Enterprise Content Management

Content Is Mission Infrastructure

For organizations whose credibility rides on what they publish — agencies with public-communication obligations, contractors with capability narratives evaluators actually read, enterprises operating across languages and channels — content management is not an administrative system. It is delivery infrastructure. Wilkes & Liberty provides headless CMS strategy, implementation, and ongoing development: secure, structured content systems with full data sovereignty, running on infrastructure you control. Our own multilingual public platform runs on this architecture in production, end to end.

What We Build

• Structured content architecture — purpose-designed content types, controlled taxonomies, and reusable component libraries organized so editors navigate dozens of fields without training sessions, and so every page carries the classification and metadata downstream systems need.
• Headless delivery — a decoupled editorial backend serving any authorized channel through governed GraphQL and JSON:API surfaces, so content entered once is available everywhere it belongs.
• Governed editorial workflow — moderation states from draft through review to publication, scheduled publishing, and publish authority reserved for accountable humans by role design, not convention.
• Multilingual operations — translation workflow, AI-assisted translation executed in your environment, and language-aware delivery with graceful fallback, proven in production across EN/ES/RU.
• Sanitized output by design — purpose-built text formats that enforce per-format markup rules, so what reaches the frontend is predictable, safe, and consistent regardless of who — or what — authored it.
• Configuration as code — the entire CMS configuration version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and deployed per environment, with secrets excluded structurally rather than by discipline.

Publishing at the Speed of the Newsroom, Not the Rebuild

A headless architecture is only as good as its delivery pipeline. We engineer the full path from editorial save to reader: statically generated frontends with incremental regeneration for performance, and on-demand revalidation that clears exactly the affected pages within seconds of a publish — queue-backed, rate-limited, and alerting on failure so a silent breakdown cannot go unnoticed. Cache tags are computed per entity for precise invalidation, a scheduled schema handshake validates frontend queries against the live API before drift becomes an outage, and editors preview draft content on the real frontend before anything goes live.

Multilingual as an Operating Capability

Publishing to multilingual audiences is an operational commitment, not a one-time translation project. We design and operate content workflows that make multilingual publishing sustainable and repeatable — translation workflow design that fits your existing editorial process, AI-assisted translation tooling calibrated to your language pairs and content types, and multilingual content modeling that keeps language variants organized within a single coherent structure rather than parallel, disconnected trees. Language-aware delivery is built into the content architecture with graceful fallback when a translation is not yet available, and content models accommodate structural differences between languages without per-language workarounds that accumulate into technical debt.

Records Discipline Is Built Into the Model

Federal content owners publish under mandate, not preference. OMB and NARA direct agencies to manage records electronically — M-19-21 set the deadline, M-23-07 extended and sharpened it — and 36 CFR 1236 prescribes the metadata and controls electronic records must carry. A content platform either holds that discipline in its structure or leaves it to heroics. The structured architecture described above is where those obligations live: content types carry the classification and lifecycle metadata a retention schedule needs, moderation history preserves who changed what and when, and disposition follows the approved schedule rather than an inbox reminder. Because content is structured and queryable instead of trapped in page markup, FOIA searches return answers rather than estimates, Section 508 conformance is enforced at the component level rather than audited after the fact, and sensitive material — CUI included — stays inside the boundary your authorization already covers. Compliance stops being a project that runs alongside the platform; it becomes a property of the platform.

AI-Ready Content Operations, Governed

Modern content operations increasingly include AI agents — drafting, remediating, classifying, and keeping content synchronized with reality. We build content platforms that are agent-ready without being agent-trusting: agents operate through scoped, revocable credentials against explicit entity allowlists, personally identifiable fields are redacted from agent responses, every operation lands in a tamper-evident audit log, and publishing remains structurally reserved for humans — an agent can draft and submit for review, but cannot take content live. The delivery discipline behind this is our Agentic AI Development practice; the security model is our Zero-Trust Architecture applied to the content plane.

We Build the Modules We Depend On

This practice is backed by published, maintained open-source work. We author and maintain MCP Sentinel, the Drupal governance layer that gates, audits, and redacts AI-agent access to content platforms, along with its companion server tooling and a dual-protocol connector published to npm — the same stack described above, available for community scrutiny on drupal.org and GitHub. Our contributions extend to the headless toolchain itself, including code generation that keeps frontend types synchronized with the CMS schema. The pattern repeats at the implementation layer: revalidation orchestration, headless-safe text formats, email-deliverability protection that automatically suppresses sends to bounced addresses, and translation tooling — built as proper Drupal modules to community standards, not one-off glue code. When we deliver your platform, you inherit engineering that has survived public review.

A Platform Your Editors Keep

Every engagement produces a content system your team can operate and extend without us — documented content models, configuration in version control, and editorial workflows your staff already understand because they helped shape them. It runs on infrastructure you control — see our Private Infrastructure practice — and when the engagement requires custom functionality, our software development practice builds it to the same ownership standard. Contact us to scope a content platform, a migration, or a rescue.