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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.

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Legacy CMS Migration

Legacy CMS migration is the structured process of extracting content, templates, and business logic from a monolithic platform — Sitecore, Drupal, AEM, or similar — and rebuilding the delivery layer in Next.js with a modern headless CMS. The goal is to decouple content management from frontend rendering without losing organic search rankings or editorial workflows. Done correctly, the result is a faster site, a smaller hosting bill, and a frontend codebase your team can ship features against without waiting on vendor release cycles.

What is holding your current website back?

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Annual Sitecore or AEM licensing fees consume budget that should fund product development, and renewal negotiations take months of leadership time.
Risk: Each renewal cycle locks you further into an architecture that requires expensive certified consultants for routine changes, compounding the cost year over year.
Core Web Vitals scores are suffering because your monolithic CMS serves pages through a rendering pipeline designed before Google made page speed a ranking factor.
Risk: Competitors on modern stacks are outranking content you spent years building, and the performance gap widens with every feature added to the legacy platform.
Your development team is spending the majority of sprint capacity on CMS upgrades, patch management, and environment parity issues rather than shipping editorial or customer-facing features.
Risk: Developer frustration and turnover increase when engineers spend careers maintaining infrastructure rather than building products, making the talent problem inseparable from the platform problem.

How We Build This Right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

SEO Equity Protection

Every URL, canonical tag, redirect chain, structured data block, and XML sitemap entry is audited and mapped before a single page goes live. We run parallel crawl comparisons between the legacy site and staging to catch ranking signals that documentation misses.

Content Integrity Validation

Migrated content is validated against the source CMS through automated diff checks covering field mapping, rich text fidelity, media references, and taxonomy relationships. Nothing is declared migrated until counts and spot audits match.

Zero-Downtime Cutover

We use traffic-splitting and staged DNS cutover so that the production legacy site remains live and rollback-capable through the launch window. Monitoring thresholds are set before cutover begins, not after an incident surfaces.

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Content Model Redesign

Legacy CMS content models accumulate years of workarounds that do not translate cleanly to a headless architecture. We audit your existing types, flatten what should be flat, and define a structured content model in your target CMS — Contentful, Sanity, or similar — before migration begins so editors inherit a system that reflects how they actually work.

Automated Content Migration Pipeline

We build extraction scripts against your legacy CMS API or database, transform content to the target schema, and load it through the headless CMS API with full logging. The pipeline is repeatable, meaning content created after migration kick-off can be re-synced without manual effort in the final cutover window.

Incremental Static Regeneration Architecture

Rather than rebuilding your entire site on every publish event, we configure Next.js ISR so pages revalidate on demand or on a defined interval. Large editorial sites with thousands of pages get sub-second publish propagation without the hosting costs of full server-side rendering at scale.

Editorial Workflow Parity

Migration is not complete if editors cannot do their jobs. We map legacy workflows — approval chains, scheduling, preview environments, role permissions — to equivalent configurations in the target CMS, and run editorial team training before handoff so the switch does not create a support burden on your dev team.

Built on a Modern, Secure Stack

Next.jsSupabaseVercelSanityContentfulStoryblokPostgreSQLNode.js

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Discovery and Platform Audit

1-2 weeks

We crawl the existing site, inventory content types and volume, document all redirect rules and canonical structures, and interview editorial stakeholders to understand workflows the CMS documentation does not capture. The output is a migration spec that defines scope, risk areas, and the target architecture before any code is written.

02

Content Model Design and CMS Configuration

1-2 weeks

Based on the audit, we design the headless CMS content model, configure environments, set up role permissions, and build a representative sample of content types for editorial review. Stakeholder sign-off on the model happens here — changes at this stage cost hours, not weeks.

03

Frontend Build and Migration Pipeline

4-6 weeks

Next.js pages, components, and data-fetching logic are built in parallel with the automated extraction and transformation pipeline. Both tracks run against a staging environment so QA can validate rendered output against the live legacy site on real content throughout development.

04

SEO Validation, Load Testing, and Cutover

1-2 weeks

Before DNS changes, we run a full crawl comparison, validate redirect mappings, complete load testing against peak traffic projections, and confirm monitoring and alerting are active. Cutover uses staged traffic splitting with defined rollback criteria so the decision to complete the switch is based on live data, not a calendar.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Not if the migration's handled properly. We do a full URL inventory, 1:1 redirect mapping, preserve all meta tags and structured data, and run crawl comparisons before and after launch. Most clients actually see ranking improvements within 8 weeks -- faster Core Web Vitals scores have a real, measurable effect on organic performance.
Typical migrations run 8-12 weeks for sites under 2,000 pages. Larger enterprise sites with complex integrations, multi-language content, or heavily customized modules can take 12-20 weeks. We scope every project individually and lock in a fixed timeline at kickoff -- no moving targets.
Editors get a modern headless CMS -- Sanity or Contentful are common choices -- with live preview, visual editing, and structured content models. Honestly, most teams find it faster than what they had. We run training sessions and put together documentation written for your specific content team, not generic how-to guides.
Yes. Every custom extension, plugin, and module gets audited during discovery. Functionality is rebuilt as Next.js API routes, serverless functions, or third-party SaaS integrations -- whatever's the right fit. Everything gets documented, including what it replaces and why.
Most enterprise clients cut hosting and infrastructure costs by 50-80%. Sitecore and AEM need dedicated servers, Java runtimes, and expensive licensing on top of that. Next.js on Vercel runs on edge infrastructure with usage-based pricing -- usually $500-2,000/month, compared to the five- or six-figure bills legacy hosting typically generates.
Yes. We migrate i18n configurations, hreflang tags, locale-specific content, and regional URL structures. Next.js has internationalization routing built in -- we configure it to match or improve your existing multi-language setup, including locale detection and fallback handling.
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