Next.js Development

Headless CMS with Next.js: WordPress-easy editing, app-grade speed.

Your marketing team wants to edit content without filing a ticket. Your users want pages that load before they blink — headless gives you both: a CMS your editors like (Sanity, Contentful, Strapi) feeding a Next.js front end that renders in milliseconds. You're reading this on one right now.

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Headless is the right call for some sites. Here's the honest filter.

Go headless if:

Your content team publishes weekly and hates their current admin.
Page speed is a ranking and conversion problem you've measured.
You're feeding content to more than one surface — site, app, partners.
Your traffic spikes and your server bills spike with it. (If users need to *do* things, not just read, see Next.js web applications.)

Stay on WordPress if: you have a five-page site, a tight budget, and no dev resource — we'll tell you that in the proposal and point you to our WordPress team.

An agency that recommends its most expensive option every time isn't recommending. It's selling.

The stack, in plain terms

Content modeling

Your content becomes structured data — reusable across pages, feeds, and AI answers. This is where headless projects live or die, so it comes first.

CMS setup

Sanity, Contentful, or Strapi, configured around how your editors actually work. Previews, roles, workflows.

Next.js front end

Static generation where possible, server rendering where needed. Fast by architecture, not by afterthought.

SEO + GEO layer

Structured data, semantic markup, content chunks built to rank in Google and get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Headless done wrong is invisible to crawlers; ours isn't.

Migration + integrations

Content, URLs, and rankings move together — redirect map and crawl parity before anything goes live. CRM, payments, and data feeds wire in through API integrations.

Proof, pulled from the shelf

Case Study · Google Ads · Landing Pages · Lead Verification

Prosper Plastic Surgery

38% more qualified leads — on the same ad budget

Lead volume alone is a vanity metric. Raw inquiry counts in this category are routinely inflated by spam form fills, SEO solicitations, job seekers, repeat callers, and inquiries for procedures the practice doesn't perform. The practice needed more genuine prospective patients for the procedures it actually offers — without increasing ad spend, and with proof that every lead counted was real.

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The proof we live on

tkxmedia.com — the site you're on — is a Next.js static build. We didn't outsource our own site to a different stack than the one we sell. Every claim on this page about speed and editing is one we accepted for ourselves first.

From content model to launch

01
Model
Week 1–2
Content audit, content model design, CMS selection with reasons you can repeat to your CTO.
02
Build
Week 2–8
CMS and front end in parallel. You get preview URLs from week 3, not a big reveal at the end.
03
Migrate
Week 6–9
Content in, redirects mapped, SEO parity verified against the old site's crawl.
04
Ship
Week 9+
Launch, monitoring, editor training — with deploys running through a pipeline like Vercel hosting.

Engineers who answer to a revenue number

Senior-led pods. The people scoping your build are the people building it. No bait-and-switch to a junior bench.
AI-search native. Structured content is what AI engines cite. Headless + our GEO layer is the most AI-legible architecture we ship.
Revenue, not reports. 100+ clients, 5+ years, 5.0 on Google (45 reviews), 5.0 on Clutch (14 reviews, Premier Verified). Results like 3x traffic and 4x page-one keywords for Athena Security came from pairing engineering with search strategy.

Speed is a revenue setting

Conversion rate rises as load time falls — the pattern every rebuild targets. Illustrative of the industry-wide curve.

Illustrative — drawn from published industry studies, not a client claim.

Headless CMS FAQs

What does a headless build cost compared to WordPress?

More upfront, less over time at scale. The proposal shows the crossover math for your traffic and team.

How long does a headless CMS project take?

Typical builds run ten to fourteen weeks. Content model complexity is the main variable, and we know it by end of week two.

Which CMS do you recommend — Sanity, Contentful, or Strapi?

Depends on your editors, budget, and hosting posture. We've shipped all three and the proposal names one with reasons, not a shrug.

Is headless bad for SEO?

Badly built, yes — client-side rendering can hide content from crawlers. We render static or server-side, ship full markup, and structure content for AI citation. Our headless builds exist because of SEO, not despite it.

Can my marketing team really edit without developers?

Yes. Editors get previews, drafts, and structured fields. Developers get called for new features, not new blog posts.

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Tell us your site and your goal. Within 2-3 business daysyou'll get a real plan with real numbers: what we'd do, what it costs, what it should return.

No spam, no drip sequence, no 17 follow-up calls. One proposal, from us to you.