Custom CMS Development by Alpha Expansion
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Custom CMS Development

CONTENT,STRUCTUREDFOR HOWYOU PUBLISH

We build content management systems shaped around what you publish, with content models that match your business, roles for every kind of editor and approval steps before anything goes live.

Content modellingEditor permissionsPublishing workflows
01Content modelling
02Editor permissions
01Our Approach

A content system is finished when an editor can publish a correct page without asking a developer and without being able to break the design.

02Overview

A content system that fits your publishing

  • 01Content modelling
  • 02Editor permissions
  • 03Publishing workflows

Custom CMS development gives your team a place to create and manage content that matches how the organization really works. We model your content types and their relationships, configure or build the editing interface, set roles and approval workflows, and deliver the content to websites, apps and other channels through an API.

It suits organizations whose content is more than pages and posts, such as product catalogs, course libraries, listings, documentation or regulated publications, and teams held back by a generic system bent out of shape with plugins. Often the right answer is a configured headless product and not software written from nothing. We recommend the lightest option that fits.

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03What We Do

Capabilities, End to End

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Content modelling

We define the types of content you publish, their fields, relationships and rules, so information is entered once and reused wherever it is needed.

02
Editing experience

Forms, previews, reusable blocks and helpful validation are arranged for the people who write, so common tasks take few steps and mistakes are caught early.

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Roles and permissions

Writers, editors, translators, legal reviewers and administrators each see and change only what their role allows, down to individual sections and fields.

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Approval workflows

Content moves through draft, review and scheduled states with named approvers, a record of who changed what and the ability to restore an earlier version.

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Content delivery API

Published content is served to websites, mobile apps, screens and partners through a fast, cached API, with previews of unpublished work for editors.

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Content migration

Existing content is exported, cleaned, mapped to the new model and imported by script, with checks that links, media and metadata arrive intact.

04In Production

What It Looks Like When It Ships

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05What You Receive

Handed Over, Ready to Run

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Documented content model
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Configured or custom CMS
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Roles and permission setup
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Approval and scheduling workflow
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Preview for every content type
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Delivery API and caching
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Migrated existing content
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Editor training and guide
06How It Runs

From Kickoff to Launch

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Model the content
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Choose the platform
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Build and migrate
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Train and transfer
01
Model the content

We review what you publish and where it appears, interview the people who create it and draft a content model that we test with real examples before any system is chosen.

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Choose the platform

The model and your workflow needs are compared against headless products and a custom build, considering editor experience, cost, hosting and how much of the future you want to control.

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Build and migrate

The system is configured or built, roles and workflows are set up, front ends are connected and existing content is migrated in rehearsed runs that editors review for accuracy.

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Train and transfer

Editors learn the system on their own content, a written guide covers each task and we stay close through the first publishing cycles to adjust what proves awkward in practice.

07Technology

The Stack We Use

Headless CMSSanityPayloadStrapiContentfulDirectusBackendNode.jsPostgreSQLGraphQLRedisHeadless CMSSanityPayloadStrapiContentfulDirectusBackendNode.jsPostgreSQLGraphQLRedis
FrontendNext.jsReactTypeScriptTailwind CSSDeliveryVercelCloudflareAWS S3AlgoliaFrontendNext.jsReactTypeScriptTailwind CSSDeliveryVercelCloudflareAWS S3Algolia
08Who It Is For

Built for Teams Like Yours

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Your content has outgrown a generic CMS

Editors work around the system instead of with it. The same information is typed in several places, a wrong click can damage a layout, and approvals happen in email. You want structure that matches your content, clear roles and a safe route to publishing.

Catalogs and product information
Documentation and knowledge bases
Course and learning libraries
Property and directory listings
Publications needing legal review
Content for several channels
09Questions

What buyers ask before they start

If yours is not here, ask us directly. The first conversation is free and useful whether or not we work together.

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Most projects are best served by an existing headless CMS configured to your content model, since editing, permissions and hosting are already solved. Writing a system from nothing is justified only when your workflow or data rules go well beyond what products allow. We compare both against your requirements and running costs, and we do not build what can be bought and configured.

It is the definition of the kinds of content you publish, the fields each one has and how they relate. A good model lets a fact, such as a price or an address, be entered once and shown everywhere. A poor one forces copying and leads to pages that disagree. It also decides whether your content can move to a new design or channel later without being rewritten.

Yes. Roles can be set by content type, section, language or even field. A regional marketer might edit only their country's pages, a translator only the text in their language and a legal reviewer only the approval step. Every action is recorded. We map the roles with you at the start, since permissions added as an afterthought tend to be either too loose or too tight.

Each content type has a preview that renders the draft in the real page design, on desktop and phone sizes, at a private address. Scheduled content can be previewed as it will appear on its release date. Reviewers approve from that view, so they judge the finished page and not a form. Preview is built early, because editors trust a system they can see.

Yes. We export content from the current platform, map each old field to the new model, clean obvious problems and import by script. Editors review samples from every content type after a trial run, and the mapping is corrected before the final migration. Addresses are preserved or redirected, so search visibility and links from other sites carry over.

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