Next.js product engineering at studio quality
Plenty of agencies are built around long retainers. What you actually want is a live site, an app in the stores, and users adopting it.
We bring product thinking and engineering together, so structure, UI, APIs, and the launch checklist live in one plan.
Most people who reach this page are companies hiring a Next.js agency. A Next.js agency for App Router products, SEO systems, dashboards, and high-performance SaaS frontends.
What you get
- App Router architectures
- SEO and metadata systems
- Design systems in React
- Vercel production delivery
- One studio accountable for the result
- Design and engineering on the same schedule
- Support available after launch
How engagement works
As your Next.js agency, we run a shared backlog, design reviews, and engineering sprints, and you keep one point of contact throughout.
- 01
Discover
Goals, constraints, data sources, and success metrics, all settled before we touch architecture or prompts. On Next.js development projects we favour practical architecture over trendy defaults.
- 02
Design
System design, AI/tool boundaries, interface direction, and interaction prototypes. The work for teams in the UK stays tied to the outcome you asked for.
- 03
Build
Modern stack, clean architecture, evaluated AI behavior, and iterative demos you can react to. You see progress on the critical path every week.
- 04
Launch
Ship, monitor, harden, and keep improving models, tools, and product after go-live. Nothing here waits on a handover between separate teams.
How we build it, and why
The stack is chosen per project, not applied from a template. For Next.js agency work these are the defaults, and the reason each one is on the list.
- Next.js
- server rendering and static generation in one framework, so marketing pages stay fast and app routes stay dynamic
- React
- the component model most teams can already hire for and maintain
- TypeScript
- types across the whole stack, which catches the class of bug that only shows up in production
- Tailwind
- design decisions stay in the markup, so the CSS does not grow faster than the product
- Vercel
- preview deploys on every branch, so review happens on a real URL instead of a screenshot
What the first weeks look like
- Week 1
Scope and architecture
Users, data, integrations, and constraints, ending in a written plan for the Next.js development that you approve before anyone opens an editor.
- Weeks 2-3
Design the critical path
The screens that carry the product, prototyped and clickable. Design and engineering review together, so nothing gets drawn that cannot ship.
- Weeks 4-8
Build in weekly slices
Every week ends with something on a real URL. app router architectures lands early, because the rest of the plan depends on it working.
- Launch
Ship, measure, hand over
Release, monitoring, analytics, and a documented handover, so your team can carry it without calling us.
Weighing up your options
There are three realistic ways to get this built. Each is the right answer for someone.
A solo freelancer
Cheapest per hour and fine for a contained task. The risk on Next.js development is breadth — one person covering design, backend, infrastructure, and launch usually means one of them is weak, and there is no cover when they are unavailable.
A local agency in UK
Same timezone and a face to meet, which genuinely matters for some teams. You are also paying UK demand for product engineers and AI-capable studios. rates for the whole team including the layers that never touch your Next.js development, and a local shortlist is a small shortlist.
Arcode
A small senior team. The people who scope the Next.js development write the code, you get weekly demos instead of status decks, and the engagement ends when the thing is live and handed over.
Work we have shipped
CRM Dashboard
Frontend · Analytics
Customer relationship dashboard with management workflows and data visualization on Next.js.
Freelance CRM surface for managing relationships and visualizing key metrics, deployed on Vercel.
- · CRM management views
- · Data visualization
- · Responsive dashboard layout
- · Vercel deployment
Next.js · React · Tailwind · Vercel
Agile IT Blog
Frontend · Astro
Performance-minded blog maintained in Astro with Markdown, Tailwind, and modular content integrations.
Stellar Stack content site where I improved performance and scalability across modular Astro components and data integrations.
- · Astro static content pipeline
- · Markdown-driven posts
- · Modular component structure
- · Performance and scalability pass
Astro · Markdown · Tailwind · SCSS
Brain Blog
Frontend · Gatsby · Strapi
Custom Gatsby blog with Strapi CMS, built for fast content publishing and a clean reading experience.
Freelance content product pairing Gatsby performance with Tailwind styling and a Strapi-powered editorial workflow.
- · Gatsby static generation
- · Strapi blog integration
- · Tailwind-driven layout
- · Fast content browsing
Gatsby · Tailwind · Strapi
Working with teams in UK
UK demand for product engineers and AI-capable studios. Work is remote-first (GMT/BST), with written updates you can read in your own time. We usually collaborate in English.
How we work with UK teams
UK teams get a full working-day overlap: our morning covers your morning, so questions raised at 9am are answered before your standup ends. Most UK clients settle into a Tuesday demo and a Thursday written update.
What UK clients usually need
UK briefs skew towards SaaS platforms, fintech-adjacent products, and replacing ageing internal tools. Several arrive after an agency retainer stopped producing releases.
Contracts, data, and compliance
We invoice in GBP or USD. UK GDPR and data residency come up on almost every project, so we default to EU or UK-hosted data stores and document where personal data flows before the build starts.
