Traditional CMSs (Content Management Systems) are general systems and not optimised for any particular use case.
Editors can be difficult to use and the resulting websites are not always optimised for performance or security.
For many enterprises, their key concerns are about securely sharing content with audiences in a performant and scalable way. Separation of content or ‘gated’ content is also a key security requirement.
Content as a service
GraphQL, Gatsby, Hasura, Serverless
Easy integration, powerful feature set

In addition, many organisations want to be able to customise the creation process around their own users and content for the best experience and efficiency. There are limited options to do this with a traditional CMS.
Orion is an opinionated architecture for producing statically generated sites.
It allows for gated content and is highly secure and reliable. Orion’s integrated editor allows full customisation of editing and workflow around content and teams.
Built for performance from the ground up, Orion uses leading edge tools to provide the very best possible load times for all assets. Using a serverless deployment, Orion is massively scalable to millions of users.
An opinionated architecture for statically generated sites. Highly performant, scalable and secure.
With Orion, organisations can quickly make very large sets of data available through static pages in a secure, performant and scalable way.
Orion is based on Gatsby.js and includes project structure, preconfigured pipeline, developer tooling and sample applications.
The WYSIWYG editor and workflows can be customised to suit the organisations content and teams/processes.
Business benefits
By ensuring both reduced time to market and setting best practice, Orion generates a range of important business benefits for any organisation that uses it.
Time to market
- A comprehensive architecture and tools supports rapid development and allows teams to focus on business benefits earlier
A preconfigured CI pipeline reduces delays between development and deployment
Customising editing and workflows creates optimal efficiency for the specific content, team and jobs to be done
Risk reduction
- Gated content and functions allow for optimal security to suit any organisation
Static page approach creates a highly reliable deployment compared to standard CMS implementations
Reduced costs
- Accelerated development and deployment reduces costs
Skill sets required to use Orion are popular open source skills and not expensive to hire and keep
Serverless architecture makes efficient use of cloud cost optimisation tools