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AI 101 · Composable architecture

What is a headless CMS?

A system that manages content or commerce and serves it over an API, with no opinion about how it is displayed.

In one sentence

A system that manages content or commerce and serves it over an API, with no opinion about how it is displayed.

Why it matters to a business

It is what lets one source of content feed a website, an app, a kiosk and now an AI agent. It also means the front end is now your responsibility.

Real examples

  • Contentful
  • Storyblok
  • Contentstack
  • Sanity
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Headless, in questions

The same answer, in the shape people ask it.

What is a headless CMS?

A system that manages content or commerce and serves it over an API, with no opinion about how it is displayed.

Why does Headless matter to a business?

It is what lets one source of content feed a website, an app, a kiosk and now an AI agent. It also means the front end is now your responsibility.

What are examples of Headless?

Contentful, Storyblok, Contentstack, Sanity.

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