The two projects that always slip a quarter. They won’t.
The storefronts and intranets playbook builds the two projects that tend to slip: the shop your customers buy from and the intranet your employees work in. Cypher maps every journey, builds content models your teams can run, tests each journey end to end, and hands over a site your people own.
What you get
- Shopping or employee journeys working end to end
- Content models your teams can run without a developer
- Connections to the systems behind them
- A handover your people can own
Why they slip
Both depend on systems other teams own: product data and checkout for a storefront, directories and permissions for an intranet. The work waits on those teams. Cypher maps the dependencies in discovery, so the few questions that need another team arrive early, with a pick and a deadline.
How it runs
- Map the journeys and systemsEvery journey, and every system it touches, written down before anyone builds.
- The plan, your first gateJourneys, content models and connections in the Blueprint. You approve it once.
- Build and connectComponents, templates and pages, connected to the systems behind them and checked before they move on.
- Test end to endEach journey runs from start to finish, the way a customer or an employee would use it.
- Launch, your second gateYou sign off with every journey’s results in front of you.
What you decide
About three things: usually which journeys come first, which system owns a record when two disagree, and the launch.
Which platforms
Sitecore, Optimizely and Contentful are home turf, alongside whichever commerce, directory or sign-in systems you run.
Questions people ask
Do you replace our commerce platform?
No. Cypher builds the experience on your content platform and connects it to the commerce systems you already run.
Can employees edit the intranet themselves?
Yes. Content models are built for the teams who run them, with an editor guide written for those teams.
Why won’t it slip?
Because dependencies are found in discovery, not at launch, and the few decisions that need you arrive with a pick and a deadline.