You own 100% of all intellectual property, source code, and design assets from the moment of final settlement.

Nextstep Dev transfers the full Git repository, Figma project files, database schemas, and hosting configurations directly into your designated company accounts. We believe vendor lock-in is unethical; you will never be held hostage by proprietary licenses or closed-source code.

Read our full commitment in our Terms of Service.

Yes, absolutely. We execute a legally binding mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) before reviewing your business workflows, customer metrics, proprietary algorithms, or ad account telemetry.

All sensitive information, API keys, database credentials, and strategy documents are encrypted using 256-bit AES protocols with restricted least-privilege team access.

Nextstep Dev is headquartered with executive strategy in Austin, Texas alongside dedicated senior engineering hubs serving clients across North America, Europe, and globally.

Our distributed delivery model guarantees that we overlap directly with all major US time zones (EST, CST, MST, and PST). You get real-time synchronous support during your workday, plus rapid overnight development execution cycles.

We eliminate cumbersome email threads. Every active partner receives:

• Dedicated Private Slack or WhatsApp Channel: Direct direct-line access to your senior engineer and technical project manager.
• Weekly Loom Video Walkthroughs: 5-to-10 minute screen recordings demonstrating sprint milestones, staging URLs, and completed feature sets.
• Transparent Sprint Boards: Real-time task tracking (Linear/ClickUp) so you always know what is being tested and shipped.

We build custom, high-performance architectures engineered specifically for your business goals.

We avoid purchased off-the-shelf marketplace themes that bundle 40+ unneeded plugins and megabytes of unused scripts. When utilizing Elementor or Gutenberg, we construct scoped, atomic flexbox containers and modular components that load instantly without performance degradation.

Every website we ship is guaranteed to achieve 90+ Google PageSpeed Performance scores on both mobile and desktop views.

Our engineering checklist includes: sub-1.2s Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), zero Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), Next-Gen WebP/AVIF asset optimization, critical CSS inlining, intelligent DOM tree minimization, and CDN edge caching.

WordPress powers over 40% of the internet, making default installations targets for brute-force bots. We harden every environment by:

• Disabling vulnerable XML-RPC and author enumeration endpoints.
• Enforcing custom login paths, 2FA, and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF) bot challenge rules.
• Automated encrypted offsite database and file backups with one-click rollback capabilities.
• Strict automated SSL configuration and Security Headers (HSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options).

Yes, 100% zero downtime. All design, development, and testing occur on our secure, password-protected staging servers while your current website continues transacting normally.

Before launching, we conduct a comprehensive SEO equity audit: mapping exact 1-to-1 301 redirects, matching canonical tags, preserving existing schema markup, and scheduling DNS cutovers during low-traffic hours.

We are certified Shopify specialists engineering custom Online Store 2.0 (Liquid) themes, custom private Shopify Apps, headless Hydrogen storefronts, dynamic product bundling, sticky checkout upsells, tier-based pricing calculators, and recurring subscription flows.

Explore our full capabilities on our Shopify Development page.

Yes. We have executed multi-thousand SKU migrations across major e-commerce platforms. We migrate your complete product catalog, variants, customer order histories, inventory counts, reviews, and discount structures with 100% data fidelity.

Crucially, our migration protocol includes complete URL redirection mapping so your Google rankings and organic revenue are safeguarded.

We engineer conversion optimization directly into the theme architecture:

• Slide-out Smart Cart Drawers: Free-shipping tier progress bars, one-click related product upsells, and discount code inputs.
• Mobile Thumb-Zone Checkout: Sticky Buy buttons with instant Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Shop Pay integration.
• Micro-Conversion Assurance: Real-time inventory counter badges, trust seals, and instant shipping estimates.

Third-party Shopify apps inject external scripts that drag mobile load times down to 5+ seconds. We perform comprehensive app audits: replacing bloated apps with custom, native Liquid & Vanilla JavaScript snippets.

This removes monthly app recurring subscription costs while speeding up checkout loading times by up to 65%.

Our core engineering stack is modern, type-safe, and built for immense scale:

• Frontend: Next.js (App Router), React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS.
• Backend & APIs: Node.js, Express, Python (FastAPI), RESTful & GraphQL architectures.
• Databases & Cloud: PostgreSQL, Redis, Supabase, AWS, Vercel, and Cloudflare Workers.

Yes. We build resilient, bi-directional webhook and API integrations connecting your digital properties with tools like Salesforce, HubSpot, Stripe Billing, QuickBooks, Zoho, ShipStation, and custom legacy ERP systems.

All integrations include automated retry queues, rate-limiting guards, and error logging.

Yes. We build practical, ROI-driven AI automation into your workflows:

• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) knowledge bases for instant 24/7 customer service using OpenAI and Claude models.
• Automated lead qualification and CRM intake categorization.
• Vector database indexing (Pinecone) for semantic product and document discovery.

Every application project runs through automated Continuous Integration (CI/CD) pipelines with GitHub Actions. We execute automated unit tests (Jest), End-to-End browser tests (Playwright), ESLint code styling checks, and full Postman API documentation.

We treat paid customer acquisition as a technical engineering science rather than subjective design guessing.

We link tightly focused ad creative directly to custom, high-converting dedicated landing pages (built specifically for search intent). We enforce rigorous negative keyword management, audience segment exclusion, and value-based bidding targeting your real Cost Per Acquisition (CPA) and ROAS.

Yes, this is standard on all our growth accounts. Traditional client-side pixels lose 20% to 35% of conversion events due to iOS privacy changes and ad-blockers.

We configure server-side Google Tag Manager (sGTM) and Meta Conversions API (CAPI) on custom cloud instances, achieving 95%+ event match quality, accurate revenue attribution, and full GDPR/CCPA cookie compliance.

Paid Search & Social Ads: Immediate telemetry. Qualified lead flow and conversions typically begin within 7 to 14 days following launch and initial ad pixel learning.

Technical SEO & Organic Sprints: Initial indexation and crawl rate improvements appear in 30 days; compounding organic rank gains and top-3 keyword positions manifest between months 2 and 4.

No. We earn our partnership every 30 days. We do not trap clients into restrictive 6-month or 12-month lock-in commitments.

Our growth retainers operate on month-to-month sprint cycles with a simple 30-day written cancellation notice. If we aren't generating tangible ROI, you should have the agility to pivot.

We work exclusively on fixed-scope sprint pricing with zero surprise hourly overages.

Before kickoff, you receive a detailed Statement of Work (SOW) outlining every deliverable, wireframe, and feature milestone. Custom website and e-commerce sprints typically range from $3,500 to $15,000+ based on architectural complexity, while monthly growth retainers are tailored to your target acquisition scale.

Standard high-converting agency websites and focused Shopify builds ship in 2 to 4 weeks.

Enterprise custom web applications and large-scale multi-system integrations generally require 4 to 8 weeks, partitioned into structured bi-weekly milestones with continuous live staging reviews.

Every project delivered by Nextstep Dev includes our comprehensive 30-Day Zero-Defect Warranty.

During this period, any technical bug, broken layout, or responsive inconsistency is resolved within 24-48 hours at zero cost. After 30 days, we offer dedicated monthly SLA maintenance plans covering proactive security updates, continuous backups, speed monitoring, and ad-hoc engineering hours.