This post shows how I set up the Optimizely Stride sample site on a new Optimizely CMS (SaaS) instance. The front end is on Optimizely Frontend Hosting. It deploys from the CLI and from GitHub Actions. I used Claude Code to do most of the work....

Virtual Teammates are the most interesting thing Optimizely has shipped on its agent platform this year, and the hardest to evaluate from a demo. They are not another agent. They are persistent AI workers with their own login, mailbox, memory and...

Categories arrived in Optimizely SaaS CMS at the end of August, with Graph support alongside. I have wanted a proper taxonomy in SaaS since the first build I did on it. Until now we have been faking it with select lists, string arrays or a folder ...

Back in February I wrote about personalisation in CMS 13 using Audiences . Everything in that post still holds, with one condition I should have made louder: it only works when the CMS renders the page. The moment your front end is a separate...

In August,  Nikki Punjabi wrote about a gap in Optimizely SaaS CMS : there is no out-of-the-box way to share a draft page with someone outside the CMS. The editor preview is session-bound. If a legal reviewer or brand owner without a CMS account...