Designing 20–40% faster with AI. Why teams choose Humbleteam over Elephant
Elephant is a US creative company that designs digital products and brand experiences from New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. We build AI into how design gets done, ours and yours, and that makes our app and web work 20–40% faster.
Facts about Elephant from their own site and LinkedIn · October 7, 2026
How each company describes itself
Elephant
Elephant describes itself as “a creative company for ambitious brands in a connected world.” Its about page says it creates digital product and brand experiences and works in three stages: strategy and vision; design, test and iterate; and launch, learn and evolve.
The site lists offices in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Work shown includes AbbVie, Grayscale, FX Networks, Peacock, and EA Games, and a news post reports a Webby win for the FX Networks project. Its LinkedIn page shows 51–200 employees, based in the United States.
Humbleteam
AI changed our delivery speed: apps and websites now take us 20–40% less time to design. We also install AI agents inside client design teams for handoff, resizing, asset production, design QA, and design-to-code drafts, with a human reviewing every output.
The team is 49 people in Prague and Dubai who have designed for 56 fintechs and 30+ major banks and studied 30+ healthtech platforms. We have run 200+ projects since 2017 and hold 4.9 on Clutch across 35 reviews.
Three reasons teams choose us over Elephant
Each one changes what your team can do after the project, too.
Agents that outlast the contract
Our flagship service puts AI agents into your own design workspace, on your accounts. They take handoff, resizing, asset production, design QA, and design-to-code drafts, and a human reviews each output before it ships. When the engagement ends, the agents keep working for your designers.
Timelines in writing
AI skills make our design work 20–40% faster. We took an ING banking MVP from zero to a tested product in 5 days and built a prototype for an AI text-to-video platform in 15 days. On a normal brief, a clickable prototype is ready in 2 weeks.
Years of regulated product work
Since 2017 we have designed for 56 fintechs and 30+ major banks and run 200+ projects. Senior designers on our projects average 9 years of experience, and 70% of our clients come back for another project. The first call introduces the people who will do the work.
Humbleteam vs Elephant, side by side
Every Elephant fact here is from their own site or LinkedIn page. Where they publish nothing, the row says so.
| Compared on | Humbleteam | Elephant |
|---|---|---|
| AI in delivery | AI agents installed in your design team; our own work runs 20–40% faster | Not described on the pages we read |
| Time to a tested prototype | 5 days from zero to a tested banking MVP with ING | Not published; “design, test and iterate” is named as a stage |
| Brief to first clickable prototype | 2 weeks on average | Not published on their site |
| Fintech and regulated depth | 56 fintechs and 30+ major banks | Grayscale among the work shown on their site |
| Healthtech depth | 30+ healthtech platforms studied; Eko Health and Luna Ring cases | AbbVie site redesign among the work shown |
| How fast you can start | Reply within 24 hours, start as soon as next week | Not published on their site |
| How pricing works | Fixed-price audit, scoped implementation, or monthly retainer; estimate on the first call | Not published on their site |
When Elephant is the better call
Two cases where their portfolio and offices fit better.
Streaming, TV, and gaming brands
Elephant’s work page shows FX Networks, Peacock, Twitch, and EA Games. A media or entertainment brand that wants a studio with that run of work behind it will find a close match there.
A team in your US city
Elephant lists offices in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. If your stakeholders want designers in the room on US time, that setup beats one that works from Prague and Dubai.
What AI changes in our delivery
Three facts about speed and the service that stays.
20–40%
faster app and web design
since we built AI into the process
15 days
to an AI product prototype
text-to-video platform
5 days
zero to tested product
B2B banking MVP with ING
AI work you can check
Our own AI service and two AI products we designed.
Put us on the shortlist.
Send your product and the decision you are trying to make. We reply with the cases closest to it, a timeline and an estimate — and we will say so if the other option is the better fit.
Questions?
Is Humbleteam a good alternative to Elephant?
Yes, especially if AI and speed matter to the project. With AI skills we design apps and websites 20–40% faster, and we install AI agents inside client design teams. We have also designed for 56 fintechs and 30+ banks. Elephant is a US creative company with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco and work for brands like Peacock and Grayscale.
Humbleteam or Elephant: who delivers faster?
We publish our timelines, and Elephant does not publish theirs. We reached a tested banking MVP in 5 days, a user-tested banking prototype in 23 days, and an AI product prototype in 15 days. Logitech’s desk-booking app went into production in 4 weeks, and the average brief gets its first clickable prototype in 2 weeks.
We’re building an AI product. Which team has done more of it?
We have, on the evidence each site shows. We designed platform UX for Cluely, a real-time AI meeting assistant, an AI rent forecast for Futurproof, and a 15-day prototype for an AI text-to-video platform. We also run AI agents in client design teams. The Elephant pages we read do not describe AI product work or AI in their delivery.
How big is each team, and who does the work?
Humbleteam counts 49 people in Prague and Dubai, and the senior designers you meet first, averaging 9 years of experience, do the design work. Elephant lists 51–200 employees on LinkedIn and offices in three US cities, and its site has a people page. It does not say how a project team is put together.
How much does each cost, and how soon can we start?
Neither company publishes prices. Pick a fixed-price audit, a scoped implementation, or a monthly retainer; we give the estimate on the first call. We respond within 24 hours, and next week works as a start date. Elephant lists city email addresses for New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco and does not publish pricing.
Other comparisons
Same structure, same sourcing rules, one page per shortlist we keep meeting.
What we checked, and when
Everything stated about Elephant on this page comes from their own public pages, read onOctober 7, 2026. We describe what they are strong at, not what they are bad at. If something here is out of date or wrong, write to hi@humbleteam.com and we will fix the page.
- elephant.is — home · read October 7, 2026
- elephant.is — about · read October 7, 2026
- elephant.is — work · read October 7, 2026
- LinkedIn — Elephant company page · read October 7, 2026
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