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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.

Headless CMS Development

A headless CMS separates content storage and editing from the front-end presentation layer, exposing content through APIs that any application can query. Instead of a monolithic WordPress install serving one website, your editors work in a single structured interface while your web app, native apps, and digital signage each consume exactly the content fields they need. We design the content model, configure the CMS, and connect it to your Next.js or Astro front end.

What is holding your current website back?

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Your developers are hand-editing WordPress templates every time a marketer needs a new page type, burning sprint capacity on work that should never touch engineering.
Risk: Each manual intervention introduces regression risk and delays the product features that are actually on your roadmap.
Your iOS team and your web team are maintaining separate copies of the same product descriptions, pricing tiers, and legal disclaimers because the current CMS has no API your app can call.
Risk: Content drift between channels means customers see inconsistent information, and a single correction requires two deployment cycles.
Page load performance is degrading as your WordPress plugin stack grows, and your Core Web Vitals scores are reflecting it in search rankings.
Risk: A CMS-driven site that consistently scores below the category median compounds lost organic traffic month over month with no quick fix inside the monolith.

How We Build This Right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

Role-Based Content Access

We configure granular permission structures in Sanity and Contentful so editors, translators, and approvers each see only the content and fields their role requires, reducing accidental overwrites and unauthorized publishing.

Audit Trails and Content Versioning

Every content change is logged with author, timestamp, and diff in platforms we configure, giving compliance and legal teams a reviewable history without relying on developer memory or Git blame.

CDN-Backed Delivery SLAs

Static and ISR builds served through Vercel or Cloudflare edge networks mean your content reaches end users from nodes closest to them, with uptime and latency characteristics you can report against a defined SLA.

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Structured Content Modeling

We define document schemas and field types around how your business actually thinks about content, not around how a page happens to look today, so adding a new channel later is a query change rather than a structural rebuild.

Next.js Front-End Integration

We connect your CMS to a Next.js application using static generation, incremental static regeneration, or server-side rendering depending on how frequently your content changes and how hard your traffic spikes hit.

Editorial Workflow Configuration

We set up draft, review, and publish states with preview URLs so your editors can see exactly how content will render before it goes live, without needing a developer to spin up a local environment.

Migration from Legacy CMS

We write extraction scripts that pull structured data from your existing WordPress or Drupal install, map it to the new content model, and run validation passes so no posts, metadata, or media assets are lost in the move.

Built on a Modern, Secure Stack

Next.jsSanityContentfulStrapiVercelGraphQLTypeScriptTailwind CSS

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Content Audit and Channel Mapping

1 week

We inventory your existing content types, identify every channel that needs to consume them, and document which fields each channel actually uses versus which ones are presentation artifacts that belong in the front end.

02

Schema Design and CMS Configuration

1-2 weeks

We build and review the content model schema with your editorial and product leads, configure the chosen platform, set up permission roles, and validate that the editing interface matches how your team describes their daily workflow.

03

Front-End Integration and Data Fetching

2 weeks

We wire the CMS APIs into your Next.js application, implement the rendering strategy appropriate for each content type, and establish preview routes so editors have a feedback loop before touching the production environment.

04

Migration, QA, and Handoff

1-2 weeks

We run the content migration, validate field parity against the source system, conduct performance and rendering QA across targeted devices, and deliver documentation and a recorded walkthrough so your team can manage the system without us on speed dial.

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Frequently Asked Questions

It depends on your team and budget. Sanity offers the most flexible editing experience and a generous free tier. Contentful suits enterprise teams with structured approval workflows. Strapi makes sense if you need a self-hosted, open-source CMS on Canadian servers for data sovereignty. We help you choose based on your actual content operations -- not a sales pitch.
Most migrations from WordPress or Drupal take 5-7 weeks. The timeline depends on content volume, custom field complexity, and how many integrations need reconnecting. We use automated migration scripts, not manual copy-paste, so content integrity holds throughout.
No. Modern headless CMS platforms like Sanity and Contentful are more intuitive than WordPress -- not less. We customize the editing studio to match your workflow: drag-and-drop blocks, live preview, and media management. Your Toronto team gets hands-on training before launch.
Our headless CMS projects start at $8,000 CAD for a standard website with structured content models and editor training. Complex multi-site or multi-channel builds with custom integrations typically run $14,000 to $25,000+. All projects are fixed-fee -- no surprise invoices.
Yes. Sanity, Contentful, and Strapi all support native internationalization. We configure shared content schemas with per-locale fields so editors manage translations side by side. This matters for Canadian businesses that need to serve both official language communities without duplicating entire pages.
Significantly. A headless CMS paired with Next.js on Vercel's edge network typically delivers sub-100ms Time to First Byte -- compared to 800ms+ for an average WordPress installation. Pages are pre-rendered at build time or regenerated incrementally, which eliminates database queries and PHP processing on every request.
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