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Headless CMS Development Agency in NYC

Your Content Team Waits on Developers — While Manhattan Moves Faster

50ms
Avg. TTFB
Edge-cached content
98+
Lighthouse Score
Performance target
40%
Faster Publishes
vs. monolithic CMS
0
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.

Waar projecten falen

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.

Compliance

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.

Wat we bouwen

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

Ons proces

01

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
02

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
03

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
04

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
05

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

Veelgestelde vragen

What headless CMS is best for a New York City business?

It depends on your team size, budget, and content complexity. Sanity is ideal for custom editorial workflows and real-time collaboration. Contentful works well for enterprise teams managing content across multiple brands. Strapi is the move if you need self-hosted open-source with no per-seat costs. We'll recommend the right fit during your free assessment.

How much does headless CMS development cost in NYC?

Our headless CMS projects start at $8,000 for a standard marketing site with content migration. Larger builds with custom integrations, multi-channel delivery, and complex content models typically land between $14K and $25K+. Every project is fixed-fee — no hourly surprises.

Can you migrate our WordPress site to a headless CMS?

Yes. We run automated migration scripts that extract your WordPress posts, pages, media, and metadata into structured content models in Sanity, Contentful, or Strapi. URL redirects are mapped one-to-one so you preserve your SEO equity. Most WordPress migrations wrap up within two weeks.

Will our content editors need to learn to code?

No. Headless CMS platforms provide visual editing interfaces that are often simpler than WordPress. We customize the studio with live previews, drag-and-drop components, and conditional fields so your team can publish confidently without touching code or waiting on a developer.

How does a headless CMS improve website performance?

Decoupling the frontend from the content layer lets us statically generate pages and cache them at edge nodes globally. This eliminates server-side rendering bottlenecks, brings TTFB under 50ms, and consistently produces Lighthouse scores above 95 — which matters a lot when you're trying to rank in competitive NYC search results.

Do you offer ongoing support after launch?

Every project includes 30 days of post-launch support covering bug fixes, content workflow adjustments, and performance tuning. After that, we offer monthly retainer plans for ongoing development, CMS schema updates, and frontend feature work. You're never locked into a contract.

Headless CMS Projects from $8,000
Fixed-fee. 30-day post-launch support included.
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