Brand websites built to rank and convert
Splitting work across several freelancers creates handoff problems. Keeping it with one accountable engineer or small pod protects both quality and pace.
We start with your constraints and what success looks like, then build in short demos so everyone can react to working software instead of documents.
We work best with businesses searching for a website developer who want a partner that ships. Custom website development with performance, SEO, and clear calls to action.
What you get
- Custom brand websites
- Core Web Vitals focus
- Clear conversion paths
- Easy content updates
- One studio accountable for the result
- Design and engineering on the same schedule
- Support available after launch
How engagement works
As your website developer, 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. The work for teams in San Francisco stays tied to the outcome you asked for.
- 02
Design
System design, AI/tool boundaries, interface direction, and interaction prototypes. You see progress on the critical path every week.
- 03
Build
Modern stack, clean architecture, evaluated AI behavior, and iterative demos you can react to. Nothing here waits on a handover between separate teams.
- 04
Launch
Ship, monitor, harden, and keep improving models, tools, and product after go-live. On website development projects we favour practical architecture over trendy defaults.
How we build it, and why
The stack is chosen per project, not applied from a template. For website developer 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
- Tailwind
- design decisions stay in the markup, so the CSS does not grow faster than the product
- Strapi
- a headless CMS so content editors ship copy without a deploy
- Vercel
- preview deploys on every branch, so review happens on a real URL instead of a screenshot
What the first weeks look like
- Days 1-3
Context and constraints
Codebase, deploy path, and what "done" means for the website development. Short, because the useful version of this is specific.
- Week 1
First shipped slice
Something real goes out in the first week — custom brand websites rather than a setup ticket.
- Weeks 2-6
Build to the milestone
Pull requests, reviews, and weekly demos. You see the work as it happens rather than at a handover meeting.
- Handover
Documented and transferable
Runbooks, architecture notes, and a walkthrough, so the work does not depend on us still being here.
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 website 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 San Francisco
Same timezone and a face to meet, which genuinely matters for some teams. You are also paying SF Bay Area expecting modern stacks and AI fluency. rates for the whole team including the layers that never touch your website development, and a local shortlist is a small shortlist.
Arcode
A small senior team. The people who scope the website 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
Vigorant
Frontend · Accessibility
Accessible web app with reusable components, Redux Toolkit state, and Strapi integration.
Code Band product built with React, Next.js, Tailwind, and Redux Toolkit, focused on accessibility and maintainable UI patterns.
- · Accessibility-first UI
- · Reusable component system
- · Efficient Redux Toolkit logic
- · Strapi-backed content
Next.js · React · Tailwind · Redux Toolkit · Strapi
Quickee UI Library
Design system · Tailwind
Tailwind component library for React and Next.js with reusable UI patterns inspired by Tailwind UI.
Code Band component kit providing a variety of production-ready Tailwind components with Redux-friendly patterns for React and Next.js apps.
- · Reusable Tailwind components
- · React and Next.js ready
- · Consistent interaction patterns
- · Faster UI assembly across projects
React · Next.js · Tailwind · Redux
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
Working with teams in San Francisco
SF Bay Area expecting modern stacks and AI fluency. We work with clients in San Francisco remotely and keep overlapping hours in PST/PDT. We usually collaborate in English.
How we work with San Francisco teams
San Francisco is on PT, which is the widest gap we work across. We hold one fixed call in your morning and run everything else in writing, so the time difference costs you a day at most on decisions.
What San Francisco clients usually need
Bay Area briefs are the most AI-heavy we see: agents with real tool access, RAG over internal knowledge, MCP servers connecting models to existing systems, and evaluation harnesses to prove any of it works.
Contracts, data, and compliance
Teams here expect modern defaults, so we work in TypeScript, ship through CI, and keep infrastructure reproducible. Expect direct technical conversation with whoever is writing the code.
