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Custom CMS for a multi-brand publisher

Replaced a brittle WordPress setup with a headless CMS purpose-built for editorial speed and brand flexibility.

CLIENT
Meridian Creative Agency
ROLE
Technical architect
TIMELINE
12 weeks
CHALLENGE

Meridian Creative Agency managed editorial content for three distinct brands, each on a separate WordPress instance. Content duplication, plugin conflicts, and slow page loads were causing the editorial team to lose hours every week.

SOLUTION

I designed and built a headless CMS with a unified content model supporting multi-brand publishing. Each brand got its own visual theme layer while sharing a single structured content backend. The new system runs on Google Cloud with PostgreSQL, serving content via a typed API to brand-specific Next.js frontends.

Node.jsReactPostgreSQLGCP
OUTCOME
publishing speed
1
unified CMS for 3 brands
↓ 60%
content duplication

The editorial team now publishes across all three brands from a single interface, with automated cross-posting and brand-specific formatting handled by the system.

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