Content model and architecture
Collections, blocks and fields designed around how your business actually publishes, from blogs and landing pages to locations, products and case studies.
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Payload CMS & Headless Content
A headless content engine on Payload CMS where your team and AI agents create, approve and publish content at scale.
- Content teams and AI agents working in one place
- Faster, cheaper content operations you own
- Sites that load fast and rank
Plans from $1,499 a month. Led by a former Indeed, IBM and GM growth leader. Enterprise?
Free growth plan
See what Payload CMS & Headless Content could do for you
We review your site, search and ads first, then walk you through a clear plan on a 30-minute call.
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What we do
Payload CMS & Headless Content, done for you
We build content-heavy sites on Payload CMS, an open-source, code-first headless CMS that runs inside Next.js. Your team and our AI agents work in the same content engine: agents draft, refresh and optimize content, people review and publish, and you own all of it.
Payload + Next.js builds
Fast, SEO-ready sites with live preview, drafts and versions, hosted on your own cloud (AWS, Google Cloud or others) with media on S3-style storage.
AI agents in your CMS
Agents with limited permissions that create drafts, refresh pages losing traffic, write meta and schema, and add internal links, using Search Console and analytics data.
Human approval built in
Roles, access control and draft-to-publish workflows so nothing goes live without the right person signing off.
Migrations without losing rankings
Content, media and redirects moved from WordPress or other CMSs with URLs and SEO signals preserved.
Integrations
Connected to your CRM, e-commerce (including Shopify), analytics, search and marketing tools.
Timeline
When you'll see results
- 1Weeks 1 to 2
Plan and model
Discovery, content model, page templates and migration map agreed.
- 2Weeks 3 to 6
Build and migrate
Payload and the front end built, content migrated, redirects in place and your team trained.
- 3Month 2 onward
Agents at scale
Agent pipelines switched on for drafting, refreshing and optimizing content, with people approving every publish.
Every business is different. On your free growth call we give you a realistic timeline for your market and budget.
Built for speed
How AI makes Payload CMS & Headless Content faster
AI handles the slow, repetitive work so our team spends its time on strategy and quality. People review everything before it reaches your customers.
⚡ Content pipelines
Agents turn search and customer data into briefs and drafts in Payload, ready for review.
⚡ Always-fresh pages
Pages losing clicks are flagged and refreshed automatically as drafts, so content never goes stale.
⚡ SEO and AEO by default
Meta, schema, internal links and answer-ready sections added to every page as part of the workflow.
What you get
- Payload CMS content model and admin
- Next.js front end with live preview
- Hosting on your cloud with media storage
- Migration with redirects
- AI agent content pipelines with approval gates
- Team training and documentation
A good fit if you are
- Content-heavy sites and blogs
- Multi-brand and multi-location businesses
- Teams leaving WordPress or a closed enterprise CMS
- Companies that want to own their content and data
Payload CMS & Headless Content: questions owners ask
How soon will I see results from Payload CMS & Headless Content?
Weeks 1 to 2: Discovery, content model, page templates and migration map agreed. Weeks 3 to 6: Payload and the front end built, content migrated, redirects in place and your team trained. Month 2 onward: Agent pipelines switched on for drafting, refreshing and optimizing content, with people approving every publish.
Why use Payload CMS as a headless CMS?
Payload is open source, written in TypeScript and configured in code, and it runs inside your Next.js app. You get a generated admin panel, drafts and versions, granular access control, localization and REST, GraphQL and Local APIs, all on infrastructure you control. That makes it fast for developers, comfortable for editors and easy for AI agents to work with through its APIs.
Can AI agents safely publish to our CMS?
Yes, with guardrails. We give agents their own accounts with access limited to the collections and fields they need, have them save drafts rather than publish, and keep every change in Payload's version history. People review and approve before anything goes live.
Is Payload CMS ready for enterprise use?
Payload covers what larger teams need: role and field-level permissions, drafts and versions as an audit trail, localization, multi-site content models and self-hosting in the cloud and region of your choice. We add workflows, integrations and agent pipelines on top.
Can you migrate us from WordPress or another CMS?
Yes. We map your current content model, migrate pages, posts, media and redirects, keep URLs and SEO signals intact, and train your team. Agents help clean up and enrich content during the move.
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