Architecture

Discover content freedom with the most powerful decoupled CMS

Brightspot’s decoupled architecture empowers developers with the flexibility to develop your back-end and front-end systems in parallel, fostering scalability with a future-proof architecture. Seamlessly deliver content across various channels, promoting agile development and simplifying content authoring workflows.

Features to achieve faster content delivery
Brightspot’s robust Design System is created for versatility. Modify, expand or wholly personalize the presentation layer, with or without the need for coding. This ensures your digital experiences resonate with your brand and can evolve with your business.
Choose from our collection of more than 100 ready-to-use content types and designs, customize them to your exact needs or easily create your own content types in our editorial interface—no code required. Our content types and modules prioritize reusability so your team can move faster. This facilitates duplication of content elements, crafting templates for frequent content setups and establishing consistent shared images or modules to maintain uniformity across various sites, pages or assets.
Content management & delivery via API
Brightspot’s platform is your ultimate toolkit for data management, content creation and delivery. This includes the ability to quickly create REST or GraphQL API endpoints to support seamless content management, delivery and multi-channel distribution.
Intuitive and customizable user experience
Personalize the user experience according to your team’s preferences, permissions and roles. Ensure that you stay focused on the tasks that matter most, reducing the risk of mistakes and enhancing productivity.
Enhanced versioning and editing oversight
Secure your assets with editing controls and use in-context tracked modifications or detailed version histories for all your content. This guarantees inadvertent errors are kept to a minimum during the editing and publication processes.
Collaborative platform tools
Stay in your flow and collaborate with real-time conversations within the CMS, complemented by inline editing and track changes. Approve content, move it through workflows, and more—directly from Slack or Teams. Get work done faster and speed up content creation with a more efficient, integrated publishing experience.
Decoupled CMS case studies
Learn how Brightspot’s out-of-the-box CMS publishing tools transformed FedEx’s ability to communicate with audiences around the world via its redesigned newsroom.
Special Olympics wanted to improve their website experience, streamline publishing processes and increase fundraising results. Learn how Brightspot helped them achieve all three.
Discover how Brightspot helped The Chronicle of Higher Education go fully digital-first with a modern CMS, streamlining subscriptions and future-proofing the publication.
Choose Brightspot with confidence
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Leader
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Flexible architecture to scale with you

Select the architecture that aligns with your business needs, enabling you to effortlessly deliver content to any endpoint. Then, evolve as your strategy changes over time, knowing you have the flexibility to modify your back end to suit your team’s specific needs.

Brightspot CMS provides the most flexible architecture for developers and content creators to create compelling headless experiences.
Brightspot CMS provides the most flexible architecture for developers and content creators to create compelling hybrid experiences.