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We're proud to introduce the inaugural cohort of Vercel Certified Solution Partners. These eleven industry-leading teams share our commitment to create a faster, more accessible, and more innovative web.
This program is designed not only to validate partner expertise, but also to help customers confidently choose teams who understand their needs, technical requirements, and the experiences they aim to deliver.
Through partner certification, customers are matched with teams proven to deliver exceptional outcomes with Next.js and Vercel, from ambitious redesigns and complex enterprise migrations to new product development.
The Vercel Partner Certification underscores what it takes to deliver at the forefront of the modern web. It gives customers a clear path to partners they can trust to move fast, innovate confidently, and build with Next.js and Vercel. We're excited to be recognized and look forward to helping more brands turn ambitious digital experiences into meaningful results.
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These eleven global partners are the first to complete our certification program.
AKQA • Americaneagle.com • Artisan Studios • Blazity • Code and Theory • Grid Dynamics • Horizontal • Jakala • Monogram • UNRVLD • Verndale
Being recognized as a Certified Vercel Solution Partner is a proud milestone for Artisan Studios. It reflects our advanced delivery across Next.js, the Vercel Platform, and Vercel AI Cloud — and our confidence in Vercel as a strategic partner for modern, high-performance digital experiences.
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Partner certification recognizes Solution Partners with deep expertise in Next.js and Vercel who have a proven record of delivering successful customer outcomes independently or alongside Vercel's Professional Services team.
For customers, certification provides clarity and confidence. Vercel Certified Solution Partners help them:
Launch faster and with best-practices for performance, reliability, and scalability
Ship bigger, more complex projects with clearer architecture guidance
Reduce risk through implementation approaches validated with Vercel engineering
Adopt new capabilities sooner, including AI Cloud features and products
Vercel Certified Solution Partners meet our bar for technical implementation, design quality, and modern web development principles, ensuring customers work with teams that can deliver impact from day one.
Across industries, customers such as Minnesota Star Tribune, Boston Beer Company, Alchemy, and Stanley Black & Decker have turned to Vercel Certified Solution Partners to deliver mission-critical Next.js and Vercel projects from start to finish.
The common thread of our most impactful web projects has been a Vercel implementation. Iteration speed, front-end performance, and security come out of the box which gives us tangible, accelerated impact for our clients. We’re ecstatic to have our expertise recognized in the launch of the certification program and start the next generation of our partnership with Vercel.
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The certification program validates expertise across three areas: the Vercel platform (Developer Experience Platform, Managed Infrastructure, Observability & Analytics), Next.js development (best practices, advanced patterns), and AI Cloud (AI SDK, v0.app, Workflow). Partners must certify a minimum number of developers on their team, with recertification tied to major Next.js and Vercel releases to ensure teams stay current.
Certification creates a strong connection between partners, customers, and Vercel. Certified solution partners:
Prominently featured as "Certified" in Vercel's partner directory, helping customers find qualified teams
Work more closely with Vercel Professional Services and go-to-market teams to match customers to the right delivery teams
Participate in recurring enablement and recertification to stay current on Next.js and Vercel best practices
This certification complements the work we’re rolling out in the Partner Program and Professional Services, from partner enablement and partner funds to scaling high-quality delivery across the Vercel ecosystem.
At AKQA, we were early adopters of Vercel, because we shared the same conviction that headless architectures and MACH principles would define the next decade of digital innovation. Today, Vercel is one of our most strategic technology allies as we build the future of agentic experiences for our clients. We can now deliver groundbreaking AI experiences such as Generative UI and the Generative Store in days rather than months Vercel has become a true infrastructure accelerator for AKQA’s generative experience transformation.
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If you would like an introduction to a Vercel Certified Solution Partner, contact your Vercel account team or find a partner in our Partner Directory.
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New partners: if you are interested in joining our Partner Program and getting certified, contact the Partner Programs team to learn more
Existing partners: current partners interested in certification can register here to learn more