The original composable DXP, Uniform unites the entire technology stack codelessly to visually craft and publish digital experiences with content and data from across the organization.
Swapped in place. Nothing else moved.
Best-of-breed parts assembled into a single user experience, where any piece can be swapped without affecting the rest.
Composable DXP
A composable DXP is a digital experience platform that unites best-fit components (CMS, commerce, search, data, personalization) into a single marketing workspace through APIs. Choose, replace, and scale each platform independently rather than buying the stack as one suite.
Side by side: one sealed suite where every layer is the vendor's, and one composed arrangement where every layer is a choice you can change.
Suites bundle tools and control your company's pace. Composable lets each layer be its best or replaced on your schedule.
One honest caveat from the first composable generation: wiring best-of-breed together with custom code created its own trap, and avoiding it is what the next section is about.
The full story of what early composable stacks cost: the headless CMS guide
Six requirements determine whether a platform is genuinely composable.
Connect any system in clicks, map data to components visually, and swap systems later without a rewrite: 70+ integrations plus bring-your-own-API.
A best-in-class headless CMS built in that connects to any CMS you already run.
Compose, preview, and approve experiences from a single tab.
Personalization and testing on any CDN, flicker-free, on any component from any source.
Whether a single text field or a market's own independent edition.
Your frameworks, your CDN, your CI/CD. The application layer stays yours.
Composable should never start with a migration, so Uniform supports all three arrangements from day one.
Three supported strategies, one DXP: Uniform's own CMS as the content block inside the composed experience, your existing CMS connected underneath it, or both feeding the same experience at once.
Sainsbury's, Atlassian, and Rituals run Uniform alongside their existing platforms.
Named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Platforms.
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Platforms, Irina Guseva, Varsha Mehta, Mike Lowndes, John Field, 28 January 2025.
A MACH Alliance member since 2021, as composable is our foundational architecture and not our market repositioning.
Starkey, a global hearing technology leader, deftly swapped out a heavily customized legacy CMS that supported 40+ sites in 14 languages and served over a million sessions a month. Mobile app API compatibility was preserved with zero changes required on the app side.
“The speed of our migration to Uniform was absolutely insane. No disruption to business, no downtime.”
The web now has two audiences: the people who visit your experiences, and the AI agents that find, cite, and act on them. Serving both takes more than good architecture; it takes an operating model where AI agents do real work, and humans approve what ships.
One vendor, one roadmap
Uniform, MACH Alliance member since 2021
Now
Three eras on one line: suites, then composable, then agentic, which is the era running now and the first one serving both people and the AI agents reading the web.
Uniform is composable at its core, which is why its agent, Scout, can reach across your entire stack instead of being locked into one vendor's box.
The same architecture on this page is the foundation of the next era.
The definition, the difference from a suite, and the honest caveats.
A composable DXP is a digital experience platform assembled from best-of-breed components (CMS, commerce, search, data, personalization) connected through APIs, so each part can be chosen, replaced, and scaled independently. Uniform pioneered the category, adding the orchestration and visual layer that makes composed stacks operable without custom code.
A suite DXP bundles every capability from one vendor on one roadmap. A composable DXP assembles the best available part for each capability and connects them through APIs. Composable trades the convenience of a single vendor for independence: every layer stays replaceable, and no single roadmap dictates your pace.
No. A headless CMS is one component: structured content delivered through APIs. A composable DXP unifies every platform around it: orchestration of every source, visual experience management, personalization, testing, and delivery. Uniform includes a best-in-class headless CMS and composes any other CMS alongside it.
Yes, in its first-generation form, and this glue code has become composability's hidden cost. With Uniform, orchestration replaces it. Systems connect in clicks, data maps to components visually, and swapping a part is reconfiguration, not a rewrite. Composability without orchestration is a stack; with it, it is a platform.
Both by design. Uniform is a composable DXP that includes its own best-in-class headless CMS, and it connects and composes any CMS you already run, so teams adopt it as their CMS, their experience layer over existing systems, or both at once, without migrating first.
An agentic DXP adds an operating model on top of composable architecture. AI agents execute content and experience work while humans approve what ships, serving both people and the AI agents now visiting the web. Uniform is both, and composability is why; its agent can only work across most systems the platform reaches.
Bring your current stack list. We will show you what composing it, rather than rewiring it, looks like.
Bring the systems you already run. We connect one of them live and compose an experience over it while you watch, so the question at the end is what to compose next rather than what the demo proved.
The systems you own, the team that has to run them, and what is slowing releases down today.
We connect a source you already have and assemble a real experience over it, in the Visual Workspace, live.
What a first composed surface would take, what it replaces, and what it does not. No obligation either way.
Not ready to talk to anyone? Fair. Read the headless CMS guide or see the agentic DXP: no meeting required.
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