Your Toronto Team is Drowning in WordPress. We Build You a Lifeboat.
If you're a product lead watching your launch calendar slip because the CMS can't feed your app, your iOS build, and your site from one source -- you've hit the decoupling moment.
We build headless CMS architectures for Toronto businesses that need fast, flexible, multi-channel content delivery.
Your editor clicks publish. The content hits an API. Next.js pulls it. The page rebuilds in 4 seconds. Your mobile app requests the same JSON feed--no duplicate entry, no copy-paste, no version drift. That's headless: content lives in a structured backend (Sanity, Contentful, Strapi), decoupled from your frontend. You get one content model powering your Toronto storefront, your iOS app, your digital signage, and your email campaign--all from a single source. Traditional CMSs fuse content and presentation into a monolith, so every new channel means rework. Headless breaks that fusion. You author once, deliver anywhere, and your marketing team stops waiting for dev tickets to launch a landing page. But headless won't fix unclear content strategy or poor information architecture--it amplifies what you feed it. If your content model is messy, decoupling makes the mess faster.
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 Architecture
Content delivered through typed GraphQL or REST APIs with automatic schema validation. No rendering logic in the CMS -- clean separation of concerns.
Structured Content Modeling
We design content schemas around your business objects, not page layouts. Reusable content blocks that work across web, mobile, and whatever channel comes next.
Visual Editing & Live Preview
Editors see real-time changes in a preview environment before anything goes live. No guessing -- Sanity's Presentation layer or Contentful's Live Preview handles this out of the box.
Edge Caching & ISR
Pages regenerate incrementally on Vercel's edge network. Content updates go live in seconds without full rebuilds, keeping your Toronto audience on sub-100ms load times.
Role-Based Access Control
Granular permissions for editors, reviewers, and administrators. Approval workflows keep published content accurate and on-brand.
Bilingual Content Management
Native i18n support for English and French content with shared schemas and per-locale fields. Essential for Canadian businesses serving both language communities.
What We Build
Purpose-built features for your industry.
Build custom input components inside Sanity Studio that enforce your brand's content rules before publish
Your editors publish in a branded Studio environment with validation rules that prevent broken content before it goes live
Deploy modular content blocks in Contentful so marketers assemble pages without touching code
Your marketing team drags pre-approved components into place and ships landing pages in minutes, not sprints
Host Strapi on Canadian servers to keep data sovereignty and eliminate SaaS fees permanently
Your business keeps full control of content infrastructure with zero vendor lock-in and predictable hosting costs
Trigger incremental rebuilds via webhooks when content changes--no manual redeploys, no stale pages
Your site reflects content updates within seconds of publish, keeping campaigns synchronized across every touchpoint
Migrate legacy WordPress or Drupal content into structured schemas without losing metadata or breaking URLs
Your legacy CMS content moves into a future-proof schema with automated pipelines that preserve SEO equity and historical data
Power multiple brand sites from one CMS instance with shared content pools and site-specific overrides
Your multi-brand portfolio runs on one content hub, cutting duplicate work and keeping messaging consistent across properties
Built on a Modern, Secure Stack
Toronto-specific delivery
Toronto market context
Toronto's tech scene clusters around the MaRS Discovery District and King-Spadina, with density in fintech, healthtech, and SaaS. Startups here often need bilingual content management (EN/FR) for national reach, especially in regulated sectors like finance and healthcare. Shopify's HQ presence has raised expectations for headless architecture. Many Toronto companies inherit legacy Drupal or WordPress installs and need migration paths that preserve SEO equity while enabling omnichannel delivery. EST timezone means real-time collaboration with our London team during 9am–2pm overlap, LA team covers afternoons.
How we work with Toronto
We serve Toronto clients remotely from London HQ and LA studio. EST timezone gives us 5-hour overlap with London (your 9am = our 2pm) and 3-hour overlap with LA (your 2pm = their 11am). We run daily Slack check-ins, Linear for sprint tracking, and Loom for async design reviews. Aryan handles initial scoping calls and technical architecture. You'll have a dedicated dev lead and direct Slack access. For bilingual projects, we integrate translation workflows into your CMS setup--Contentful locales, Sanity document translations, or custom Supabase structures.
Junction Health Partners
healthtech platformJunction Health needed a bilingual patient education platform pulling content from clinicians across Ontario. Their WordPress setup couldn't handle structured clinical data or French translation workflows. We built a Sanity headless CMS feeding a Next.js 14 App Router frontend. Structured content types for conditions, treatments, and provider profiles. GROQ queries for symptom-based content delivery. Sanity's Translation Management plugin for EN/FR parity. Vercel Edge for sub-200ms Toronto response times. Deployed with PHIPA-compliant logging via Supabase.
Translation turnaround dropped from 9 days to 48 hours using Sanity workflows. Lighthouse performance score hit 98 mobile. Clinical team now publishes directly without dev tickets. Content API powers their iOS app and SMS notification system with zero additional backend work.
See the related solution →Budget context for Toronto projects
Toronto headless CMS projects typically run CAD $28k–$65k depending on content model complexity and integration scope. Bilingual setups add 15–25% for translation workflow architecture. Early-stage startups in the MaRS ecosystem often start with Contentful or Sanity implementations around CAD $30k–$42k. Established companies migrating from Drupal or enterprise CMS budgets skew higher--CAD $55k–$85k for phased migrations with staging environments. Ongoing retainers for content model evolution and API maintenance run CAD $4k–$8k/month. We quote in CAD for Toronto clients and invoice through Stripe.
Our Development Process
From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.
Content Audit & Schema Design
Week 1We audit your existing content, map editorial workflows, and design a structured content model that fits how your team actually works. No generic templates.
CMS Selection & Configuration
Week 2Based on your budget, team size, and technical requirements, we configure the right headless CMS -- Sanity, Contentful, or Strapi -- with custom roles and workflows.
Frontend Build & API Integration
Weeks 3–5A Next.js frontend built with TypeScript, consuming content via GraphQL. Live preview, ISR, and image optimization wired up from day one.
Content Migration & Editor Training
Week 6We migrate existing content programmatically and train your Toronto team on the new editorial workflow. Recorded sessions included.
Launch & 30-Day Support
Week 7+Production deployment on Vercel's edge network with monitoring, performance validation, and 30 days of post-launch support.
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