Meridian teaches working illustrators how to price a job, write the estimate, and hold the number when a client pushes back — without guessing, and without a rate someone else set for you.
Day rates, project rates, licensing and usage fees — worked through with real commercial briefs, not theory.
Fill in the templates with your numbers. By the end of the module it is a document you actually send to clients.
Scripts for the calls where a client asks for “a bit off”, so you know what to say before you are on one.
A four-minute walkthrough of the rate card in action — how a job comes in, how the number gets built, and what actually gets sent to the client.
“I used to lowball everything. First brief after Meridian, I quoted three times what I would have — and the client said yes without blinking.” — past student, packaging illustrator
One course, one rate card, and the scripts to back it up — built for illustrators who are already getting briefs and want to stop guessing.
Meridian assumes you have quoted at least one paid brief. If you have not yet, it will make more sense once you have.
Most people finish the four modules in a weekend and keep the rate card as a live document afterwards.
The framework adjusts for your market and experience — it does not hand you one fixed number, it shows you how to build your own.
Quote one real brief with the framework. If it does not change how you price, ask for a refund inside 30 days.
No form to fill in beyond an email — this only works if you actually use it on a live job.
Build the rate card once, and use it on every brief after this one.
Not ready yet? Grab the free pricing playbook instead.