Content management systems

When content moves at the speed of business, teams deliver faster, customer experiences improve, and new markets become easier to reach.

We help enterprise organizations design and implement CMS solutions that support momentum. Whether that’s building on headless architectures, modernising an existing platform, or unifying content operations across multiple brands or regions.

We engineer systems that put content teams in control, reduce dependency on development and make publishing structured, scalable and measurable.

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Why this work matters now

Today, content is more than marketing; it powers products, personalisation, and global growth. To support that role, enterprise teams need systems that can adapt to change, support governance, and deliver consistently across every channel.

That kind of agility isn’t possible with outdated platforms or tangled workflows. It takes a CMS built for how your business operates, not just how it publishes.

A well-architected content system becomes more than a tool. It becomes the engine behind your digital strategy.

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What content management systems really solve

A CMS isn’t just a place to publish content. When done right, it’s the operational backbone of your digital experience, supporting personalization, experimentation, governance, and growth.

But when it’s done wrong? You see things like:

Marketing teams dependent on devs for basic updates
Editorial workflows held together by spreadsheets
Content silos across regions, brands, or business units
Governance challenges across global teams
Rigid templates that break when the strategy evolves

Codal helps you replace these inefficiencies with a CMS that works with your business, not against it. One that empowers teams, strengthens workflows, and scales across whatever comes next.

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Codal’s approach to CMS development

We don’t start with platforms. We start with your pain points, your teams, and the role content plays in your strategy. From there, we help you evaluate, implement, and scale the CMS setup that’s built for how you actually work, now and in the future.

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Atomic design systems

For modern content ops, especially in headless CMS environments, a consistent, reusable design system is critical. We apply atomic design methodology to create a structured library of components: the atoms, molecules, organisms, and templates that power your digital experience. This isn’t just a design exercise. It’s the foundation for structured content that scales. Editors can work faster. Developers don’t need to hard-code every variation. And your brand shows up consistently across every touchpoint. Whether you’re publishing across five sites or fifty, the system stays intact and grows with you.

Platform advisory

Choosing a CMS shouldn’t be guesswork or based solely on features. It’s about alignment with your architecture, your content model, and your long-term roadmap. Codal helps you evaluate platforms like Contentstack, Contentful, Sanity, and WordPress VIP against your specific business needs. We use a structured scorecard to assess usability, extensibility, governance, scalability, and how each one plays with your existing stack. We’re not tied to any one solution. Our recommendations are built around what works best for you and how to future-proof that decision.

CMS migrations

Legacy platforms aren’t just inefficient; they’re often costly to maintain, difficult to govern, and risky to scale. But migration doesn’t have to mean disruption. Our migration approach is built on structure and predictability. We start with deep audits, map out your content model, and align with stakeholders before the first piece of content moves. From there, we migrate, validate, and launch without breaking what’s already working. Whether it’s platform-to-platform, traditional-to-headless, or a hybrid transition, we help you modernize your CMS stack without hitting pause on your business.

Content strategy & architecture

A CMS is only as strong as its content model. Codal’s strategists work alongside your teams to audit existing content, map information architecture, and define how content types should be created, governed, and distributed across your ecosystem. We clarify how content should be structured for reuse, what belongs in templates versus modular components, and where rules around governance or versioning need to live. The outcome is a CMS framework that aligns with how your teams actually work, supporting faster publishing, smarter workflows, and long-term clarity at scale.

How our process works

Discovery

We get close to your current workflows, systems, and goals. What’s slowing your teams down? What’s duplicative, outdated, or dependent on dev? We define what success looks like and map the path to get there.

Architecture

Once we know where you’re headed, we design the content infrastructure to match. From content types to user permissions, integrations to component libraries, everything gets designed with scale and governance in mind.

Implementation

Whether you’re migrating, going headless, or integrating across multiple brands, we implement in structured phases with clear milestones. Our approach ensures data integrity, editor enablement, and long-term maintainability.

Launch & beyond

We don’t stop at go-live. We monitor performance, support change management, and scale your system as new needs emerge. Many clients stay with us through managed services and ongoing enhancements.

Why leading brands choose Codal

We’ve worked across publishing, education, healthcare, and global retail industries where content is core to strategy and systems can’t afford to break.

Our clients bring us in when they need to modernize without losing control, when off-the-shelf CMS platforms can’t keep up, or when their content model is slowing everything else down.

We bring the strategy, the architecture, and the engineering to not just replace what’s broken, but to make sure it doesn’t break again. And we do it while enabling your teams, not sidelining them.

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Our CMS success stories

Life sciences & pharmaceuticals

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Empowering Simple Online Healthcare's global expansion with a new digital platform

Retail & consumer goods

Revamping Mt. Hood Meadows’ eCommerce experience

Retail & consumer goods

Headless eCommerce transformation for global retailer

Ready to make your CMS a growth engine?

The right CMS doesn’t just support content. It supports your entire digital strategy. Whether you’re migrating platforms, scaling globally, or just tired of duct-taped workflows, we help you build the content systems your business needs to grow.

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