Your Figma Designs Launch in 14 Days. No 3-Month Dev Cycle.

Stop Waiting Months for Your CMS-Powered Website

You've invested in great design. Your Figma files are polished, your brand is dialed in, and your team is ready to start publishing content. The last thing you need is a 3-month development cycle standing between you and launch.

The Payload Launch Kit is our 2-week accelerator that takes your approved Figma designs and delivers a fully functional, production-ready website powered by Payload CMS and Next.js. No shortcuts. No template hacks. Real, custom code built to your exact specifications.

What the Payload Launch Kit Actually Is

This isn't a WordPress theme install or a drag-and-drop page builder. The Launch Kit is a structured 14-day sprint where our team converts your Figma designs into a headless CMS architecture -- Payload on the backend, Next.js on the frontend.

Here's the breakdown:

Days 1–3: Architecture & Setup

We dig into your Figma designs and map every component, layout pattern, and content type. From there, we build the Payload CMS schema -- collections, fields, blocks, relationships -- so your content model matches how your team actually thinks about content. We also get the Next.js project stood up with TypeScript, deploy pipelines, and environment configs.

Days 4–8: Component Build & CMS Integration

This is where most of the work happens. We build every UI component from your Figma files as reusable React components, then wire them directly to Payload's block-based editor. Your marketing team ends up with a visual editing experience where they can compose pages from the exact building blocks your designer created.

Every component gets:

• Full TypeScript type safety from Payload's auto-generated types
• Responsive behavior matching your Figma breakpoints
• Tailwind CSS styling (or your preferred CSS approach)
• Live preview integration so editors see changes before publishing

Days 9–11: Pages, Routing & Global Config

We build out your page templates, configure dynamic routing in Next.js, and wire up globals -- navigation, footer, site settings, SEO defaults. Need a blog? We build the collection with categories, tags, author relationships, and rich text rendering. Need landing pages? We configure your block library so editors can spin up new pages without touching code.

Days 12–14: QA, Performance & Launch

Every page, every breakpoint. We test the CMS editing experience end-to-end, optimize images with Next.js Image component and Payload's built-in media handling, and check Core Web Vitals. Any layout shifts get fixed. Lighthouse scores get where they need to be. Then we deploy to your production environment -- Vercel, AWS, or wherever you host.

Why Payload CMS

Payload is the CMS developers actually want to work with. It's open-source, self-hosted (or cloud), built on Node.js, and gives you a TypeScript-first API that makes building custom backends feel natural rather than painful.

For your team, Payload means:

• No vendor lock-in. You own your data, your code, your infrastructure.
• A genuinely good admin UI. Payload's admin panel is clean, fast, and customizable. Your editors won't need a training manual.
• Block-based page building. Editors compose pages from predefined blocks -- hero sections, feature grids, testimonials, CTAs -- that match your design system exactly.
• Built-in access control. Different permission levels for editors, admins, and API consumers? That's native to Payload, not a plugin.
• API flexibility. REST and GraphQL out of the box. Use whichever fits your architecture.

Why Next.js as the Frontend

Next.js gives us the rendering flexibility to make the right performance call for every page on your site. Static pages get generated at build time. Dynamic pages use server-side rendering. Interactive elements hydrate on the client. You get the speed of a static site with the flexibility of a full application.

With App Router and React Server Components, we fetch data from Payload directly on the server -- no client-side loading spinners, no layout shifts, no waterfall requests. Pages render fast because the data's already there when the HTML hits the browser.

What You Get at the End of 14 Days

A production-deployed website with:

• Custom Payload CMS backend with collections, blocks, and fields matching your content model
• Pixel-perfect Next.js frontend built from your Figma designs
• Live preview so editors can see content changes in real time
• SEO configuration including dynamic meta tags, Open Graph images, sitemap generation, and structured data
• Media management with optimized image delivery and responsive srcsets
• Deployment pipeline on Vercel, Railway, or your preferred hosting platform
• Documentation covering your content model, block library, and deployment process
• Editor training session -- a recorded walkthrough so your team knows how to use everything

Who This Is For

The Payload Launch Kit works best for:

• Startups launching a marketing site or docs site alongside their product
• Agencies that design in Figma but need a development partner for the build
• Marketing teams migrating from WordPress or Contentful who want more control
• Companies with approved designs sitting in Figma that need to ship fast

If your designs aren't finalized yet, that's fine. We offer design sprints separately, or we can work directly with your designer to get files production-ready before the 14-day clock starts.

What We Need From You

To hit the 2-week timeline, we need:

1. Finalized Figma designs -- desktop and mobile breakpoints for all page types
2. Content inventory -- a rough map of your pages, collections, and content types
3. Brand assets -- fonts, logos, color tokens
4. Access & accounts -- domain registrar, hosting platform, any third-party integrations
5. A decision-maker available for daily async check-ins and one mid-sprint review

That's it. We handle everything else.

Pricing & Engagement

The Payload Launch Kit is a fixed-scope, fixed-price engagement. No hourly billing, no scope creep surprises. We scope it based on your Figma file complexity -- number of unique page templates, component variants, and any custom functionality beyond standard CMS features.

After launch, we offer ongoing retainer plans for feature development, content model extensions, and performance monitoring. No lock-in, though. You get full source code ownership from day one.

The Technical Stack

Every Launch Kit project ships with a modern, maintainable stack:

• Payload CMS 3.x -- latest version with Lexical rich text editor
• Next.js 14+ -- App Router, React Server Components, streaming
• TypeScript -- end-to-end type safety from CMS to component
• Tailwind CSS -- utility-first styling for rapid, consistent UI development
• PostgreSQL or MongoDB -- your choice of database
• Vercel or Docker -- deployment flexibility
• GitHub -- version control with CI/CD pipelines