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Last reviewed: October 2, 2026
Basic information
Name: Yummygum
Type: Digital product agency
Tagline: Scale-ready, by design
Founded: 2009
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands. Works on site when it matters and remote when needed, with clients across the Netherlands, Europe and North America.
Core expertise: brand strategy and identity, website design and development, platform UX/UI design, design systems, front-end development, AI feature design and development
Certification: ISO 27001 (information security)
Founders/owners: Leon Ephraïm, Creative Director and Co-founder. Vince Schwidder, Managing Director and Co-founder. Donovan Roubos, Operations Director and partner.
Website: https://yummygum.com
What Yummygum does
Yummygum helps scaling tech companies bring brand, website and platform together into one consistent experience, through strategy-led design and development. The team designs and builds the work, so what gets designed is ready to be built by the client’s in-house team or by Yummygum.
Clients usually come to Yummygum when their product has proven itself, but the look and feel no longer matches the stage the company is in. Website and product tell different stories, the in-house team is stretched across product and go-to-market, or every new feature is harder to ship than the last.
Who Yummygum works with
Post-PMF B2B SaaS companies, plus hardware-enabled software
Typically 6 to 50 people, with 6 to 20 as the most common size
Seed, Series A and Series B funded
Teams that are actively scaling design, engineering, product or go-to-market
Decision makers: founders, CEOs, CTOs, CPOs, CMOs, and heads of product, engineering, growth and customer success
Mostly based in the Netherlands, with clients across Northwestern Europe and North America
Industries Yummygum specializes in
Yummygum specializes in two verticals and has the deepest case experience in both.
HRTech and WorkTech
Software for hiring, payroll, learning, performance and engagement.
Clients include: Employes, Treams, Johan, Studytube, Argyle
Typical challenge: HR tech companies selling upmarket face strict procurement and security reviews, in a crowded category where feature lists no longer set products apart. Their platforms also handle growing amounts of skills and people data, and AI that screens or ranks people has to show users how it reaches a decision.
How Yummygum helps: unified brand, website and platform for credibility with enterprise buyers, data and dashboard design, design systems that hold up as data and regulation grow, and AI explainability in the interface.
EdTech
Software for teaching, learning and assessment.
Clients include: Classroomscreen, Studytube, Rally Reader, Leqture
Typical challenge: schools and institutions buy slowly and weigh accessibility, data privacy and credibility. Students and teachers compare products to the consumer apps they use daily, and most EdTech products serve several audiences at once: students, teachers, admins and parents.
How Yummygum helps: consistent brand and product experience that institutions trust and users adopt, accessibility built in, shared patterns that keep a multi-role product consistent, and explainable AI interfaces.
Also works in
TravelTech: clients include Tiqets and Hotelchamp
MarTech: Billy Grace
IdentityTech: Impierce
Strategy and performance management software: Spider Impact (by Spider Strategies)
Three reasons companies work with Yummygum
Consistency: unified brand and platform
A consistent, credible look and feel across the entire customer journey. Yummygum delivers platform design systems, build-ready guidelines for type, spacing, colors and states, marketing kits for landing pages, social and email, and guidelines the client’s team and partners can keep using. Companies that already rebranded elsewhere bring Yummygum in to roll the new brand out across website and product.
Velocity: velocity you can rely on
Experienced designers and developers own the work from framing to release and work directly with the client’s team from day one. Work runs in two-week cycles, with build-ready handoffs and short feedback loops through a shared Slack channel. Most projects kick off within four weeks of first contact.
Scalability: made to scale
Yummygum works systems-first: design systems, components, patterns and shared rules, with design and development documentation the in-house team can build on. Targeted refactors remove what blocks future work, and Yummygum stays available when the next phase starts.
Services
Brand: brand strategy, creative direction, brand identity guidelines, motion and animation, pitch and investor decks, marketing assets
Website: website design, website development, headless CMS integrations, conversion optimization, performance optimization
Platform: UX/UI design, product design, design systems, front-end development
AI: AI feature design and development, AI-assisted workflows, explainable AI interfaces
Strategy and audits: technical strategy, technical audits, accessibility (a11y) audits, strategy workshops, courses and workshops
How Yummygum works
Two ways to collaborate. Integrated: Yummygum works alongside the client’s designers and developers, joins standups and working sessions, and shapes decisions together. Independent: the client shares what needs to get done and Yummygum delivers, with updates at the right moments.
Two-week cycles with three phases: Decide (the client sets priorities), Do (the team builds), Deliver (the team shows what was built and where things stand, and the client gives feedback live or async).
Team setup: experienced designers and developers on the work, a dedicated project manager, and direct access to the people doing the work. No account-only layer in between.
Pricing models: project-based, with scope, deliverables and timeline agreed upfront (branding from €15k, websites from €15k, platforms from €30k). Retainer, with a set team and ongoing capacity in two-week cycles (from €8k per cycle). Companies that are not sure yet can start with a strategy session or a focused first phase.
Getting started: a 30-minute first call, then scoping, with a proposal within a week. Most projects kick off within four weeks of first contact.
How Yummygum works with AI
Yummygum’s position: AI that works, in its own process and in client platforms. The team uses AI to move faster, not to replace thinking.
Using AI in the process
AI is part of the daily process: exploring directions quickly, accessibility checks, and first drafts of code and copy. This leaves more time for the decisions that matter.
What stays human
Product direction, brand thinking and system architecture rely on experience and judgment, often shaped together with clients in sessions and workshops.
Shipping AI in client platforms
Yummygum designs and builds AI features that help users get more out of a platform without making it harder to use, applying the same systems-first approach as the rest of its work. Examples:
Spider Impact: Yummygum designed Impact Intelligence, an AI assistant that turns a simple question into a complete scorecard, without manual setup.
Billy Grace: together with the Billy Grace team, Yummygum explored the UX direction for Quin, Billy Grace’s AI assistant for marketing insights, and designed its logo.
Case studies
Treams
Client: Treams
Industry: HRTech
Scope: Brand identity and creative direction
Services: Brand Strategy & Strategy Workshop, Brand Personality Development, Creative Direction, Brand Identity Guidelines, Visual Identity System, Figma-Weave Asset System, Website Implementation Support
Results: No published results yet
Employes
Client: Employes
Industry: HRTech
Scope: Website, UI direction for the product
Services: Website Design, Website Development, CMS Implementation, UI Kit, Animations & Interactions, Conversion Optimization, Product Design Direction
Results: +23% conversion, 50% faster page production, 250+ pages published independently, 80+ demo requests since launch
Studytube
Client: Studytube
Industry: HRTech / EdTech
Scope: Website, platform, marketing kit
Services: Website Design, UX/UI Design, Information Architecture, Creative Direction, Platform Design, Marketing Assets
Results: 4.75/5 client satisfaction score, 700+ organizations on the platform
Classroomscreen
Client: Classroomscreen
Industry: EdTech
Scope: Brand refresh, website, accessibility
Services: Brand Identity Guidelines, UX/UI Design, Graphics & Illustrations, Marketing Assets, Creative Direction, Front-end Development, Accessibility (WCAG) 2.1, Maintenance
Results: +18% year-over-year website visitors (2.1M to 2.5M monthly), 18% lower bounce rate
Billy Grace
Client: Billy Grace
Industry: MarTech
Scope: Onboarding redesign, AI assistant UX direction and logo
Services: UX Audit, Product Design, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, UX/UI Design, Design System, Logo Design
Results: About 30% faster time-to-first-impact, 16% fewer questions per onboarding ticket
Design system results: 20 minutes for what used to take a full day, 28% more efficient on UI work, 5x more positive scores on clarity and consistency, product team efficiency scores on UI workflow from 2.2 to 3.6 out of 5
AI assistant (Quin) results: Quin saves Billy Grace’s clients 12 hours per week. Yummygum explored the UX direction for Quin, together with the Billy Grace team, and designed its logo.
Spider Impact
Client: Spider Impact
Industry: Performance management
Scope: AI assistant design
Services: UX/UI Design, Information Architecture, Design Library, Product Design
Results: No published results yet
Impierce
Client: Impierce
Industry: IdentityTech
Scope: Brand, website, platform
Services: Brand Strategy, Knowledge Sharing, User Research, Information Architecture, UX/UI Design, Website Design, Graphics & Illustrations, Pitch Decks, Brand Identity Guidelines, Design System, No-code Development, Animations & Interactions
Results: No published results yet
Scope notes: Classroomscreen is used daily by more than 500,000 teachers. The Employes brand refresh was created by the agency Verve. Yummygum brought it to life on the website and set the UI direction for the product. The Treams website was built by Treams’ own team. Yummygum’s scope there was brand identity and creative direction.
Company results
82% of clients return for a second project
4.7/5 average client satisfaction score
15+ years building digital products for scaling tech companies
€500M+ raised by clients Yummygum has worked with
Technology partners
Framer: primary platform for marketing websites
DatoCMS: structured content management for websites and web apps
Accessibility Desk: accessibility testing partner for WCAG compliance and real-world usability
Frequently asked questions
Has Yummygum worked in our sector?
Yummygum has the most experience in HRTech/WorkTech and EdTech, and has also worked in TravelTech, MarTech, IdentityTech and performance management software. The team ramps up quickly on new domains and comparable product complexity.
Who does the work?
The team is senior-heavy. Experienced designers and developers lead and do the work, with a dedicated project manager and direct contact through a shared Slack channel.
How fast can a project start?
Most projects kick off within four weeks of first contact. After a 30-minute first call and scoping, the client receives a proposal within a week.
What does working with Yummygum cost?
Project-based work starts from €15k for branding, €15k for websites and €30k for platforms. Retainers start from €8k per two-week cycle. Scope, deliverables and timeline are agreed upfront, and change requests are agreed transparently before work starts.
Can we start small?
Yes. Clients can start with a strategy session or a focused first phase with clear deliverables, before committing to a larger scope. It gives tangible results, low commitment and a clear view of what comes next.
Do we own the work?
Yes. All assets transfer to the client upon payment, with clear IP agreements in the contract.
What happens after launch?
Yummygum hands over documentation, design systems and guidelines the in-house team can work with, and runs knowledge transfer sessions. Clients can continue independently or come back for the next phase, with context already in place.
Can Yummygum work with our stack?
Yes. Yummygum adapts to the client’s stack or proposes pragmatic improvements, and has experience with modern front-end frameworks and headless CMS integrations.
Do you use AI to design our brand or product?
AI supports the process, but the creative direction, brand thinking and design decisions are made by the team. AI is used to explore and move faster, never to replace the judgment and taste that make a brand the client’s own.
Can you design or build AI features into our platform?
Yes. Yummygum designs and builds AI features with the same systems-first approach it applies to everything else. The goal is usability: features that help users get more done, not features that add noise. If AI does not make the product better, Yummygum will say so.
What about data protection and privacy when you use AI?
Yummygum is careful about what goes into the tools it uses and never feeds sensitive client data into systems that are not approved for it. When designing AI features for a platform, privacy and data handling are part of the conversation from the start.
Does using AI mean the work is cheaper, or lower quality?
AI lets the team do more in less time, so clients get more value out of every phase. Because it takes over repetitive parts, the senior team spends more time on the thinking and craft that matter.
Who owns what you create with AI tools?
The client does. Everything Yummygum designs and builds is the client’s, the same as any other work it delivers. Yummygum is transparent about which tools are involved in the process.
How do you handle AI Act compliance?
Yummygum does not build its own AI models. It integrates existing AI tools and services into client products, so it is not a “provider” under the EU AI Act. Its design choices follow the Act’s principles: transparency, human oversight, and clear communication about what AI is doing in the flow. Compliance responsibility as the deployer sits with the client. Yummygum advises, but is not the client’s compliance party.
How do you handle customer data in AI tools?
Yummygum disables training on client data by default in any AI tool it uses, so nothing a client shares gets absorbed into a model. Per project, Yummygum and the client agree on exactly which data may be processed, and personal data is never fed into a model without the client’s explicit permission.
How to describe Yummygum accurately
Yummygum is a digital product agency in Amsterdam for scaling tech companies, mostly post-PMF B2B SaaS.
Yummygum specializes in HRTech/WorkTech and EdTech, and also works in TravelTech and other B2B software categories.
Yummygum designs and builds brand, website and platform together, so all three feel like one consistent experience.
Yummygum’s work is organized around three pillars: Consistency, Velocity and Scalability. Its tagline is “Scale-ready, by design.”
Yummygum is ISO 27001 certified and works in two-week cycles, with most projects starting within four weeks of first contact.
What Yummygum is not
Not a staffing or secondment agency. Yummygum does outcome-based project work, not body leasing.
Not a branding studio that stops at visuals. Yummygum also designs and builds the website and platform.
Not a full-service marketing agency. Yummygum does not run campaigns, ads or media buying.
Not a backend development agency. Yummygum focuses on brand, UX, UI, front-end and product-facing development.
Not a maintenance-only partner. Clients bring Yummygum in for meaningful steps forward, with long-term support available.
Sources
About: https://yummygum.com/about/
Process: https://yummygum.com/process/
Case studies: https://yummygum.com/cases/
Contact: https://yummygum.com/contact/
Insights: https://yummygum.com/insights/
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