Moxace
API-First Content, Engineered.

Contentful App Development Services

We build on Contentful for teams that need API-first content at multi-channel scale: content modelling, custom apps, and composable delivery, with the governance that keeps enterprise content sane.

15+
Years Building Software
9,000+
Projects Delivered
500+
Engineers
25+
Countries Served

Trusted by the brands we build for

  • Etihad
  • Heineken
  • Marvel Studios
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Since 2010
Building Software
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9,000+
Projects Delivered
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3,900+
Apps Published
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500+
Engineers

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What contentful builds require beyond the platform

Contentful is genuinely excellent at what it does: API-first content, multi-space operations, and composable delivery. The engineering work is around it: content models that survive organisational change, custom apps for workflows the platform does not ship, and delivery layers that keep multi-channel output consistent.

We build content architectures, custom Contentful apps, and delivery integrations, plus the governance (naming, roles, workflows) that decides whether enterprise content scales or sprawls. For self-hosted alternatives, compare our Strapi development approach.

What our contentful development services cover

The platform lifecycle, from content model to multi-channel delivery.

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Content modelling

Content types, references, and localisation modelled on your real organisational requirements, documented for governance.

  • ✓Content type architecture
  • ✓Reference modelling
  • ✓Localisation frameworks
  • ✓Governance documentation
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Custom contentful apps

Apps extending the Contentful interface for your workflows: media tooling, approvals, and external data views.

  • ✓App framework development
  • ✓Custom entry editors
  • ✓Approval workflow apps
  • ✓External data integrations
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Multi-channel delivery

One content hub serving web, mobile, and emerging channels through shaped, cached APIs.

  • ✓GraphQL delivery layers
  • ✓Channel-shaped content APIs
  • ✓CDN caching strategies
  • ✓Web and app integration
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Composable commerce content

Product content, CMS pages, and merchandising content composed with your commerce stack.

  • ✓Commerce content models
  • ✓Product experience pages
  • ✓Merchandising workflows
  • ✓Commerce platform integration
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Migrations to contentful

Content moved from legacy CMSes with structure redesigned for API-first delivery, SEO preserved.

  • ✓Content migration mapping
  • ✓Legacy system extraction
  • ✓SEO redirect strategy
  • ✓Editor enablement
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Governance and enablement

Roles, workflows, and documentation so a growing content team keeps the space orderly without policing.

  • ✓Role and permission design
  • ✓Workflow configuration
  • ✓Editor documentation
  • ✓Training sessions

What every engagement includes

Every Contentful project ships with the following, agreed in writing before the first sprint begins.

Discovery workshop

A structured workshop maps your goals, users, and constraints into a scoped Contentful roadmap with a fixed written quote before any sprint starts.

Named senior team

You get named, senior engineers with CVs you can review, not a rotating bench. The people in the kickoff are the people who ship.

Sprint demos every two weeks

Working builds are demoed live each cycle with CI running on every merge, so progress is visible in software, not slideware.

100% source-code ownership

All Contentful source, configurations, designs, and documentation transfer to you on delivery with no licensing strings or vendor lock-in.

60 days of post-launch support

Engineering time is on standby for two months after go-live to triage defects, tune performance, and stabilise the release at no extra cost.

12 months of free updates

Compatibility updates, security patches, and platform upgrades ship free for a full year after handover.

What you can build on contentful

Systems our team delivers on the platform.

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Enterprise content hub

A governed content hub serving multiple brands and markets from consistent, modelled content types.

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Multi-channel publishing

One content source feeding website, apps, and digital screens through shaped, cached delivery APIs.

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Composable commerce content

Product experience pages and merchandising content composed with your commerce platform.

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Custom workflow apps

Contentful apps implementing your approval and media workflows directly in the editing interface.

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Migrated content estate

Legacy CMS content moved to Contentful with structure redesigned and editors enabled.

How a Contentful Project Runs

Six stages, each with a sign-off gate before the next begins.

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  1. 01

    Discovery

    We map your Contentful goals, users, and constraints in a structured workshop, ending in a fixed written quote and an architecture risk list.

    ✓ step 01 complete
  2. 02

    Solution design

    The Contentful architecture, integrations, and delivery plan are designed and reviewed before build work starts, so scaling later is not a rewrite.

    ✓ step 02 complete
  3. 03

    Foundation sprint

    Repositories, CI, environments, and a walking skeleton are set up first. Something real runs on a staging URL before feature sprints begin.

    ✓ step 03 complete
  4. 04

    Sprint delivery

    Two-week sprints with live demos every cycle. Contentful work is reviewed, tested, and merged continuously, so scope surprises surface early.

    ✓ step 04 complete
  5. 05

    Hardening and launch

    Performance, security, and accessibility checks run against agreed budgets, followed by a staged Contentful launch with monitoring from hour one.

    ✓ step 05 complete
  6. 06

    Support and handover

    60 days of included support, 12 months of free updates, and documentation that lets your internal team own the system with confidence.

    ✓ step 06 complete

The stack behind our contentful builds

Default choices, stated with reasons.

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Content architecture

Modelled content types with documented governance, designed against your organisational structure rather than page layouts.

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Delivery

GraphQL delivery layers with CDN caching and channel-shaped APIs, so front ends stay fast and decoupled.

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Apps and extensions

Custom apps on Contentful's app framework for workflows the platform does not ship, built to its review standards.

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Integration

Commerce, DAM, and translation platform integrations with monitored webhooks and reconciliation where content flows both ways.

How intelligence flows through the platform

What each layer reads, and what it changes.

Content assistant

Drafts and localises within your workflows.

Reads

Entries, style guides, glossaries

Changes

Draft entries and translations

Content intelligence

Surfaces performance and coverage signals.

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Entry analytics, channel data

Changes

Editorial recommendations

Moderation layer

Screens content against policy before publish.

Reads

Draft entries, policy rules

Changes

Approval queues and flags

What's included, standard

The baseline on every Contentful engagement. Not an upsell tier, just the floor.

  • Fixed written quote

    The price agreed at discovery is the price you pay, with change handled through explicit scope changes rather than silent drift.

  • Solution architecture document

    System design, data flows, and technology decisions written down so your team can audit and own the result.

  • Dedicated project manager

    One accountable point of contact with real authority over the delivery, not a message relay between time zones.

  • QA on every build

    Automated and manual testing on each Contentful release candidate, with defects triaged before anything reaches production.

  • Security review

    A checklist-based security pass covering authentication, data handling, and dependency vulnerabilities before launch.

  • CI/CD and environments

    Pipelines, staging, and preview environments configured from week one, so releases are routine rather than dramatic.

  • Analytics and monitoring

    Instrumentation wired before launch so you can see real user behaviour and system health from day one.

  • Documentation and handover

    Code comments, runbooks, and architecture notes written for your next developer rather than for our convenience.

  • Governance documentation

    Role, workflow, and naming documentation shipped with delivery, so the space stays orderly as teams grow.

Case studies that speak volume

Etihad Airways

A high-traffic consumer platform our team ships and operates at national-carrier scale, the same bar every build is held to.

1M+
Monthly Users
40%
Engagement Lift

PragPlay

A consumer platform from the same engineering system, proving the infrastructure core holds under real-time load with strict uptime demands.

500K+
Players
99.9%
Uptime

Marvel Studios

A high-volume consumer experience our team ships at global-release scale, the same discipline applied to every launch.

10M+
Streams
65%
Completion
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Why teams pick us for contentful work

The differences live in engineering habits, not pitch decks.

Modelled on organisation, not pages

Content types reflect your structure and channels, so the model survives redesigns instead of breaking at the first one.

Governance shipped with delivery

Roles, workflows, and documentation are deliverables, because enterprise content sprawls without them and policing is not a system.

Multi-channel by architecture

Delivery layers shaped per channel with caching, so adding an app or screen is configuration rather than a project.

Editors enabled, not just migrated

Migration includes training and documentation, because a CMS nobody can drive well is a failed migration regardless of data fidelity.

Track record since 2010

9,000+ projects and 3,900+ apps across 25+ countries, held to the same delivery bar as everything else.

Contentful development FAQs

Contentful suits multi-channel, multi-team operations that value API-first delivery and managed infrastructure; Strapi suits self-hosting economics; WordPress suits editorial-heavy sites. We model the fit against your team and channels at discovery, with the reasoning documented.

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Ready for Content That Scales Across Channels?

Talk to our Contentful team about a governed, API-first build with documented handover.

launch.sequence3 steps
  1. 01

    Share your idea

    a quick call, no deck required

  2. 02

    See the live demo

    every screen, admin to user

  3. 03

    Launch with source

    full code, your brand, your servers

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