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Case study · Business Stuff

A magazine that
publishes itself

A UK business magazine generated from a codebase — news, insight, book summaries, calculators and lead magnets, all feeding the same engine.

The brief

Owned media is the cheapest lead source there is, and the one most businesses abandon by month three. Publishing consistently is a job nobody has time for.

So it publishes from a codebase, not a CMS. A new piece costs almost nothing, and one script change updates the whole title.

What we built
  • A static generator producing every page from structured content, so a template change updates the whole title at once
  • A large book-summary library — dozens of business titles distilled into consistent, skimmable formats with their own index
  • Free tools as the front door — calculators and checklists that are useful before anyone hands over an email address
  • Automated publishing — scheduled drafting and deployment, with indexes, feeds and sitemaps regenerated correctly every time
  • Capture and nurture — a lead magnet wired to a welcome sequence and a segmented audience
  • Video — scripted and generated with a UK voice, so the written library has an equivalent on the channels that prefer it
40+book summaries published
Weeklyautomated publishing cadence
1codebase behind every page
0CMS licences
Where it got to

Publishing as infrastructure.

Once publishing is code rather than a calendar invitation, consistency stops depending on anyone's willpower. That's the principle behind every content system we build: make the repeatable thing automatic, and keep the human effort for the parts that genuinely need judgement.

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