A durable content model
Schemas reflect the business domain and can evolve without painful migrations.
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Headless CMS
Structured content platforms that give editors control and products a stable delivery API.
What we build
Useful from
day one.
StrapiNext.jsPostgresGraphQL
Editorial workflow
Roles, preview, drafts, and publishing fit the people operating the system.
Fast delivery
Caching and revalidation keep sites responsive without serving stale content.
The route to production
Clear steps.
Visible progress.
Discover
We map the real workflow, risks, users, and success measure before choosing an implementation.
Build
Working software lands in visible increments, with the hardest assumptions tested first.
Prove
We validate against production-shaped data, failure paths, performance, and real use.
Ship
Deployment, monitoring, documentation, and a clean handover are part of the build.
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Before you ask
Questions,
answered.
When is headless the wrong call?
When there is one brochure site that one person updates monthly. Headless earns its cost when more than one front end reads one source — a marketing site, a mobile app and an in-product help centre pulling the same articles — plus a real content team and a genuine reason to keep content and application logic apart. What you pay for it is an extra service to run and patch, an API contract to version, and a preview-and-cache story you build and maintain yourself. Picking it because it sounds modern is how a five-page site ends up paying the operational tax of a content platform.
Which headless CMS do you build on?
It depends on four questions that outlast the admin UI everyone compares in a bake-off: how a field rename travels from a laptop to production without dropping data, how far access control bends before you write middleware, how an editor sees an unpublished draft on the real page, and what the bill looks like as editors and traffic grow. Our defaults are Payload when the front end is Next.js and the model will get complicated with blocks, tenants and locales; Directus when the database already exists or the permission matrix is the hard part; Sanity when editors are the constraint and you do not want a pager; and Strapi when the team already runs it and the model really is posts, pages and authors.
How should we model content?
Backward from the queries the front end actually makes, not forward from the editor form. A CMS will happily let you nest components and dynamic zones with no depth limit and it looks tidy in the admin, but every layer is another entry in the populate object, another shape to hand-write, and another place an empty field throws on render. Flatten what you list, nest only what a detail view renders, and reserve genuinely variable layouts for pages that genuinely vary. Editor ergonomics are a constraint on the schema, not the schema itself.
Why is the API slow when the CMS itself feels fast?
Usually the populate parameter. Strapi returns none of your relations, media or components unless you ask, and asking for everything walks each relation one level deep with a separate query — the textbook N+1, so a single article request quietly becomes ten or fifteen round trips. Add a related-posts widget that itself populates authors and cover images and one HTTP request fans into dozens of joins. Name every field you populate, pair it with field selection so a list endpoint ships an excerpt rather than a whole body, and cache the anonymous endpoints.
Can we run more than one instance?
Only if you sequence the schema sync. Strapi diffs its schema files against the database on every boot and issues schema changes to close the gap, so three containers starting within a couple of seconds all decide the same relation is missing and all issue DDL against the same table. One wins and the others crash-loop, or the change lands half applied — a column created, a join table not — and the instance that won passes its health check anyway. We run a single migrator container to completion and start the app tier after it, or take an advisory lock around bootstrap.
Where does schema live, and where does content live?
Schema in code, content in the database, and confusing the two is what ambushes teams. Content types ship in the repository and deploy with your code, while content, roles, permissions and API tokens live in the database — so promote an environment and the schema moves while the data stays put. Add a field through the admin panel on production and the next deploy regenerates the schema over it. We change schema in a branch, in review, never through the production admin, and keep roles and defaults in a seed or config-sync step so a fresh environment is reproducible rather than hand-tuned.
What happens when somebody renames a field?
In the wrong setup, the content in it disappears without an error. A diff engine reads a rename as a drop and an add: the old column goes, the new one arrives empty, the deploy goes green, and you find out from a page rendering a blank hero. Destructive changes belong in a written migration that runs once and is recorded, with the schema files matching the end state. It is the failure that arrives in month seven, not on day one, which is why it never shows up in an evaluation.
Why do editors say they published and the page did not change?
Because publishing changes the database and nothing else. If you statically render or cache responses, the live page keeps serving the old copy until something tells it to rebuild, and the stale layer is usually a cache nobody wrote down. That something is a webhook: the CMS fires a publish event, the front end revalidates the affected paths or tags, and the loop closes. We wire publish-to-revalidate before the first content type ships, because this is the single most common thing a headless setup gets blamed for, usually wrongly.
What do you do about media?
Move it off the application server before there is real content. The default upload provider writes to local disk and returns paths that vanish the next time the container redeploys, and with two instances roughly half of image requests hit the one that never received the file — which reads like a CDN misconfiguration and is actually a storage decision made at project creation. Migrating later means rewriting the URL and format data on every file row plus every path inlined into rich text. We also set derivative sizes deliberately, because a marketing team dropping fifty large hero images otherwise produces hundreds of synchronous resize jobs on the event loop.
How do previews work for editors?
Through the real front end, not a link to a raw draft API. Draft state connects to the framework's draft mode behind a short-lived signed token, so a writer sees the unpublished page as it will actually render. It is harder than the documentation suggests and worth budgeting a day for rather than an afternoon, because getting the cache tags slightly wrong produces the loop where an editor publishes, sees a stale page, publishes twice more, and files a bug against your CDN that is really a bug in your tagging.
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