Content Management That Bends
to Your Workflow.
Headless CMS platforms, custom admin panels, and content APIs — built around how your team publishes, not the other way around. The right system means editors ship content in minutes, not support tickets.
What We Build
Off-the-shelf for the 80 %. Custom for the 20.
Headless CMS
Leading headless platforms — configured to match the way your team thinks about content. Structured, queryable, and decoupled from the front end.
Custom Admin Panels
Bespoke editing dashboards on a custom backend. When off-the-shelf admin UIs fall short, we build exactly the editing experience your editors need.
Content APIs
Headless content delivered to websites, native apps, and third-party integrations. One source of truth, many outputs.
Our Approach
Page-builder platforms are not the answer. Neither is guessing.
Legacy plugin-based platforms are rejected from the Sunrise CMS practice on performance and security grounds. Their admin interfaces were designed for blogs in 2005 — not for structured, multi-channel content in 2026. Plugin sprawl, update anxiety, and monolithic architectures make them the wrong foundation for teams that publish frequently.
Modern headless CMS platforms handle the 80 % — structured content, media management, role-based access, and API delivery. For the remaining 20 % — unusual approval workflows, legacy system integrations, or highly custom editing experiences — Sunrise builds bespoke admin panels on a custom backend.
The goal is always the same: editors who can publish without filing a developer ticket. Content that reaches every channel from a single source of truth. And a system that the team actually enjoys using.
The best CMS is the one your editors forget they're using.
Process
From workflow audit to confident editors
Workflow Audit
We map how content moves through the organisation today — who writes, who approves, who publishes, and where the bottlenecks live. No assumptions about what the CMS should look like until we understand the workflow it needs to serve.
Schema Design
Content types, fields, validation rules, and relationships — designed on paper before anything is configured. The schema is the foundation; getting it right means editors never fight the system.
Admin Build
The CMS is configured or custom-built, with the editing interface shaped around the schema. Preview, media handling, role-based access, and publishing workflows are wired in from the start.
Content Migration
Existing content is extracted, cleaned, restructured, and imported. Redirects are mapped. Nothing is lost, nothing is orphaned, and URLs are preserved where they carry SEO value.
Editor Training
A focused 60-minute walkthrough with the editorial team — not a slide deck, but hands-on publishing in the live system. Editors leave confident, not confused.
Deliverables
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
Why It Matters
Five minutes or five days
Legacy plugin-based CMSes are mazes. Dozens of menu items, plugin settings buried three levels deep, and a visual editor that renders differently from the live site. Teams learn to work around the CMS instead of with it — and every workaround costs time.
Off-the-shelf platforms solve the common case, but they constrain unusual workflows. When the content model does not match the platform's assumptions, editors end up copy-pasting between fields, duplicating entries, or abandoning the CMS altogether in favour of spreadsheets and email chains.
The right CMS turns a content update into a five-minute task. The wrong CMS turns it into a developer ticket with a two-day turnaround. Over a year, that gap compounds into thousands of pounds in lost productivity — and content that never gets published at all.
Frequently Asked