platform, that's a brand perception problem — and no amount of product UX refinement fixes it.
Forrester's research on B2B buying behavior consistently shows that buyers complete a significant portion of their evaluation before ever talking to sales — most of that work happens through digital surfaces the company controls. Gartner similarly reports that B2B buyers spend only 17% of their total purchase journey meeting with potential suppliers, meaning the other 83% is shaped by how your brand reads online. Which means your website, your product interface, and your visual language are doing sales work right now, whether you've designed them intentionally or not.
McKinsey's research on B2B experience found that companies that excel at digital customer experience grow revenue roughly 5 times faster than their peers. That's not a product UX finding — it's a brand-and-product-together finding.
Picking an embedded product design firm when your real problem is a brand-and-product coherence gap means spending budget on execution without addressing the perception issues that are actually limiting growth.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Together Agency known for?
Together Agency is a B2B product design firm known for embedded UX partnerships with software companies. They specialize in providing senior product design capacity — user flows, interface design, interaction patterns — that integrates into an existing engineering and product management team. Their model is built for SaaS and enterprise software companies that have established product direction but lack senior design execution.
How is RNO1 different from Together Agency?
RNO1 covers a broader scope. Where Together focuses on product UX, RNO1 engages across brand strategy, visual identity, product design, marketing website design, and digital experience. RNO1 is structured for situations where the brand layer and the product layer both need work — or where they've drifted apart — and where a single partner needs to hold both simultaneously.
Which agency is better for a post-acquisition rebrand?
RNO1 is the more natural fit. When a company acquires another business — or is acquired — there are typically multiple brand languages, product surfaces, and customer-facing experiences that need unifying. That requires brand strategy capability alongside product and digital execution. A product-design-focused firm handles only part of that problem.
Does Together Agency work with companies outside SaaS?
Together's stated focus is B2B software companies, which covers SaaS but also broader enterprise software contexts. They have less stated positioning in sectors like fintech infrastructure, healthtech, logistics, or cleantech — industries where brand credibility and regulatory context shape design decisions in ways that go well beyond product UX.
How do I know which type of agency I actually need?
Start with the problem. If your company's main design gap is shipping and iterating on product interfaces at speed within a functioning product team, an embedded product design firm fits. If your company's main gap is how the market perceives you — on your website, in sales conversations, in the product itself — you need a partner who can work across all three layers in a coordinated way. Most companies underestimate how much of their pipeline problem is a perception problem.
Making the Call
Both Together Agency and RNO1 do credible work in the B2B software space. The question is fit, not quality.
Together is the right choice if you have a stable brand, an existing product team, and a specific gap in product design execution. They're well-suited to that problem and have built their model around it.
RNO1 is the right choice if your company is at an inflection point — post-raise, post-acquisition, repositioning, or scaling into new markets — and you need brand strategy, product design, and digital experience to move together. Amount went through a complete website and design system rebuild that supported its path to a $1B valuation and eventual acquisition by FIS. Interos became one of the few female-led enterprise unicorns in SaaS, supported by seven years of embedded partnership across identity, design systems, and UX.
If you're evaluating whether RNO1 is the right fit for where your company is right now, the fastest path to a clear answer is a direct conversation. Book a discovery call and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right partner — or point you toward someone who is.
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