Ben Rounsefell
Sr. Manager, Digital, Customer Engagement, Mazda
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A headless CMS that gives developers the freedom to build, marketers the tools to launch fast, and your business the control to scale anywhere.
Get startedBe visible in search, summaries, and AI answers—shape how they see your content, and prove it works with visibility analytics, structured metadata, and Opal-powered GEO & SEO guidance.
Launch at the speed of your ideas—build, brand, and publish instantly with visual builder, Opal AI writing, embedded DAM, and personalization.
One place for your entire content lifecycle—cleaner code, aligned teams, and full governance built-in.
Build it. Make it personal. Deliver it anywhere. All in one CMS.
Built for the marketer to create, preview, and publish in a single, beautiful editor. Check every device view, test every form, and launch—without ever touching the dev queue.
Use AI-guided recommendations and real-time insights to tailor content to each visitor’s location, language, behavior, and profile—so every interaction hits home.
Pull exactly what you need from any source and send it to any channel, app, or device—fast. Then, help every user find it instantly with AI-powered semantic search that delivers hyper-relevant results in seconds.
AI Translations: Translate full pages instantly—no reformatting required.
Let your CMS talk to your preferred CRM and marketing automation tools with direct connections to Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, Marketo, HubSpot and more.
Streamline the management of web content in multiple languages by integrating top translation applications like Lionbridge, Smartling, LanguageWire and more.
Create high-performing web content and assets within your desired workflow, then click to publish to your CMS. Yes, it’s that simple.
Ben Rounsefell
Sr. Manager, Digital, Customer Engagement, Mazda
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Optimizely CMS is the only platform that combines world-class content management, experimentation, and personalization into a single, AI-accelerated workflow. While other solutions require you to stitch together multiple tools, Optimizely provides an all-in-one operating system for marketers. This means your team can move faster, create more impactful experiences, and prove their results without juggling disconnected systems. It’s built to give marketers the creative freedom they need and developers the powerful, flexible architecture they demand.
Both. Optimizely CMS is designed to serve the needs of both technical and non-technical users. Marketers benefit from an intuitive visual editor, drag-and-drop functionality, and AI-powered tools that make it easy to create and publish content without developer support. Developers get a powerful, API-first platform that is built on .NET, supports modern front-end frameworks, and can be customized to meet any requirement.
Optimizely is built for the modern, composable web and fully supports headless content delivery. Through Optimizely Graph, our high-performance GraphQL service, you can use the CMS as a centralized content hub and deliver that content to any front-end or channel. This allows your team to manage content in one place and reuse it across multiple websites, mobile apps, single-page applications, and other digital experiences, giving you maximum flexibility and speed.
Personalization is at the core of Optimizely's platform. The CMS integrates seamlessly with our personalization engine, allowing you to tailor content and experiences to different audience segments based on behavior, demographics, location, and more. You can create unique visitor groups, test different content variations, and deliver the most relevant experience to every user, all within the same platform.
Yes. Optimizely is designed to be the central hub of your marketing technology stack. It offers a wide range of pre-built connectors and APIs to ensure seamless integration with other essential tools, including CRMs (like Salesforce), marketing automation platforms (like Marketo), analytics services, and more. This allows you to create a unified workflow and maintain a consistent view of your customer data.
Optimizely infuses it's AI layer Optimizely Opal throughout the content lifecycle to boost efficiency and impact. Key AI-powered features include:
Our superpower is turning marketing chaos into a single, intelligent workflow. While competitors offer disconnected tools for content, testing, and personalization, Optimizely unites them into one seamless platform.
The secret ingredient that makes this possible is Optimizely Opal™, our AI-powered marketing assistant. Opal isn't just a chatbot; it's the conductor of your marketing orchestra. With Opal, you can go from brainstorming a campaign, to generating the content, to launching an A/B test, and then personalizing the winning version for different audiences—all from a single, conversational interface. It eliminates the friction that slows marketing teams down, allowing you to connect every action directly to business results in a way no other platform can.