Summarize with AI
Studio Maydit is the best fit for an AI fintech startup that wants a Next.js website, because it writes custom code, runs its own site on Next.js, and stays on to design the product once the site is live. Engine Digital and Feels Like lead the other nine: both list custom code as their main platform, Engine Digital names Goldman Sachs as a client, and Feels Like has published AI work. Ranked by fit for this audience, the ten studios worth reviewing are Studio Maydit, Engine Digital, Feels Like, Phantom, Ramotion, Pixelmatters, Instrument, Foundey, Lighthouse Digital, and BX Studio. Lighthouse Digital and BX Studio fit least. To say it plainly, none of the nine states Next.js as its stack. Engine Digital, Feels Like, and Phantom build in custom code, so ask each which framework it uses. Ramotion, Pixelmatters, and Instrument work across mixed tools. Lighthouse Digital and BX Studio build in Webflow, and Foundey designs in Figma only.
Picture a startup that sells an AI agent for accounts payable. It reads supplier invoices, matches them to purchase orders, and queues payments for a human to approve. The buyer is a finance controller at a company with a few hundred staff.
Before she books a demo, she forwards the homepage to her IT lead. He opens the browser tools and counts the outside scripts: a chat widget, two analytics tags, a heatmap recorder, a video player, and a font service. The sign-in link jumps to a different domain that looks nothing like the homepage. He writes back one line: "Ask them about this in the security review."
For most startups that page would be fine. For one that wants access to a client's bank feed, every unexplained script becomes a sales question.
This is the practical case for Next.js in AI fintech. Your team controls every header, every script, and every cookie. The marketing pages and the app can share one domain, one set of components, and one release process that your engineers already review. The catch is that a Next.js site is software, so the studio has to write code your engineers would approve.
So this list asks each studio one thing. Would its build pass your customer's IT lead on the first look?
How we ranked Next.js studios for AI fintech
In October 2026 we read each studio's own website and its public directory listings, and noted what each one says it builds with. No studio paid to appear.
- Stack on the record. We checked whether custom code is the studio's main platform. A Webflow or Figma studio can make good pages, but someone else will have to write the Next.js.
- Money and AI proof. We looked for named clients in banking, payments, or accounting, and for published AI work. Few studios have both, so we say which half each one brings.
- Whether a minimum is posted. We recorded only that a floor price exists in public, never the figure. A seed team waiting on its first pilot can rule a studio out before a call.
- Bench depth against client size. We compared each team's size with the brands it names. A big name list with a small team means your build may wait behind theirs.
- The studio's own site. We looked at how fast it loads, how plainly it says what the studio does, and what it is built on.
The fifth check carries the most weight. A studio builds its own site with no client to please and no committee to blame, so what you see there is the standard it holds when nobody is checking.
Our sources were limited to what anyone can open: the studio's site and its directory listings. If a studio keeps a number private, its table reads Not published, with no estimate in its place.
What goes wrong when an AI fintech startup hires a Next.js studio
The page fills up with scripts nobody listed. Each tool arrives through a tag manager, one request at a time: a chat bubble for sales, a heatmap for growth, a video embed for the demo. After a few months the site loads code from a dozen companies, and your customer's security team finds them before you do. Ask the studio to hand over a list of every outside script and a content security policy with the launch, and to keep both current.
A secret ends up in the browser. The studio builds a live demo that calls a sandbox of your API, and the key goes into a public environment variable so the demo works. Anyone who views the page source can now copy it. Ask the studio to show you which code runs on the server, which runs in the browser, and where every key is stored.
Old legal wording stays live after you change it. Your compliance lead rewrites the line about your partner bank, the change merges, and two pages still show last month's text because they were built once and cached. In fintech, a stale disclosure is a real problem, not a typo. Ask how a wording change reaches every page, and how long it takes.
1. Studio Maydit: A Top-Rated Design Agency for AI Founders
A fintech buyer judges the homepage and then the first screen after sign-up, and both have to tell the same story. Studio Maydit is a web and product design studio working with AI founders in the US, UK, and Europe. It builds in Framer, Webflow, and custom code, and its own website runs on Next.js. When the site is done, the same team moves into product design, such as the screen where a controller first connects a bank feed.
The result to read first is in the Dualite case study. Dualite is an AI dev tool, and the studio handled its website and its product together. Design work supporting a repositioned ICP helped Dualite reach 100,000+ users in seven months. Other recent clients are Wave, PixelFlow, and Mi-VAD, plus 15 other AI and SaaS teams.
Most fintech teams build toward a fixed date, such as a raise, a partner bank going live, or a first enterprise pilot. For them, a fixed scope of three to four weeks fits, and it ends with a diagnosis of where the product is leaking users. Teams that ship every month can take a monthly retainer instead, covering new pages, campaigns, and product design, with no long lock-in.
| Check | Finding |
|---|---|
| Based in | Remote, serving US / UK / EU |
| Platform depth | Framer, Webflow, and custom code |
| AI-sector proof | Yes. AI-native clients, published outcome on Dualite |
| Pricing | Fixed scope or monthly retainer, quoted per project |
| Team shape | Founder-led, small senior team |
| Best fit | AI fintech teams that want a coded Next.js site and the product screens designed by one team |
Bring the homepage your buyer's IT lead would open first, and we will walk through it together. Book a 30-minute call.
2. Engine Digital
Engine Digital works from Vancouver and New York and has been running since 2002. Custom code is its main platform, and its named clients include Goldman Sachs, Adidas, Autodesk, and HP. Goldman Sachs is the clearest finance name in this whole pool, which suggests the studio has shipped work for a bank before.
It does not state which framework it codes in, so confirm Next.js before you sign. Its AI proof is partial, its team size is not published, and it does not post a minimum.
| Check | Finding |
|---|---|
| Based in | Vancouver and New York |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Team size | Not published |
| Primary platform | Custom code |
| AI-sector proof | Partial. Enterprise technology clients, no AI case study named |
| Named clients | Adidas, Autodesk, Goldman Sachs, HP |
| Pricing | Not published |
| Best fit | Later-stage AI fintech companies selling to banks that want a coded site built by a team used to strict review |
3. Feels Like
Feels Like is a Los Angeles studio founded in 2023. It builds in custom code and has published AI work, with clients such as Google, Nike, LVMH, and Suno AI. It can make an AI product feel alive on the page and write the code itself.
It is a young studio with no finance client named, so it will learn the compliance side on your project. Its team size and pricing are not published, and you should ask which framework it uses.
| Check | Finding |
|---|---|
| Based in | Los Angeles, USA |
| Founded | 2023 |
| Team size | Not published |
| Primary platform | Custom code |
| AI-sector proof | Yes. Published AI client work |
| Named clients | Google, Nike, LVMH, Suno AI |
| Pricing | Not published |
| Best fit | Consumer AI fintech apps that need a coded site with a strong brand feel and have a compliance lead on hand |
4. Phantom
Phantom has studios in London and Auckland, was founded in 2013, and has 51 to 200 people. Custom code is its main platform, it has published AI work, and its clients include Diageo, SAP, the Financial Times, and Zendesk. If your product needs an interactive demo, such as a live view of an agent sorting invoices, Phantom has the engineering depth to build one that runs in the browser.
Its work leans toward campaigns and immersive pages, which is more than a lean fintech site needs. It names no finance client, does not post pricing, and does not state Next.js as its framework.
| Check | Finding |
|---|---|
| Based in | London, UK and Auckland, NZ |
| Founded | 2013 |
| Team size | 51-200 |
| Primary platform | Custom code |
| AI-sector proof | Yes. Published AI client work |
| Named clients | Diageo, SAP, Financial Times, Zendesk |
| Pricing | Not published |
| Best fit | Funded UK and European AI fintech teams that want an interactive product demo built in code |
5. Ramotion
Ramotion is a San Francisco studio founded in 2009, with 11 to 50 people and a posted minimum. Its named clients are Mozilla, Okta, Netflix, Adobe, and Xero. Xero is accounting software and Okta handles sign-in security, so the studio has designed for two kinds of product a finance buyer already trusts.
Its platform is mixed, and it does not name Next.js or custom code as its main way of building. Its AI proof is partial, and it is a premium studio.
| Check | Finding |
|---|---|
| Based in | San Francisco, USA |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Team size | 11-50 |
| Primary platform | Mixed |
| AI-sector proof | Partial. Software clients, no AI case study named |
| Named clients | Mozilla, Okta, Netflix, Adobe, Xero |
| Pricing | Published minimum |
| Best fit | AI fintech startups selling to finance teams that want brand and site work shaped by accounting and security clients |
6. Pixelmatters
Pixelmatters is based in Porto, was founded in 2013, and has 51 to 200 people, with a posted minimum. Its named clients are Rubrik, Quantic, and UJET. Rubrik works in data security, close to what fintech buyers ask about.
Its platform is mixed, so confirm that the people on your project write Next.js. Its AI proof is partial, and it names no bank or payments client.
| Check | Finding |
|---|---|
| Based in | Porto, Portugal |
| Founded | 2013 |
| Team size | 51-200 |
| Primary platform | Mixed |
| AI-sector proof | Partial. Software and security clients, no AI case study named |
| Named clients | Rubrik, Quantic, UJET |
| Pricing | Published minimum |
| Best fit | European AI fintech teams that want a large studio in a nearby time zone and can check its code skills early |
7. Instrument
Instrument is a Portland studio founded in 2005, with clients including Nike, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, and Google. It suits big digital programs with many teams publishing at once.
Its platform is mixed, its AI proof is partial, and it names no finance client. Team size and pricing are not published, and a seed team will be a very small account there.
| Check | Finding |
|---|---|
| Based in | Portland, USA |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Team size | Not published |
| Primary platform | Mixed |
| AI-sector proof | Partial. Large technology clients, no AI case study named |
| Named clients | Nike, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Google |
| Pricing | Not published |
| Best fit | Late-stage AI fintech companies with a large marketing team and a long brand program ahead |
8. Foundey
Foundey is a San Francisco studio founded in 2021, with published AI client work for DemandIQ, Traycer, and Sero AI. A design-only partner suits engineers who want to own every line, headers included.
Foundey works in Figma only, so it does not build in Next.js at all. Your engineers will write every page. It names no finance client, and its team size and pricing are not published.
| Check | Finding |
|---|---|
| Based in | San Francisco, USA |
| Founded | 2021 |
| Team size | Not published |
| Primary platform | Figma-only |
| AI-sector proof | Yes. Published AI client work |
| Named clients | DemandIQ, Traycer, Sero AI |
| Pricing | Not published |
| Best fit | Early AI fintech teams with React engineers who want page designs only and will build them in their own repository |
9. Lighthouse Digital
Lighthouse Digital is a London studio with a posted minimum. Its named clients are HelloSelf, Freetrade, and IGN. Freetrade is a UK investing app, so the studio has shipped a site for a regulated money product.
It builds in Webflow, not Next.js, so your site and your app would sit on two different stacks. It has no AI proof, and its founding year and team size are not published.
| Check | Finding |
|---|---|
| Based in | London, UK |
| Founded | Not published |
| Team size | Not published |
| Primary platform | Webflow |
| AI-sector proof | No. No AI client work published |
| Named clients | HelloSelf, Freetrade, IGN |
| Pricing | Published minimum |
| Best fit | UK fintech teams that have decided a Webflow site is fine and value consumer finance experience over AI |
10. BX Studio
BX Studio is a New York studio with 11 to 50 people, a posted minimum, and published AI client work. Its named clients are Reddit, Headspace, ASAPP, and Verifone. Verifone makes payment terminals, which gives it some exposure to the payments world.
It builds in Webflow, not Next.js, so it cannot work inside your app's code. Its founding year is not published.
| Check | Finding |
|---|---|
| Based in | New York, USA |
| Founded | Not published |
| Team size | 11-50 |
| Primary platform | Webflow |
| AI-sector proof | Yes. Published AI client work |
| Named clients | Reddit, Headspace, ASAPP, Verifone |
| Pricing | Published minimum |
| Best fit | AI fintech teams selling to large companies that want a governed Webflow site with many pages and editors |
How to choose between them
Sort by who should hold the code after launch.
You want a studio to write the Next.js and hand your engineers a clean repository. Studio Maydit first, then Engine Digital or Feels Like once each confirms its framework.
You need a working demo of the product in the browser. Phantom, with your engineers deciding what the demo may call.
Your engineers will write the code and want strong designs to build from. Ramotion or Pixelmatters for finance and security experience, Foundey for designs only, or Instrument at a large scale.
You have accepted that the site can live outside your app's stack. Lighthouse Digital for consumer finance work in Webflow, or BX Studio for a large Webflow site.
One test before you sign. Ask the studio to list every outside script on a site it shipped last year and explain why each one is there. A quick, exact answer means it will hold up in your customer's review.
