Framer developer who codes the parts Framer cannot, and ships sites your team can edit without breaking

Framer is the design-led no-code website builder that has rapidly displaced Webflow as the favourite of indie founders, design studios, and YC-backed pre-Series-A startups in 2025-2026. The differentiator is the design experience — Framer feels like Figma, ships like a website. Code Components in React extend Framer beyond what no-code can express, which is where senior Framer developers actually earn their fee. Pricing is per-site at $5-50/month.

• Pre-Series-A startups who need a design-quality marketing site without a dev team — Framer's free + Mini tiers cover this
• Indie founders launching a product page where design quality matters more than CMS richness
• Design studios who want to ship sites without the Webflow learning-curve overhead
• Brand teams who need to update marketing copy / hero images without filing a developer ticket

Framer's CMS is light by 2026 standards

Framer CMS handles blogs and basic content collections. For multi-language, complex relations, or 1000+ entries, you will outgrow it. Plan the Framer-to-headless migration before you need it.

SEO is competent but not best-in-class

Framer ships clean static HTML and decent meta-tag controls. Advanced SEO (programmatic pages, hreflang at scale, complex schema) is not Framer's strength — for those briefs, hire Astro or Next.js instead.

Code Components require the senior tier of Framer expertise

Most Framer developers stop at no-code. Real senior Framer engagements involve writing React Code Components for the parts Framer cannot express. Filter your hire on that criterion.

One senior on every engagement

I am the senior on the call, the senior on the architecture review, and the senior who answers when something breaks at 11pm. The build is delivered with senior engineers from Seahawk Media under my direction; the kickoff and the handover are with me directly.

Real Framer experience, not "we read the docs once"

The Framer space is full of agencies that bolted the platform onto a generic offer. The questions a senior Framer developer answers — content modelling, schema migration, performance, observability, multi-environment workflows — are the questions you actually need answered, and that is where the engagement earns its fee.

Modern stack pairing

Most Framer engagements pair the platform with Next.js, Astro, or a modern frontend stack. I have shipped both sides of that pairing across 50+ projects. The integration patterns, the deployment topology, the SEO transport on migrations — all of it has been done before, and you get the lessons rather than paying for them in your project.

I take on a small number of Framer engagements at any given time. Two shapes that fit best:

Project — 4 to 12 weeks, fixed-price. Clear scope (a content migration, a Studio customisation, a performance audit, a build from scratch). Discovery week first, then a fixed-price quote. Most projects land in the 12,000-60,000 USD range.

Retainer — 8 hours per week, monthly. Ongoing Framer engineering support after launch. Schema evolution, new feature work, integration help with adjacent stacks. Typical retainer 6,400-12,800 USD/month depending on complexity.

Booking sequence: 30-minute call, you describe the brief, I tell you which shape fits and the price range. No sales deck, no qualification screen. If I am not the right person, I will tell you on the call.

• Web design agency in London (Framer-friendly engagements) When Framer is the right pick for a London marketing site.

Book a 30-minute call. By the end of it you will know whether Framer is the right pick for your brief, what the realistic scope is, and a price range that fits your budget. If Framer is not the right answer, I will tell you and recommend the alternative.