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01 Payload partner · Top Contributor

A Payload partner agency and Top Contributor, building content platforms on the stack we know best.

We're a Payload Top Contributor and an official partner. Since 2020 we've shipped Payload platforms for Fortune 500 companies, public institutions, and high-growth teams: greenfield builds, and migrations off Adobe Experience Manager, WordPress VIP, and Wagtail. Payload is TypeScript-native and code-first, which gives you real control over your content model, your editorial workflow, and where it runs. We know the stack deeply, and we say so early when something else fits your project better.

Payload Official Partner · Top Contributor · Since 2020

02 What we build

Greenfield builds, migrations, and everything between. Five ways teams put Payload into production with us.

One content model and one API, whatever the surface: web, mobile, internal tools, commerce.

Content platform implementations

Greenfield Payload builds for corporate sites, web apps, React Native apps, and internal portals, with one content model and one API across every surface.

Migrations to Payload

From Adobe Experience Manager, WordPress VIP, Wagtail, Contentful, and Framer CMS. Content modelling, data transformation, redirect maps, and cutover planning that keep SEO equity and editorial workflows intact.

Composable stacks

Payload paired with Next.js or Astro on the frontend and Medusa for commerce. One TypeScript codebase, no licensing costs, and infrastructure you own.

Multi-brand and multi-tenant architectures

A single Payload instance serving multiple brands, regions, or business units, with tenant-level access control and editorial isolation behind a shared API layer.

Ongoing platform engineering

Retainer-based platform ownership for teams who would rather not staff an internal platform team, while the content model, editorial tooling, and infrastructure keep evolving.


03 Why WAYF for Payload

Code-first by default, Next.js native, and built to be owned.

Most of what makes Payload worth choosing lives in how it's configured. Here's how we build on it.

Code-first by default

Content models live in TypeScript, under version control, reviewed like any other code. No UI-configured schemas that drift over time, and no decisions buried in a dashboard.

Next.js native

Payload runs its admin inside a Next.js app. We build that way as standard: one deployment, one codebase, one team responsible for both halves.

Mobile as a first-class surface

We deliver web and React Native from a single content model and a single API, so a mobile app is another surface on the same platform rather than a second CMS to keep in sync.

Governance in the codebase

Access control, audit logging, approval workflows, and localisation are defined in Payload's TypeScript model. Compliance lives in the code, where it can be reviewed and tested.

Yours to own

Payload is MIT-licensed, so you own what we build. No renewal negotiations, no per-seat pricing, no caps on the number of content types.


04 How we work

We plug into your team, or own the process end to end.

Sometimes you already have a team, a rhythm, and a process, and you need specialists who can plug in and raise the bar on what's working. We do that: your tools, your ceremonies, your preferences.

When we lead instead, we lead in full. Two-week sprints, weekly syncs, and decisions documented so you always know why something was built the way it was. We surface risks before they become problems, and you get a team accountable for the outcome.

Either way the constant is the same: direct communication, no surprises, and feedback that stays honest even when it's uncomfortable.


05 Where Payload fits

Payload rewards technical teams. We'll tell you when it isn't the fit.

Payload is the right call when your team wants control over its content infrastructure and treats the CMS as part of the application. It suits products where content management is itself a feature: SaaS platforms, multi-tenant apps, and anything a hosted CMS can't quite hold.

Its power comes from configuration as code, so it asks for a team comfortable working that way and willing to shape the editor experience the admin gives you. When a content team needs a polished, GUI-driven tool with no appetite to customise the admin, or when you want a fully hosted setup with no infrastructure to run, we'll say so and help you weigh the alternatives. Pointing you to the better-fitting tool early saves everyone the months a mismatched architecture would cost.


06 Selected Payload work

Platforms in production. A few we've shipped on Payload.

Ingersoll Rand

When Oracle Content Manager was discontinued, Ingersoll Rand needed a new authoring system for China on a fixed deadline. We delivered the Payload CMS, migrated thousands of pages across 20+ brand tenants, and designed a content architecture the rest of the platform can grow into.

Read the case study

Council of Europe Development Bank

The CEB works across 43 member countries on social cohesion and resilience. Structured content governance in a multilateral environment is exactly where Payload's TypeScript content model earns its place over a configured SaaS CMS.

Read the case study

Kaffy

A marketplace built on Payload and Medusa: custom pricing logic, seller-specific catalogue management, and editorial content integrated at the category and product level.

Read the case study

07 The stack

The stack around Payload. One language end to end keeps the system legible as it grows.

  • Next.js
  • React
  • Astro
  • React Native
  • Node.js
  • Medusa
  • PostgreSQL

Have a Payload build or migration in mind?

Book a 25-minute call. You'll get a scoped proposal within a week, and an honest read on whether Payload is the right foundation for what you're building.