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Strapi With Magento: Is Magento A CMS Or Just Commerce?
For a D2C kitchen commerce build, we ran Magento 2 and Strapi as separate backends behind one Next.js frontend. Here is the decision logic, the payoff for editors and designers, and the tradeoff nobody puts on the slide.
Persona Research For A Second Audience: Rank, Don't Average
Persona research for a website with a primary and a growth audience: why averaging them fails, how the ranking changes recruiting, and who owns the segments after.
Five CMS instances, one university: what consolidation actually requires
Five sites. Three on WordPress. Two on Drupal. Different themes, different plugin stacks, different people managing each one. One security incident away from a very bad semester.
The Kitchen Industry Just Told Manufacturers Where The Market Is Going
In June 2026, a major UK trade kitchen supplier paid £390m for a D2C kitchen retailer. Weeks later, a manufacturer we worked with launched its own D2C platform. The pattern is bigger than kitchens, and executives in any trade-channel business should read it.
Website Benchmarking Before A Redesign: Decide What You're Trying To Move
Website benchmarking before a redesign: which two numbers to baseline per audience, how to check the tracking can be trusted, and why scenarios beat promises.
Stop Announcing AI. Start Showing The Operating Model Behind It.
Across multiple industry analyses, roughly 95% of AI initiatives fail to reach production impact. Not because the models are bad. Because organizations skip the structural work that makes AI functional: role design, approval flows, audit trails, metadata governance. They buy the tool. They skip the AI operating model.
Digital Brand Strategy: Eight Stages From Baseline To Proof
A digital brand strategy in eight stages, from baseline to proof: the website strategy that turns brand intent into a site that grows the business.
What Is Chaos Hacking?
An 8-step alignment methodology that forces Sales, Services, and Marketing to build campaigns together from day one, starting with a sales conversation.
What A Marketer Learned About AI Development That Most Engineers Never Think About
The hardest part of building production software with AI was not the engineering. It was the context architecture that came before the first prompt.
How We Built an AI Discovery Agent That Scales Strategic Consulting Without Replacing Consultants
<h2>How We Built an AI Discovery Agent That Scales Strategic Consulting Without Replacing Consultants</h2> <p>The discovery phase of a digital transformation is where the most important thinking happens — and where the economics break down fastest. A typical 10-week discovery engagement for a mid-market organization runs $75K–$150K, most of it senior consultant time: CTO-level thinking, business analysis, technical architecture, and facilitation happening simultaneously.</p>