Free on ADPList all year.€89 here, in three days.
You have hired designers and PMs, so you know what a portfolio does in the first thirty seconds. Twelve thousand mentors give that read away on ADPList, your calendar included. This is the same review with a Loom, written notes, a three-day deadline and a refund if you miss it; then the mock interview it leads to, the template that fills your list, and a weekly live teardown people pay to sit in.
Free to start. You keep 80%. Unanswered reviews refund themselves at the deadline.
Refunded automatically if there's no reply by Friday 25 Sep, 18:00
The form that replaces
the free 20-minute slot.
Four fields: the portfolio, the target role and level, the two case studies to focus on, and the one thing they want to know. Paid async reviews already sell at $87–99 with 48-hour delivery and a money-back guarantee; this is the same product with the refund built into the deadline. The €149 tier adds a 30-minute call for people who want to argue back.
Start from the portfolio review templateA Loom, and a scorecard
you can forward.
Fifteen minutes of screen recording, walking the portfolio the way a hiring manager does, then five scores with one sentence of evidence each and the single change to make first. The written part is what they paste to a friend and what makes the price defensible. The inbox sorts by nearest deadline and nudges you at half-time.
Loom (14:20) attached · €71.20 to your balance
Five products,
switched on in this order.
The review first, because the market already pays for it and ADPList proves the demand. Then the mock interview it leads to, the template that builds the list, and the two recurring products that keep a cohort of job-seekers together.
- 1Day one · Forms & Requests
Portfolio review, Loom in 3 days €89 · 3 days
Intake: portfolio URL, target role and level, two case studies, one question. Loom plus written scorecard within three days or an automatic refund. €149 tier with a 30-minute follow-up call. Cap at ten a week.
- 2Week one · Bookings
Mock PM / design interview €150 · 60 min
Portfolio presentation, product sense or app critique as the session type. Intake asks for the company, the round and the brief. Written scorecard within the hour after the call.
- 3Week two · Leads & CRM
Case-study template free
A one-field download in your bio and LinkedIn featured section. Contacts are tagged by discipline, level and target; you email the segment when the teardown group opens.
- 4Week four · Community
Weekly live teardown €29 / month
One 45-minute live session a week: a member's portfolio or case study on screen, taken apart together. A hiring thread on Fridays. Seven-day trial, cap at 60, recordings in the archive.
- 5Week six · Newsletter
One case study a week €8 / month
A public case study, the first thirty seconds, three problems, three fixes. The annotated version and the teardown recording sit behind the paid tier. The agent drafts; you edit.
#14 — A Staff-level case study that hides its best decision on slide nine
Public portfolio, senior product designer, B2B payments. Shared with permission. Link and the role it was written for.
Title, hero image, one line: “Reduced onboarding drop-off by 31%.” Then four paragraphs of company background before the problem appears.
The decision that mattered (killing the KYC step) is on slide nine. Process screens outnumber outcomes 8:1. No mention of what did not work.
The rewritten opening, the three-decision structure, and where the 31% belongs. Side by side with the original, with the reasoning a hiring manager would apply.
Wednesday's live session (44 min) and the case-study skeleton we used, as a Figma and a Notion page.
What the weekly issue
actually contains.
One case study taken apart: the first thirty seconds, three problems, three fixes. The problems are free, which is what gets it shared in design Slacks; the annotated fixes and the teardown recording are the paid part, which is what gets it renewed. That is the whole format, every Wednesday.
The largest product newsletter converts around four to five percent of free readers at $20 a month. You need eighty paying readers at €8, not a million free ones.
The weekly rhythm
that keeps members.
Design communities price from €9 for templates and a monthly call to $99 a month for a monthly masterclass, quarterly labs and a library of recordings. At €29 the product is one live teardown a week, and the retention mechanic is that someone's work is on screen every Wednesday. Members leave when they get hired; a seven-day trial and a visible hiring thread keep the next cohort arriving. ApplyForm grants and revokes access as people pay and cancel; you run the session.
- MondayVolunteer thread
Members post the case study they want torn down on Wednesday. First two in, with a target role, get the slot.
- WednesdayLive teardown, 45 min
Two portfolios or case studies on screen, scored against the five dimensions above. Recorded for the archive and the paid letter.
- FridayHiring thread
Roles members have seen, interviews they have had, hiring-manager notes. Anything longer than a comment becomes a €89 review.
- MonthlyHiring-manager AMA
A friend who runs design or product hiring. The reason members renew after their own portfolio is done.
Numbers from
the market.
Video walkthrough, results in 48 hours, 30-day money-back. €89 with a three-day deadline and an automatic refund is the same product with the guarantee built in.
Free is the price anchor, so the paid version has to be visibly different: a Loom, a scorecard, a deadline. The demand is not in question.
The band ADPList itself quotes for paid alternatives. A €150 mock interview with a written scorecard sits in the lower half of it.
€9 for templates and a monthly live session; $99 or $950 a year for a monthly masterclass, quarterly labs and 300 recordings. €29 with a weekly live teardown is the gap between them.
At $20 a month, 18,000 paid on 377,000 free in 2023. A weekly teardown with the annotated fixes behind the paywall is the same shape at a fraction of the list.
Refund-friendly terms are standard at $87–99, and disputes on delivered written work are rare. The deadline refund is a stronger version of the same promise.
Market figures from published industry and platform data, September 2026, rounded. Your prices, volume and retention will differ.
“ADPList is free.
Who pays €89?”
The people who have already had three free sessions and are still not getting past the screen. A free slot is twenty minutes of talk; this is a recorded walkthrough, a scorecard they can act on, and a date. Keep your ADPList profile if it sends you people; put this link in its bio. The free session becomes the discovery call for the paid one.
Ask for public or password-protected work, and say in the form that you review what they choose to share and hold no obligation beyond the reply. The files stay theirs. Never repost a member's work in the newsletter without written permission, and say so there too.
It is: frontend and mobile demand is down and the management layer is squeezed. Fewer roles means more people polishing the same portfolio for longer. Keep the three-day promise, sell the quarterly plan, and write nothing about outcomes: no “you'll get hired”.
The Loom and the scorecard are on the page by the deadline; that is the deliverable, and disputes on delivered written work are rare. For consumers in the EU the 14-day withdrawal right applies, so disclose it in the form and ask for consent to start straight away.
Stop reviewing portfolios
for free.
Tell the agent your LinkedIn or ADPList handle. It reads what you post, proposes the review, the mock interview and the teardown group with prices from the market, and sets them up when you create the account.