Move your Sitecore site
to a headless stack.
We migrate Sitecore XP and XM sites to a modern headless setup. Your URLs and translations carry over, your editors get out from under the Content Editor, and your CFO gets the license bill back. No more upgrade-as-rebuild quotes, no more half a dozen server roles, no more Solr to babysit.
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Sitecore was the enterprise default. It is not anymore.
Sitecore ran the corporate web at the high end for a long time. Personalization, multi-site, deep workflows. It still does most of that, on paper. But the cost of staying on it has crept to the point where the license alone funds a small team, and the upgrade to XM Cloud looks a lot like a rebuild done on someone else's terms.
The annual license bill is now larger than the cost of the team that operates the site.
The XP roadmap moved to XM Cloud and the upgrade quote came back as a rebuild.
Custom Solr indexes and personalization rules nobody dares touch are blocking every release.
Renderings and placeholders have grown into a layout system only one person on the team understands.
Editors cannot ship a banner without a developer staging the experience first.
The infrastructure bill for CM, CD, processing, and reporting servers keeps climbing for traffic that does not justify it.
The Reality
The platform is not the problem. The accumulated cost of staying on it is. Replatforming separates the content from the license.
What Survives the Move
Your content and translations come along.
Sitecore stores content as a clean tree of items with structured fields, which makes a migration predictable. Items, languages, versions, references, media all translate to Storyblok or DatoCMS without losing fidelity. The work is in the platform layer, not in your editorial team's content.
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Your content tree
every item, every version, every language. Exported through the Item Service or a direct database read against the Master database.
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All your URLs
item paths, display names, alias items, and language-prefixed routes. We map the URL tree before launch and ship a redirect set covering everything indexed.
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Your multilingual content
language versions and fallback chains move into native multi-locale content with hreflang configured from day one.
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Your media library
moved from the Media Library to a CDN with proper image processing. Sitecore media URLs are mapped to their CDN equivalents through redirects.
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Your SEO signals
page-level meta, canonical tags, sitemap, robots.txt, structured data, all configured server-side, the same way the SXA SEO module did it.
What Changes
The Sitecore stack goes away.
Most of what makes a Sitecore site expensive to operate is platform plumbing. Renderings, placeholders, the role topology, Solr, the publishing pipeline. They go away. What replaces them is built around how editors and developers actually want to work, not around how Sitecore happens to organize the world.
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Templates and renderings
become a small set of well-defined block schemas. We normalize the sprawl rather than copying it. Editors stop guessing which template to inherit from.
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Placeholders and presentation
are replaced by real components. What renders in the editor is what ships, with no separate Experience Editor preview to second-guess.
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xDB personalization
either gets replaced by lighter-weight tools that match the rules you actually use, or removed if the segments stopped firing years ago. We list every active rule at the audit stage.
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The Content Editor
is gone. No more Settings, Layout Details, or hunting for the right tab. Editors get a CMS designed for editors, not for a content management system from 2003.
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CM, CD, processing, and reporting servers
go away. The new site is static or server-rendered, hosted on a CDN. No more Solr, no more SQL Server, no more deployment pipelines that take a day to run.
How It Works
The migration process
Audit and content model
We pull the content tree, walk through every template, every rendering, every personalization rule, and every active module. Then we design the content model around how your editors actually publish, not around how the install grew over the years. You approve the model before development starts.
Migrate, translate, rebuild
Content is exported through the Item Service or a direct read against the Master database and imported into Storyblok or DatoCMS. The frontend is built in Astro, with components replacing renderings and placeholders. Multilingual content is mapped to native multi-locale fields with hreflang from the first deploy. URL routing is reproduced so old links still resolve.
Cutover and 30 days of watching
We launch on a low-traffic window, swap DNS, and monitor Search Console, Analytics, and Core Web Vitals for 30 days. Sitecore stays running as a fallback during the watch window. After 30 days you decide whether to keep us on with a subscription or take it from here.
A note on personalization
Most xDB rules are platform-shaped solutions to platform-shaped problems.
Half of the active personalization rules on a typical XP site were configured for a campaign that ended years ago. The half that still earn their place can be rebuilt with lightweight tools that match the rules you actually need. We list every active rule at the audit stage and decide which ones translate, which ones get dropped, and which ones need a small custom service.
Start with an auditPricing
Fixed price, no scope creep
Sitecore migrations vary in scope more than most. A 200-page corporate site with three languages and a clean SXA structure is one thing. A multi-tenant XP install with deep personalization, custom Solr indexes, and a decade of accumulated templates is another. The ranges below are where typical projects land. Once we scope yours, you get a fixed quote.
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Full audit of your Sitecore install, modules, and content tree
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Content model rebuilt around your editorial workflow
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URL map covering item paths, aliases, and language routes
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Content migration from Item Service or Master database export
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Frontend in Astro, CMS in Storyblok or DatoCMS
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Multilingual with hreflang from day one
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30 days of post-launch monitoring
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Same team stays accountable for the system
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Performance and uptime monitored continuously
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Content and component changes handled monthly
All prices are net, excluding applicable VAT.
Who This Is For
Who this is for
This works well if you
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Run a Sitecore XP or XM site facing a forced upgrade to XM Cloud or Sitecore Headless
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Have a multilingual corporate or industrial site and want translations stable without versioning gymnastics
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Care about organic traffic and need every URL preserved through the move
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Want your marketing team off the Content Editor and onto a real visual workflow
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Are paying for XP features you no longer use, like xConnect personalization or Email Experience Manager
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Need a fixed price and a clear scope, not another open-ended Sitecore engagement
This is not a fit if you
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Use xDB personalization and xConnect as the core of customer marketing and need that capability replicated. Talk to us first
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Are already on Sitecore Headless or XM Cloud and only need a frontend rebuild. Different scope
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Run a regulated or government workflow with hard requirements that depend on Sitecore-specific modules. Talk to us first
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Are not sure yet what the right move is. Start with a Headless Audit
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Need a new build from scratch with no legacy content. See Headless Website