Web Development
Next.js web development that earns its keep.
We’re a Next.js development agency built for founders and lean product teams. You get a production web application from two senior engineers, shipped in 4 to 8 weeks, on a scope and price agreed before anyone writes code. No account manager. No junior billed as a senior.
Engineering position
We render on the server by default, and we tell you what that costs.
Most React work still ships an empty div and fetches everything in the browser. It looks fine on a MacBook on office wifi. On a mid-range Android over 4G it’s a spinner, a layout shift, and a Largest Contentful Paint north of four seconds. We default to React Server Components for anything content-heavy, so the HTML arrives populated and the browser parses far less JavaScript.
The cost of that choice is real. Server components hold no state. Every interactive island needs an explicit “use client” boundary, and draw that boundary badly and you drag half your tree back to the client anyway. We take that trade for marketing pages, catalogues, and dashboards where the first view is read-only. We don’t take it for a canvas editor or a chart that updates twice a second, where client-side fetching with a proper cache wins on every measure that matters.
TypeScript runs strict from the first commit, and it stops being true the moment data crosses the network. A type assertion on a JSON response is a comment rather than a check, so we validate anything arriving over the wire at runtime with Zod. We generate database types from the schema and never hand-write them. That’s the boring half of the work, and it decides whether the next developer can rename a column without breaking something they can’t see.
We treat performance as a budget and enforce it from the first commit rather than auditing it in the last week. The numbers go in before anyone writes code: LCP under 1.5 seconds, INP under 200ms, CLS under 0.1, and under 150KB of JavaScript on the first route. Lighthouse runs in CI and a regression fails the pull request. The framework almost never breaks those numbers. The analytics tag does, along with the chat widget, the unresized hero image, and the 400KB font.
Accessibility and SEO are structural, so we build them in week one. Semantic landmarks, focus states, and a keyboard path through every flow cost almost nothing up front and are miserable to retrofit in month six. Metadata, sitemaps, and JSON-LD come from the same data that renders the page, so your structured data cannot drift out of sync with what a visitor sees.
We’ll also tell you when Next.js is the wrong tool. A five-page brochure site doesn’t need a React framework. An offline-first field workflow usually belongs in a cross-platform mobile app. And if the real problem is hours lost to manual data entry rather than a slow website, the fix is AI automation, not a rebuild.
Two builds on this stack are written up end to end. Clora AI, our multi-company HR and payroll platform, covers the permission model, the payroll rules and the fingerprint hardware. Content Studio, the editorial workflow tool we built for Mindcob, covers what it takes to replace a spreadsheet a team already trusts.
What it costs and when it ships.
Most studios make you book a call to get a number. These are the bands comparable work has landed in, and your own scope and price are fixed before kickoff.
Marketing or brand site on a headless CMS, up to 8 pages
2 to 4 weeks
$7.5k to $15k
SaaS MVP with auth, billing, and a dashboard
6 to 8 weeks
$28k to $45k
WordPress to Next.js migration or performance rebuild
4 to 6 weeks
$16k to $28k
Internal tool or admin dashboard
5 to 7 weeks
$18k to $34k
Ongoing development after launch
Monthly
From $2,500 / mo
The bands above are estimates, shown in US dollars and drawn from comparable work already delivered, because no two projects carry the same scope. Your own quote is not an estimate: it is fixed in writing after scoping, before kickoff, and it does not move.
What moves the number
Integrations are the biggest lever. A system with a documented REST API adds three to five days. One with a SOAP endpoint, a PDF spec, and a support inbox adds two weeks. Permission depth comes next. A single admin role is cheap. Per-record sharing across nested teams is not.
After that it’s data migration volume, whether design already exists, and compliance. SOC 2 or HIPAA adds audit logging, encryption at rest, and access review. That’s real engineering rather than a checkbox, and we price all of it before kickoff.
Why we sit between $15 and $150 an hour
Hire a marketplace developer at $15 an hour and you carry the delivery risk. Hire a Western agency at $150 an hour and you fund an account manager, a six-week discovery phase, and a junior billed as a senior. We sit in the middle on purpose, which is why the person you talk to on Monday is the person writing the code on Tuesday.
Payment runs 50% on contract and 50% on delivery, split into milestones above $30,000. You own the repository and the IP from the first commit, not from the final invoice. If you want the full picture across web, mobile, and AI work, the overview of every EdgeBrain service covers the rest, or send us the brief and get a fixed quote.
Send us the brief. Get a number back.
Tell us what you’re building and what it has to do by when. You get a fixed scope, a fixed price, and a start date within two working days. Email edgebrainstudios@gmail.com or call the number below.