An Astro Agency
Flex Solutions is an Astro development agency that builds marketing sites, documentation, blogs, and content-led product pages for teams who care about Lighthouse scores and TTFB more than they care about a page builder. We hire out as a focused Astro agency engagement, not a retainer you forget about.
When you hire Astro developers here, you get engineers who know the islands architecture cold, not a generalist team treating Astro like a React wrapper.
What Does an Astro Development Agency Actually Do?
An Astro development agency designs, builds, and migrates content-led websites using the Astro framework, then wires up the CMS, hosting, and performance tooling around it. At Flex Solutions, that means marketing sites, documentation portals, blogs, and content-led product pages, built so that Core Web Vitals pass by default instead of needing a rescue project six months late.
Can You Start Without Committing to a Full Build?
Yes. Week one is a brief, a sitemap, and a content audit only. We agree on scope, brand, and a performance budget before either of us commits to the full six-to-eight-week build. If the fit is wrong, you walk away after week one having paid for a brief, not a half-finished site.
How We Start: The Eight-Week Astro Build Process
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Brief & sitemap
A one-page brief, a sitemap, and a content audit. Scope, brand, and performance budget agreed before code gets written.
Fixed-fee briefSitemapPerformance budgetWEEK 1, Fixed fee - 02
Design + build
Designs move into Figma, components get built in Astro, real content goes in from day three. Weekly deploy preview links.
Figma fileAstro componentsPreview deploysWEEK 2-6 - 03
Polish + launch
SEO, schema, sitemap, redirects, analytics, accessibility pass. DNS swap.
Launch checklistRedirect mapAccessibility passWEEK 7-8 - 04
Handover or retain
A 30-day support tail, then either full handover or an ongoing retainer, your call.
Handover doc30-day supportOptional retainerOPTIONAL
What You Get When You Hire Astro Developers
Astro is the right tool for content-led sites: zero JS by default, islands when you need them, edge-deployable, and small enough that engineers can read the entire framework. We use it for marketing sites, docs, blogs, and product pages, the ones that have to load fast on a phone in a tunnel.
Astro 4+ build with islands only where they earn their JavaScript weight.
Editorial workflow on Decap, Sanity, or plain Markdown, your call.
Schema.org, OG tags, sitemap, robots, and canonicals wired by default.
Pagefind or Algolia search, Plausible or Fathom analytics.
Cloudflare Pages or Vercel deployment with preview branches.
Component library your team can extend without us.
Handover doc, redirect map, and a 30-day support tail.
Capabilities: Inside the Astro Agency Engagement
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Marketing sites
Hero, product, pricing, customers, careers, designed and built, not a template.
- 02
Documentation
Starlight or hand-rolled docs with versioning, search, dark mode.
- 03
Blog & editorial
Posts, taxonomies, RSS, OG cards, author pages that survive the first hire.
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Product pages
Content-led pages with React or Vue islands, no 200KB bundle for a pricing table.
- 05
Migration in
From WordPress, Webflow, Framer, Ghost, or Hugo, URLs preserved.
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Performance
Lighthouse 100 across top pages, sub-80ms median TTFB at the edge.
The Astro Web Development Stack We Trust
Opinions earned across shipped Astro sites, not picked from a framework comparison post.
- + BUILDAstro 4+MDXViteTypeScript
- + UITailwindshadcn (islands)LucideMotion One
- + CONTENTDecapSanityMarkdownTina
- + EDGECloudflare PagesVercelR2Pagefind
Astro Web Development vs. the Alternatives: How We Decide
| Comparison factor | Flex Solutions | Hiring a senior FTE | Traditional agency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to start | 1-week brief, embed by week 2 | Weeks to months of hiring before code gets touched | Weeks of scoping before the project even starts |
| Cost structure | Fixed quote, project-scoped | Salary, equity, benefits, indefinitely | Retainer or project fee, scope creep common |
| Risk if the fit is wrong | Engagement ends at week 1, no sunk cost | A bad hire costs months to unwind | Contract dispute over what done means |
| Best fit | Content-led sites, migrations, performance-critical rebuilds | Ongoing product engineering, not a single site | Generalist scope, not Astro-specific depth |
Numbers from Astro Sites We’ve Shipped
Choose Astro when your site is mostly content: marketing pages, docs, blogs, or brochure sites where speed and SEO matter more than heavy client-side interactivity. Choose Next.js for app-like products with dashboards or authenticated flows. We'll tell you honestly which fits, since forcing the wrong framework costs more later than it saves now.
Yes. We pair Astro with a headless CMS such as Sanity, Decap, or plain Markdown depending on how technical your team is. Content edits go live through the editor you choose, and the site rebuilds automatically.
Astro handles forms through server endpoints or third-party form services depending on your hosting target. We connect these to whatever you already use for lead routing during the build phase.
Yes. Migrating from Webflow or Framer to Astro is one of our more common engagements. Content and design carry over, existing URLs stay intact with proper redirects, and interactive parts get rebuilt as islands instead of shipping the whole page as client-side JavaScript.
Yes, on request. We can sign an NDA before you share a sitemap, brand assets, or anything proprietary about your content strategy.
Teams with a content-led site, usually marketing, docs, or blog, who are tired of a page builder or a slow WordPress install, and who care enough about Lighthouse scores and TTFB to hire a team that treats Astro as a specialty, not a side skill.
Preview Your Build with Our Astro Development Agency
Send your current site and a sitemap. Fee letter back in three working days.