Caribbean Export Development Agency
Full production website of the region's trade promotion agency: multilingual news, events, opportunities and publications CMS, fully editable by agency staff, plus the Caribbean Investment Forum event site served from the same codebase on a second domain.
Challenge
The agency’s site ran on an old Gatsby and WordPress stack. Editors could not change much without a developer, and developers could not move quickly either. The agency wanted a multilingual platform its own staff could run, with the Caribbean Investment Forum site handled as well.
Approach
We rebuilt on Next.js with Sanity as the CMS. One codebase serves carib-export.com and the CIF domain. When an editor publishes, the affected pages regenerate within moments, in all four languages.
Outcome
Cutover finished by July 2026. Agency staff now publish on their own, including the CIF 2026 pre-event edition that went up in August, and we continue to develop the platform with them.
Numbers, with their dates
Inside the product
Architecture
Security & standards
- Cookie-consent-gated analytics
- X-Frame-Options DENY + iframe sandbox hardening
- Draft-mode preview behind a secret
- Scoped CMS write tokens held in Vercel env
Stage & handover
Live Cutover complete by July 2026 (migrated from legacy Gatsby + WordPress + Netlify). Agency editors publish independently in Sanity with documented workflows; Techbase provides ongoing platform development.