Headless development for European teams

Engineer-led headless CMS development for European enterprises

What we build for European teams

As a dedicated cms development agency, we build enterprise websites, content hubs, multilingual experiences, and regional rollouts for European teams. We also handle legacy CMS migrations and composable stacks, with the content model, delivery layer, and editorial workflow designed for the realities of each market.

Built for European Teams
With offices in London, Warsaw, and Amsterdam, we work across European time zones with senior engineers who keep delivery moving while staying close enough for the conversations that matter. We understand local compliance, data sovereignty, and cross-border performance.

Why European teams choose headless

# 1
Architecture that supports multilingual publishing and multi-currency commerce across regions.
# 2
Clear workflows for distributed teams and overlapping time zones, managed from our European hubs.
# 3
Content operations built for localisation, governance, and regional rollout.
# 4
Future-proof frontends designed for strict GDPR compliance and the 2025 European Accessibility Act (EAA).

Core headless CMS services

Headless CMS strategy, implementation, and migration for European teams. We design governance, integrations, multilingual workflows, performance, and ongoing support around the right architecture for your content operation.

Headless CMS strategy and implementation

We design the right content model, delivery architecture, and frontend implementation for European enterprises. That means modular schemas that give your team editorial independence without weakening governance, delivery setups that scale across markets and languages, and a Next.js frontend built for performance and maintainability. The result is a modern stack your team can actually live with.

Migration and replatforming

Moving from a legacy CMS to a headless platform is an architecture change, not a content copy exercise. The part that's easy to get wrong is everything around the content export: URL mappings, redirects, structured content models, multilingual routing, and the editorial workflows your team depends on. We handle that carefully so you keep SEO value, preserve content structure, and give editors a system they can actually use across markets.

Multilingual support and content operations

Production is where the real work starts. We support distributed editorial teams across European markets with CMS governance, translation workflows, regional publishing controls, integrations, and content operations. We handle the complexities of European markets — from accommodating different languages to ensuring regional cookie consent and GDPR compliance at the edge. That includes keeping the model maintainable, defining clear approval paths, and handling the technical details after ship so your team can publish locally without losing consistency, speed, or control.

Integrations, performance, and ongoing support

We connect your CMS to core business systems — CRM, analytics, and localized European commerce gateways — without turning the front end into a bottleneck.

We avoid the common mistake of overloading the page render by keeping strict integration boundaries. Content stays in the CMS, transactional data remains in its native system, and Next.js assembles the experience at the edge using webhooks and smart caching.

The result is a fast, maintainable architecture that gives you the flexibility to plug in new tools without rebuilding your stack.

Selected headless CMS projects

EasyPark

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Industry
Parking & Mobility
Technical Stack
Storyblok
Next.JS
Vercel
Scope of Work
Design
Website Development
Maintenance

Caleffi

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Laptop on bed showing Caleffi home textiles e-commerce website
Industry
Textile Manufacturing
Tech stack
Sanity
Shopify Hydrogen
Scope of Work
Migration from Magento
Webshop development
Maintenance

Arrive

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Industry
Mobility & Transportation
Technical Stack
Storyblok
NextJS
Tailwind
Vercel
Scope of Work
Design
Website Development

EmailOctopus

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EmailOctopus logo with a white cartoon octopus icon and text on a dark purple background
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Technical Stack
Next.JS
Payload
Vercel
Neon database
Tailwind
Scope of Work
Design
Website Development
Maintenance

Glimble

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Industry
Public Transport
Technical Stack
Swell
Payload
Next.JS
Scope of Work
Website development
Maintenance

Headless CMS projects and use cases

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Multilingual corporate platforms

Migrating to a Headless Architecture isn't just about moving content; it's about building the right foundation for enterprise digital platforms. We model complex content structures, put governance controls in place, and design editing workflows that scale across teams, markets, and publishing needs.

2 3

Composable content ecosystems

We build multi-market content platforms for teams managing multiple brands, regions, or product lines. With structured content models, localization workflows, and tight SEO controls, your team can publish consistently across markets without duplicating the codebase or losing editorial independence.

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Migration and modernization programmes

Composable commerce works when the storefront, product data, and content layer are built to move together. We use Next.js, Node.js, and the right CMS (Payload, Sanity, or Contentful) to connect your catalog and CRMs into a single front-end that stays fast, flexible, and maintainable.

Trusted by teams shipping across Europe

We picked FocusReactive over other partners because of their no-nonsense approach, technical know-how, experience and price. FocusReactive's work has doubled SEO traffic in the first week and has received positive feedback from stakeholders. The team is down-to-earth and professional.

Igor Oudekerk
Igor Oudekerk
Web Product Owner, EasyPark

We worked with FocusReactive to bring our website and blog into a single, modern setup that’s much easier for our team to manage. They rebuilt the pages based on our designs, migrated the blog to Payload CMS, and handled changes smoothly as the project evolved. Communication was quick and straightforward, and the end result is a flexible platform that will scale with us as our content and product grow.

Jonathan Bull
Jonathan Bull
CEO at EmailOctopus

FocusReactive successfully took over and enhanced our existing site and shop, making the platform faster, more stable, and significantly improving the user experience. The team delivered high-quality work on time, reduced development overhead, and proved to be proactive, knowledgeable, and highly reliable throughout the collaboration.

Gerben Dijkstra
Gerben Dijkstra
Product Owner, glimble by Arriva

FAQ

Practical answers for teams evaluating a headless CMS agency in Europe.

Yes. We support multilingual European websites, regional content operations, and editorial workflows across markets, so your teams can manage local content without losing consistency across the whole platform..

We’re a senior-heavy, engineer-led agency. We build with headless CMS platforms like Sanity, Contentful, and Storyblok, paired with frontend stacks such as Next.js. We choose the right architecture for the problem, not the other way around.

Migrating from a legacy enterprise CMS to a headless architecture starts with content modelling, not templates. We map the content types, fields, and relationships your team actually needs, then plan redirects and URL parity so SEO equity is preserved during the cutover. From there, we roll out in phases: high-risk or high-traffic pages first, then the rest of the estate once the new model, front end, and editorial workflow are proven in production. We enforce rigorous architecture standards where performance (Core Web Vitals) and technical SEO are built-in defaults, not post-launch afterthoughts.

We offer transparent, milestone-based pricing for migrations and replatforming projects, and retainer models for ongoing support and continuous improvement. We typically start with a discovery phase to define the architecture, content model, and migration path, which allows us to provide accurate estimates for the full build. All our work is delivered by senior, European-based engineers.

Engineering blog

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