Yes, US clients are a regular part of my week, both direct businesses and American agencies needing white label Umbraco depth. The time difference is an advantage dressed up as an obstacle. My working day overlaps the East Coast by about four hours, comfortably enough for stand-ups, demos and pairing, and the rest of my day happens while yours has not started. Work you brief at your close of business is often finished when you sit down the next morning, which US teams tell me feels faster than working with someone local. The rate is the same flat £500 a day, roughly $630, in every state, invoiced in GBP, and I reply within one working day, usually the same day.
Umbraco is a European platform at heart, and genuine specialist depth in the US market is thin. American companies running Umbraco often face a choice between a large agency where the CMS is a sideline and a generalist contractor learning it live. Hiring a UK specialist is the third option: someone who has shipped more than 200 Umbraco sites, working in a time zone that quietly does your team a favour.
UK afternoons are East Coast mornings, giving roughly four hours of shared working time every day. That window carries the synchronous things: kick-offs, reviews, demos, the occasional emergency call. Everything else becomes asynchronous in the productive direction. A ticket written in Boston at 5pm lands at the start of my next working day, and the answer or the build is frequently waiting when Boston wakes up. Clients describe it as briefing a night shift they never had to hire. The full picture is on the Umbraco developer for US clients page.
Same rate as UK clients, £500 a day, about $630, in all fifty states. Invoices in GBP, which any US business card or bank converts without ceremony. Contracts signed digitally in minutes, confidentiality included as standard rather than as a separate NDA negotiation. No premium for the accent.
Direct clients get a senior specialist below US agency cost. US agencies get white label Umbraco development under their own brand, an arrangement that is already about forty percent of my practice. Either way the first step is the same: tell me what you are running and what hurts, and expect a useful reply within a working day.
Tell me what you're working on and I'll come back within one working day.
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