Hire a Framer developer when the canvas still matches how you publish. Move to Next.js when the marketing site needs to behave like software and a headless CMS.
I wrote the long version because teams keep treating this as a slogan instead of a sequence. The short version is still useful: decide what the page or site is actually for, then protect the URLs, the offer, and the HTML Google can fetch.
What this actually means
Stay in Framer with a specialist when designers must publish fast. Leave for Next.js and Sanity when the site needs a real content system, server logic, or engineering ownership.
Most of the damage I see is not a missing plugin. It is a missing owner. Someone redesigned the template, dropped a title, hid the copy behind a click, or launched without a redirect map. Then they asked why traffic moved.
The parts I would not skip
- Framer plus a specialist is a publishing model. Next.js plus Sanity is a software model.
- Hire inside Framer when designers ship campaigns and the CMS load is modest.
- Leave when content is a graph, you need server logic, or engineering already owns Next.js.
- Company-owned workspace or repo is non-negotiable in both paths.
If you only do one thing, do the inventory first. Crawl the current site. Export Search Console. Write down the URLs that already earn clicks or conversations. Those pages are the contract. Everything else is decoration until that list is safe.
How I would use this
I treat this as a working note, not a manifesto. Use it before you hire, before you migrate, or before you open a new design file. If the current site already works, do not blow it up for a moodboard.
This is an adapted version of a longer guide. The full walkthrough, examples, and implementation notes live on my site.
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