We migrate from
- Drupal 7, 8, 9 and 10
- Sitecore
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Kentico, Umbraco, Episerver
- Custom and in-house CMSs
- Legacy WordPress multisite
- Static HTML and .NET template systems
Off the legacy platform, onto something maintainable.
Drupal, Sitecore, Adobe Experience Manager, or a custom CMS somebody built in 2014, moved onto a modern headless architecture without losing the content, integrations, or governance your organisation depends on.
Platforms we migrate
Whatever you're stuck on.
Enterprise CMS platforms rarely fail dramatically. They just become slow to change, expensive to license, and dependent on a shrinking pool of people who know them.
We migrate to
- Astro with a visual CMS
- Sanity
- Contentful
- Framer, where scope allows
- Next.js where it genuinely earns it
- Vercel or Cloudflare hosting
- Your existing enterprise hosting, if required
Why now
Why organisations finally make the move.
Licensing costs stop making sense
Six-figure platform licences are hard to justify for a site that mostly publishes pages and captures leads.
The talent pool has thinned
Finding and keeping people who want to work in a legacy enterprise CMS gets harder every year.
Every change needs a specialist
Simple content updates route through a vendor or an internal team with a long queue.
Security and end-of-life pressure
Unsupported versions, deferred upgrades, and audit findings force a decision eventually.
Performance is structurally capped
Server-rendered monoliths on ageing infrastructure can only be tuned so far.
Content is trapped
Content is locked to page templates, so it can't be reused across regions, channels, or campaigns.
What enterprise teams actually worry about.
The technical migration is rarely the hard part. The hard part is proving that roles, approvals, compliance, and multi-team publishing survive the move.
We treat governance as a design requirement and model it explicitly rather than discovering it during UAT.
- Role-based permissions and approval workflows
- Draft, review, scheduled publishing
- Multi-brand and multi-region content
- Localisation and translation workflows
- Audit trails and version history
- SSO and identity integration
- Accessibility and compliance reporting
Architecture
How it fits together.
Where content must also feed apps, kiosks, or partner channels, the headless layer is the point: the website becomes one consumer of many.
Headless CMS
- Structured, channel-agnostic content.
- Roles, workflow, and localisation.
- API-first by design.
Astro or Next.js
- Component-based front end.
- Static where possible, dynamic where needed.
- Git-based and reviewable.
CDN + integrations
- Global edge delivery.
- CRM, search, and analytics attached.
- SSO and gated content supported.
Process
A phased migration, not a big bang.
Discovery and audit
Templates, content types, workflows, integrations, permissions, and every indexed URL catalogued and owned.
Content model
A channel-agnostic content model designed with your editorial teams, not reverse-engineered from old templates.
Design
Migrate, refresh, or redesign, built on a component system and design tokens either way.
Phased build
Sections migrate in waves, often by business unit or region, so risk stays contained and value lands early.
Validate
Redirect testing, accessibility audit, performance benchmarks, analytics parity, and editorial UAT with real editors.
Cutover and support
Staged DNS cutover per wave, then monitoring, training, and documentation handover.
SEO & redirects
At enterprise scale, redirects are the project.
Full URL inventory
Tens of thousands of URLs pulled from Search Console, analytics, server logs, sitemaps, and a full crawl.
Pattern-based redirect map
Rule-based redirects for predictable structures, one-to-one mappings for high-value pages, tested before launch.
Metadata and structured data
Titles, descriptions, canonicals, hreflang, and schema carried across and diffed at scale.
Crawl budget and indexation
Sitemaps segmented, robots rules rebuilt, and indexation monitored wave by wave.
Log-based monitoring
Server logs and Search Console watched after each wave so redirect gaps surface in days, not quarters.
The details
Integrations, performance, accessibility.
Integrations
- Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo
- SSO and identity providers
- Enterprise search
- Translation management systems
- DAM and asset libraries
- Personalisation and A/B tooling
Performance
- Static delivery where possible
- Edge caching and CDN
- Image optimisation at build
- Core Web Vitals benchmarked per wave
- Real-user monitoring after launch
Accessibility
- WCAG 2.2 AA as the build standard
- VPAT and compliance reporting support
- Semantic markup and landmarks
- Keyboard and focus states
- Screen reader passes on key flows
Relevant work
Large migrations we've run.
FAQs
Enterprise migration questions.
Can this be done in phases?
Almost always, and it usually should be. Migrating by business unit, region, or site section keeps risk contained and gets value in front of stakeholders early.
What happens to our approval workflows?
They get modelled explicitly in the new CMS. Roles, review stages, and scheduled publishing are treated as requirements during discovery, not discovered during UAT.
We have tens of thousands of URLs. Is that a problem?
It's the main body of work, but it's tractable. Pattern-based rules cover predictable structures and one-to-one mapping covers high-value pages, all tested before launch.
Can content still feed our other channels?
Yes. That's the argument for headless. Content becomes API-accessible so the website, apps, and partner channels all consume the same source.
Do you work alongside our internal teams?
Frequently. We can own the whole migration or run the architecture and front end while your teams handle content and integrations.
How long does an enterprise migration take?
Four to nine months for a phased programme, depending on page count, number of business units, and how much governance needs modelling.