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Agencia de Desarrollo Headless CMS en NYC

Tu Equipo de Contenido Espera a los Desarrolladores — Mientras Manhattan Avanza Más Rápido

50ms

Avg. TTFB

Edge-cached content

98+

Lighthouse Score

Performance target

40%

Faster Publishes

vs. monolithic CMS

Vendor Lock-in

Portable content models

What Headless CMS Actually Fixes — And What It Won't

Your editor hits publish. The content ships to your site, your app, your kiosks — instantly, no deploy wait. That's headless: your content lives in a structured repository (Sanity, Contentful, Strapi) and delivers via API to any frontend your business needs. Your editorial team gets a clean authoring studio. Your developers build Next.js frontends that pull data at build time, revalidate on webhook triggers, and serve pages in under 800ms. The tradeoff: you need a real frontend. Headless won't magically fix bad information architecture or content strategy — but it stops your CMS from being the bottleneck that kills launch velocity and buries your Core Web Vitals in the red.

Dónde fallan los proyectos

Your WordPress site takes 4+ seconds to load and your Core Web Vitals are red Google penalizes slow sites in rankings, and in the most competitive market in the country, that costs you organic traffic.

Content editors are stuck waiting for developer deployments just to publish updates Missed campaign windows, stale content, and your competitors in Manhattan are moving faster.

You need to push the same content to your website, mobile app, and in-store displays Running three separate content silos wastes budget and creates inconsistent brand messaging across the board.

Your monolithic CMS buckles during NYC events and traffic spikes Downtime during a product launch, sale, or PR wave directly costs you revenue.

Your current agency built a custom CMS that only they can maintain That vendor lock-in means inflated maintenance costs and no real negotiating power when contracts come up for renewal.

Your dev team spends more time fighting the CMS than shipping features Engineering talent in NYC is expensive — burning $200K+ salaries on CMS workarounds is not a good use of anyone's time.

Cumplimiento

Structured Content Modeling

We design portable, reusable content schemas that match your editorial workflow. Every field, reference, and validation rule is deliberate — no bloated generic templates.

API-First Architecture

GraphQL or REST APIs serve content to any consumer. Your Next.js site, React Native app, and third-party integrations all pull from a single source of truth.

Editorial Experience Design

We customize the authoring interface so your content team actually enjoys using it. Live previews, conditional fields, and role-based access are all built directly into the CMS studio.

Edge Caching & ISR

Content is statically generated and cached at the edge via Vercel or Cloudflare. Incremental Static Regeneration means updates go live in seconds without full rebuilds.

Migration & Content Porting

We extract, transform, and migrate content from WordPress, Drupal, or legacy systems into your new headless CMS — zero data loss, preserved URL structures.

Performance Monitoring

Post-launch dashboards track TTFB, CLS, LCP, and API response times. Alerts go out before your users ever notice a problem.

Qué construimos

Build custom Sanity Studios with real-time collaboration and GROQ queries shaped to your data model

Your editors publish without waiting on developer deploys — content goes live in seconds, not sprints

Configure Contentful multi-space architectures that scale across brands, markets, and locales

Your frontend loads in under a second with ISR patterns that keep Core Web Vitals green and rankings high

Deploy self-hosted Strapi instances on your infrastructure with full data sovereignty and zero seat fees

Your brand stays consistent across every channel because one content source feeds all your touchpoints

Wire Next.js App Router with Server Components that pull CMS content at build and revalidate on demand

Your infrastructure scales through NYC traffic spikes without buckling or burning extra compute budget

Deliver one content model to web, mobile, email, signage, and third-party platforms simultaneously

Your team owns the stack — no vendor lock-in, no inflated maintenance contracts, just portable code

Automate webhook-driven workflows with build triggers, Slack alerts, and approval pipelines on publish

Your devs ship features instead of fighting monolithic CMS quirks that waste $200K salaries on workarounds

Nuestro proceso

Content Audit & Architecture

We map your existing content, identify relationships, and design a schema that reflects how your team actually thinks about content — not how your old CMS forced you to think about it.

Week 1

CMS Setup & Customization

We stand up your headless CMS, configure roles and permissions, build custom input components, and set up preview environments so editors can see changes before they go live.

Week 2-3

Frontend Development

Next.js frontend built with your design system, connected to the CMS via typed API clients. Every page is statically generated with on-demand revalidation.

Week 3-5

Content Migration & QA

Automated migration scripts port your existing content into the new schema. We run URL redirect mapping, visual regression tests, and performance benchmarks against your current site.

Week 5-6

Launch & Optimization

We deploy to production with edge caching, monitoring dashboards, and editorial training included. Thirty days of post-launch support covers any content workflow adjustments that come up.

Week 7

Next.jsSanityContentfulStrapiVercelGraphQLTypeScriptTailwind CSS

Preguntas frecuentes

¿Cuál es el mejor headless CMS para una empresa de Nueva York?

Depende del tamaño de tu equipo, presupuesto y complejidad del contenido. Sanity es ideal para flujos editoriales personalizados y colaboración en tiempo real. Contentful funciona bien para equipos empresariales que administran contenido en múltiples marcas. Strapi es la opción si necesitas open-source auto-hospedado sin costos por usuario. Recomendaremos el ajuste correcto durante tu evaluación gratuita.

¿Cuánto cuesta el desarrollo headless CMS en NYC?

Nuestros proyectos headless CMS comienzan en $8,000 para un sitio de marketing estándar con migración de contenido. Los builds más grandes con integraciones personalizadas, entrega multicanal y modelos de contenido complejos típicamente oscilan entre $14K y $25K+. Cada proyecto tiene tarifa fija — sin sorpresas por hora.

¿Pueden migrar nuestro sitio WordPress a un headless CMS?

Sí. Ejecutamos scripts de migración automatizados que extraen tus posts de WordPress, páginas, medios y metadatos en modelos de contenido estructurados en Sanity, Contentful o Strapi. Los redireccionamientos de URL se mapean uno a uno para preservar tu equidad SEO. La mayoría de las migraciones de WordPress se completan en dos semanas.

¿Necesitarán nuestros editores de contenido aprender a programar?

No. Las plataformas headless CMS proporcionan interfaces de edición visual que a menudo son más simples que WordPress. Personalizamos el estudio con previsualizaciones en vivo, componentes de arrastrar y soltar, y campos condicionales para que tu equipo pueda publicar con confianza sin tocar código ni esperar a un desarrollador.

¿Cómo mejora un headless CMS el rendimiento del sitio web?

Desacoplar el frontend de la capa de contenido nos permite generar páginas estáticamente y almacenarlas en caché en nodos edge globales. Esto elimina cuellos de botella de renderizado del lado del servidor, lleva TTFB por debajo de 50ms y produce consistentemente puntuaciones Lighthouse superiores a 95 — lo cual importa mucho cuando intentas rankear en resultados de búsqueda competitivos de NYC.

¿Ofrecen soporte después del lanzamiento?

Cada proyecto incluye 30 días de soporte posterior al lanzamiento cubriendo correcciones de bugs, ajustes de flujo de trabajo de contenido y ajuste de rendimiento. Después de eso, ofrecemos planes de retención mensual para desarrollo continuo, actualizaciones de esquema CMS y trabajo de características frontend. Nunca estás vinculado a un contrato.

Headless CMS Projects from $8,000

Fixed-fee. 30-day post-launch support included.

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