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Case Study
Pelerin CMS — A Headless CMS Built for Real Client Needs
Pelerin Tech
March 2026
Every client project surfaced the same friction: mainstream CMS platforms were either too opinionated (WordPress), too complex (enterprise headless), or too rigid to adapt across different types of businesses. We needed something that could model a wine bar's menu, a news portal's editorial structure, and a consultancy's service pages — using the same core system.
Rather than keep bending third-party tools, we built our own.
Pelerin CMS is a headless CMS built on Astro and SQLite, designed specifically for small and medium content-oriented websites. Its flexible collection schema can model a wide range of business types without customisation:
It ships with a clean admin UI, an API key-based REST API, media management, localization support, and Docker deployment. Clients get editorial control without developer involvement for day-to-day content updates.
Pelerin CMS is already running in production: it powers both Bruma (wine and coffee bar) and Biz District (entrepreneurial news portal) — two very different content models on the same platform.
Pelerin CMS is evidence of our web development capability at the product level, and our approach to business process modeling — the ability to analyse a client's content and operational needs, and translate them into a data schema that works long-term. We don't just implement tools; we design systems that fit the shape of the business.
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