Astro and headless CMS builds. Fast by default, built to scale.

Who it’s for. Sites built for speed, scale and ownership.

A headless build separates the content from the website that shows it. Your team writes in a CMS shaped around your business, the code lives in your GitHub repository, and the site ships as fast, static pages on Vercel. It’s how we build when speed, scale, custom features or owning your code matter.

• Hundreds of pages, listings or posts, and growing
• Custom features a site builder can’t do: portals, calculators, live data
• Load times are costing you rankings and leads
• The same content needs to reach a website, an app and AI assistants
• Security reviews flag every third-party script
• You want to own your code, not rent a platform

What’s included. A stack built to last.

• An Astro front end

  Static pages with almost no JavaScript, so they load quickly on any connection and score well on Core Web Vitals.

• A Sanity content model

  Content structured around your business, edited in a Studio your team can learn in an afternoon, with a live preview.

• Built for search and AI

  Structured data on every page, an llms.txt file and clean, crawlable HTML, so search engines and AI assistants read all of it.

• Previews and safe publishing

  Code in GitHub, hosted on Vercel: every change gets its own preview link and goes live only once it’s checked.

• Fewer moving parts

  No plugins, no public database and very little third-party code, so there’s less to patch and less to secure.

• Migration from Webflow or WordPress

  Every page, post and URL moved, with redirects for anything that changes, so rankings come with you.

How a build runs. Model first, then pages.

Built this way. Including the site you’re on.

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  $81M

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• What a headless CMS is

  A traditional CMS keeps your content and your website in one system. A headless CMS keeps only the content, and hands it to whatever needs it: a website, an app, a sales portal or an AI assistant. The website becomes a separate, fast front end that reads from it.

  We build that front end with Astro, a web framework that ships pages as plain HTML and adds JavaScript only where something needs to move. The content lives in Sanity, where your team edits it in a Studio shaped around your business. The code lives in GitHub and the site is hosted on Vercel, so every change gets a preview before it goes live.

• Why Astro

  Speed.

  Pages arrive as finished HTML, so they appear quickly, even on a phone on a weak connection.

  Search and AI visibility.

  Everything is real, crawlable content rather than something a script draws later, so search engines and AI models read all of it.

  Freedom.

  Interactive pieces, custom tools and integrations are written as code, without a site builder’s limits.

  Ownership.

  The code is yours, in your GitHub repository, and nothing depends on one platform’s pricing.

• Why Sanity

  Sanity stores content as structured data rather than pages. A case study is a case study, with its client, results and services as fields, so one entry can feed the case study page, the work list, a sales deck and the structured data search engines read. Editors get a Studio with live preview, comments and version history.

• Headless or Webflow?

  Both are part of what we build. With Astro and Sanity, layout changes and new page types go through a developer, and in return you get speed, room for custom features and code you own. Webflow lets a marketing team rearrange pages on its own (see Webflow websites). We make the call with you during the plan.

• Proof: this site

  madak.com moved from Webflow to Astro, Sanity, Vercel and GitHub in October 2026. Every page is built from Sanity content, its structured data is checked against Google’s requirements on every build, and its site search and sitemap are written automatically each time it deploys. The same approach runs client sites like the Olson Foundation’s.

• What it costs

  Astro and headless builds run inside full-service projects, which start at $7,000 a month and include the strategy, the build, SEO and the systems around it. Most projects run three months to a year. See pricing.