Will my marketing team need a developer to publish?

No. Once the schema and blocks are set, editors publish, schedule, and preview without engineering. That is the whole point of Payload.

Can we run this on our own infrastructure?

Yes — Payload runs anywhere Node runs. Vercel, AWS, your own Kubernetes. We pick what fits your ops team, not what we like.

What's the migration story from Sanity / Strapi / Contentful?

We write a one-time script that reads from the old API and writes through Payload's local API. Versioned in your repository, re-runnable, idempotent.

Do you stay on as support after launch?

Optional. Retainer hours are available, never mandatory. Most clients keep us for the first 4 weeks post-launch, then renew or not.

All services

Services / What we ship

01 · Headless content · TypeScript-first

Payload CMS

A CMS your editors actually like and your engineers don't fight.

Payload CMS is a TypeScript-first headless CMS — typed fields, a React admin you own, and a content model engineers version in code.

Payload gives content teams a real interface — typed fields, live previews, role-based permissions — and gives engineers a TypeScript-first backend they can ship features against. We design the schema, build the blocks, migrate the content.

Typical scope · 3–8 weeks · single team

Symptoms we recognise

You should talk to us if…

Your editorial team has stopped logging into the CMS.
You're paying per-editor seat fees the budget no longer justifies.
The page builder lets anyone publish anything — and they have.
You need a content model an engineer can extend without rewriting the admin.

What ships

/ 04 deliverables

Concrete deliverables, not vague promises.

Schema first

A content model in TypeScript your team will read.

Fields, relationships, validation, access — all defined in code. Versioned, reviewable, code-shaped. The schema is the spec.

Editors love it

A real interface, not a page builder.

Typed fields, live preview, role-based permissions, draft vs. published states. Editors stop emailing engineering.

Owned admin

An admin you can extend with React.

Custom field components, dashboards, your auth provider. Not a hosted UI you rent — a TypeScript app you own.

Migration done

Content moved, dry-runs included.

We write migration scripts you can re-run. Dry-runs against production. Launch day with no editor downtime.

How this engagement runs

Four phases. No bench.

Week 1 · Schema design

Map content to types.

We sketch the model in TypeScript and walk you through it before writing a line of admin code. Editors get a say in the field shapes.

Weeks 2–4 · Build

Blocks, admin, live preview.

We build the blocks editors use day-to-day, integrate live preview against the live storefront, and wire role-based permissions.

Weeks 5–6 · Migrate

Move content via re-runnable scripts.

Existing content moves over via scripts in your repository. Dry-run against production, audit the deltas, re-run as needed. No manual copy-paste.

Handover · Train

Train editors. Ship the operations docs.

One session with the editorial team. Source code, environment, deploy guide handed back. You own it from launch day.

Stack we ship against

Next.js storefront · React Server Components
Payload 3.x · Postgres · Lexical rich text
Vercel / Node · S3 media · role-based admin

We pass when

You need a page builder with no schema discipline, or you're shopping for the cheapest quote instead of ownership.

Field questions

Honest answers.

Will my marketing team need a developer to publish?
No. Once the schema and blocks are set, editors publish, schedule, and preview without engineering. That is the whole point of Payload.
Can we run this on our own infrastructure?
Yes — Payload runs anywhere Node runs. Vercel, AWS, your own Kubernetes. We pick what fits your ops team, not what we like.
What's the migration story from Sanity / Strapi / Contentful?
We write a one-time script that reads from the old API and writes through Payload's local API. Versioned in your repository, re-runnable, idempotent.
Do you stay on as support after launch?
Optional. Retainer hours are available, never mandatory. Most clients keep us for the first 4 weeks post-launch, then renew or not.

From the principal engineer

Editors should fight the work, not the tool. Payload makes that possible because the model is just code — readable, reviewable, yours.

Related work

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Discovery

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We pitch the problem, not the platform.

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