We checked 10 Framer agencies against five public criteria. Here is which ones can sell an agent that works while nobody is watching, and which ones cannot.

Your funding announcement is the biggest traffic day you will have all year. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria to see which can hit that date.

Agent startups ship weekly, so the marketing site has to ship weekly too. We checked 10 custom code agencies on five public criteria to see which ones build sites a team can actually run.

Agent products change shape every few weeks, so the design work never really ends. We checked 10 retainer agencies on five public criteria to see which ones are built for that pace.

Engineer-led teams can build anything, which is exactly why design gets deferred. We checked 10 retainer agencies on five public criteria to see which ones work well with technical founders.

Security buyers are trained to distrust anything that looks too smooth. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria to see which ones can build credibility instead of polish.

Going to market means writing for people who have never heard of you and do not want another tool. We checked 10 design agencies on five public criteria to see which ones handle that shift.

With a small studio you are buying two or three people's attention, and attention is the one thing that does not scale. We checked 10 studios on five public criteria.

Amsterdam AI teams sell into a market they are not in, so the website works the half of the day they are asleep. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria.

Automation is sold to the person who owns the process you are replacing. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria to see which ones can write for that reader.

At pre-seed the website is a credibility check, not a growth channel. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria, including which ones are realistic at this stage.

Developers evaluate an AI devtool in a terminal, not on a homepage. We checked 10 custom code agencies on five public criteria to see which ones design for that.

A retainer is not a bigger project. It is a standing capacity decision. We checked 10 agencies on five public criteria to see which ones are built to run one.

Second-time founders buy design with instincts calibrated to a much later stage. We checked 10 retainer agencies on five public criteria to see which ones fit.

Every AI data platform draws the same diagram and uses the same nine words. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria to see which ones can break that.

The second agency usually fails for the opposite reason the first one did. We checked 10 studios on five public criteria to help you avoid buying a mirror image.

Every portfolio looks good, because a portfolio is a filtered set. We checked 10 agencies on five public criteria to find the ones whose judgement holds up.

Bay Area startups design for the people they have lunch with, not the buyers who fund them. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria.

A copilot is watched every second by someone already good at the job. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria to see which ones design for that.

At seed you have enough evidence to be confidently wrong about your buyer. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria to see which ones fit that stage.

Most AI startups who buy a coded site needed code for one page, not fifteen. We checked 10 agencies on five public criteria to see which ones say so.

B2B AI SaaS companies do not have a website, they have eleven design surfaces. We checked 10 retainer agencies on five public criteria to see which can cover them.

First-time founders have to buy design before they know how to judge it. We checked 10 retainer agencies on five public criteria to see which ones make that safe.

AI devtool companies ship faster than their websites can describe them. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria to see which can keep up.

A second product turns your website from a product page into a company page, and almost nobody rewrites it. We checked 10 agencies on five public criteria.

Async design work fails on decisions, not on time zones. We checked 10 agencies on five public criteria to see which ones actually write things down.

Berlin AI startups sell into two rooms that want opposite things. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria to see which can serve both.

Developers do not believe claims, they believe things they can reproduce. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria to see which build for that.

At Series A the website stops being a brochure and becomes sales infrastructure. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria to see which build for that.

A coded B2B SaaS site is scoped on the homepage and judged on page two hundred. We checked 10 agencies on five public criteria to see which build for the tail.

A retainer bought while you are hiring designers is a bridge, and most teams build it like a permanent structure. We checked 10 agencies on five public criteria.

A non-technical founder cannot check whether a constraint is real. We checked 10 retainer agencies on five public criteria to see which ones close that gap.

In AI fintech the person who kills your deal never visits your homepage twice. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria to see which ones design for that reader.

After a pivot your proof and your story point at different products. We checked 10 design agencies on five public criteria to see which ones can close that gap.

Three weeks is a decision speed, not a production speed. We checked 10 design agencies on five public criteria to see which ones can genuinely hold the date.

A European SaaS site has to serve six markets at once without sounding like it was copied from California. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria.

Infrastructure buyers are trying to disqualify you quickly, and your homepage keeps hiding the numbers. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria.

At Series B the site stops being one page with one buyer and becomes a system with five owners. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria.

When the founders can build it themselves, the engagement turns into a code review and the argument never gets made. We checked 10 custom code agencies on five public criteria.

If design cannot keep up, your engineers will ship without it. We checked 10 retainer agencies on five public criteria to see which ones run at a daily cadence.

A studio running six products has one design budget and six sets of demands. We checked 10 retainer agencies on five public criteria to see which ones work at portfolio level.

In AI HR tech your buyer is personally accountable for what your model decides. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria to see which ones design for that.

An investor reads your site to decide whether you know who you sell to. We checked 10 design agencies on five public criteria to see which ones build for that reader.

A chat interface is almost nothing on screen, which is what makes it hard. We checked 10 design agencies on five public criteria to see which ones design the parts around the box.

A European AI startup usually sells to American buyers from a European base. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria to see which ones design for that split.

An AI search product competes with a reflex, not a rival. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria to see which ones can argue someone out of a habit.

The funding announcement is the only attention spike you get all year. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria to see which ones can be ready for it.

An LLM platform is evaluated by an engineer with a terminal open, not by a buyer reading a page. We checked 10 custom code agencies on five public criteria.

LLM platforms ship on a schedule no project plan survives. We checked 10 retainer agencies on five public criteria to see which ones can hold that cadence.

A remote company has no hallway, so design decisions turn into week-long threads. We checked 10 retainer agencies on five public criteria to see which ones close them.

In AI healthtech the website is a regulated surface read by three different people. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria to see which ones handle that.

Most post-raise rebrands are repositionings in disguise, and the difference costs months. We checked 10 design agencies on five public criteria.

Most AI products lose the user in the first ninety seconds, before the model ever gets a fair test. We checked 10 design agencies on five public criteria.

London AI founders default to hiring inside the M25 and pay a premium for meetings that never happen. We checked 10 Framer design agencies on five public criteria.

The best thing about a voice product is the one thing a website cannot play on arrival. We checked 10 Framer design agencies on five public criteria.

After a raise your website stops being a sales page and becomes a hiring document. We checked 10 Framer design agencies on five public criteria.

Moving to custom code at Series A puts your publish button behind a pull request. We checked 10 development agencies on five public criteria.

At seed you will change what you sell at least once, which is the real argument for a retainer over a fixed scope. We checked 10 agencies on five public criteria.

The second time round, your biggest asset and your biggest liability are the same thing. We checked 10 design retainer agencies on five public criteria.

Your buyer reads adversarially for a living and bills by the hour you are trying to save. We checked 10 Framer design agencies on five public criteria.

Before launch you have no users, no screenshots, and no proof, which removes every device a normal site relies on. We checked 10 design agencies on five public criteria.

Plenty of studios will help people arrive. Very few will help them stay, because that work produces nothing you can put in a portfolio. We checked 10 agencies on five public criteria.

New York AI startups sell to institutions, not to other founders. That changes who reads your website and what it has to survive. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria.

Selling an agent means asking a stranger to hand over work they are currently responsible for. That is a trust problem, not a features problem. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria.

Launch day sends a crowd of curious people who will never buy. The site that matters is the one still working in month four. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria.

You can build the site yourself, and that is exactly the problem. Every quote gets compared against a weekend you believe you have. We checked 10 agencies on five public criteria.

A retainer at Series A is a hiring decision wearing a purchase order. It buys time and evidence before you commit to a design team shape. We checked 10 agencies on five public criteria.

A retainer needs a client, and when you are on your own you are the entire client. The bottleneck is rarely the designer. We checked 10 agencies on five public criteria.

When you sell to marketers, your website is not marketing. It is a work sample, and it gets graded by a professional. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria.

A launch page has to be finished before the product is. That single fact explains most of what goes wrong. We checked 10 agencies on five public criteria.

Every interface convention we have assumes the user does the work. Agentic products break that contract, and the patterns are still being invented. We checked 10 agencies on five public criteria.

When there is no office, the website is the only building your company has. Customers, candidates, and your own team all judge it. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria.

A bounding box drawn on a stock photo proves nothing, and your buyer knows it. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria for computer vision teams.

Funding does not change your website. It changes how many websites you suddenly need. We checked 10 landing page agencies on five public criteria.

A hand-built website is a permanent claim on the engineers you just raised money to hire. We checked 10 custom code agencies on five public criteria.

At Series B you already have designers, and that is what makes the retainer decision hard. We checked 10 agencies on five public criteria.

Having no designer does not mean your product has no design. It means the design is happening by accident. We checked 10 retainer agencies on five public criteria.

Your competitor is not another platform. It is a spreadsheet that has worked for thirty years. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria for proptech teams.

Beta was a promise of forgiveness in both directions. Taking the label off ends both halves on the same day. We checked 10 design agencies on five public criteria.

Conversion rate is a ratio, and the quickest way to improve a ratio is to shrink the bottom half. We checked 10 design agencies on five public criteria.

In San Francisco your website is not how you get funded or hired, so its weakness stays hidden until you sell outside the city. We checked 10 Framer agencies.

Your visitor is not asking whether it can do this once. They are asking whether it will do it again, on their input. We checked 10 Framer agencies on five public criteria.

At pre-seed the landing page is a question you are asking the market, not an answer you are giving it. We checked 10 agencies on five public criteria.

Your site is read in the same week as forty others that sound almost exactly like it. We checked 10 custom code agencies on five public criteria.

You are not short of designers. You are short of the one thing a retainer cannot buy by the month, which is your lead's attention. We checked 10 agencies.

You can judge an engineer by reading their code. There is no twenty minute equivalent for design, and that gap is what makes this purchase hard.

Your site gets read twice. Once by a curious sales leader between calls, and again weeks later by three people looking for a reason to say no.

The partner is not the reader to optimise for. The site matters because it changes your numbers before you walk in. We checked 10 agencies on five criteria.

A dashboard is not a page. It is a place someone comes back to, and the only honest measure of one is what happens on the second visit.

Your neighbours are not your market. The valley gives you the fastest feedback in the world, from people who will never buy anything from you.

Nobody picks a platform like yours from a website. They run a two week bake-off on their own data, and your site has to survive being one of three tabs.

At seed the page stops being an explanation and becomes a filter. Traffic arrives from four places at once and one page is written for none of them.

Agent teams pick Next.js because they want the agent running on the page itself, which quietly turns the marketing site into a second product surface.

Your first design hire is the one role nobody in the building can interview for, which is why a retainer is often the cheaper way to find out what you actually need.

Two is the hardest number of people to make a design decision with, because there is nobody in the room to break the tie and the work settles at the average of two opinions.

Being AI-native is now the least differentiating thing a SaaS company can say, because the incumbent that bolted a model on last quarter says exactly the same sentence.

Nobody reads your website during demo day. They read it two days later, on a phone, trying to remember which of thirty companies you were.

A design system does not fail because it was built badly. It fails on the day somebody declares it finished and nobody is left to own the first exception.

A UK AI startup writes one homepage for two audiences with opposite tolerance for confidence, and the British instinct to underclaim is the one that costs you American pipeline.

Your real competitor is not another vendor. It is the internal system a staff engineer on the buying team built themselves and still maintains.

At Series A you finally have enough traffic to test things, and just enough to be confidently wrong about what the test proved.

Most of your best users will never see your homepage. They arrive at a README or a docs page, which makes the marketing site's real job getting out of the way quickly.