Framer design agency for funded startups.
Senior designers who build in Framer, not hand off Figma files. Visual design, animation, and the live site shipped in the same engagement, in two to three weeks.
Visual design
Senior designers, not juniors. A custom design system built for your audience, not pulled from a template kit.
Build in Framer
The designer is the builder. The build is the design. No Figma handoff, no lost fidelity, no developer translating your work.
CMS and handover
Framer CMS, recorded training, and a component library your team can extend. Editorial control on day one.
Kickoff to launch in two to three weeks.
Discover
Async questionnaire and AI-powered research. No workshops, no delays. We map your market, audience, and competitors before the first call.
Design
Strategy signed off, then straight into design. Senior creatives, not juniors. Logo, visual system, and brand assets. Three feedback rounds built in.
Deliver
Delivered live and functional. Brand files exported, guidelines packaged, social kit ready. Not a PDF deck. Working assets you can use the day we're done.
POW Studio transformed Hemi's technology into a scalable brand and story. The strategy and creative foundation they built have been key to our growth across the Bitcoin ecosystem.
Questions.
Most design agencies hand off Figma files and leave the build to a developer or to your team. The translation step loses fidelity, drags timelines, and ships sites that look thinner than the design. We design and build in Framer in the same engagement, with the designer at the keyboard. The live site is the design. Faster, fewer revisions, and the brand survives implementation. You see the interactive site at the same moment you would otherwise see the first round of static Figma frames.
Framer wins on time-to-live (two to three weeks vs four to six on Webflow), editorial control for small teams, and clean output for typical marketing sites. Webflow wins on schema depth, programmatic SEO, multilingual via Localization, and very large CMS catalogues. We have shipped both and tell you straight which one fits your roadmap, not which one we want to bill more hours on. Most funded startups under Series B land on Framer. Webflow is the answer when the CMS is the centre of the site.
Custom code is the right answer when you have a product that needs a CRM, complex auth, regulated forms, or deep integrations into your own stack. For a marketing site, custom is usually expensive overkill. A custom build runs $26k to $52k in the funded-startup market and ties content updates to engineering tickets. Framer ships the same site in two to three weeks for $10k to $20k and hands the keys to your marketing team. We move clients to custom when the limits start mattering, not before.
Right call. Marketing sites for seed to Series B funded startups, up to 30 to 40 pages, with a blog, a CMS for case studies and changelog, and a team that wants to ship copy and pages weekly without an engineering queue. Wrong call. Product-grade web apps, anything behind authentication, large e-commerce catalogues, sites with thousands of programmatically generated pages, or anywhere you need server-side logic the platform does not expose. We tell you at first call which side of the line you are on.
Well, if you build it properly. Framer ships clean output, lazy-loads media, and serves through a global CDN out of the box. Most of our Framer sites score in the green band on LCP, CLS, and INP without manual tuning. The places performance breaks are unoptimised hero video, oversized image assets, and third-party scripts that nobody audited. We optimise media in the build and document what your team should and shouldn't add post-launch to keep the scores green.
Yes for the technical fundamentals. Server-rendered HTML, clean URLs, fast page speed, automatic XML sitemap, editable meta tags, OpenGraph and Twitter card support, schema markup, and 301 redirect rules are all native. Where Framer is weaker is hreflang for multilingual sites and granular control over canonical tags on programmatic pages. For 95% of funded-startup marketing sites, Framer SEO is on par with Webflow or a custom Next.js build. We do the on-page SEO in the build, not as an afterthought.
Framer offers limited export. You get the rendered HTML and assets, not a fully editable codebase, which means a one-click migration to another platform is not realistic. In practice, this matters less than founders expect. Most teams that outgrow Framer want to rebuild the site anyway on a custom stack that fits their product. Binsr Inspect went from Framer to Rails with a custom CMS, CRM, and blog system in the same engagement for $9k. The brand, design system, and content survive the migration. The code does not.
Async discovery questionnaire and AI-powered research in week zero. Strategy, sitemap, and copy direction signed off in days one to three. Visual design and Framer build run in parallel from day four. Three feedback rounds built in. Senior creatives the whole way through, no juniors. The designer is the builder, so feedback lands on the live, interactive site rather than a Figma frame that will look different once it ships.
Yes. Every Framer build ships with a CMS schema, your team trained on a recorded session, and a component library documented for future use. The CMS handles blogs, case studies, team pages, jobs, changelog, and similar editorial content well. The limits show up at scale. Hundreds of collection items get sluggish in the editor, deeply nested relations between collections are clunky, and complex filtering on the front-end is harder than on Webflow. For typical funded-startup volumes, none of this bites.
The platform itself does not cap pages at a hard number, but the editor performance degrades past roughly 100 pages with heavy media and complex CMS relations. For marketing sites of 30 to 40 pages, which is where most funded startups sit, Framer is comfortable. For programmatic SEO plays generating thousands of pages from a data source, Framer is the wrong tool. We tell you at first call which side of the line you are on.
Framer added native localisation in 2024 and it works for straightforward language variants on a single site. Hreflang tagging, per-locale URL patterns, and content-collection localisation all ship. Where it gets thinner is RTL languages, region-specific routing logic, and deep integrations with translation management systems. For an English-plus-one-or-two-languages funded-startup site, Framer is fine. For a 12-locale enterprise site with TMS integration, look at a custom build.
We rebuild on custom code when the time comes. Binsr Inspect was originally on a Framer site and we rebuilt it on Rails with a custom CMS, CRM, and blog system in the same engagement. The brand, design system, and content survive the migration. We have done it for one client this year and the cost was $9,000 against a $26,000 to $52,000 market equivalent. Migration is not a panic project. It is a planned step that most companies hit somewhere between Series B and C.
Discovery, sitemap, copy direction, design and build in Framer, CMS schema, component library, responsive across breakpoints, on-page SEO, OG and meta tags, schema markup, 301 redirect mapping from the old site, and handover training. Typical scope is homepage, product or solution pages, about, careers, blog, and contact, with room to flex. The price covers everything you need to ship a launch-ready site, not the version that ships and then needs another $10k of fixes.
The Web Package starts at $10,000 and runs up to $20,000 depending on scope. Pair with the two-week Brand Sprint at $15,000 fixed for a full brand-and-web ship. Fees are USD or GBP from a UK Ltd, your choice. No retainer required upfront, no surprise add-ons mid-engagement.
Charlie Simpson and David Henshaw, the founders. Every engagement is founder-led. There is no junior account manager between you and the work and no creative director who pitches it and then hands it to a team you have not met. Combined 25 years inside the funded technology scene and have shipped 60-plus brands and sites for AI, fintech, and crypto teams. You meet the people doing the work on day one and you keep meeting them through to launch.
Yes. That is the point. We hand over the project, train your team in a recorded session, and document the component library. Most clients are running content updates, new blog posts, and small page tweaks inside the first week post-launch. If you would rather have us continue running it for you, the Growth retainer covers that too.
Most clients move into a Growth retainer. Ongoing landing pages, blog content, ad creative, product UI extensions, and CRO experiments on the live site. From $7,000 a month. Hemi is on a $75,000 per month retainer with us. The retainer keeps the studio embedded so you do not have to brief a new team every time you ship a campaign, a fundraise update, or a product launch.
We only work with funded technology companies in AI, fintech, and crypto. You will not waste week one explaining what your developer audience expects, why your homepage has three jobs at once, or what conversion looks like for a B2B technical buyer. Sector-fluent, founder-led, fixed scope, fixed price. Our portfolio is the only one in the room.