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title: "headless CMS | Skills We Assign For | Azendo"
description: "Headless CMS — when decoupling pays, editor experience, plus the Azendo roles assigned for it."
url: "https://azendo.co/skills/headless-cms/"
---

[Skills](https://azendo.co/skills/) Commerce and content platforms 

# headless CMS.

A headless CMS manages content without controlling presentation, delivering structured data through APIs so any number of frontends consume the same content independently.

## Where headless CMS fits on a long engagement.

Decoupling pays when there is genuinely more than one consumer, or when the frontend needs to change independently of the content system. A single website with one frontend often gets less from headless than from a traditional CMS, and pays the editor-experience cost anyway.

The frequently overlooked cost is everything the traditional CMS included. Preview, URL management, redirects, sitemaps and media handling all come free in a coupled system and have to be built in a headless one, which is real work that estimates routinely omit.

## What an assigned team does with headless CMS.

Adopting headless for architectural preference rather than a concrete requirement is a common and expensive mistake. The right question is what specifically the coupling is preventing.

Answering that honestly before committing is what scoping is for, and how it is agreed is described in [how an assignment runs](https://azendo.co/how-it-works/).

## What we use headless CMS for.

* Several frontends from one content set Web, app and partner channels where duplication has caused divergence.
* The rebuild cost accounted for Preview, redirects and sitemaps estimated rather than assumed.
* A concrete reason to decouple A stated constraint the coupled system imposes, rather than architectural preference.

## How headless CMS capacity is assigned.

Content architecture is assigned inside development capacity, with the case for decoupling established before the platform is chosen.

## Industries that ask for it

* [Marketing and creative agencies](https://azendo.co/industries/marketing-and-creative-agencies/)

## Related in commerce and content platforms

* [Shopify — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/shopify/)
* [Magento — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/magento/)
* [WordPress — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/wordpress/)
* [Webflow — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/webflow/)
* [Contentful — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/contentful/)
* [Stripe billing — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/stripe-billing/)
* [SharePoint — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/sharepoint/)
* [Microsoft 365 — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/microsoft-365/)

## Tell us what your roadmap needs headless CMS for.

A service delivery manager replies with the disciplines we would assign, the monthly capacity and what the first month looks like.

[All skills we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/)