What's shipping, what we've learned, and where the CMS world is going. Written by the people building InkCMS — no ghostwriter, no press release voice.
A live website, cloned to InkCMS in under two hours by pointing Claude Code at the public URL. Then a full redesign, brand alignment, and ADA cleanup in under sixty minutes — Lighthouse scores from sub-70 to near-100.
Read Two hours to lift. Sixty minutes to relaunch.
Thirty years of CMS engineering — from classic ASP through .NET 10 — and the moment that convinced me to throw the SQL admin out and start over.
Read Why I built InkCMS.
Opus 4.7, Gemini 3.1, GPT 5.4. The 2026 frontier models cleared three bars at once — accuracy, HTML fidelity, and whole-site contextual understanding — and that's the reason a filesystem-first CMS is finally a serious idea.
Read The models that make InkCMS possible.
Filesystem storage, multi-provider AI, visitor-facing Advisor, source-available — in one install you compile yourself. Here's what 1.0 actually contains, and what it's built to replace.
Read InkCMS 10.1.5 is here.
The plugin-and-database CMS won the 2010s. It loses the 2020s. Here's why the shape itself is finished, and what an agent-native workflow looks like in practice.
Read The traditional CMS is dead. Claude is the new editor.