Clearfront is a distributed studio of senior frontend engineers. We work in the parts of the stack that backend-heavy teams quietly dread — design systems, accessibility, motion, type, the layout that finally clicks. Done well, every time.
We don't pitch "websites." We specialize in the front-of-the-stack work that needs an opinion — and a portfolio to back it up. Fixed-scope or retainer; you choose what fits.
End-to-end product build: a real React/Next.js application with a design system, typed contracts, and a CI pipeline that fails loudly. Ideal when a v1 needs to ship and feel inevitable.
Tokens, primitives, composed components, Storybook docs. We turn a Figma library into a typed, themable, accessible component set your team will actually want to use.
A real WCAG 2.2 AA audit, not a Lighthouse screenshot. Keyboard parity, screen reader walkthroughs, color and motion review, plus a prioritized remediation plan with PR-sized tickets.
The thing that converts "it works" into "it feels right." Core Web Vitals, bundle diet, route-level perf budgets, and motion that earns its complexity rather than decorating around it.
We work in the toolchain we trust. Happy to integrate with whatever lives on your backend — we're stack-pragmatic where it matters and stack-opinionated where it earns its keep.
Every engagement runs through four stages. The names matter less than the order — and the discipline to not skip ahead when something feels obvious.
Before we touch a keyboard, we read the room. Codebase walkthrough, design library audit, a candid hour with the product lead, and a short doc that names what's actually broken vs. what's loudest. Most engagements re-scope after this — and that's the point.
We propose the shape of the work in writing first: component boundaries, state ownership, motion language, perf budgets, accessibility commitments. You approve the shape before the code lands. No surprises in week three about how a modal manages focus.
We push to your repo, open small PRs, and write descriptions you'd want to read on a Friday. Preview deploys for every change, daily async standup in your Slack, weekly Loom. The engineering is visible — so the trade-offs are too.
Handover isn't a milestone, it's a habit. We pair with your team through the bug-tail, write the runbook we wish we'd had on day one, and stay on retainer if you want a second set of eyes through the next quarter. Craft includes the goodbye.
NDAs keep us vague on names, specific on craft. These are representative — same shape as work we'd take on next quarter.
A Series B analytics platform had outgrown its early-stage React stack. We rebuilt the dashboard shell on Next.js + Radix, kept every keyboard shortcut their power users depended on, and shipped behind a feature flag so a hundred enterprise accounts never noticed the swap.
A creative tools startup wanted a hero that moved like their product felt. We built a GSAP-driven sequence with a reduced-motion fallback that's its own coherent design, not an apology. LCP stayed under 1.2s on mid-range mobile.
A specialty retailer's checkout had been A/B tested into incoherence. We rebuilt the flow as a typed state machine, simplified the address step, added one honest progress indicator, and ran an a11y audit on the way out. Completion went up; refund tickets went down.
Everything else is negotiable. These aren't.
Permission granted, names abbreviated where requested.
They shipped the kind of design system implementation we'd been promising ourselves for two years. Quiet, opinionated, and so consistent the team stopped arguing about button variants.Priya N. Head of Design, B2B SaaS
Maya and the team are the rare frontend folks who push back in the right places. Our marketing launch had motion that actually helped people understand the product, not motion that performed for the screenshot.Daniel R. VP Product, Creative Tools
The accessibility audit alone paid for the engagement. But what stuck around was the way they wrote PRs — every one was a small lesson the team learned from. We're a better frontend org for the three months we spent with them.Lena O. Engineering Manager, DTC Retail
If yours isn't here, it's a good first email.
Tell us about your project — stack, timeline, what's been frustrating. We reply within one business day. If it's a fit, we'll book a 30-minute call; if it's not, we'll point you at someone better suited.