Your LA Buyers Bounce Before Your CMS Loads the Hero Image
If you're a growth team in Los Angeles watching mobile conversions tank on WordPress, you've hit the decoupling moment.
We build headless CMS architectures that let your LA-based team publish content anywhere -- websites, apps, kiosks -- from a single source of truth.
Your content publishes in Sanity Studio, and 12 seconds later it's live on your site, your iOS app, and the display wall in your Venice showroom -- no separate updates, no deploy queue. A headless CMS decouples where your team writes content from where your customers see it. You gain API-first delivery, typed content models that prevent broken fields, and edge caching that puts your pages 40ms from every LA zip code. We build Sanity Studio interfaces with custom validation rules that match your brand guidelines, hook Contentful or Strapi into Next.js frontends with ISR, and migrate your existing WordPress content without losing a single URL or metadata tag. Your editorial team gets a clean writing interface. Your developers get typed GraphQL queries and webhook-driven builds. Your buyers get pages that feel instant -- because they are.
What is holding your current website back?
Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.
What Your Website Could Look Like
Custom-designed for your industry. No templates. No stock photos.
How We Build This Right
Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.
API-First Content Modeling
We design structured content schemas that serve every channel from a single API. Your content team writes once and publishes everywhere -- no duplication, no drift.
Edge-Deployed Frontends
Static and server-rendered pages deploy to CDN edge nodes worldwide. Los Angeles users get sub-100ms responses. So does everyone else.
Real-Time Preview
Editors see live content previews before publishing -- no guessing how copy looks on the final site. We wire up draft modes natively in Next.js.
Role-Based Access Control
Granular permissions ensure editors, marketers, and admins only touch what they should. Every change is tracked in audit logs for full accountability.
Structured Data & SEO
Schema.org markup, dynamic sitemaps, and metadata pipelines are built directly into the content model. SEO foundations ship with the architecture -- not bolted on later.
Zero-Downtime Deployments
Atomic deploys on Vercel mean the old version keeps serving traffic until the new build is fully ready. No maintenance windows, no broken pages mid-deploy.
What We Build
Purpose-built features for your industry.
Architect custom Sanity Studio dashboards with portable text editors and image pipelines that enforce your brand's aspect ratios
Your editorial team publishes without waiting for developer deploys -- content goes live in under 15 seconds, not 15 minutes
Connect Contentful or Strapi backends to Next.js frontends with typed GraphQL queries and zero runtime fetching delays
Your site, mobile app, and in-store kiosks pull from one content source -- no duplicate copy, no version drift, no brand inconsistencies
Deploy incremental static regeneration so content changes propagate in seconds without rebuilding your entire site
Your pages load in under 900ms globally because static assets serve from edge nodes, not origin servers under load
Configure multi-language content models with locale-aware routing that serves LA and international audiences natively
Your stack stays flexible -- swap React for Vue, Next.js for Astro, or Sanity for Strapi without rewriting your entire content layer
Build webhook pipelines that trigger builds, purge CDN caches, notify Slack, and sync third-party systems when content publishes
Your security surface shrinks to API tokens and read-only frontends -- no exposed admin panels, no plugin vulnerabilities, no patch Tuesdays
Migrate your WordPress, Drupal, or legacy CMS into a headless platform while preserving URLs, metadata, and editorial history
Your infrastructure scales automatically during LA event traffic spikes -- edge CDN handles 10× load without a single server restart
Built on a Modern, Secure Stack
Los Angeles-specific delivery
Los Angeles market context
LA's creative economy -- entertainment, music, fashion, wellness -- demands content infrastructure that can publish fast and scale globally. Studios need multi-region CDN delivery for trailer drops. DTC beauty brands need composable stacks that let them test new product landing pages in hours, not sprints. Headless CMS lets content teams move at the speed of social trends without engineering bottlenecks. The city's also home to a dense cluster of venture-backed consumer brands expecting Contentful or Sanity paired with Next.js or Astro front-ends. GDPR/CCPA compliance is table stakes, not a nice-to-have.
How we work with Los Angeles
Our LA studio is at 1875 Century Park East. You'll work with Aryan and the team -- engineers, not account managers. We're in PST, so standups overlap cleanly with SF and Seattle clients, and we've got afternoon bandwidth for APAC calls. In-person kickoffs and design reviews are available if you're local. Remote-first workflow otherwise: Slack for async, Linear for tickets, Loom for walkthroughs. We ship from LA and London depending on timezone fit and project phase.
Lyric Beauty Co.
DTC cosmeticsLyric needed to launch seasonal product drops weekly without dev tickets. Their Shopify theme was a bottleneck -- marketing couldn't edit hero modules or ingredient callouts without opening PRs. We migrated them to Sanity CMS with a Next.js front-end and Shopify Storefront API for cart and checkout. Content types for product pages, lookbooks, and ingredient deep-dives. Vercel edge cache keeps Time to First Byte under 150ms globally. Editors can stage and preview changes in real-time before publish.
Marketing now ships new landing pages in under an hour. Lighthouse performance jumped from 52 to 94 on mobile. Studio.sanity.io onboarding took two sessions; their content team hasn't filed a dev ticket in three months.
See the related solution →Budget context for Los Angeles projects
LA brands budgeting for headless CMS projects typically allocate $18k–$45k for initial build and integration. That covers CMS setup (Sanity, Contentful, or Strapi), schema design, front-end build in Next.js or Astro, and editor training. Monthly retainers for content model updates and CMS feature work run $3k–$8k depending on velocity. Venture-backed DTC brands often budget higher for composable commerce stacks; bootstrapped creative studios lean toward Astro + Decap CMS to minimize ongoing SaaS fees.
Our Development Process
From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.
Content Audit & Architecture
Week 1First, we map your existing content, identify reuse patterns, and design a structured content model that serves every delivery channel. You'll approve wireframes and schema before a single line of code ships.
CMS Setup & Studio Build
Week 2Then we provision your headless CMS, configure schemas, build custom editing interfaces, and set up role-based permissions. Your editorial team gets hands-on training during this phase.
Frontend Development
Weeks 3–4Next comes Next.js frontend development with TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and full API integration. Live preview, ISR, and dynamic routing are wired in from day one.
QA, Performance & SEO
Week 5We run Lighthouse audits, cross-browser testing, accessibility checks, and structured data validation. Every page targets 95+ performance scores before launch.
Launch & Handoff
Week 6Finally, we deploy to the Vercel edge network. You get full documentation, editorial guides, and 30 days of post-launch support to handle any edge cases.
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