Engineering

Contentful Development

Governed, composable content infrastructure for enterprise teams publishing across brands, regions, and digital products.

Phase
4-step engagement
Hypercare
30 days included
Cadence
Weekly demos

Trusted by teams shipping at scale

Drybar
Cuisinart
Conair
Revlon
Belkin
Beautiful
CruxGG
Joshua Tree Coffee
Mary's Gone Crackers
AMI Clubwear
Revitalash
Soil3
Capabilities

What we deliver

Every Contentful Development engagement bundles these capabilities by default. We tune the depth of each to fit your scope.

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Enterprise content model architecture

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02 / 06

Environment and governance strategy

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03 / 06

Contentful App Framework extensions

Included
04 / 06

Live Preview and editorial workflow integration

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05 / 06

Localization and multi-brand implementation

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06 / 06

Content and asset migration automation

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Engagement

How we build Contentful Development

A repeatable four-phase engagement. Same rigor every time, scoped to the work in front of us.

Phase 01
Week 1-2

Discover

We map the current state, surface constraints, and lock the scope before any code is written. You leave the phase with a written success definition.

  • Audit document
  • Success criteria
  • Risk register
Phase 02
Week 2-3

Architect

We pick the stack, design the data model, and prove the riskiest path first. Architecture decisions are reviewed with your team before build starts.

  • Architecture doc
  • Stack decision record
  • Spike on riskiest path
Phase 03
Week 3-10

Build

Iterative delivery in weekly increments. You see working software every Friday, can redirect priorities each Monday, and never wait six weeks for a demo.

  • Weekly demo cadence
  • Production-ready code
  • CI/CD + tests
Phase 04
Week 10+

Operate

We ship with observability, hand off runbooks, and stay accountable post-launch. 30-day hypercare is included on every engagement.

  • Monitoring dashboards
  • Operational runbooks
  • 30-day hypercare
Deep dive

The full breakdown

Architecture, decisions, and the operational details behind every Contentful Development engagement. Skim with the table of contents, or read straight through.

contentful-development.brief.md

Contentful for Complex Organizations

Contentful provides a strong foundation for composable content, but enterprise success depends on the operating model around it. We design the content architecture, environments, permissions, and release workflow together so platform governance supports delivery instead of slowing it down.

Models That Scale Across Teams

We turn page inventories and editorial requirements into reusable content types with clear ownership. References, validations, localization, and component boundaries are documented so teams can evolve the model without breaking consuming applications.

Our model reviews focus on:

  • Reuse without creating abstract editor experiences
  • Stable API contracts for frontend teams
  • Locale and market requirements
  • Shared content across brands and channels
  • Safe model evolution across environments

Editorial Experience and Custom Apps

Contentful can be extended where a standard field interface is not enough. We build custom apps that connect editors to commerce catalogs, DAM platforms, taxonomy services, and internal data. Live Preview and draft-aware rendering are integrated directly into the frontend workflow.

Environments, Governance, and Releases

We establish a practical environment strategy for development, testing, staging, and production. Roles and permissions follow real team responsibilities, while migration scripts make model changes reviewable and repeatable.

This lets engineering ship schema changes with the same discipline used for application code.

Migration and Replatforming

Whether Contentful is the destination or the system being replaced, we build automated migration pipelines with reconciliation reports. Content, assets, references, locales, and publication status are tested through rehearsals before the final cutover.

Redirect plans and metadata validation protect organic traffic while editors receive clear training on the new workflow.

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Scope

Included in every engagement

scope_of_work.md
6 items
  1. 01

    Configured spaces, environments, and content types

  2. 02

    Governance and permissions blueprint

  3. 03

    Custom editor apps and field interfaces

  4. 04

    Typed delivery and preview API integration

  5. 05

    Migration tooling and reconciliation reports

  6. 06

    Runbooks, training, and release documentation

Stack

Technology

The tools and platforms we deploy on every Contentful Development engagement.

stack.json
Commerce 3
ContentfulContentful App FrameworkContentful Management API
Languages 2
GraphQLTypeScript
Tooling 1
REST APIs
Frameworks 4
Next.jsReactNuxtVue
Infrastructure 2
VercelCloudflare
Testing 1
Playwright
CI/CD 1
GitHub Actions
FAQ

Common questions

Everything you need to know before starting a project with us.

Contentful is well suited to larger organizations that need formal governance, many locales, multiple delivery teams, and a mature integration ecosystem. We validate the fit against your editorial workflow, operating model, and total platform cost before recommending it.

Yes. We audit content types, references, environments, permissions, API usage, preview, and publishing workflows. We then simplify models, remove bottlenecks, and introduce a controlled migration plan for changes that affect live content.

Yes. We build App Framework extensions for custom field controls, product and DAM selectors, validation, workflow utilities, and connections to internal systems.

Both. Our migration process handles model mapping, entry relationships, locale variants, assets, publication state, redirects, and validation in either direction.

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