Web design, WordPress, headless, and technical SEO from one senior team.

We build on the stack that fits your team and your brief — not a default we push regardless. The mix below covers about 95% of what we ship in 2026.

WordPress, classic and managed

Still the right answer for content marketing sites, multi-language brochure properties under 500 pages, and any team where a non-technical marketer needs to publish daily. We default to Bricks Builder on new performance-critical builds, native Gutenberg with Kadence or Blocksy when zero plugin dependency is the goal, and Elementor where the in-house team needs the largest visual-builder ecosystem. Hosted on Cloudways, Kinsta, or WP Engine depending on traffic and budget.

Headless WordPress with Next.js or Astro

The fastest-growing configuration in our 2026 roadmap. WordPress stays as the editorial layer; the front-end is rebuilt in Next.js App Router or Astro. Editors keep what they know, the public site loses the plugin bloat, and Core Web Vitals become trivial to keep green. We handle WPGraphQL, ISR cache strategy, redirect transport, and the SEO scaffolding that does not transfer automatically when you split the front-end from WordPress.

Pure modern stacks

Next.js with Sanity. Next.js with Payload. Astro with Storyblok. Nuxt 3 with Strapi or Contentful. Each combination has its own sweet spot. Sanity for editorial-heavy teams that want a customisable studio. Payload for self-hosted ownership and a Postgres-friendly model. Storyblok for marketing teams that want visual editing without leaving the CMS. Strapi for back-end engineers who want full schema control. Contentful at the enterprise tier where multi-environment workflow matters more than DX.

Bespoke and SaaS

Next.js with Supabase or Postgres for the database, Stripe for billing, Vercel for deployment. Real-time interfaces, dashboards, marketplaces, and B2B SaaS where a CMS is the wrong primitive. We built HostList.io on this stack — about 28,000 programmatic pages with full search and filter — so the operating playbook is battle-tested.

What we do not build

We do not build on Wix, Squarespace, or Webflow at agency scale. We are happy to migrate you off any of them. We do not build mobile apps; that is a separate practice. We do not do paid media management; we partner with specialists when an engagement needs it.

Hiring in-house is the right answer when your roadmap is so dense that one or two engineers, fully embedded, will be heads-down for 18 months. For everything below that bar, an outsourced senior team is faster, cheaper, and lower risk.

Speed

A senior agency engagement starts in two weeks. An in-house hire takes three to six months from approval to first commit, plus another two months before the new engineer has the institutional context to ship without supervision. If your shipping window is shorter than nine months, you are the wrong size for an in-house hire.

Stack range

Most projects hit at least three of WordPress, headless, Next.js, Astro, and a CMS layer. Hiring one full-time engineer for that range is hard; hiring four to cover it is expensive. An agency team gives you senior practitioners across all of them at the cost of one mid-level salary.

Risk

The engagement ends when the project ends. An in-house hire that does not work out costs six to nine months of severance, ramp-up, and search costs. The agency model swaps that for a clean line item.

Where in-house wins

Long-running product teams with a multi-year roadmap and a brand-defining web product. If that is you, hire in-house and use us for spike work. If it is not, outsource is the better economics.

Three phases, fixed scope, written SOW. Same shape across every service.

Phase 1: discovery

A 30-60 minute call covering goals, audience, stack, timeline, and budget. You leave with a stack recommendation, an honest range, and a written SOW within the same week. Free, no obligation, no slide deck.

Phase 2: build or remediate

Daily Loom updates from the lead engineer. Weekly mid-build review call. Tickets in Linear or your tool of choice. Repos, hosting, DNS, and CMS accounts in your name from day one. The senior engineer who took your kickoff call signs off on every PR.

Phase 3: launch and care

Pre-launch QA across mobile, accessibility, Core Web Vitals on real devices, and SEO linter green. Launch on a window you choose. Thirty days of priority hyper-care included after launch. Optional ongoing care plan if you want us to keep operating it; if not, a 30-minute handover Loom and we step out cleanly.

What is always in writing

• Inclusions and exclusions in the SOW.
• Milestones with payment terms.
• Code, hosting, DNS, and CMS account ownership in your name.
• Handover policy at no charge if you ever decide to move the codebase to another agency.
• SLAs on response and recovery for any care plan tier.

Services are delivered through Seahawk Media — the WordPress, Next.js, and Astro agency I co-founded in 2018. The team has shipped over twelve thousand sites since then, currently across four hubs in London, New York, New Delhi, and Ahmedabad.

I am Gautam Khorana, Co-Founder and COO. I take every kickoff call, scope every SOW, and stay close enough to every engagement that you do not get bounced through a sales chain. This site is my personal page; the work happens on Seahawk infrastructure, but every conversation starts with me.

I also run HostList.io — a programmatic-SEO directory of about 28,000 web hosting companies on Next.js plus Supabase — and host WP Legends, an interview series with founders and operators in the WordPress ecosystem. Both inform what we recommend on client work; we do not push tools we do not actually use.