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When Your Craft Site Needs to Do More Than Craft Was Built to Do

Most Craft CMS implementations are content-driven websites. Powerful, flexible, well-built—but ultimately a single site serving a single audience in a single language. The moment your ambitions outgrow that model, you're in a different category of technical challenge entirely.

We build Craft implementations that span languages and borders, surface the right content to the right people instantly, and power applications far beyond the browser. This is where our deepest technical expertise lives.

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Where Craft Projects Get Ambitious

There's a moment in the life of every growing platform where the requirements shift. The marketing team wants to launch in Germany. The product team needs a search that actually works. The engineering team wants to decouple the frontend entirely.

These aren't incremental improvements. They're architectural inflection points—the kind of decisions that, made poorly, create years of compounding technical debt. Made well, they unlock entirely new capabilities.

The challenge is that most Craft developers have never built a multi-currency commerce platform, implemented enterprise search with faceted navigation, or architected a headless system serving a React frontend and a native mobile app from the same content API. These are specialized problems that require specialized experience.

We've been solving them for years.

Our Advanced Solution Areas

01

International

Take Your Platform Global Without Starting Over

Expanding into new markets is a business milestone. It shouldn't be a technical nightmare. We build Craft implementations that handle the full complexity of international operations—not just translating content, but rethinking how your entire platform adapts to different languages, currencies, legal requirements, and cultural expectations.

Craft has strong multi-site and localization foundations, but there's a significant gap between "Craft supports multiple languages" and "our platform seamlessly serves customers in 14 countries with localized content, regional pricing, and market-specific compliance." We bridge that gap.

What we build:

  • Multi-language content architectures with translation workflows that your editorial team can actually manage
  • Multi-currency commerce with real-time exchange rates, regional pricing strategies, and localized checkout experiences
  • Localization systems that go beyond translation—adapting layouts, imagery, date formats, and content strategy per market
  • Compliance implementations for GDPR, regional tax calculations, VAT handling, and market-specific shipping regulations

The technical reality: A 12-country rollout touches every layer of the stack. Content modeling, URL strategy, SEO architecture, payment processing, tax calculation, shipping logic, email templates, and caching strategy all need to account for regional variation. We've done this enough times to know where the landmines are buried.

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02

Search

Because Craft's Native Search Isn't Enough

Let's be direct: Craft's built-in search is adequate for small sites and falls apart at scale. If your platform has thousands of entries, complex product catalogs, or users who depend on search to find what they need, you need something purpose-built.

We implement enterprise search solutions that transform how people interact with your content. Elasticsearch for raw power and customization. Algolia for instant, typo-tolerant search experiences. Faceted navigation that lets users drill into exactly what they're looking for. And critically, relevance tuning that ensures the right results surface first—not just the newest or the most keyword-stuffed.

What we build:

  • Elasticsearch implementations with custom analyzers, synonym management, and weighted field scoring tailored to your content model
  • Algolia-powered instant search with sub-50ms response times, typo tolerance, and faceted filtering
  • Faceted search and navigation systems for product catalogs, resource libraries, directories, and knowledge bases
  • Search relevance tuning and analytics—ongoing optimization based on what your users actually search for and whether they find it

The business case: Good search directly impacts revenue. Users who search convert at 2-3x the rate of users who browse. Every irrelevant result, every failed search, every slow response is a lost opportunity. We build search that earns its keep.

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03

Headless

One CMS. Every Channel.

Headless architecture decouples your content from your presentation layer. Craft becomes a powerful content API, and you're free to build whatever frontend experiences you need—React and Next.js web apps, native iOS and Android applications, in-store kiosks, digital signage, or channels that don't exist yet.

This isn't a trend we're chasing. We've been building headless Craft implementations since Craft first shipped its GraphQL API. We understand the tradeoffs, the architectural decisions that matter, and the operational complexity that comes with separating your CMS from your frontend.

What we build:

  • GraphQL API architectures optimized for performance, with query complexity limits, persisted queries, and intelligent caching layers
  • Jamstack implementations with Next.js, Nuxt, Gatsby, or Astro—with incremental static regeneration for content that updates without full rebuilds
  • Mobile backend systems where Craft serves as the content and commerce engine for native iOS and Android applications
  • Multi-channel content delivery from a single Craft instance to websites, apps, email systems, third-party platforms, and emerging channels

The architectural tradeoff: Headless gives you maximum flexibility at the cost of additional complexity. Preview workflows, content editing experiences, and deployment pipelines all need to be rethought. We help you decide whether headless is genuinely the right choice for your situation—and if it is, we build it so the added complexity doesn't become added fragility.

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04

Integration

Connect Craft to the Rest of Your Business

Connecting two systems is easy. Keeping them connected reliably—at scale, with data consistency, error recovery, and operational visibility—is engineering. We build integrations that handle the 80% of work that lives beyond the happy path: API rate limits, network timeouts, partial failures, data conflicts, and the inevitable moment when a third-party service goes down and your platform needs to keep functioning.

Most Craft agencies treat integrations as an afterthought. A plugin here, a webhook there, maybe a cron job that syncs data overnight. It works in development, it works at small volumes, and then the ERP sends a malformed payload on a Friday afternoon and your inventory is wrong for the entire weekend. We build differently.

What we build:

  • Custom REST and GraphQL APIs that expose Craft data to external systems and ingest data from external sources—with authentication, rate limiting, versioning, and proper documentation
  • ERP integrations with SAP, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, and similar systems—bidirectional syncs of products, inventory, pricing, customers, and orders, built with transactional integrity
  • CRM integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, and others—real-time or near-real-time data flows that keep your sales and marketing teams working from a complete picture of customer activity
  • Third-party service integrations across payment processors, shipping providers, email platforms, analytics tools, and authentication providers—built at the application level with graceful degradation and monitoring, not just plugin-installed and hoped for

The engineering principle: the happy path is 20% of the work. We design integrations around the other 80% — queue-based processing, retry logic, conflict resolution, and alerting — so when something breaks, the system tells you exactly what went wrong and the user experience degrades gracefully rather than crashing. The goal is an integration you don't have to think about, because it just works.

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How We Approach Complex Implementations

Advanced solutions live or die by the decisions made before a single line of code is written. A multi-language commerce platform with headless delivery and enterprise search is not a project you figure out as you go.

Our approach to these engagements front-loads the hard thinking.

  • 01

    Discovery & Architecture First

    Every advanced project begins with a deep technical discovery phase. We map your requirements against Craft's capabilities, identify the gaps, and design the systems to bridge them. For international projects, that means auditing every market-specific requirement. For search, it means analyzing your content model and user behavior. For headless, it means defining your API contract and frontend architecture before anyone opens a code editor.

    This isn't a formality. Discovery typically runs 2-4 weeks and produces a detailed technical specification that becomes the blueprint for the entire engagement. It's where we catch the problems that would otherwise surface six months into development.

    Learn more about our discovery process →

  • 02

    Incremental Delivery, Not Big Bang Launches

    Complex implementations are risky when you try to ship everything at once. We break advanced projects into deliverable phases—launch in your primary market first, then roll out additional languages. Ship search for your main content type, then expand to products and resources. Deploy headless for the web app, then extend to mobile.

    Each phase is a working system in production. Each phase informs the next.

    See our full development process →

  • 03

    Built for Your Team to Maintain

    We build systems that your technical team can operate, extend, and debug after we hand them off. That means comprehensive documentation, knowledge transfer sessions, and architectures that are sophisticated without being unnecessarily clever. If your team can't maintain it, we haven't done our job.

    Learn about ongoing support →

Advanced Solutions FAQ

  • 01

    Can we add international, search, or headless capabilities to an existing Craft site?

    Yes, and this is actually how most of these engagements start. You don't need to rebuild from scratch. We can add multi-language support to an existing content architecture, layer Elasticsearch or Algolia on top of your current content model, or incrementally migrate to a headless frontend. The approach depends on the current state of your implementation—some sites are well-structured enough to extend cleanly, others need foundational work first. We'll assess that during discovery.

  • 02

    Do we need all three of these, or can we start with just one?

    Start with whatever your business needs most urgently. These are independent capabilities that can be implemented separately. That said, they do interact—if you know you'll need international and headless eventually, it's worth telling us upfront so we can make architectural decisions now that won't need to be unwound later.

  • 03

    How long do advanced solution projects typically take?

    It depends on scope, but here are rough ranges. Adding enterprise search to an existing site: 4-8 weeks. Internationalizing a Craft site for 3-5 markets: 8-14 weeks. A full headless rebuild with a modern frontend framework: 12-20 weeks. Projects that combine multiple advanced solutions naturally take longer. We'll give you a realistic timeline after discovery.

  • 04

    What about ongoing maintenance? These seem more complex to operate.

    They are. A headless Craft site has more moving parts than a traditional one. An international platform needs ongoing content coordination and compliance monitoring. Enterprise search requires relevance tuning as your content evolves. We offer ongoing support retainers specifically for advanced implementations, and we build monitoring and alerting into every deployment so you know when something needs attention.

    Explore support options →

  • 05

    We're not sure if we actually need headless/international/search. Can you help us decide?

    Absolutely. We'd rather tell you that you don't need headless than sell you an architecture you'll regret. Our technical audit is designed to assess your current platform, understand your goals, and recommend the right approach—even if that approach is "your current setup is fine for now."

  • 06

    How do these services work with your other offerings?

    Advanced solutions build on top of Core Craft Development. You need a well-built Craft foundation before layering on international, search, or headless capabilities. These projects also frequently involve integration work with external systems and benefit from performance optimization to ensure the added complexity doesn't slow things down. We handle all of it.

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