Your Enterprise CMS Just Became Your Bottleneck
If you're a digital director watching Sitecore licensing fees eclipse your entire dev budget, you've found the exit ramp.
We migrate enterprise sites from legacy CMS platforms to Next.js -- preserving SEO equity, cutting hosting costs, and shipping a faster frontend.
A legacy CMS migration means replacing platforms like Sitecore, TYPO3, Drupal, Joomla, Kentico, or Adobe Experience Manager with a Next.js frontend backed by a headless CMS. Your content, URLs, metadata, and integrations stay intact -- what changes is the rendering layer, which moves to React-based static and server-side generation. The result is a site that's faster, more secure, and one your developers actually want to work on.
Your Current Site May Be a Liability
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.
Full URL & Redirect Mapping
Every existing URL gets audited, mapped, and covered with 301 redirects. No orphaned pages, no broken backlinks, no traffic falling into a void.
Content Schema Migration
We pull content models out of your legacy CMS and restructure them into a clean headless schema. Relationships, taxonomies, and metadata all come with them.
SEO Equity Preservation
Meta tags, structured data, canonical URLs, sitemaps, internal linking -- all rebuilt to match what you had, validated with crawl diffs before and after launch.
Security Hardening
Ditching a server-side CMS shrinks your attack surface considerably. Static pages served from an edge CDN eliminate entire categories of vulnerabilities. API routes get authentication and rate limiting from day one.
Performance Optimization
ISR, static generation, and edge caching get you to sub-second load times. Images run through next/image automatically -- modern formats, right sizing, no manual work.
Access Control & Auth
Your existing auth flows and role-based access controls move to modern identity providers. SSO, SAML, OAuth2 -- all supported.
What We Build
Purpose-built features for your industry.
Automated Content Extraction
Custom scripts handle the content extraction. Assets, metadata, database records -- none of it requires manual copy-paste.
Headless CMS Integration
We connect Sanity, Contentful, Storyblok, or whatever headless CMS fits your team, with type-safe content models throughout.
Incremental Static Regeneration
Editors can publish instantly without triggering a full redeploy. ISR rebuilds pages on demand -- static-site speed, without the static-site publishing headaches.
Component Library Buildout
Every legacy template gets rebuilt as a reusable React component, documented in Storybook, with design system tokens baked in.
Third-Party Integration Rewiring
Analytics, CRMs, marketing automation, e-commerce -- everything reconnects through modern API layers. Nothing gets quietly dropped.
Parallel Running & Validation
We run both sites in parallel before cutover, comparing rendered output, SEO signals, and functionality side by side. You don't go live until parity is confirmed.
Built on a Modern, Secure Stack
Our Development Process
From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.
Platform Audit & URL Inventory
Week 1–2We crawl your existing site and document every URL, content type, integration, and custom module. You get a migration scope document with a real risk assessment before we write a line of code.
Architecture & CMS Selection
Week 2–3Then we design the Next.js architecture, pick the headless CMS, define the content schemas, and map out the redirect strategy. Every technical decision is documented and signed off before anything gets built.
Content Migration & Frontend Build
Week 3–8Content extraction runs via automated scripts while the engineering team builds the component library, page templates, and API integrations in parallel -- no waiting on sequential handoffs.
QA, SEO Validation & Parallel Run
Week 8–10Before cutover, we run visual regression tests, crawl comparisons, Lighthouse audits, and stakeholder UAT. Both sites run simultaneously so you can see the parity yourself.
Launch & Decommission
Week 10–12Then DNS cuts over to the Vercel edge network, the legacy CMS gets decommissioned, and we spend 30 days on post-launch monitoring, redirect validation, and performance tuning.
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