Content
Headless CMS integration
Your team edits in a friendly screen. Visitors get a page that was already built before they asked for it.
A traditional CMS builds the page while the visitor waits. A headless one separates the two: editors work in a content tool, and the site pulls that content at build time or on a schedule. The visitor gets a page that is already finished.
The practical gain is speed and safety. There is no database query on the critical path and no admin login exposed on your public domain, which removes the most common way small business sites get compromised.
The practical cost is that someone has to set up the content model properly. Get it wrong and editors fight the tool. We spend real time on this part, because it decides whether the CMS gets used after month three.
What the work covers
Included in every headless cms project.
A content model built around your pages
Fields named the way your team talks, grouped the way your pages are arranged. Not a generic blog schema with your business squeezed into it.
Preview before publish
Editors see the real page with their draft content before anyone else does.
Publish without a deployment
Saving updates the live page within seconds through on demand revalidation, with no build queue to wait on.
Image handling in the CMS
Upload once at full size. Cropping, resizing and format conversion happen automatically at delivery.
Roles for your team
Writers draft, editors publish. Useful the first time a half finished page nearly goes live.
Migration from your current CMS
Existing posts and pages moved across with their URLs and images intact.
No themes, no page builders, no plugin stacks
Every site written from scratch, starting from almost nothing and adding only what the pages need. The whole speed recipe is published, not kept secret.
Read the recipe →AI, used properlyWe use AI to go faster, not to decide
It writes the mechanical parts. It never chooses the architecture, the performance budget, or a single fact about your business. Everything is reviewed by the person who will maintain it.
Where we draw the line →Questions
Asked often enough to answer here.
If yours is not here, the general questions page covers how we work, or you can just ask.
Can we keep WordPress for editing?
Yes. WordPress makes a decent content backend when your team already knows it. Next.js reads from its API and renders the public site, so editors keep the screen they know and visitors get a much faster page.
What does the CMS cost to run?
It depends which one. Payload and Strapi are open source and run on your own hosting. Sanity has a free tier that suits most small business sites and charges by usage above it. We size this against your actual volume before recommending one.
How fast do changes go live?
Seconds. Saving triggers a rebuild of just the affected pages, not the whole site, so a typo fix does not mean waiting for a full deployment.
Related work we do
All 16 servicesCustom web development
Websites written from scratch for one business, rather than a theme bent into shape until it almost fits.
Next.js development
The framework we reach for first, and the one we know well enough to know when it is the wrong answer.
Bun and Node.js backends
The part nobody sees, which is exactly why it has to be right.
Want this for your business?
Tell us what you have now and what is not working. We will tell you what we would do and what it would cost.