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Performance-first web dev + technical SEO

Social Animal is a London-based web development and technical SEO agency for teams that care about speed, scale and search.

Launched in 2026, we're led by senior engineers with 12+ years' experience and 200+ production projects delivered across their careers. We build headless websites and digital platforms with Next.js and Astro; Sanity, Contentful, Payload, Storyblok and Hygraph; Supabase, Stripe and Vercel.

What we do:

  • Min project size
    $5,000+
  • Hourly rate
    $150 - $199 / hr
  • Employees
    2 - 9
  • Locations
    London, England
  • Year founded
    Founded 2026

2 Locations

  • London , England
  • Santa Monica , CA

Service Lines
Search Engine Optimization
35%
Web Development
35%
AI Consulting
15%
Marketing Strategy
15%

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Industries
Medical
20%
Information technology
15%
Business services
10%
Hospitality & leisure
10%
Real estate
10%
Retail
10%
Advertising & marketing
5%
Beauty
5%
Consumer products & services
5%
Franchises
5%
Telecommunications
5%
Clients
Midmarket ($10M - $1B)
60%
Small Business (<$10M)
25%
Enterprise (>$1B)
15%

Pricing Snapshot

Min. project size $5,000+
Avg. hourly rate $150 - $199 /hr
Rating for cost 5 /5

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< $10,000 $10,000 - $49,999 $50,000 - $199,999 > $200,000
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Website Redesign & Dev for Sleep Medicine Practice

  • Marketing Strategy Search Engine Optimization Web Development
  • Confidential
  • Apr. - May 2026
5.0
Quality
5.0
Schedule
5.0
Cost
5.0
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5.0

"The level of detail and technical depth was impressive."

May 26, 2026
CEO, Advanced Sleep Medicine Services
Kermit Newman
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  • Medical
  • Los Angeles, California
  • 1-10 Employees
  • Online Review
  • Verified

Social Animal redesigned and rebuilt a website for a sleep medicine practice. The team migrated the site to Next.js, integrated a new CMS, implemented SEO strategies, and created HIPAA-compliant patient forms.

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Our Story

We're a senior-only engineering team — no juniors, no outsourcing. Four specialists lead the practice and write our blog: Melody Sellers (performance, Next.js), Aaron Mitchell (headless CMS, Sanity/Contentful), Aryan Shah (platform migrations, Payload), and Tanvi Iyer (design engineering, accessibility). Clients work directly with the engineers shipping their code. No account managers. No handoffs. Fourteen years in, still small on purpose — because it's the only way to hold quality.

Tools and Technology

Slack
Google Meet
Google Drive
Microsoft Teams
Vercel
Netlify

Commonly Asked Questions

We're focused on three kinds of work in 2026: headless CMS builds and migrations on Next.js or Astro (WordPress, Sitecore, AEM, Drupal into Sanity, Contentful, or Payload), performance-first marketing sites where Core Web Vitals and organic traffic matter more than animations, and AI integration work — ChatGPT, Claude, and OpenAI features wired into production apps with proper evaluation harnesses and cost controls. We typically decline pure WordPress themes, Wix/Squarespace work, and anything that doesn't have a measurable performance or SEO goal attached. Budgets usually land between £15K and £200K. If you're unsure whether your project fits, book a call — we'll tell you honestly within 20 minutes.

Most engagements start with a paid discovery week (£2.5K–£5K) to map the technical scope, content model, and migration risks. That output becomes either a fixed-price scoped build or a retained monthly engagement — depending on whether the project is a one-time cutover or ongoing platform work. Typical timelines: marketing site rebuilds run 4–8 weeks, headless CMS migrations 6–12 weeks, enterprise platform replatforms 3–6 months. We staff small and senior — usually 2–3 engineers per project, with zero outsourcing. Weekly demos on Loom, a shared Slack channel, and a live Linear board. You see every commit, every deploy, every bug.

SEO preservation is baked into every migration — it's the single biggest risk in replatforming and where most agencies quietly lose 30–50% of organic traffic for their clients. Our standard protocol: full URL inventory and 301 redirect map before any code ships, pre-migration benchmark of Core Web Vitals and indexation status, schema markup carried over and validated, hreflang preserved for multilingual sites, and a 30-day post-launch monitoring period where we watch Search Console daily and fix regressions within 24 hours. We've moved sites with 90K+ indexed URLs across platforms without dropping a single ranking position. Not because we're lucky — because we treat SEO as a migration requirement, not an afterthought.

We run every engagement on three channels: a shared Slack or Teams channel (you pick — we're on both), a live Linear project board you can open any time to see every ticket, status, and assignee, and a weekly Loom demo that walks you through what shipped and what's next. No status PDFs, no "meeting about the meeting," no ghost weeks. Day-to-day response time on Slack is under two hours during London business hours. For enterprise clients across US and APAC time zones we set explicit overlap windows so standups and demos happen live, not async. Every commit, every deploy, and every bug ticket is visible in real time — you see the work as it happens, not a sanitised summary at the end of the sprint. At the end of each project we hand over a written closeout: what was built, what was decided and why, what's documented, what's in the backlog, and the exact steps to maintain or extend the platform. If you bring in another agency or an in-house team later, they have everything they need to continue without us. Monthly retainers include a written scorecard: Core Web Vitals, uptime, indexation status, conversion metrics (where we have access), and ticket burn-down. You see what you're paying for. Quiet months get flagged by us before you have to ask.

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