Sometimes Next or Angular aren't the right call. Astro for content-heavy sites with islands of interactivity. Nuxt for Vue-fluent teams. Remix for nested-route data flows. Hydrogen for Shopify-headless. Or fully bespoke — Hono on Cloudflare Workers, SvelteKit, Deno Fresh. We pick the stack that scores best against your data shape and render needs.
Case proof. organic clicks in 90 days for an Astro content site rebuild
What is REO Rank's Custom Stack engineering?
Sometimes Next or Angular aren't the right call. Astro for content-heavy sites with islands of interactivity. Nuxt for Vue-fluent teams. Remix for nested-route data flows. Hydrogen for Shopify-headless. Or fully bespoke — Hono on Cloudflare Workers, SvelteKit, Deno Fresh. We pick the stack that scores best against your data shape and render needs.
Stack: Custom Development → Custom Stack
Sample: LCP (mobile) 3.8s → 0.9s (-76%)
Code in your repo · no SaaS lock-in
Augment your engineers or ship stand-alone
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Stack pillars
How we ship rankings on Custom Stack
No matter the platform — these are the diagnostics we ship to production. Mono outputs are real Lighthouse / Search Console signals from recent client engagements.
Speed
Custom stacks let us pick the rendering strategy per route — SSG for marketing pages, SSR for personalized funnels, ISR for dynamic catalogs, streaming for heavy data. CWV all-green is the floor, not the ceiling.
cwv.speed
LCP · 0.9s
INP · 64ms
CLS · 0.01
Schema
Schema lives where it should — in your component tree, type-safe, generated from your domain model. Connected JSON-LD graph, validated at build time, server-rendered into the document head.
Programmatic SEO at 100k+ page scale becomes a build-time concern, not a runtime one. ISR + edge cache + sitemap-from-source-of-truth = millions of indexable URLs without database melt.
pipeline.scale
1data.fetch(:source-of-truth)
2pages.generate(100k)
3sitemap.emit
4edge.deploy
5gsc.bulk-submit
500+
Clients Ranked on Page 1
10M+
Organic Visits Generated
340%
Average Traffic Growth
8+
Years of SEO Expertise
$ custom-stack --inspect
stack Custom Stack
parent Custom Development
version Astro · Nuxt · Remix · Hydrogen · bespoke
cwv all-green target
deploy production-ready
About this build path
Why teams pick Custom Stack with REO Rank
Custom Stack engagements pair our Custom Development engineers with senior SEO leads to ship a production-grade build that ranks on day one. We treat the framework's quirks as design constraints, not roadblocks — and we ship code your team can keep operating long after we hand off.
Senior Custom Stack engineers paired with senior SEO leads
Production code shipped on your repo — no SaaS lock-in
Sits inside our broader Custom Development engineering practice
Hand-off + documentation included as part of every build
Every engagement runs the same five-stage pipeline. Senior engineer at every stage, status visible in your shared Notion the entire time.
1
Stack Decision
$ stack decide --score
We map your data model, scale targets, team capabilities and personalization needs to the right framework — Next, Angular, Astro, Nuxt, Remix or Hydrogen.
2
Architecture
$ arch design --review
Render strategy per route (SSG/SSR/ISR/streaming), data layer, edge cache strategy, monitoring stack, deploy pipeline — all decided up front, all documented.
3
Build & Schema
$ build --type-check --schema
Component-driven build with type-safe schema generated from your domain model. Connected JSON-LD graph, validated at build time, server-rendered into the head.
Production deploy, runbook documented, on-call rotation handed to your team (or kept by us as a retainer). Source-of-truth for every architectural decision.
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Free build audit
Get an engineering audit of your Custom Stack build
90-second form. Senior engineer reviews and replies within 24h.
Free Custom Development SEO Audit
3 quick questions — takes 30 seconds
4 spots left this week
Step 1 of 333%
500+ audits delivered4.9/5 average rating
Benchmarks
Real Custom Stack results we ship
These are the metric movements we typically deliver in 90 days. No vanity numbers — every value comes from Google Search Console, Lighthouse and live server logs.
LCP (mobile) -76%
before3.8s
after0.9s
Indexable URLs +27x
before5.2k
after142k
Organic clicks (90d) +422%
before18k
after94k
Time to first byte -92%
before820ms
after64ms
Build packages
Custom Stack build packages
Every package is fixed-scope, fixed-price and tied to a defined deliverable. Retainer kicks in only after the build is live and KPIs are passing.
30-day post-launch fix window included on every package. No retainer lock-in.
From our clients
Results on Custom Development
Every quote below is from a real client engagement. We only report what we can tie to a ranking, a booking, or a pipeline number.
5 avg. client review · 60+ engagements
Slide 1 of 8
They compressed what we expected to be a nine-month sandbox into a couple of months. The authority plan and outreach stack were exactly what a brand-new site needed.
Filip Gavrilovski
iGaming acquisition lead
Slide 2 of 8
Their competitive analysis showed us exactly where we stood and what to do about it. Detailed, practical, and easy to act on.
James Powell
E-commerce founder
Slide 3 of 8
We've returned for multiple content and link projects because the quality is always dependable. Well-structured work and a genuinely straightforward process.
Jason Berkowitz
Agency owner
Slide 4 of 8
Understood the brief after a single call and executed with confidence. Delivered on schedule with excellent communication the entire way through.
Jenny Abouobaia
Agency owner
Slide 5 of 8
They consistently identify high-quality opportunities, keep communication clear, and deliver exactly what we need. A partnership we plan to keep.
Jessica Levenson
Marketing director
Slide 6 of 8
Every weekly call has a senior strategist on it, not an account manager reading a script. The work shows up in our pipeline, not just a vanity dashboard.
Kate Smoothy
SaaS growth lead
Slide 7 of 8
Delivered everything within a few days without compromising quality. Fast, professional, and consistently reliable across every campaign.
Kit Cresswell
Agency owner
Slide 8 of 8
Genuinely rigorous technical work — they found and fixed foundation issues three previous agencies had missed, and communicated every change clearly.
Lily Ray
SEO consultant
FAQs
Questions about Custom Stack SEO engineering
Quick answers to the things buyers ask before signing.
Why not just stay on a CMS?
If a CMS handles your scale and rendering needs, stay. Custom builds win when one of these is true: you need sub-second LCP at scale, you're shipping programmatic SEO at 100k+ pages, you need edge personalization that doesn't break canonical signals, or your data model doesn't fit a CMS shape.
How do you decide which framework to use?
We score against 4 axes: data shape (relational vs document vs graph), render strategy (SSG vs SSR vs ISR vs streaming), team capability (TypeScript vs React vs Vue vs Angular fluency), and edge story (Vercel vs Cloudflare vs your own). The framework that scores best wins — we have no preference.
Do you ship code we own, or do we get locked in?
Everything lives in your repo. Open-source dependencies only — no proprietary build tools, no managed-by-us SaaS layers in the critical path. Your team can take over the build the day after we hand off if you want to.
Can you augment our existing engineering team?
Yes. We can ship as a stand-alone team OR pair our framework specialists with your in-house engineers via async code reviews, architecture reviews and Notion-based status. Most engagements end up as a hybrid model.
What about ongoing SEO after the build is live?
Optional retainer (Enterprise Partnership) covers monthly content velocity, ranking defense, technical monitoring, architecture reviews and quarterly authority/content campaigns. Month-to-month after the initial 90 days — no annual lock-in.
How long does a typical Production Build take?
8-14 weeks depending on scope. Discovery Sprint runs first (2 weeks) so we have a written proposal before the bigger commitment. Production Build kicks off after sign-off and ships in measurable weekly milestones with full status visibility.
How do you approach Core Web Vitals on a custom build?
Custom builds give us the most control over CWV. We pick render strategies per route (SSG for marketing pages, ISR for dynamic catalogs, streaming for data-heavy dashboards), serve images via a CDN with format negotiation (WebP/AVIF), ship critical CSS inline, and defer all third-party scripts through a consent-aware tag manager. Our floor is all-green CWV on mobile — not just desktop.
Do you own the IP and architecture decisions after the engagement?
You own all of it — code, architecture documentation, deployment pipeline config and monitoring setup. We write everything to your repo under open-source dependencies. There is no ReoRank-proprietary layer in the critical path. Your team or any other agency can take over the day after handoff.
How do you handle CMS content on a custom build?
We pair the custom front-end with a headless CMS appropriate to your team: Contentful, Sanity, Payload, or a custom NestJS API if you already have one. Content editors keep a familiar editing surface; developers get a typed content layer. The CMS choice is yours — we have experience with all of them.
Can you migrate us from our existing CMS to a custom stack?
Yes. WordPress, Webflow, HubSpot CMS and Wix migrations to custom stacks are a regular part of our practice. We export and remodel content into the headless CMS, handle canonical mapping and 301-redirect strategy, and run both sites in parallel until rankings confirm the migration is clean.
No account-manager buffer and no juniors learning on your budget — you work directly with the people who do the work.
Founder
Rao Anas
Founder & CEO
Company vision · technical direction
Founder and CEO. Sets the company vision and leads engineering and technical direction across both SEO and software development — the person who architects the hard problems and owns the standard the whole team builds to.
Founder
Rao Huzaifa
Founder & CEO
Business strategy · finance · delivery
Founder and CFO. Owns business strategy and finance and oversees software delivery end to end, so engagements stay scoped, on budget and shipped.
Founder
Rao Usama
Co-Founder & Product Officer, Head of AI / Data
14+ yrs engineering · AI agents, MCP & automation
Co-Founder and Head of AI & Data. 14+ years in software engineering; leads our AI-agent, MCP-integration and workflow-automation work — turning models into systems that actually run in production.
MSc, Data Science
Rao Hasnain
Chief Operating Officer
Operations · delivery across every engagement
Chief Operating Officer. Runs day-to-day operations and keeps delivery on track across every client engagement — the reason work moves predictably instead of in fits and starts.
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